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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 10, 1937
Page
2
The June view across Ontario shows lush hay and grain crops and full leaf trees, with lawns and gardens thriving. The piece notes beauty and promise of a rich harvest, while acknowledging risks between seed time and harvest.
Acton Y M C A closes its second year with reports showing benefits to Acton residents. The town highlights include a well maintained public library with ample quarters and modern utilities. A social room completion in the basement is expected before fall, boosting Y M C A work and member appreciation.
The provincial subsidy of one mill maintains last year’s tax rate despite higher costs. Assessments drop about $8,000 from 1937 while demands rise. Repairs at the shoe factory cost $400, warehouse tax relief $300 plus $312 tax on the building, relief expenditures and school needs up $300 and $6007 for cemeteries, plus $500 for Fairview loan retirement and $100 for Pioneer Cemetery work. County rate falls about $1,000. without grants the rate would be 48 mills.
An editorial urges young bicyclists to ride carefully and use lights at dusk, sharing the highway with motor vehicles. It notes common dangers such as riding on the wrong side, zigzagging, and failing to be seen by cars, calling for a courtesy campaign to reduce accidents.
Editorial notes discuss unstarted second line highway work, BC Liberal return to power, June brides color trend, road pavement hole on Main Street, end of amusement tax and unemployment relief, Moscow executions, speed limits debate, police courts, school staff reappointment, Lakeside 10.H.£. shelters in the Park, Ottawa politics, and April 1937 motor vehicle finance gains. Also coverage of Brampton and Barrie Class B Fairs with federal grants, praise for Duncan Marshall, and Brampton baseball support and recent Brampton game performance.
Analysis of Judah’s plea to Joseph in Genesis 44 18 34 highlighting his self sacrifice to spare Benjamin and honor their father Jacob. The lesson notes Judah’s brave tender plea and the sign of true brotherhood showing change from past faults. It emphasizes courage compassion and responsibility.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announces a 50,000-watt station at Hornby near Halton and a second at Vercheres near Montreal. The Hornby plant will be the largest in Canada, with 200 foot ground level and four central towers, serving 2.5 million people and integrating British and American program services.
The Regina meeting aligned with a policy to convene in different Dominion regions. In two to three years the Corporation expects its chain to be augmented by high-power stations in the Maritimes and Western Canada.
The passage describes an underground lighthouse at Merry Head near Brixham perched 300 feet high with a revolving light buried thirty feet in rock. The light operates automatically every fifteen seconds and can be seen over thirty miles away.
A playful classroom joke centers on a teacher asking how many fingers a student has. Hobbie replies eight and two thumbs, then quips that removing four would mean no music lesson, turning the moment into a lighthearted schoolroom pun.
A traveler on a halted train offers a small boy fifty cents for a twenty five cent sandwich and one for himself. Before the train resumes, the boy returns a quarter, saying only one sandwich remained.
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