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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 16, 1943
Page
8
A fragmented OCR passage mentions Duane and a Patients Pavilion at Toronto General Hospital with unclear context and location details.
The Acton community lists upcoming meetings and holiday tips. The County Council convenes Tuesday December 11 at 2:00 PM. outdoor rink hopes rise amid milder weather. schools and shops operate with holiday fast approaching. Local donations include $10 from St Joseph’s Church and $5 from St Joseph’s Church.
London artist David Low says Hitler is not a strong subject for drawing and that he prefers to depict him as a fool rather than a monster. He notes the drawing approach reflects the stupidity he sees in the world and envisions self-portrait ideas as opposite sculptures.
Canadians drink coffee at 54 million pounds per year, 28 percent above pre war levels. The Wartime Prices and Fads Board says they cannot raise the current ration for now. Stockpiles have not grown to cover the recent one third increase in December. Officials say the situation will be reviewed and adjusted as needed.
William Henry Jago 69 a meat packing figure in Toronto and Northern Ontario died Monday in Barrie. Survived by widow Adeline. daughter Mrs F C Shaw of Cobalt. stepdaughter Mrs J E Williamson of Harrie. stepson Dean Richart overseas. sister Mrs C Shaw Vegreville. brothers John North Bay and Fred Toronto.
Margaret Ecker profiles Alice Daly, famed London stage star in the African desert. Dalysa chooses hardship over London fame, performing from a tent and riding in an army car with sand on her face. Cochran praises her dedication to entertaining the troops and her army spirit.
Under a plan from last summer the Prices Board orders Canadian mills to continue producing children s underwear through the winter. The aim is to spread demand beyond fall and early winter. Total output for the year is set at about 10 03200 garments, down from 8 993 700 last year, ensuring steady supply to retailers through winter.
Whitehorse and Dawson Creek wrestle with rapid growth from Alaska Highway projects. Population surges strain water, sanitation, and housing as camps convert to towns. Health impacts prompt cleanups, sewage plans, and rationing of services while fuel and costs rise.
In November 1917 Lt Col Walls of the London Rifle Brigade stood in a captured German dugout at Cambrai blinded by mustard gas. A runner delivered a telegram reporting his son David born, then later a cable from England announced his father’s death, framing the two wars in personal tragedy.
A man staggered into a theatre vestibule gasping for air and died from suffocation after a polymer breathing tube in his windpipe had fallen out. Months earlier he had an artificial airway inserted. He could not explain the trouble before his death.
Auction notice for a public sale at Frank Brown’s farm in Exquemng Township on December 11 1943. Items include livestock with details, implements from McCormick and Deering brands, hay grain poultry equipment, furniture kitchen ranges stoves and lamps, with no reserve.
Ottawa report portrays Princess Juliana as a dutiful wartime mother and royal worker. She manages a tight routine with her children and nursery duties while contributing to Red Cross bandages and merchant marine knitting. She studies current events and defends a practical, frugal domestic life away from palace excess.
CANDERRA CP King Smiler governs a northern aboriginal kingdom as wartime conditions force new subjects to join. Tribes pay taxes in tobacco or goods, Smiler wears royal rags, and his people receive army rations clothing and tents. A dubbed “Tarzan” leads a group while families join, sharing food and fuel under military oversight.
8 BC Photographs show Bobby Ray singing for British forces in the BBC programme Out of the Dirty Box. The popular young actress from Blackpool, in the north of England, is known for her husky low pitched voice and has performed at many camps for troops at home and abroad and broadcasts in BBC overseas forces programmes.
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