Town Meeting Apathy Urges Voters To Choose Council
A weekly summary highlights low turnout at Acton's annual nomination meeting with about 75 present and 1,700 missing. Mayor John Gey reviews municipal work while warning future council, school board, and hydro decisions demand voter engagement. Safe-Driving Week aims to curb highway fatalities across Canada with a national campaign partner push.
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John Gey
Hydro Commission
Acton
Canada
Canadian Highway Safety Council
Council
Signpost of the Future For Ontario Welfare
Deputy minister James Band told municipal officials that Ontario counties should appoint trained welfare administrators to manage countywide welfare issues, a shift from municipal handling. Acton council is studying creating a county welfare officer, with future consolidations to boost efficiency while preserving some local control.
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James Band
Ontario
Band
Acton
What If Alaska Had Not Joined Free World History
A reflective brief asks how the free world might differ if the United States had never purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, exploring geopolitical and strategic implications and imagining alternate global pathways.
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Free World
United States
Alaska
Russia
The Costly Parade Of Public Education And Dad’s Reflections
A frustrated speaker rails at the time and money poured into education, noting buses filled with children, rising teachers salaries, and the strain on families. He recalls intimate homework moments with his son and nostalgic lessons shared, lamenting changes in learning and lost father son study time.
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Yorkshire
Peo
Education Ruts in High School Warns of Wasted Learning
A columnist laments schooling from elementary to high school, arguing practical knowledge fades after teens. He cites lack of science and language retention, gendered social insights, meteorology myths, and life lessons while railing against wasted time and superficial education.
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Canada
Advent Calendar Notes From Acton Churches
Sunday December 4 schedule across St Alban s Anglican Knox Presbyter ian United Church and Baptist and Christian Reformed and Pentecostal Tabernacle in Acton Ontario. Services include Holy Eucharist morning worship Sunday School and Bible society events with junior congregations nursery care and evening evangelistic services. addresses and contact details indicate a busy mixed faith community.
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Scheol
Mornin Worth. P
Lone Manuel
Canadian Bible Society
St Alban's Church
Tages
Charing German
Manse
Canadian Bible Society Serevier
St Alban's Carch
Ageef
Baptist High Fellaiwship
Evangelistic
Tureday
Christ Ambassadors
Local notes on W. S. Cateman and Christmas sales plan
In 1918 Dec 1 in Frew Crees area news notes report W S Cateman expected home from Great Lakes sailing with Pittsburgh Steamship Co. and George J Wallace offering dramatic price cuts to clear stock for Christmas. Community events include a Keenaste dance with birthday wishes, Erect League toy-making for Desecmers Home Christmas tree, and political turnout in Acton Mor day with 473 voters, YMCA and Town Hall tallies, plus council nominations and local society reports.
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Thevedey
Cateman
Werk Flier
Great Lakes
Pittsburgh Steamship Co
Chicago
George J. Wallace
Keenate Dess Hall
Kelleman
Fogg
Gates
Gregory
League
Sre
Dresung
Ann Fatls
Klett
Duba Mo Warren
Renidents
Acton
YMCA
Town Hall
J. B. Chalmers
Rumley
Boyd
F. S. Blow
Woodside Uterary Society
Hest
Bennockhurm
Conust
Wien Press
Ata Shapadottii
Perryman
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United Kingdom
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Ontario-Quebec
C.wila
Reac
Post Office
Artment
Ottawa
G. A. Dills
David F. Dis
Florida
Australia
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Cain
Jacks
Old Baldy
Ata
Professional Directory and
Travellers’ Guide
WG. C. Kenney
Lyme Block
Acam Phore
DA Garre
Witow and
Rover Ste
Robert LD. Buckner
Fll. Wright
Wilber St Acton
Ontari
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Mui
Frederick Street
A. J. Buchanan
Mill Street
C. F. Leatherland
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Main St. S. Acton
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Hastings & Payne Barristers and Solicitors Notaries
Mill Sty Acton
W. Roy Ridder
Co. Palmer
Poe
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Sheenauer
Roe
Opramert
Oris
Robert VR Ragston
Lever & Hosson Chartered
Accomnas
Main St
King Low Brampwa
Toronto
Edmund G. Morgan
DSC
Green St Ont Fhone
Gray Coach Lines
Werthow
Swam Eee
Ss Bas Li
Set
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Canadian National Railways
Susdiy
Town
Georgetown
Ant Ion
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Stokreef
Jeffrey St
United Church OF Canada
Acton, Ontario
Dwight Engel
B.a.iister
George Elliott
Christian Reformed Church
JI Nutma
Queen St
Church of the
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