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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 15, 1949
Page
19
Rats, especially the common brown and Norway types, breed rapidly and consume food meant for humans and livestock. They contaminate supplies and spread diseases like bubonic plague and typhus, making eradication hard due to safe poisons. A permanent fix includes rat proofing buildings with tight doors, concrete foundations, metal bindings, and wire mesh vents.
A tartan dining room suite in tartan tweed upholstery has left for America. Orders were placed with a Glasgow firm by American buyers at the Scottish Industries Exhibition. The set includes a sideboard, table, six chairs, a tea wagon, and a coffee table.
The Financial Post argues that continued spending beyond income leads to trouble even as voters chase luxury items. It criticizes politicians who promise the moon and warns that someone must eventually pay the bills.
At Fowey port hundreds of workers toil 12 hours daily by floodlight to satisfy a world demand for Cornish china clay. In one week 30,000 tons were loaded with priority ships bound for Canada before the St Lawrence River freezes. The clay is used in paper textiles pottery cosmetics and other products.
The Financial Post Product reports a kit to convert an ordinary one half ton truck into a weatherproof enclosed wagon. It claims low cost light weight and easy loading while providing rigidity and rough use with steel tubing tough plastic upholstery and a canvas reinforced top. It notes Canada supplies much of the world's nickel.
Fragmentary text discusses a purported gift of self knowledge and social planning. It references a concept of security for the future and a matrix of abilities, but the excerpt lacks concrete events, names, or dates to identify a clear news item or figure.
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