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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 12, 1948
Page
2
The speaker urges caring for others to achieve harmony and mutual understanding. They claim practical authority from living the message and from owning a printing press, asserting that experience shapes credible communication.
Recollections of Acton from 1888 note a February thaw reducing snow banks. R D Graham re elected as municipal officer with salary raised to 450. Library Board appointed Rev J A McLachlan Rev H A MacPherson and H P Moore. Council to consult an electrical engineer on an Acton electric lighting plant. A Woodmen of the World event at Town Hall drew a grand crowd. Farmer James Graham of Trafalgar died after a straw stack collapsed on him while working with neighbor George Buck and a hired boy. Buck and the boy escaped.
The province wide manufacturing data for 1945 show a sharp postwar drop in production from war related activity. The report lists Halton County towns and other centers with establishments, salaries, wages, and gross production values, highlighting the wartime to peacetime conversion and overall decline.
The writer jokes about clearing a desk and buying a larger wastepaper basket in 1948. They note the old basket is broken and describe the growing need to discard propaganda and daily mail clutter, stressing the increasing volume and the time saved by a bigger container.
A local paper shares letters of appreciation from Salada Tea Company Bell Telephone Canada old banks and others praising editorial comments and their ads. The notes affirm continued cooperation and give a personal, desk side glance at the newspaper's role in advertising and service.
The piece argues that aviation and science shape a small world and urges responsibility beyond goods. It says industry must unite mankind, avoid atom bomb brinkmanship, and newspapers should highlight constructive people stories to foster hope and a better way of life.
The Farmers Advocate argues that service demand drives costs as goods travel from farm to door. Middlemen perform needed work, but extra frills raise prices along the supply chain. An Abkout Program of Service-at-Cast could curb excess, pushing some tasks back to consumers.
The hockey schedule nears its end with teams awaiting advancement to play winter sport while others prepare for baseball. Snow banks on district highways reached high levels as police and plows push back the top snow to clear routes for February storms.
The Free Press notes Valentine mail nearly matches Christmas mail in February 1928. Knox Church Sunday School held a sleigh riding party. A wedding united Miss Anna Rittenhouse and Mr Bert Mowat at St Catharines United Church manse. The Baptist Men’s Bible Class hosted a Father and Son banquet. Death notices list Lottie May Weatherall, Alexandria Allie Laing, and James E Snyder in Acton and nearby.
Legal notice outlines matters under Section 25 of The Municipal Act and amendments and concerns the annexation to the Village of Acton of lands described in Esquesing Township. Proceedings, notices, and related legal steps are referenced for public record.
Notice states Appleateon at the Corporation of the Village of Acton for annexation of parts of Rast Hath of Latewents-Nine in the Third Concession of Esquesne totaling about 1461 acres. Board hearing occurred September 20 1947. an order will be issued February 5 1948. Interested property owners must file objections within 14 days after February 5 1948 or the annexation proceeds by Special Act of the Legislature. Dated Toronto January 30 1948 signed by MB Landerson Secretary
A jumble of times and notes shows scattered daily schedules and exceptions. Mentions include Fastbound Darts Daly Georgetown Guelph and Weathound Daily with various Sunday Monday and Saturday exclusions and different times such as 6.44 am 4.19 pm 1.17 am and 8.44 am.
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