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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1946
Page
7
A garbled report portrays troops edging toward an objective beyond artillery with units encircled and awaiting orders. The passage mentions a city named Peece with a “fair house” built by hand and questions whether the recon is genuine or a mirage. The author is Eleanor Wells.
Clippings recall Farmers Week at the Ontario Agricultural College with sermons, graves at Fairview Cemetery, and waterworks arrears collected. Notices include marriages in Acton area, Henderson and Ramshaw obituaries, and teens heading to Vimy Ridge era farming positions.
If you have steady income you can borrow to fund home improvements without upfront cash. A $300 loan repaid over 12 months costs about 1 cent per month per dollar and monthly payments total $25.80, with the option to borrow more or less and terms varying by period. Discuss needs with Mr W H L Clayton, manager, for low cost personal loans.
The article notes Canada’s home quality rising in recent years after wartime shortages. It attributes improved moods and social stimuli as factors, with households increasingly conscious of appearance, driven by auto and rail travel and desire to maintain attractive dwellings. It also mentions Buck and Robinson in a hospital scene with a private chatter about a madden turg.
A Sunday School lesson on Matthew Luke and Micah stresses two workers for God as a source of greater power. It highlights Jesus sending the twelve, providing authority over unclean spirits, and the need for dependence on God. It notes two witnesses and joint prayer and discusses the cost of discipleship and prioritizing Christ over natural ties.
A compact reflection notes that Jesus Christ must be the supreme and solitary object of a Christian's affection. It urges readiness to leave behind even dear relations if loyalty to Him requires it, citing biblical references to support the call to devoted discipleship.
A look at how movies produce sound from music to dialogue and effects. Musicians compose, an orchestra records with mikes facing the screen, and the film captures music as light waves on film. Separate sound tracks for dialogue and effects are timed to action and later combined to form the final soundtrack.
Winnipeg pair Bull Parkinson and Charles Starkell join a house-raising bee to complete their new bungalow begun a decade ago. Navy service, Veteran Land Act plots, and help from former colleagues aided the project as Mrs Parkinson managed a nearby chicken shed home while work finished including chimney and wiring. Rocking shingles proved easy, cement mixing was the hardest task.
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