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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1939
Page
14
A reflective verse urges helping a weary brother along life’s road. It ponders sharing grief and the relief found in kindness and cheerful words. The speaker weighs whether refusing aid to a friend would waste precious, golden hours.
Twenty years ago from the Free Press issue of October 30 1619 reports several loads of potatoes retailed during the week at 1 75 per bag. Morton bought a house and lot on Church Street. A St Josephs Fancy Fair in Town Hall drew many visitors. Franklin Rumshaw died at 62 from heart failure after a wedding in Milton. Scarrow opens tailoring store with Chester Plank in former shop.
A medical note warns acute indigestion is often misdiagnosed and can mask heart disease. It discusses food poisoning, botulism, and coronary thrombosis as competing causes, stressing careful examination and rest for heart-related symptoms. The piece ends with a Shakespeare quote and a clipped joke about a siren.
A detailed commemorative sketch traces Acton Anglican beginnings from 1840s drift to organized parish life. It covers missionaries, routes through Rockwood Eramosa Erin Hillsburg and Garafraxa, building of the church in 1872 1876 debt free status, the Swallow era, and Rev W J Pigott efforts with redecorations and a 1886 burial at Pairview Cemetery.
In a skeptical, wry aside the piece lampoons Dame Rumor for sensational wartime tales and false sugar shortage theories. It notes practical limits of ports and references a Wycliffe College student and his aunt amid misplaced attempts at resolving messy situations.
Practical fall lawn care guidance emphasizes longer winter growth, reduced mowing, and careful fertilization with a nitrogen light mix to build strong roots. Water after application, avoid straw or leaves as coverings, and ensure proper drainage to help lawns harden for winter. The text also includes unrelated anti rumor passages about sugar shortages and wartime attitudes.
The agency offers Life Fire Health and Accident Automobile Windstorm Plate Glass boiler fidelity bonds and farm insurance. It handles annuities and all general lines and provides ocean steamship ticket services with excellent facilities and leading companies.
Observers hail mutual assistance pacts among England France and Turkey as a bulwark against aggression in the Mediterranean and Balkans. The agreement may sway neutral Balkan nations toward Britain and France while Italy lingers as a Mediterranean question mark.
A woman rushed into the Clerk's office clutching a note and asking if she could obtain a marriage license to marry Albert Briggs. The clerk confirms Briggs has escaped and questions what should be done next.
In Canton province workers place bridges of bamboo sticks between orange tree branches so ants can cross. The ants pass along these通 bridges to clear the trees of insidious insects, protecting some of the world’s finest oranges.
A college incident sees Breeze weighed down by BAs and MDs as a strain collapses. The doctor states the patient is Iain, declaring you are king yourself by degrees in a paradoxical diagnosis.
Finland readies to resist a Soviet invasion with volunteers and mobilized citizens ordered to evacuate Helsinki and Viipuri. A guard at Viipuri signals alert as Aaland Islands and Baltic positions shape strategic expectations. Sweden and Norway back Finland against concessions to Moscow.
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