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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1950
Page
4
British Fashions For Canadian Men
United Kingdom cloth designers lead brighter men’s suiting with coloured threads woven into quiet tones to create bloom without domination. Flecked multi colour effects appear in finest worsteds, cheviot tweet sports, and Donegal inspired weaves. New gabardines offer diagonal cord and iridescent surface, while sunshine tones dominate leisure fabrics in fawns and matre yellow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Donegal
Sunshine
Why Oaks Hold Leaves Into Winter
Oaks shed leaves late because growth resumes after frost stops it. The vascular connections stay negative and fail to detach, so leaves cling to twigs through winter. Wind and rain then drive their eventual shedding in spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oaka
Iny
Butter and dairy prices shift for September
Proffretton of butter and cheese declined by eight and twenty one cents from the prior month. Ice cream prices rose three percent and concentrated milk products increased twenty percent in the same period.
Reflections On War, Gifts, and Hidden Histories
A reminiscence blends holiday gifting plans with memories of the Boer and World Wars. The author recalls homemade gifts, family memories in Sudbury England, wartime songs, and Gouzenko’s role in exposing Soviet espionage in Canada, linking personal nostalgia to historical intrigue.
Book exposes Communist threat to Canada and warns readers
A reader endorses a book arguing Communist influence can infiltrate Canada with easy propaganda. The review claims the work reveals distrust, graft, and ignorance within society, but ends on a cautiously hopeful note about the Soviet system’s fate and the book’s eye opening impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilh Diesel
Ft Wall
Canada
Coromuntoun
Dairying Industry and Conservation Link Highlighted
The article traces dairying from early pasture systems to modern soil conservation, noting long term rotation with hay and pasture, erosion control via grass sod, and the role of dairying as a stable income in Canada. It emphasizes soil health, sustainable farming, and growing interest from conservationists and sportsmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thalevinge
Cate
Canada
Dalrying
Champlain
Quebec
North America
Gulf of Mexico
Notice to Creditors in the Estate of Charles Wesley Wilson
Creditors and others are notified that claims against the estate of Charles Wesley Wilson late Hydro Superintendent Acton Halton Ontario who died about October 25 1950 must be sent with proofs to C F Leatherland solicitor for the executors before December 23 1950 assets will be distributed to those legally entitled. Dated Acton Ontario December 5 1950. a-23-3
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Wesley Wilson
Acton
Halton
Hydro
C. F. Leatherland
Ont
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