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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 25, 1934
Page
8
The poem invites readers to prepare for Halloween with pumpkin lanterns and a spooky masquerade. It hints at seeing a witch and her black cat, elves and gnomes, and a Fair Queen often seen on Halloween.
Seagow snow flurry reported after a period of mild weather. Acton friends abroad receive letters from Salisbury Plain. turnips arrive in quantity at 9c per bushel, with up to a thousand bushels daily. Harold Wildgust to sing “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” at Wonderland with visuals. James R. Anderson appointed to the new government janitor post. Colin H Campbell dies in Winnipeg after illness. Firearm search reveals belting leather among Austrian suspect J Simkioto’s trunks. Local sawmills supply rock elm timber for hockey sticks. Nassagaweya mills workers load a car for Drayton Mills, netting over $740. Died Hettie Ryan McCann of Toronto, widow of Peter M. McCann, aged 74. Persian Balm advert promises skin benefits and beauty results.
The twenty second report from the Department of Public Records and Archives, by Colonel Alexander Fraser, notes the London District Minutes of the General Court of Quarter Sessions from 1800 to 1818, with 1809 to 1813 missing. It explains quarter sessions as the core unit of pioneer municipal government and lists functions like licensing, taxation, and appointments.
A Canadian National official in Vancouver received a $3400 draft on a Madras bank from a woman in India amid misuse of a Grand Trunk Pacific ticket. The draft was credited to a conscience account after no explanation arrived. In Montreal the Sleeping and Dining Car Department received six after dinner coffee spoons and two soup spoons in an ink package from a Montreal postmatic.
A reflective narrator recalls farm stories about alfalfa seed yields and speculative gains, warning of how luck, risk, and price swings shape rural fortunes. He contrasts country life with urban stock exchange stress and praises countryside safety and simple pleasures.
A letter from A J Irwin of the Ontario Temperance Federation argues that the beer law does not advance temperance. He cites rising beer sales, declining hard liquor use, and total absolute alcohol consumption, warning that increased beer consumption may worsen social harm.
The Worm Exterminator named Mother Graves is described as inexpensive and accessible at any druggist, making it affordable for a wide audience.
The chairman introduces a witty darkey orator as our colored brother who quips I am not colored I was born this way. The moment captures a humorous defiance of racial labels in a public speech.
A jurist humorously notes the danger of truth in a mock oath. Henry, the defendant, agrees that lying would send him to hell while telling the truth would lose the case, prompting a satirical twist in the courtroom exchange.
A whimsical diary fragment recounts a week with Ant Emmy and family misadventures. The narrator notes visits, illnesses, small domestic tensions, and everyday events including a horse ailment remedy.
Alberta reports eight month totals show coal production at 2,574,536 tons up from 2,497,166 last year while petroleum output climbs to 852,228 barrels from 632,454. Timber products also rise with lumber output at 55,208,052 board feet vs 52,736,467 prior year and other timber lines up.
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