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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 06, 1945
Page
7
Last night it snowed and dawn has clarified This portrait of a winter countryside. The barns are thatched with winter’s plump extravagance and the sun patches the dark with yellow stitches. A gentle colt in the pasture explores a world it does not know. Cosette Middleton.
Itemized notes from the Free Press recount a snowy Christmas hope in Hockwood. It lists accidents and local obituaries including William Burgess and Hurg Ian Amex Mason. The Acton Women's Institute donates 1000 to schools for music. Cheatham and families honor M.S Holmes on a seventieth birthday. Obituaries mention Easton and Fyfe Merville death notices from 1925.
The document discusses a push to increase milk consumption in schools by disguising it as milk cocktails and setting up glamorized bars while some church bodies oppose the approach as inappropriate. It notes past proposals for school milk canteens and warns that during wartime, wildlife on Midway and Laysan Islands suffered but new threats emerged.
A flock of partridges attacked a locomotive on the railway line causing damage and fatalities. One bird killed itself against the engine, while another crashed through a side window injuring the engineer’s eye.
The Sunday School lesson outlines the Christian role as salt and light in society, stressing responsibility to preserve and flavor by faith. It urges believers to influence civic life, honor rulers, and follow divine standard toward perfection, urging active love and obedience in a morally aware nation.
Flying Officers Tom Tung Yep and two Chinese friends joined the RAAF for air crew duties after leaving Cairns Australia. Tung Yep was born in Hong Kong and trained in Canada, while We Wong Hoy and L. Fang Yuen faced delays but all three completed training. Also noted is Fanny Yuen finishing a tour as a contrafess operator on Australia’s aster squadron.
Auctioneer Frank Petich announces a clearing sale of horses, cattle, poultry, harness, implements, hay, and farm machinery from a farm near War McEnery and Sheridan Feathers. Terms require removal after sale. items include mares, stallion, Guernsey cows, poultry, farming gear, milking machinery, and wagons.
Mrs Dons Dowdell of Edmonton tends a backyard mink farm to beat boredom and earn extra money. With help from her office-worker husband, she raises about 100 minks, feeding them a mix of home meat and vegetables, and tends pens four times daily in hot weather to keep them healthy and productive.
Katie Freder ik and her carpenter husband planned a new residence but lacked workers. Max Frederick swapped apron for overalls and joined the couple, helping with construction as labor remains scarce.
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