Rural electrification plans push farm life toward city comforts
Ontario moves to simplify rural hydro rates costing farmers over 500000 in savings. A hydro advisory council may be formed with municipal labor farm and mining groups. Government eyes selling cost price appliances and broader provincial schemes extend to Manitoba as wartime limits fade. Returning servicemen expected to spur postwar farm expansion and improved conditions.
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Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission
Ontario Agriculture
Kennedy
Manitoba
Dominion
Just Around the Corner With Christmas Looms
The author notes December six and eight days until Christmas, reflecting on unfinished tasks, wartime shortages, and shopping shifts. Local merchants urge readers to browse town stores for value and variety as big stores offer fewer in demand items.
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Old Mother Hubbard
Mail Time Waste and Rural Newspaper Mailings
A critique of outdated mailing lists in rural newspapers cites aged editors and unused speech copies. The piece urges publishers to update subscriptions and reduce waste to save paper, referencing Canada’s postwar shift toward farming and better rural amenities as a context for reform.
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H. P. Moore
Milton
William Panton
The Public and the Stores in Wartime Retail
Wartime strain on retail shows in labor shortages and rationing. Public cooperation and patience ease delivery and service during congested hours. Acton residents praise store workers for patience and good service as holiday shopping peaks.
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Acton
Keeping track by registration would aid even in peace
A Canadian Press dispatch from Ottawa discusses continuing national registration in peacetime. Proponents say it helps liquor sales and cheque cashing, while critics warn against bureaucratic overreach and the loss of privacy for law abiding citizens.
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Ottawa
Jae
Railways handle big rush of feed grain
Grain production in the Eastern Provinces fell behind last year due to poor weather. The Canadian National Railways reports millions of bushels must be moved from the West to sustain stock production. Farmers are urged to save seed grain for 1944 by cleaning and storing excess from the home crop rather than feeding it to livestock.
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Agricultural Department
Canadian National Railways
Agricultural Supplies Board
Western Canal
Canada
Waterless Laundry Is Railway Feature
The Canadian National Railways operate two large laundries using no soap water or ironing. Dope laundry uses oil and cotton waste to lubricate locomotive and car journals, packing journals and feeding bearings. Dope waste is reclaimed after service, saving CN 1943 tens of thousands of pounds. for ten months 1943 6 547 200 pounds treated, up 1 827 910 pounds from 1942.
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Canadian National Railways
Montreal
Winnipeg
E. R. Battley
Seven Shopping Days Till Christmas In 1943
Editorial notes reflect on the approach of Christmas with seven shopping days left. Nostalgia and wartime realities frame hopes for 1944 reunions, rural isolation in the west, and concerns about postwar relief as wartime lessons fade from memory.
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Wes
Wartime Board Declares War on Paper Gremlins
The Wartime Prices and Trade Board mobilizes offices across Canada to curb the Paper Gremlin infestations from oversized envelopes to ruined mail. Authorities report gremlins withdrawing under pressure as scrap paper and damaged stationery fortunes are rumored to surface.
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Prices and Trade Board
Canada
Fit Tankers With Steel Lifeboats
Britain plans 500 steel lifeboats for torpedoed tanker crews. Lifeboats tested to safeguard occupants for at least a quarter mile through intense flames.
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London
Britain
Ministry of Transport
War workers see results of labor exhibition in London
The British Aircraft Company held an exhibition showing the Hercules engine to workers who mostly did not understand the final product. The display aimed to boost motivation as workers saw the finished engine and its capabilities, including high take off power for heavy bomb loads.
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London
British Airplane Company
Lancaster
Hercules
Local Medical and Dental Directory for Acton Area
A combined directory listing physicians and a dentist serving Acton. Dr W G C Kenney, successor to Dr J A McNiveny, Symon Block Mill Street Acton, phone 158. Dr W M G Cul, LMC, Mill Street near Frederick Street, phone 123, taking over Dr Buchanan’s practice. Dr Hugh S Austin, Dental Surgeon Amis Street at Frederick, hours 9 30 am to 3 20 pm, evenings by appointment, phone 168.
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W. G. C. Kenney
Gergeen
J. A. McNiveny
Symon Block
Mill Street
Acton
WM. G. Cul
LMC
Frederick Street
Hugh S. Austin
Amis Street
Frederick
Railway Timetable Fragments Report Day Limits
Fragmentary OCR shows daily schedules with "Dally except Sunday" notices for Georgetown and Guelph. Times include 9.01 a.m. Saturday only 2.29 p.m. and 12.08 a.m. Monday and 1.14 a.m. Also mentions a flyer for Georgetown and Guelph with Saturday and Sunday exclusions.
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Dally
Georgetown
Guelph
East
London
Kitchener
Stratford
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