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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 31, 1929
Page
2
The verse recalls a speaker longing for timeless rest and a graveyard vista under a calm sun. References to streams, fields, and distant towers evoke a serene rural landscape as solace when June returns and birds sing near the headstone.
A farm column recalls a wet spell as wind and sun clash with drought, while daily chores continue. The narrator laments ennui, shares playful animal mishaps, and details spring repairs, milking mishaps, and soon to be sold piglets amid farm life.
A Scottish man enraged asks a doctor to come quickly after his child swallows a penny. The witty exchange reveals quick Scottish humor as the doctor ages the patient with a blunt, rural tone.
A New England farm, once desolate, gains new life when Jem Hastings helps widow at Lonely Farm. He clears timber, rebuilds the homestead, and shares duties. Their bond grows into a quiet family, with plans for a future together despite lingering doubts about fate.
A collage of local items describes church meetings in Norval and Acton, farm competitions in Ontario with plows and entries, a fugitive from reform school arrested after a Dundas road incident, and a candid interview detailing Scottish and Canadian women's wage hardships and migration to Canada for work and better treatment.
A historical sketch traces Sir John A Macdonald rising from Glasgow youth to Canada’s prime minister. It highlights his early legal struggles, temper in court, and eventual political pragmatism with George Brown, including an anecdote about his resignation and calm postfall from power.
An early herbal remedy advertisement promotes Gallazher’s herbs for general well being. It urges taking the product to improve sleep, energy, digestion, and bowel regularity, claiming it helps constipation and ailing health with natural ingredients.
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