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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1949
Page
2
Acton ratepayers will decide in September on sewer construction and a disposal plant with a December 1945 completion target. Voters previously approved $184 000 for the project by a 6 to 1 margin, while tenders alledgedly exceeded $400 000.
The Financial Post notes Canada and Britain have advanced turbo-jet transport programs while U S manufacturers lag behind. It argues the United States excels as adaptor and producer in radar television atom bomb and other discoveries, urging humility about American pre-eminence and praising onside brains.
A set of opinion fragments critique liquor policies and bootlegging harms, urging restraint before intoxication leads to crimes. The text discusses auto gear shifts, Ontario crops and prices, business failures, civic plans, and local politics with a call for enlightened action and public involvement.
The August 16 1899 issue notes farmers threshing taxes due in two installments on September 2 and November 6. John Agnew improves Main Street property. Crews drill a deep well for Mr A Stephenson on River Stil. Wearmimore Co work advances and new cementing on the building. A daughter of Angus Medeor is mentioned in Acton.
A scanned Acton column notes Rudolph Kowalski's departure due to a swimming accident, McDonald excavations for a new house, Arthur's negatives in Winnipeg, and Valerie Ritchie visiting from New York. Knox Church friends staged a motor drive to Bruce Head with about fifty participants. Also mentions Jessie Hearhope and Graham Lawson family notices and a remark on newspaper tidiness implying mild insanity.
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