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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1924
Page
4
A garbled verse about potato picking time with stray names and playful misprints. It hints at amusement and routine labor, mentioning Monet, Ivo, Abel Lockhart, and a sense of counting rows and tallying effort.
Dr Frank Crahe tells Mrat school pupils that marks reflect effort and character, not lesson accuracy. He praises curiosity, honesty, cleanliness, responsibility, and helpful acts, citing named students and their conduct as examples before urging pupils to do what is right, stay cheerful, and ask when unsure.
A husband recounts a wealthy acquaintance’s financial ruin of a street railway, noting embezzlement of investors. The wife questions, but quickly the couple’s dispute mirrors how society condemns or excuses risky behavior. Neighbors uphold social norms, while a daughter’s dancing suitors test the hearthstone standard.
A village carnival scene shows Sarah Moffatt in a lace gown festooned with bonbons for a principal candy store display. As decorations fade, she claims they are inside her, while the stage manager questions the look. A later joke features a master and a naive servant Mary Mary untiringly struggles with a burnt onion and tea.
Three windows in my House of Lita Look out three different ways One turns toward Yesterdays and shadows of the past While another greets the present busy street The third seeks the Coming Years and distant hills The windows speak like pages of a book Each pane holds stories of joy rain and rainbow endings The voice shifts from memory to hope and the author reflects on political talk and temperance laws across time and place Barbara Young quoted with aging memory and reflections
Atty Halton county residents celebrate a dry verdict after Aston's majority and the province wide win for prohibition. The writer lauds mothers who voted dry, fears about liquor stores and driving dangers fade as Premier Ferguson vows strict enforcement, and praises Albert Moore for organizing the temperance effort.
A devotional reflection asks if a person is a well of life or a stagnant pond. It contrasts gentlemanly appearance with foul speech and urges inner virtue, citing biblical verses about the mouth and a living spring that waters others.
A reflective snippet on the value of time over money and the certainties of behavior. The prose suggests that repayment, honesty, and personal decisions define character, while marriages influence perceived greatness and fidelity. It closes with a quotation about consistent virtuous conduct.
A snatch of prose discusses Sir William Whit’s Turkish and Irish humor parable, noting cross cultural misreadings. It cites Hodja and donkey, a cowherd quarrel, and a vow to exact no wage, revealing comic clash of stereotypes and moral fables.
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