Many Ontario residents enjoy visits across cities this week
A flood of social notes lists Miss Grace Lantz in Toronto visits and numerous others from Hamilton Georgetown and Wasaga Beach through Acton and Wasaga Beach. The column records holidays and family gatherings including Mrs. Earl H. Vincent and others in Hamilton Toronto and Wasaga Beach with a few medical updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Lantz
Toronto
Earl H. Vincent
Bill and
Barbera
Hamilton
Phyllis Clark
Acton
Radio Licenses Still Unpurchased Warned by Official
An official canvass warns owners of radio receiving sets who have not bought licenses to do so at the next visit. The notice states the official will cover the area this Friday, Saturday, and Monday and emphasizes the move is for the owners protection.
Engagement announced for Leonm' Hliza Caroline Waller couple
Mr and Mrs William Charles Waller of Milton Heights announce the engagement of their daughter Leonm Hliza Caroline to Mr Herbert Edmund LeGallad of North Bay. The couple are to be married September second at St Alban's Anglican Church Acton with families Edwin Currie and others noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Charles Waller
Leonm’ Hliza Caroline
Herbert Edmund LeGallad
North Bay
Birs, LeGallais
Evelyn LeGellais
Paspebiac
St. Alban’s Anglican Church
Acton
Glimpses of Parliament on Canada’s World War II Air Force Expansion
The report notes no new overseas troops for now and a phased call up of 30 000 men, aiming to train 360 000 in two months. Canada’s war effort shifts toward air power, navy, and munitions, with a boosted aircraft target from 1000 to over 4000 planes in 1941 and 90 percent of 120 air force projects due by year end. It details land needs, earthworks, and a total air force enlistment of 19 453 to date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miliia
Canada
Silver Production in Canada in 1939 by Province and Mines
Canada produced 33,116,861 fine ounces of silver in 1939 valued at 9,350,553 as 22,219,195 ounces were worth 9,660,239 in 1839. Main sources include British Columbia’s Sullivan mine and Mayo district in Yukon. Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Northwest Territories also contributed from silver-lead, gold-quartz, copper-zinc, and nickel-copper deposits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
New York
British Columbia
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Flin Flon
Saskatchewan-Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
Sullivan
Subalk
Bralorne
Pioneer
Beaverdell Camp
Mayo
Eldorado
Great Bear Lake
Yellowknife
Contact Lake
Bear Exploration and Radium Limited
Manitoba
Sherritt Gordon
Saskatchewan
Goldfields
Cobalt
Sudbury
Porcupine
Kirkland Lake
Neranda
Waite-Aznulet
Aldermac
Portneuf
Junior Farmers Honor Mr and Mrs Arthur McKeown
The Acton Junior Farmers held a July 24 1940 meeting at Lorne School with a program of music and readings. They honored Mr Arthur McKeown and his wife Muriel with an address from club members and gifts, noting their service and wishing them well in their new home. The event concluded with gifts, song, lunch, and dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur McKeown
Acton
Lorne School
John Locker
Herman Freuler
Ted Anderson
Arthur McKeown Dear
Muriel and
Arthur
Acton Junior Farmers
Howard Switzer
Donalda McPhail
Velma Millar
Elwood Johnston
Ross Swackhamer
Chronic undulant fever and Malta fever linked to pasteurized milk
A married 30-year-old woman with three years of daily fever and fatigue shows despondency and altered personality. Blood tests confirm undulant fever, also known as Malta fever, linked to raw milk from infected cows. modern treatment uses Brucella vaccines and vaccine-induced fever, with pasteurized milk as the only reliable prevention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldini
Malta
Bridge access debate at Acton Cresc ent Crescent plan considered
Ask Counsgil reports on securing industry and access to the Crescent. Esquesing and Beardmore discuss replacing Marin Street with Frederick Street for entrance. Crescent residents to canvass property owners on approval. Acton Council to meet after canvass results. Township share expected to be assumed. Contract with new industry remains in abeyance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara River
Mgr
Beatty
Acton Council
Crescent
Esquesing Council
Beardmore Co
The
Frederick Street
Marin Street
Acton
the Crescent
Part of the Bargain
A daughter’s marriage proposal stirs a comic dilemma as a would be son in law balks at entangling himself yet fears no exit from the impending nuptials.
Featherweight Poultry Show Causes Humiliating Mixup
A farmer's portly wife forgets her welfare committee badge at a parish hall meeting. She learns, to jazzed amusement, that her badge read Featherweight Poultry Show Second Prize Bantam, explaining the broad smiles at her arrival home.
Australians To See Atlantic Patrol Film
Eight hundred theatres in Australia will show the Canadian film Atlantic Patrol. The National Film Board’s chairman Hon James A MacKinnon says two thirds of Commonwealth theatres will screen the picture. The film portrays Royal Canadian Navy patrol work and has already played in 400 Canadian theatres and is booked in 200 more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
James A. MacKinnon
National Film Board
Commonwealth
Royal Canadian Navy
Canada
Bomber Gift to Royal Canadian Air Force Arrives in Ottawa
A Bristol Bolingbroke twin engine bomber valued at $100000 was presented to the Royal Canadian Air Force at Ottawa Air Station. The gift from the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire was witnessed by His Excellency the Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice. Built in Montreal the ship carries a crew of three with a top speed of 295 mph when fully loaded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire
Royal Canadian Air Force
Earl of Athlone
Canada
Princess Alice
Ottawa Air Station
Montreal
Sacrifices Necessary Quote by BeattY
A quotation attributed to Sir Edward Beatty argues that free men must make temporary sacrifices of liberty and comfort to defend their freedoms amid current attacks. The message emphasizes societal resilience and collective duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Edward Beatty
Ordinary Life Advice Echoes from Aces in Shoes
In a folded exchange, Sam questions a life lived to extremes while Rastus downplays it as merely ordinary. Sam warns that pulling more aces from a shoe will force the life toward maturation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Jes
Rastus
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Edwin Currie
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C. D. Howe
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J. P. Birkell
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B. D. Rachlin
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Harold Wiles
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