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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 30, 1942
Page
3
Local notes list many visitors on leave from Rivers Manitoba, Toronto Ontario, and Detroit Michigan. Names include Joe Lushy and Wm Coleman, Mrs. J. W. McLeod, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gould, Sgt. Gordon Seward, and Pilot Officer Joseph Hurst among others, visiting Acton friends and relatives during holidays and leaves.
Mrs John Sprowl thanks friends for flowers fruit letters and cards during her illness at home and in hospital. Kindnesses were greatly appreciated.
A county council considered unemployment insurance and approved a by law to levy expenses for the current financial year. The measure reduced the county rate by one tenth of a mill from last year. The proposal, moved by Mr Giberts and seconded by Mr Kerns, prompted discussion and adjournment of the council.
The lesson highlights Abram's call to separate from idolatrous kin and travel to Canaan with God’s promise. It emphasizes the blessings tied to faith, the testing of obedience, and Abram’s steadfast trust as a model for believers. The narrative links Abram’s journey to the broader biblical hope of a city with foundational roots in divine promise.
The report notes German gains on the Don River near Takilyansk and Rostov with a second potential theater near Stalin grad. It cites Russian advances toward Voronezh and Stalingrad, and suggests Axis supply pushes toward Bulgaria and Asia Minor. It also mentions Japanese landings near New Guinea and Berlin’s fear of a second front.
British soldiers gain lighter boots with average weight dropping from about 5 lbs per pair in the last war to 3 lbs 13 oz today. Advancements include thinner uppers, lighter nails, fewer studs, and redesigned orthopaedic soles, all contributing to longer wear and less fatigue during marches.
A series of engagements lists Helena Herale to Donald Brown in Acton with August wedding plans. Mary Elizabeth to Emlyn Jones of Walthamstow with a July wedding. Alice to James Harkness of Hillsburgh with August nuptials. Dorothy Jean to J V Swindlehurst in August. Marion Emma Day to Milton Greer with August wedding in Rockwood United Church. Mary Isobel Switzer to Louis McGill with August 22 Acton United Church ceremony.
In Britain, about 750,000 housewives join the Housewives section of the Women's Voluntary Service to aid wartime needs. They are on call day and night, use their homes for talks on first aid, organize local ARP aids, morale-boosting efforts, and assist with salvage, savings campaigns, billeting, canteens, and care for vulnerable populations during air raids. They hold ranks from Key Representative to District and wear a green tweed uniform.
War Savings Stamps are sold at 2,500 points on the Canadian National Railways network to back the Retailers for Victory drive. Officials say the program channels small change to the Dominion Treasury, aiding war debt payments and supporting the public’s financial effort during the war.
Canadian National Railways runs busy fruit terminals in Montreal and Toronto handling produce before reaching retailers. In a recent week 354 euro of fruit and vegetables moved over the National System with an average of 59 cars per day across six working days.
A fragment recalls a German officer boasting aboard a tram car in occupied Belgium. He samples local cheeses and Brussels sprouts in Strasbourg Munster and Edam as a passenger asks about English salt. The vivid vignette hints at wartime occupation and dark humor in a clandestine newspaper fragment.
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