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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
14
A fragmentary religious vigil text venerates the Babe of Bethlehem, calling on Christ to possess and adorn our beings, yield to divine will, and stir hearts toward mercy and love as a timeless Christmas reverie.
A December 5 1974 issue notes sleigh rides for pupils and social visits. Acton Hockey Club officers elected with G T Beardmore president, J M MacDonald vice president, H Bricker secretary treasurer. A town league formed with Acton Tanning Hewetson’s Town Beardmore Co and High School. Ebenezer Church members visited Mr and Mrs W J Akins. gold watch awarded to Akins. Married Somerville Armstrong and Gray Somerville. Died Annie Heath Blair widow of Rev Arch Blair D D Nassayaweya.
Norman C. Urquhart announces that German camps provide two blankets in winter and one in summer plus personal blankets for prisoners of war. He notes 1945 rule allows only one blanket if dormitories are heated. German authorities deny extra blankets. Red Cross will continue supplying as previously.
London delegates representing 3,000,000 women at a national Maternity and Child Welfare conference urged local councils to build four bed room houses for large families, provide nursery schools, domestic help, and draught proof windows. Speakers argued for babies born at home with husbands present and for ladies in waiting to assist at home during confinement.
The piece reviews multiple theaters including Hungary, Italy, and the Pacific. It notes Budapest under siege by Red Army, pressure on German defenses south of the Alps, and Mindoro landings near Manila as Allied forces press deeper toward Japan. It highlights a Canadian view on West Wall cracking by young French Canadian officers and touches Greece and wartime diplomacy.
A vais of optimistic talk urges looking beyond the war to the future. It lauds Canada's scientific strength, industrial capacity, and high education as assets for solving problems and building better days through cooperation and sound judgment.
The piece reflects a 1846 Sunday school lesson on Luke 2 the birth of Jesus Christ and its divine purpose. It emphasizes shepherds as faithful witnesses the angels message fear not and the Savior born to bring peace and salvation. It argues Jesus as heir of all things and the express image of God sustaining a personal divine nature.
The article predicts returning service members will seek farms and rural life with access to automobiles social life and towns. It argues country settlement will include entertainment and improved communications reducing hardship and loneliness once common.
Niagara Falls Ontario reports Pto. Verno A. Gregoire, 19, as the smallest Canadian Army recruit at four feet one inch tall in stocking feet. Attached to the Royal Canadian Artillery, he is stationed at Camp Bonen.
G A Holmes, among three New Zealand agricultural experts touring Northern Ireland, says New Zealand should accommodate at least 3,500,000 settlers. He notes immigration policy is government driven but expects postwar recovery to shift toward British Isles emigrants.
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