Halton Championship Cow Zanna Tops Milk Record
Halton saw another champion as the sixteen year old cow Zana, co owned by Jack and Bill Featherstone in TrafalcarT, surpassed a ten year milk production record. Under Featherstone Brothers management her lifetime production reached 146 810 pounds of milk worth about 7 000 dollars at current prices, prompting a banquet in their honor.
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Halton
Aleigh Zann
Jersey
Jack
Bill Featherstone
Trafalcart
Zana
Featherstone Brothers
Ontario election to focus on hydro power changeover
An Ontario election in June aims at party agreement on switching the province from 25 to 60 cycle power. The piece questions voter choices when platforms may avoid public welfare topics like liquor, taxes, education, pensions, health, and hospital aid. It calls for candidates to stand on clear positions instead of party expediency.
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Ontario
Why We Don’t Work Harder Says Taxes Weigh Down Wages
Robert P Jellete president of the Royal Trust Co argues in a national radio address that taxes are too high and absorb up to a third of a worker’s weekly pay. He notes output per worker has diminished in many industries and that higher taxes reduce incentive and purchasing power.
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Robert P. Jellete
The
Royal Trust Co
Jellect
Taxation and Incentives in a Free Society
The Financial Post argues high taxes damp incentives and that lowering taxes on earnings would better stimulate effort. It calls for citizen cooperation and a shift from government provision to individual security and services.
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Mr. Jellett
Financial Post
Alcohols and pay cheques dominate Canadian mental health notice
A Dominion Bureau of Statistics survey shows alcohol relates to 33.7 percent of Canada’s insanity cases across 60 institutions through 1946, with 24.6 percent mild alcoholics and 9.1 percent true alcoholics. By Decembers 1946, hospital inmates reached 49,163 with 52,043 on parole. A Vancouver Province editorial urges against further compulsory hospital deductions, warning pay cheques would lose meaning and become mere bookkeeping.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada
British Columbia
Victoria
Ottawa
Vancouver
Canada 1948 booklets and time change notes in editorial
Editorial notes discuss May Day fishing season opener and daylight saving time starting next Sunday. Mentions a Canada 1948 booklet from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and flags a persistent scam involving confidential Mexico letters and a jailbird seeking $285,000.
Recollections of Acton and local notices
Recollections of Acton and nearby items from the Star include a purchase on Witlow Street by Mr D Graham and improvements by Kenney Bros. The township panel names pollmasters for elections and lists spring farm seeding activity. A death notice records Herbert Moore LePage aged seven at Cunningham Avenue Toronto. Willie Lowry, son of Dr. Lowry, passed first-year exams at Trinity Medical College.
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RR. D. Graham
Witlow Street
S. J. McKenzie
David Corty
Alex Waldie
Thomas Cameron
Benjamin Watkins
Henry Sayers
David Cox
Peter Gibbons
Duncan McDougall
William Mullin
Neil Gillies
Cameron L. McMillan
Charles Davidson
Wiam A. Stewart
John McDonald
William Dobbie
Joseph Lasby
A. Lawson
John A. Gordon
Brock Swackhamer
Robert L. Nenderson
John Shaw
Albert Meredith
Jas
Nike
el Lindsay
Ker Keatener
Ira Huss
Levi Cole
Thomas Mitchell
Halton
Stor Ort CT
Milton
Lepage
Cunningham Ave
Toronto
Herbert Moore
Moraml
Airy “J. LePage
Acton Baseball Club Organizing for 1928 Season
The Free Press notes Acton plans a local baseball club for the coming season. A three inch snow cover blanketed the area after a weekend storm. Local moves include the Evans family relocating to a farm, Swackhamers moving to Toronto, and Swackhamer selling a residence to Wm Cole. A Toronto wedding linked to Acton involved Pearl MacDonald and Inspector Edward Hammond. William Mason dies at 77.
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Acton
Reuben Evans
Streetsville
Wm. E. Swackhamer
Toronto
Swackhamer
Wm. Cole
Misa Pearl MacDonald R.N
Guelph
Wm. MacDonald
Edward Donald Hammond
Criminal Investigation Department
Provincial Police
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Acton Free Press
West Office
United States
Free Press
Ita Calumns
Frey Torene Bushiesa
Garlof Dills
Eurorial
Pediorial
Mexico
Jlois
Skaue
Free Presa
Edgers
Clement & Mountain
Dyed Mason
John St., Acton
William Mason
Campsell
Mephisto
Libby
Joan Abboty
JAVEX
Oliflor
Anes Mix
Swoggan SE
Florida
VanWyck Cleaners
Chapple’s
Wyndham St. Guelph
Angus Kennedy
Business Directory
W. G. C. Kenney
Phyalelan
Surge
J. A. McNivem
Symon Block
Mit St
Chara St
D. A. Garrett Phyalélan
Frederick’ Street
Actom
Dr. Nelson
A. J. Buchanan
Leiahman Block, Mill
George A. Sirrs
Mill Sr
Corner
Frederick
L. Wilson
Bell Telephone
GC. F. Leatherland
B.A. Acton
Notary Public Offices
Reaklenea
Acton -Cooper
Macintyre Aynsworth
B.A
Ceaiuetownh
Gregory Phennie Big
Shaw
Lever & Hoskin Chartered Accountants
Nhins & Hardy
B. B. Young, V S
B.v.sc
Veterinary Surgeon
Brookville
F. G. Oakes
V.S
Knox Ave
Johnstone & Rumley
Victor B. Rumley Funeral Home
Willoughby Farm Agency
Kent
Georgetown
Tom Hewron
Travellers’ Guide
Gray Coach Lines
AC Don
Westboune
Ropan
Holt- Tuts
Stathe
Holidass Emby
Dabuy
Nadureaus
Figer
W. T. Patterson R
Wyndham SY
Guiglpe
Maher Shoe Stare
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