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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 13, 1944
Page
6
An oblique devotional lament seeks guidance to endure anxiety, reunite with loved ones, and meet challenges with steadiness. The speaker asks for strength to resist endless fretting and to confront danger with calm resolve.
Twenty years ago records note Timenay aged 21 preparing for Good Friday events and a social evening at the Daevidaoe home before relocation. Jack Kennedy left for Detroit to take a new position. Obituary and marriage notices list Hurd Swackhamer of Ospringe and families connected to Hamilton and Acton with dates in 1904 and 1924.
Comet University scientists Jensen and Anderson study gun shy dogs to find causes of war induced neurosis in humans. They test 12 to 15 dogs, noting fear, lack of curiosity, abnormal pulses, and exaggerated reactions to strangers. They suggest faulty training heredity or gland dysfunction as possible causes.
American servicemen relate to Melbourne traffic officer First Constable Leslie Roy Boyd known as Whistling Rufus. He whistles at his post on Spencer Street Bridge, his image featured in Yank Down Under, with caption noting his canary tendencies and familarity to thousands of U.S. troops.
The lesson reviews Saul’s conversion and filled by the Spirit concluding he preached Jesus as the Son of God. It notes his boldness in Jerusalem despite initial suspicion, and how persecution and plots failed as God shaped his path to Tarsus and later Gentile ministry with Barnabas.
Fragmentary text describes Christians forming at Antioch after being dismissed from Jerusalem. It mentions seeking help from Saul at Tervees and encountering believers who were labeled Christians. The passage notes a shift in church oversight and the spread of Christian communities.
The article notes many Canadians face an income tax balance in 1943 and that most families can cover necessities and buy Victory Bonds. It highlights a savings plan from the National War Finance Committee allowing timely tax payments and bond purchases with no large upfront payment until May.
The Prince Rupert, long used for peacetime cruises from Vancouver through the Inside Passage, appears in an anti aircraft cruiser role. Canadian National ships Prince Robert Henry and David, built at Birkenhead, were designed as advanced diesel powered coastal vessels with high speed and efficient machinery.
War in New Guinea ushers changes as locals pick up American chewing gum along with betel nut. The Fussy Wuzzles audience notes evolving tastes amid conflict.
Royal Ontario Museum researchers explain Niagara Falls owes its existence to limestone caves and rock layers created by an ancient sea. Sponges and shellfish fossils in Holocene rock helped solidify the limestone and harden the cap that protects underlying shales, enabling the falls and hydroelectric power today.
A model of an Egyptian nobleman’s house, exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum, reproduces Tell el Amarna dwellings with wall painting details. Crafted by Mrs Sylvia Hahn, it mirrors a modern functional house with separate outbuildings, garden, and climate-adapted living rooms.
A Sydney report describes the tick problem in Australia with ticks burrowing into humans or animals. Commonwealth Serum Laboratories buy female ticks for six cents each to produce tick serum. A Sydney woman’s dog, Tick-Litten, is trained to find ticks in the scrub and bring them back to her. She removes the ticks, donates the money to the Prisoners of War Fund.
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