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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 18, 1957
Page
2
The Acton Free Press established 1875 prints weekly on Thursdays at 86 Mill St Acton Ontario. It lists circulation, postal, and contact details with staff roles and rates for subscriptions.
Readers are reminded of the Railway Association of Canada's push to extend daylight saving time toward October 27 amid Ontario and Quebec support while municipalities hesitate to alter schedules. Elsewhere the June 10 Canadian election looms with campaigns, platforms, and voter choice as the key to four-year governance. electors are urged to study candidates and past performance before voting on June 10.
The piece warns against letting Easter trappings like clothes and decorations overshadow the core message of Christ’s sacrifice, death, and resurrection. It urges prioritizing the spiritual meaning over material festivity to avoid a hollow Eastertide and to find true joy in the season.
A reader argues that CBC is government subsidized and public funds support it so citizens including leaders should be free to write letters. The piece defends free correspondence and critiques tax and daylight saving debates as ordinary civic concerns.
A Retail Merchants Association campaign urges Premier Frost to oppose liquor policy changes allowing beer in retail shops. The appeal warns of increased alcohol abuse, teen access, and profits for brewers, urging citizens to write and support Frost’s resistance to broader sales and liquor advertising.
A long account from Ginger Farm maps out disputes with a Department over land sale, iron stakes, and road access. The couple defends courteous surveyors, minimal destruction, and satisfactory financial settlement while recalling 34 years of farming. They explain decades of work, family growth, and a wish to move on after land changes and roadwork.
A compilation of Easter services and church events across Acton Ontario. Listings include Baptist, Presbyterian, United, Anglican, and Pentecostal assemblies with service times for Good Friday and Easter Sunday, plus notes on obituaries, housing feature, and a church on wheels concept for Moosonee district.
Directory of physicians dentists lawyers real estate and insurance agents in Acton Ontario. Includes offices on Mul St Willow and River Sts and Wellington St with phone numbers. travel timetables for Gray Coach Lines and Canadian National Railways.
The Veve Press edition from April 22 1927 covers Acton Ontario society events including George Wilda renewing Free Press subscription, the Acton Harkey Class election, engagement of Marion Curr to Frederick Hawkins, a May wedding, property sales, church events at United church, a May 12 Co Day celebration, and a charity entertainment by Victoria Maein Church.
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