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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 28, 1941
Page
7
A verse lament on society’s excuses and fatalism. The speaker critiques people who blame luck and others for their failures, arguing lack of pluck leads to trapped lives. He contrasts such attitudes with a message of personal responsibility and faith from The Christin Advocate.
The article notes fourteen foot corn ia touted by growers as a key crop achievement. It mentions a warm spell with temperatures near eighty degrees and several local events and notices from Acton and Milton listings. It also records resignations and births at local schools and families connected to Nassagaweya.
Nazism suppresses Poland’s prewar press but a broad illegal and legal Polish language press network survives. It includes weekly and monthly reviews with high editorial standards, a war analysis focus, and illustrations, reaching virtually the entire population despite risks and executions for involvement.
The lesson emphasizes loving not just in words but in deeds and truth, citing 2 John 4:18. It stresses genuine charity, sincerity, and living out faith through concrete acts rather than mere speech.
Harvest in Western Canada faces a sharp drop in wheat yield with estimates ranging from 287.6 to 308 million bushels, far below recent years. Farmers thresh and harvest across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta as insect damage and cooler weather affect prospects.
Output for the first half of 1941 reached 100,000 ounces versus 24,799 ounces in the same period of 1940, a gain of 6,202 ounces. Four mines in the Yellowknife area and the Slave Lake Old Mines property on Outpost Island are active, with mine capacity expansion and new mills planned at several properties to meet wartime gold demand.
The New Chronicle reports that about 200000 Londoners mainly women and children remain in shelters and tube stations rather than return to homes. Families describe crowded conditions yet prefer the safety and communal life, with some praising new shelters as a Ritz compared to their flats.
The crew of a Ajith plane who crashed on the North African coast were salvaged by a rescue plane crew held off by rifle fire from local tribesmen. The rescuer used a pad of duat rained by its propeller to force the downed airmen aboard.
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