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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 31, 1942
Page
3
A long list of Christmas visits and homecomings across Acton and nearby towns: servicemen, families, and friends returning from Toronto, Detroit, Winnipeg, and Vancouver to celebrate the holidays with relatives. Multiple households host relatives including spouses, children, and grandchildren during Christmas week.
Premier Eamon de Valera told the Dublin Chamber of Commerce that Ireland must rebuild after the war by expanding farming. He urged soil surveys, improved soils, and piping, with wind power for farm lighting and reorganizing pig and bacon production to cut transport costs.
Canadian FreeStaff Writer HH Gordon describes Christmas at winter quarters around Vimy Ridge Lens and Ypres. Dominion troops, famed for Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele, manned trenches near Lens Avion and Fresnay with Canadian front extending from Hill 70 toward Lens and Arleux in Oppy region.
Wartime bulletin traces Allied advances near Tripoli and Tunis, Russian front detachments expanding, Burma and Chindwin activity, and Giraud De Gaulle unification talks. It notes the isolation of the German 6th Army near Stalingrad, air resupply attempts, and a British push toward Rathedaung with signs of Japanese retreat.
The Farmer's Weekly announces a policy to publish farm news openly, with staff encouraged to farm on their own account. The paper aims to tell readers what goes on at the farm, including successes, losses, and daily farming life, in a natural, public manner.
Excerpted notes discuss the Word becoming flesh in Jesus Christ. It emphasizes John 1 14, the eternal Word with God, divine deity, creation through Him, and the call for believers to receive Him to become children of God. It cites scripture from John 1 and related passages.
In Skiatook Oklahoma a double wedding nearly occurred when two couples planned to wed with licenses from different counties. Fred Sutton and Helen from Tulsa County and Gertrude with Wayne Case from Orange County faced a boundary split on the street where the minister stood filpping. The ceremony proceeded with each pair on opposing sidewalks as the minister officiated. The line of counties dictated the staging of the ceremony.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Swackhamer announce the engagement of their only daughter Mary Isabel to Dirk Cutts vanGoozen son of Mr and Mrs CJ vanGoozen Acton. Maple Hut Farm hosts the first marriage details. Margaret Jean Parkinson of Eramosa engaged to Franklin Royce Campbell son of Mrs A Campbell Atton. Marriage planned in mid January.
Canberra reports the Australian government approved 200000 for dehydration of fruits and vegetables, double the earlier amount. Talks with Tasmania South Australia and Western Australia aim to boost dried apple output with over 30000 tons of fresh apples yielding about 4000 tons of dried apples annually. Current cannery uses 8500 tons of fresh fruit with half kept for services.
Two young boys aged 10 and 11 were killed when a grenade found by a Home Guard officer exploded. The device was one of two discovered on him before being moved by bystanders.
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