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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1942
Page
6
TheActon community lists frequent visitors and locals at holiday gatherings across Ontario. Many residents travel to Port Elgin Toronto Wasaga Beach Hamilton Bracebridge Milton Wasaga and Goderich while others host relatives and friends from Toronto Timmins Guelph Kitchener Brantford and Speyside.
A vintage ad urges readers not to neglect eyes. It promotes eyewear from a reg optometrist offering affordable prices and fashionable frames to improve appearance and vision.
Readable fragments list various times such as 6 46 pm 9 16 am 11 31 am 2 08 pm and 4 34 pm with irregular formatting and errors. Other entries include 716 p m and 9 0) pm and 8 1 35 an indicating OCR misreads.
Real estate ad lists improved farms in Halton Peel and Wellington counties. A 50 acre tract near Acton with lake view offers agriculture or building potential. Prices begin around $2300 and highlight prize-winning farms from recent Farm and Home Improvement Competitions.
Churchill Church members held a social evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Smith Griffin to honor Mrs Donald Matheson nee Jean Akst for leadership in church choir preparations for anniversary services. A silver pitcher sugar bowl and tray were presented.
A flood of letters to British papers comments on Britain's falling birth rate and wartime life. Critics blame feminism and high living costs, while others urge practical fixes from domestic service ideas to better transit and education, with many quirky proposals and questions about action.
Doris Dunlof a vivid Halifax singer from Kaila in the West performs Eventide songs for CBC Saturdays at 7 30 p m EDT. She has been heard from Edmonton Ottawa and Toronto and is a well known concert performer in Charlottetown Sydney and Halifax. Her hobbies include garntering interior decorating and collecting modern crystal.
A partial reminiscence notes golf in Acton forty years ago and lists former players G Hayward H S Holmes J Lawson A J McKinnon H A Macpherson W Stark A Seward J B Wallace plus three ladies. It recalls Thomas and Willan Edminston going to the North West Territories and Rouleau Set Wood Gould, with Councillor Harry Jeans visiting England.
Elizabeth Lampe, a Swedish born waitress at a major studio commissary, earns about 16 to 18 dollars weekly plus tips after long shifts six days a week. She spends 2.90 on foot treatments for corns and feet pain and once earned 80 dollars as a dancer. Her tips vary with star and executive customers, and she values the friendly studio environment more than wealth.
A sailor narrates life aboard a ship during a world voyage. He describes air crew duties, weapons handling, and patrols, with a daring account of rescuing a captain and climbing a ladder back aboard. He reflects on peace trips, Canada, and longing for home as the voyage nears port.
Otto Hawkins aged 72 and Sarah Miller aged 80 met at an old peoples home after their residence was bombed. They chose to hire each other’s company and decided to marry.
A London report relays a neutral country account of German views on Allied actions. It claims the British failed to invade Norway and Greece due to German fore stalling tactics while attempting to starve Germany.
The engagement of Ruth, daughter of Mr and Mrs Murray Mo Cotes, to Clare ene McCheyne Coles is announced. The marriage will take place on Saturday at the Presbyterian Church in Acton.
A wartime appeal urges citizens to save and sort old rags and wool to support production. The Salvage Director asks careful handling, clean and soiled items kept separate, and delivery to local salvage organizations or dealers for use in war industries.
Nauk C P Walther Goynk, a member of a fre fighting crew, opened near hare when he found hlinaatt between a mother bear and her cub. Goynk tripped while attempting revenge, and a large she bear ran over him but he was uninjured.
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