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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 17, 1916
Page
3
A mixed transit of notes reports a thin February week, local political notices, church events, military parade plans, and community updates from Acton and surrounding areas. Entries mention provincial meetings, school and church activities, and early war era troop movements connected to Acton residents.
A muddled report notes Patriotis Fund subscriptions totaling 703.80 pledged by 4,030 members, plus an obituary for Prof. Clark of Georgetown High School and MaMaster University, Toronto, praising his educational impact and long service.
The week’s notes record residents visiting relatives in Toronto and Detroit, returning home to Ontario, and social calls across towns. Mentions include Mra Malai returning to Dolustown, Mra N Z Meum’s Detroit trip, and Mr. Jasaph Holmes’s gradual recovery on Bower Avenue.
Dear folk, I write from a French hospital where rheumatism and battle wounds keep me resting. I fear I may not be fit for further trench duty this spring as the front lines shift and illness runs through the troops. News from home is slow but I send best wishes and hope you are well. I’ve seen Snow’s battalion nearby and plan to write again soon.
In Toronto the Public Library has given two large rooms to the Canadian Free Library for the Blind. Mr Swift leads a dedicated team to deliver embossed books to blind readers across the Dominion. Since opening in 1907 with 81 volumes, 26 members, the system now distributes thousands of titles monthly, with over 4,250 volumes in the library and more on order abroad. Canada has few embossed Canadian works due to lack of domestic printing, but hopes to change as awareness grows.
A wartime debate in Canada concerns a man born here of German parents who have not sworn allegiance to the Crown. Legal experts discuss whether at 21 he can claim Canadian or German nationality, and whether British service could make him a British subject if he is under 21.
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