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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1919
Page
2
The poem evokes seasonal weather shifts and rural life. It describes animals, sounds, and work as signals of coming harvest and aging. The narrator recalls youth returning with apple picking time and the busy farm atmosphere.
In the village of Lakeaide on the eve of Halloween the young folks plan costumes and tricks as Betty Connors hosts a preparatory gathering. Ghosts witches and calico cats are readied while moms cook treats and the secret society of Halloweeners prepares for the night. Betty contemplates aging out of the festivities as her father worries over his absence on Halloween night.
Betty sleeps as a bear, fairy, and ghost masquerade visit her mother and the Connor home. A bear laughs, a fairy hostess greets Betty, and Ole Mammy and Bill join in a Cedarville ride after a broken wagon fixes with fudge and pie. Betty ends waking to breakfast with her sister Hetty.
A patriotic local figure attends a meeting where a Shakespeare scholar extols the author. The Scot questions the scholar and argues Burns wrote clever lines. The doctor protests, insisting Burns could not have penned such verses.
A teacher urges devotion by staging a drowning emergency on the river bank. A student quips that the wife rushes to the bank to draw his insurance money, highlighting a cynical take on motive within a classroom moment.
Professor Emil Abderhalden warns Germany has seen 26 million children lost since 1814 and rising child mortality. He notes wartime efforts to send tubercular youths to neutral countries, mainly Switzerland, were hindered by the falling German mark.
The Dominion Cerealist announces a free seed grain distribution at the Central Experimental Farm Ottawa. Samples include Spring wheat White oat barley flax seed and fibre flax and other varieties with limits per applicant. Apply on printed forms from the Dominion Cerealist by February 1 1920 to avoid disappointment.
A reminiscence recalls young Alice Roosevelt challenging a strict era. She voices household friction over curfews and parental expectations, noting how a mother’s rules feel reasonable while a father’s punctual demands seem puzzling to a child.
A Scottish cow keeper asks a farm hand to feed the cow with cabbage and give the biggest cabbage to the cow that yields the most milk. The boy later says he hung the biggest cabbage on the pump, to the master’s chagrin.
A six year old visits a bank with a small amount of money and explains she saves to go to college. The piece argues saving should have a goal, not become mere hoarding, warning that money loved for itself can lead to undesirable values. It urges saving with intention and future use.
An anxious mother rushes to the hall to comfort a daughter who returns from the garden with a broken doll. The child claims a naughty boy struck and broke the toy, prompting a telltale family scene reported by the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
It claims wine prevents disorder and that Parmeloc's Vegetable Pills restore stomach function. The pills mix laxatives and sedatives for quick digestive relief and to speed up healthy action of digestive organs.
A thoughtful man laments his lack of everyday social ease and ability to connect with ordinary people. He contrasts his knowledge of ancient arts with failing to converse with his own cook or coachman, urging adaptation to common life. The piece then abruptly shifts to medical advice promoting Miller's Worm Powders for child digestive issues and worms.
A large business chief hung warning signs that backfired as thefts and dissension followed. The Luainows man discovers £1000 vanished, the cashier fled, the head book-keeper eloped with the engraver, salaries are cut, and the office boy heads west toward bushranger lore. Oil for Toothache relief urged with Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil as quick pain relief.
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