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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 21, 1926
Page
6
A dialed in verse from the October 21, 1926 issue contrasts a ailing father’s fear and frantic household with a mother who keeps working and finds solace in sleep. The piece uses simple rhymes to portray illness and gendered responses within a home.
A Knox Church Thanksgiving supper drew a large audience with Rev J C Wilson and others providing solos and duets while short addresses were given by H A McEherson and Ray Fournier. Net receipts reached 93.00. MP D Henderson and wife return from a British trip. Beardmore Co. begins chimney work at the leather tannery. Samuel Laird attains an age milestone in Acton Court I.O.F. Show weather affected attendance. salaries for teachers are raised for 1907. Births include Barber girl in Acton. deaths note Peter Macdonald age 67 near Acton Esquesing.
The lesson centers on Joshua becoming Israel's leader after Moses. It emphasizes his humble service to Moses, diverse gifts, and the value of patient preparation for life work. Modesty and multiplicity of God given gifts are highlighted as keys to effective service.
In northern Maine an abandoned line becomes a private rail ride when Henry Green fits an auto with flanged wheels and paddles a passenger service on the unused track. He buys time on the line, rebuilds a car, and soon runs a second wagon as a trailer with growing baggage traffic. The tale notes the line’s retirement after Maine’s railway branch shut and praises ingenuity in using现 limited resources. Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil is advertised as a cheap, portable cure sold in small bottles as the poor man’s friend.
In Plymouth Church Henry Ward Beecher faced his father Lyman Beecher during a sermon as the elder asked a question and corrected the minister’s teaching. The moment drew praise from the audience and a tribute to the influence of the elder Beecher on his son’s life.
A household tale shows Tillie the maid dutifully stowing letters in the ice box beside the ice, mistaking storage for proper mail handling and delaying the family’s correspondence. Mrs. Nelson notices none the wiser as four days of mail lie chilled in a tin pail.
A bishop recalls a capital young man who left the church after marriage to run a wholesale hat business. He cites seven reasons, including a wife and children, as factors behind clerical departures, noting labor unrest and delayed pay in ministry.
A grateful user credits Dr Kel logg'a asthma remedy with relief, highlighting its long standing record of effectiveness. The text asserts the remedy is now recognized on the market and continues to earn trust through consistent performance across cases.
The Prince of Wales formally opened the Maison Canadienne on Oct. 1 near Cite Universitaire, a modern hostelry for Canadian students. Built by public subscription with 250000 dollars raised, the stucco building features furnished residential rooms with baths, a large Salle de Reunion, and a central corridor reflecting spacious comfort and French design.
The just laid Atlantic cable from Penzance to Bay Roberts Newfoundland is described as the 19th transatlantic link. Permalloy sheathing boosts speed to 2500 letters a minute, with 3400 mile length expected to connect New York and London, at a cost of about 1600 dollars per nautical mile.
A historical note describes European conscription frauds where recruits feign deafness to escape duty. French officers devised traps, including a door gesture, to expose pretenders. Despite clever ruses, many conscripts learned to pretend with impunity, prompting evolving tests of fitness for service.
The doctor cautions Mr Lambkin to rest for six hours daily over three months to aid recovery from nervous exhaustion while Mrs Lambkin, an animated talker, seeks attention for her own health and tongue. The piece ends with an unrelated ad for Holloway's Corn Remover promising painless corn removal.
A collection of advice on work, self discipline, and personal improvement. The text emphasizes self-reliance and habit removal, noting the value of personal effort and the dangers of overindulgence. It also markets Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as alcohol free with six essential oils for lasting effects.
A period advertisement urges mothers to treat children for intestinal worms using Miller's Worm Powder. It claims worms threaten a child’s vitality, offers quick expulsion, and promises painless treatment with no inconvenience to the child.
A judge questions a young man about forgery as the prisoner recalls his father a famed legal author who warned him to "run away, boy, I am busy" and whose pursuit of truth ended in grave consequences. The narrative blends courtroom drama with a portrait of a renowned lawyer father.
An old tale claims Turks crushed the nuts for broken winded horses, but the true reason lies in the leaf stem scars. When leaf stems dry on the twig they leave a mark shaped like a horseshoe with nail holes visible, explaining the name.
A historical notice promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as an easy remedy for children troubled by worms, urging mothers to apply it without delay. The brief ad highlights rapid action and maternal care as selling points.
A mother in fashion at work on a tub while her eight year old watches. The child playfully declares to her father that he is “all beach” and refuses waves for him, contrasting his appearance with the stylish hair.
In a Georgia town of about six thousand, a Chautauqua assembly drew large early crowds. A steam merry go round was set up midway between town and grounds on the second day, amid town talk and country interest.
The article asserts that the quickest path from Michigan and other northwest states to New York and New England is through northern Ontario. It notes twenty five million people live within a day’s drive of the province boundary and that car traffic from Ontario has grown in the past three years, implying many already know the route.
A drug advertisement touts Rheuma as a fast acting remedy for rheumatic conditions from lumbago to neuralsia. It claims quick relief, guarantees to end rheumatic troubles or money back, warns the disease can be dangerous, and urges buying from B. J. Hansard or any druggist.
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