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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 31, 1941
Page
6
Names of residents and visitors weave through weekend leisure as families and friends travel to Waanga Beach Bracebridge Hamilton Owen Sound Brampton Milton Guelph Gorrie Huntsville and other Ontario locales for vacations visits and cottage stays. The drill of social calls continues among Arnolds Garvin MacArthur Hickey Jolly Winfield McKinnon Johnston Overholt and many others with multiple households hosting relatives and guests.
In New Zealand, a milk zoning plan reduced unbottled milk by about 15 cents per quart and cut delivery gasoline use by over 2 000 gallons weekly. The system assigns districts to official milk vendors, eliminating monopolies and easing six months of transition.
In Suhor rbury ness England a wedding notice on the parish hall door asks for males urgent to dance with free beer offered. The crowd of men arrived, filling the scene as a playful crowd event.
A Dublin correspondent reports three unknown men have offered funds to support the war. The latest gift amounts to 100 dollars, with a prior contribution of 152 dollars. The Brith representative in Ireland acknowledges the donations.
A call for corrections to the Acton Free Press wartime listing of Canadian Army Overseas personnel. Readers are invited to submit updates on service members, units, and addresses to keep the compilation current for troops serving in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
An extensive Canadian military roll lists numerous soldiers in various units and postings across Canada. Names include Gnr G C Wallace, Pte Gordon Cook, Pte Ernest Wilson, Capt P W Pearen, Cpl Storey, and many others. The document notes camps in Sussex New Brunswick Debert Nova Scotia Camp Borden Ontario and Trinity Camp in Newfoundland area, with multiple regiments such as 12th Canadian Field Regiment RCA and 48th Highlanders. It concludes with a note that the list continues on page Hight.
The article describes the vast World’s Harvest 4 potato estate in Lincolnshire, its 20,000 tons of potatoes, and annual output of about 125.6 million crisps packets. It notes a large estate with 30 miles of light railway, 120 trucks, and 5 diesel engines, plus ten factories in Britain and two in Australia. The Muiden variety, imported from the Netherlands, yields top results.
At a news agents convention in Ilkley England British attendees voiced greater annoyance over the absence of newspapers and periodicals than over the lack of their evening edition.
In London a defendant argued his P ks dog Ten in the front seat immobilized his car but the magistrate rejected the claim and fined him 40 shillings. The court held that a dog is not a person and cannot excuse illegal parking.
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