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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1940
Page
6
A poetic admonition urges lifting mood despite hardships. The speaker notes everyone carries burdens and that outward cheer masks inner strife. By maintaining hope and courage, one can reset past mistakes and strive anew, offering encouragement to those burdened voices.
The editorial notes fire incidents and large produce entries in the Acton area. R. H. Reid of Erin records a 2 lb 1 oz potato. Acton Farmers' Club shipped a wheat car to Goldie Milling Co at Guelph earning farmers 2.42 per bushel. A Cheltenham fire destroyed about 2,004 bushels of grain, likely started by a railway engine. H. S. Wilson of Milton buys Edward Moore estate brick residence on Bower Avenue after selling a Milton farm to a Quebec buyer. Died: Donald Warren, formerly of Acton, aged 92 or 93, at Lincoln, Nebraska.
A Welsh 13 year old kicked a rugby ball six miles to a passing lorry before it rolled on five miles. A German barber died mid shave, his razor slitting a customer’s throat. In Des Moines a man boards with his ex wife and both marriages continue. A Cardigan wedding features many Jones names. A Cheshire Mass family welcomes a girl after ten generations of boys. A Massachusetts woman faces reform school for repeated public scandal. An 87 year old Englishman baptized late in life. A Montreal couple woke to find a burglar in bed with them before escaping.
G O Rothney in the Canadian National Magazine notes the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad completed to the border and Portland in 1852, becoming Canada’s first trunk line and the first international railway. The route links Quebec Province with New England and grew in importance as a cultural and commercial conduit.
Ancient prophecies attributed to Nostradamus are recounted, predicting plagues, Napoleon, the Franco Prussian War, and a future world war. The text notes the pope leaving Rome in flames and a reshaped postwar Europe under a new monarch.
A traveller boasts of easy sales to housewives by selling mirrors, while a friend questions what is sold. The exchange highlights a lighthearted street bargaining scene and a simple gambit in old market banter.
An English peer was guest of honor at a New York dinner when his host's shy daughter asked if he was really an English lord. He affirmed, and she confessed she was not satisfied, feeling a bit disappointed by the encounter.
Page Four offers rural correspondence and neighborhood notices while Page Five highlights personal items and local news. The Free Press emphasizes the diligent work of rural correspondents on Page Four and the variety of community notes across the pages.
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