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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Sep 18, 1919

Page

4

Acton Free Press Advertising Rates and Contact Info

The Acton Free Press publishes weekly on Thursdays from the Dia Ines building Acton Ontario. Subscriptions are 1.50 per year in advance with US mail surcharges. Advertising rates: 10 cents per line for first insertion 5 cents per line for each additional insertion. Contract display ads 15 cents per line per insertion.

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Editorial urges Canada to curb imports and cut living costs

The piece notes Canada imported about 20 million in goods with nearly 199 million dutyable, urges reduced luxuries, and discusses Germany seeking trade. It highlights public demand to reduce living costs, court actions on sugar pricing, and the independence of the Court of Commerce under Trade and Commerce and Combines and Fair Prices Acts. It also lauds wartime incinerators and urges industrial peace via Ottawa conference with four party representation.

Canada Germany London Ottawa H. H. Stevens Centre Vancouver British Columbia Court of Commerce Toronto St. Lawrence Attorney-General's Department Iam Trade and Commerce Act Railway Board Combines and Fair Prices W. F. O'Connor K. C AU Canada

Ontario election pledges and war era debates

The article reports on pre election pledges across Ontario communities and Premier Hearst lauding an experimental farm plan for the western province. It notes Canada’s trade surplus in agricultural products, wartime measures, and debates over liquor prohibition, plus poverty of newspaper profits and the Times of Toronto folding after cost pressures. It also covers Rural Canada and Farmers' Sun stances on prohibition and the Ontario Liquor Referendum.

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Cigarette Saved Canuck's Life in WWI Tale

A World War I memoir recalls Lot., 7 Sept, as the 47th Battalion crossed no trenches and fought Hun soldiers. A wounded runner in a shell hole shared a cigarette with a Fritz to distract him, enabling the writer to live and return to Canada.

Anya Soldler Irving Goderich Lot Shetter Fritz Nian Canada

Goodness and saftnewa' and divine mercy debate

The passage critiques views arguing God allows evil without penal action and defends divine mercy. It contends that a God unable to punish evil would undermine morality and heaven. The tone echoes theological debate from a North Carolina editorial.

North Carolina

Frantic Reply to Heroic Inscription Confuses Revolutionary Era Crowd

In a fragmentary reminiscence, a crowd debates Patrick Henry’s cry for liberty and a wife’s inscription for a dotbench object, with farcical orders about a goat and a hurried scene before Washington’s army departure. The excerpt mixes enthusiastic patriotism with domestic farce as the era’s tension meets playful misreading.

Patrick Henry Leaat

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