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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 15, 1942
Page
7
The text presents a traditional English ballad mood with lines on winter wind and the holly as a symbol. It contrasts cold harshness with unreliable friendship and fleeting pleasure, noting life’s folly and feigned affection.
Acton council seats a lady alderman for Galt while local records show 84 births 13 marriages and 27... a circus carnival drew crowds despite dull weather with best costumes awarded to Mrs N H Garden and Mr G Lewis. Thomas Statham family marks 55th wedding anniversary. Former Acton resident D D Christian donates 1000 to Guelph General Hospital. Acton Fall Fair notes 1284 entries and 91 dollars Provincial aid for rain insurance. A B McLean elected president 1922 with George Hynds secretary treasurer. Acton Horticultural Society reports 217 paid members. J E Gamble newly elected president with H P Moore and Frank Scriven as vice presidents. Born twins Wesley and Lesae Watson at 67 Willard Avenue Toronto December 24 1921.
Carelessness with unemployment insurance books harms workers. Manager H G Suffield warns many leave with books or lose them, losing benefits. Workers should collect books from employers on quitting and deposit them with the Claims Officer or carry them to a new job to maintain records and ensure future eligibility.
The January Sunday School lesson centers Luke 3 1 6 15 17 21 with John the Baptist in the wilderness preaching repentance and baptism for remission of sins. It notes Jesus as the greater baptizer with the Holy Spirit and fire and outlines the call to bear fruit worthy of repentance and reject reliance on Abrahamic descent.
The text states Jesus' baptism prefigures his death burial and resurrection. It describes Jesus praying as the Father proclaims him beloved and the Spirit descends as a dove revealing the Trinity during the baptism.
Sixty drawings discovered in Surrey by an architect reviewing his papers for the government salvage drive may aid rebuilding the House of Commons debating chamber destroyed in the last May air raid. The sketches by Sir Charles Barry, original designer of the Palace of Westminster, were in the possession of Charles Marshall who obtained them from Barry and later passed them to the chief architect of the ministry of works and buildings who called the plans "Just the drawings we wanted."
A psychologist explains color choices by hair color. He says blondes favor blue due to blue-tinted light in ancestral northern regions, while brunettes lean red from infrared heat influences on retina. The theory links hair color to evolutionary light exposure.
W. F. Cam Rector of St. Ethenburg's Church Bishopsgate, reportedly the only London rector willing to marry divorced persons, died at age 84 in London.
Canadian troops at Arras near Vimy Ridge intensified raids after the Somme. A January attack over two miles of No Man's Land yielded 100 prisoners, a company commander, and a machine gun, while other raids relied on stealth and darkness to collect information and degrade enemy morale.
The text describes enemy reconnaissance and raids to prepare for a spring offensive and outlines fox fur quotas. It notes 100000 foxes valued at 250 dollars each and fur imports limits under a Canada United States trade agreement. December 1 1941 marks the start of a yearlong period with monthly import caps and overall quotas.
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