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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1928
Page
4
The Acton Fair announces no entry fee for children and claims a premier horse racing circuit through Acton Georgetown Brampton and Milton. A parade of prize stock is set for the second day with a Town Hall dance that evening. Special prizes total over 500 dollars with top Ist prize of 100 dollars.
Advice on maintaining knives and cutlery including sharpening, rust removal with onion juice or ammonia paste, rehanging blades with resin, cleaning plated teapots with sugar and potato water, and using camphor to prevent tarnish on silverware.
A downtown shopper buys two papers from a crippled boy who cannot reach the busy block and wonders if business leaders would help a lame fellow. The article lauds Dr Thomas' Electric Oil as a trusted product of the People.
Oakville residents recount holiday visits and travels with relatives in Muskoka York and Ontario. Local events include the Burlington band’s Toronto exhibition showing and road safety notes from John Street culvert collision. Notables passing through include Hon. Howard Ferguson and Percy Williams.
A banquet in London hosted by the American Boilerery of London at the Savoy Towers features a Ford breakdown and a Ford guest who offers help. A professor jokes about being merely a knife and fork as a peer invites him to Scotland for shooting. A medical ad promotes Dr J J Kel Tong’s Asthma Remedy as a reliable relief option.
The readable lines describe a confusing mix of lines about sailors, whalers, a town aviator, and questions on music theory and perception. The overall meaning is unclear, with many garbled phrases and missing context making it difficult to extract a coherent incident or event.
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