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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
7
The text expresses a sense of shared struggle and the value of friends. It hints at wartime or communal hardship, noting that life’s splendor depends on caring people and collective memory rather than individual effort alone.
Twenty years ago a miscellany of notices appears: agricultural crop notes, school board changes, local visits and travels, and obituaries. Principal Edna Mew takes over at $2,000 salary. J H Boyd reports honey yields lighter. Wheat price cited at 1.50. other items include visits by Patrick Gibbons and family, and An act on record.
Government urging saving every bit of garden matter for mulch and soil enrichment. Build a four by four foot compost area, layer plant refuse in alternating piles, dust with garden fertilizer, and cover with soil if available. Two months a typical rot time in summer and the mulch aids crops in heat.
Article notes total cash income from farm product sales in 1943 reached 1,396.6 million dollars, up from 765.8 million in 1940. Price index rose 55.4 percent from 1940 to spring 1944, while overall cash income climbed 82 percent due to higher production volumes. Farm wages, including board, jumped from 336.02 in May 1940 to 981.8 in May 1944.
A Sunday school lesson on Eli the priest and his sons, their failings, and God’s judgment. Eli’s indulgence and refusal to discipline his sons led to the Ark’s capture and Israel’s distress, illustrating accountability, fidelity, and divine succession in service to God.
The Commons and Senate backed a government bill to set floor prices for farm products with a $200 million fund and a three member board to stabilize prices during the war to peace transition. Wheat remains handled by the Canadian Wheat Board. critics questioned fund adequacy and future protection. Prime Minister Mackenzie King marked 25 years as Liberal leader and indicated no election while war lasts, planning to run in Prince Albert.
Visitors at the Royal Ontario Museum costume gallery note the tiny footwear from the past. White kid boots and silk slippers show how beauty ideals valued very small feet in the 19th century and crinolines limited visible foot size.
German composers will receive royalties from the wartime song Lili Marlene performed in Britain. Tom Mies brought the song back from the desert and the English money paid for performing rights will be held and divided after the war between publishers and the German composers.
Bernard Roy Butler aged 13 of Hull received the Amy Johnson gold cup for 1943 courage after volunteering to rescue a girl who fell through a pond ice. He crossed the thin ice and saved the girl despite it breaking under his weight.
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