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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 26, 1945
Page
23
Poem lines exhort resilience and renewal through moral struggle. Walter Malone speaks to mourners and sinners, urging reliance on courage and the future. The speaker denies despair, urging action and forgiveness as daily chances.
The article surveys biblical themes from Judges and Joshua, stressing that Israel’s failure to purge Canaanite influence led to judgment. It discusses the apostasy, the warning against mixed faiths, and how God raised judges like Gideon to deliver Israel. Dr. Arthur Rose marks 55 years as a physician in The Pas.
The notice recalls events from April 1925 including Minnie Ross selling her Main Street home to Eccle stone of Ospringe Hithburg Rockwood Georgetown and Acton forming a baseball league with a schedule to May 16. George Cook and family move to Windsor after twenty years in Acton. The council takes no action on Daylight Saving Time. Births include a son for George N. Moffatt in Columbia Ohio. Obituaries note Sarah Bennett Gay and Lil Nan Hamiley Campbell.
LONDON CP report: Section Officer Maureen O’Sullivan of Dublin worked with a Maquis band in France three months before D Day and five months after, coding and sending messages. She parachuted behind enemy lines, was awarded the Croix de Guerre, trained two men, and helped build a Maquis force of 6,000. She speaks fluent French and Dutch and was later promoted to a new special assignment.
A full size plaster village used to train Normandy invaders was erected in three weeks in Yorkshire. Soldiers tested field tactics with mock streets, cemeteries, road blocks and booby traps. Camouflage designers from two corps created the mock town using cobblestones wool canvas and plaster.
In Kamloops a strict curfew will be enforced for persons under 16 after 10 pm. A fire alarm bell will sound to warn youths indoors. Police urge compliance as authorities address nighttime disturbances.
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