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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1946
Page
10
A reader recounts two visits to Barrie where new parking meters failed to register coins or display violation signs. The writer notes frustration with faulty meters and questions how courts could convict over such devices.
A $100 million pulp mill initiative along Lake Superior east of Port Arthur focuses on Marathon and Terrace with towns of 3000 plus. The plan promises forest based industry, new jobs, and renewed town life as Espanola and Blind River also see pulp mill developments.
Editorial notes discuss differences in marriage customs, kitchen habits, and dignity. It mentions Civic Holiday activities in Acton, rainfall disparities in Ontario, and Acton industries resuming production after holidays. Unemployment insurance claims and benefits, new housing near Acton, and material shortages affecting self construction are noted. Guelph building permits and Saskatchewan liquor profits are referenced. A reader letter reflects on returning from vacation and avoiding daily news.
A massive slagpile at the Crofton area will be repurposed to produce mineral wool for insulation agricultural tile slag brick and insulated building blocks. Experiments are also being made on manufacturing a corrosion resistant anti acid product from slag.
The Quebec mines department reports a gold mine near St. Athanase in Kamouraska County shows about 20 percent auriferous mineral per ton after tests. Further exploration work is planned for spring.
A dialogue shows a scientist asking a pharmacist for a prepared monacetic ester of anlicyclic acid. The pharmacist recognizes the term and corrects him to aspirin, highlighting the scientist's difficulty recalling the name.
In Kenogami Quebec the mayor and entire municipal council were re elected by acclamation in India lake St John district. The fragment shows local pride and a humorous exchange about ancestry.
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