War rationing and wool industry opportunity amid shortages
The piece outlines September rationing for sugar tea and coffee and urges calm, warns against rumors, and notes a Saskatoon editors’ convention. It highlights Canada’s wool shortage with a plan to start eight flocks, domestic wool processing, and benefits of War Savings Certificates to stretch purchasing power after the war.
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Enial
Halton
Acton
Dominion
Wool Combing ‘Corporation Ltd
Canada
Ontario
Autumn Fair Signals and Editorial Notes From Fergus Era
Editorial notes reflect autumn fairs with Acton Fair five weeks away and broader 1942 production figures. Comment discusses bootlegging crackdowns in Toronto, a Fergus News Record dam edition, and praise for historical reporting. Local classifieds are quoted with a humorous temperance critique and wall graffiti observations at Casa Loma and public toilets.
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Acton
Fergus News Record
Grand River
Templin
Oy Mocla
Casa Loma
Sirj Henry Pellat
Canadians Take Hill 70 in Lens Offensive Under Currie
In August 1917 General Currie led the First and Second Canadian Divisions in a dawn assault south and east of Loos. They captured key objectives around Lens including Hill 70 after heavy artillery and counterattacks, with 1,120 German troops captured in the action. German losses were recorded as greatest for the war relative to men engaged.
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Arthur Currie
Lens
No Man's Land
Ypres
Cite Ste. Elizabeth
Cite St. Emile
Cite St. Laurent
Bois Rose
Blois
Hill 70
Passchendaele
National War Labour Board
Calls More Women To Civic Affairs
Birmingham reports Lord Mayor Norman Tiptaft urges more women in municipal administration to ease the workload on men, describing the current burden as almost intolerable and noting businessmen comment on the issue.
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Birmingham
Norman Tiptaft
Public war duties call women to join roles in service
A fragment notes that women should take places in war duties and politics as prejudice against them within party machines is deemed unreasonable and foolish. The remarks advocate equal contribution despite regional resistance.
Norway Suffers Stockholm Shortages Amid Food Scarcities
Report notes famine like conditions in Norway with rising hunger and disease. Officials cite food shortages causing malnutrition and outbreaks of diseases such as diphtheria and scurvy among the population, with harsh living conditions reported.
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Stockholm
Norway
Saunders Joins Mountbatten Combined Operations Staff
Hilary St George Saunders author of The Battle Off Britain resigns from the Air Ministry and takes a post with Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations Staff in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hilary St George Saunders
Britain
Air Ministry
Lord Mountbatten
Tables at Acton DayiaigEEP Saving Crime
Fragmented OCR text provides scattered schedule notes with times and places such as Sunday and Saturday entries. Multiple garbled phrases mention events, hours, locations like West Laity and Caftanelph, and dates in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kk West Laity
Estepet
Saturnly
Ontys
Gray Coach Lines Coaches Leave Accoon
Incomplete OCR text notes routes and schedules for Gray Coach Lines with references to Sundays holidays and route letters indicating destinations to Kitchener Stratford and other points. The readable fragments imply a service description and restricted travel days but lack complete details.
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Acton Free Press
Actos
United States
Free Press
Ite
G. Arlof Dills
Phones
Saskatoon
Canadianeekly Newspapers’ Association
Newfoundland
British Columbia
Tru Pret Press
Adast
Times
Alberta
Toronto
Shittes Town
Trenton
Brampton Conservator
Currie
Canadian Press
J. W. Armstrong
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Onder
Counsil
War Labour Board
National Joint Conference Board
Ottawa
Humphrey Mitchell
Commandos
J. D. Maitland
R.c.nwv
Andéidge
Business Directory
W. G. C. Kenney
J. A. McNiven
Symon Block
Mill Street
Realdence
Churel St
Chas. D. Shortt
E. J. Nelson
Frederick Streat
WM. G. Cullen
L.M.C
Frederick Street
DRS. Stevenson & Wagner
Campbellville
Ont
Milton
T. H. Wylie
Buchanan
Hugh S. Austin
Corner
Frederick, Acton
F. Leatherland
Kenneth M. Langdon
Notary Public
Officea
Georgetown
Gregory
T. Seynuck
Ines
B. D. Young, V.S
B.v.sc
Brookville
F. G. Oakes
Veterinary Surgeon Office
Rcaitence
Knox Avenue
Frank Petch
Commercial Life Assurance Co
Tares Street
Georgetowa
Kime
Canadian National Railways
CPIME
Sundiss
Tjeotpetown
Gray Coach Lines
Accoon
Daslight
Basthoumd
Tye Pr
Te Ptm
Kitchener
Stratford
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