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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 22, 1943
Page
6
Nation’s capital launches a Canadian community paper feature for ranchers farmers and workers, offering concise Ottawa coverage. The column invites reader questions and notes wartime context with glimpses of Parliament and the armed forces, highlighting Mitchin’s remarks on national policy and public sentiment.
Letters from editors nationwide discuss reforms and the cost of health insurance pending control by a medical monopoly. A Manitoba editor calls for plain language on farming issues and postwar reconstruction benefits for farmers. The weekly notes warn miracles aren’t expected and that clear facts will emerge with time.
The Yellowknife Blade is Canada’s smallest publication serving a 1,700,000 square mile Northwest Territories area. Editor John Murray McKeehan and his wife publish 400 copies weekly from Yellowknife, selling 10 cents a copy or $1 yearly. Newsboys distribute locally and to far regions via canoe, plane, and horse. The paper spotlights territorial news, ads, and frontier interests to promote mining and regional development.
Article recalls the July 18 1918 counteroffensive that drove German troops back from the Marne and Aisne sectors. It notes French 10th and 6th Armies aided by American divisions, the withdrawal to the Marne, and German losses as the salient was erased.
Miss Margaret Littlewood 26 earns certificate as Canada's lone woman Link Trainer instructor after 1000 flying hours. She trained RC A F pilots and others at No 2 Air Observers School under Capt Wop May and demonstrated instrument flight on the simulator revealing pilots’ mistakes under varied weather scenarios. Veteran flyers Grant McConachie North Swale and H Hollock Kenyon trained with her to improve blind flying skills.
The Royal Ontario Museum features silk stockings as a historical display. Notable pieces include Victoria era items with Queen Victoria’s monogram crown, revealing 19th century fashion norms. Some stockings show long foot tops and silk ending near the ankle, reflecting modesty standards of the period. A 1852 wedding pair is hand knitted in open work.
The Swedish Price Board fixed ceiling prices for foxes squirrels crows and gulls once not considered human food before the war. This action aims to regulate wartime food supplies and curb price fluctuations across the country.
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