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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
7
In a Detroit Times snippet a seaman and a soldier are referenced in a gentle note about letters and affection. The poem hints at missing someone far away and the longing to receive a letter that never arrived.
This fragment lists historic items: the sale of a blacksmithing business to Thomas Rumley, a near-frailty temperature note on Friday, a new football team called The Acton Ranger with diverse British players, Bronte beating Acton 7 to 5 in Halton League baseball, a 20-19 Miss Lottie Mason score, and a May 31 1903 Breckon death at Appleby aged 81 with a John Rankin quotation about nobility and conversation.
Farmers face hay harvest with manpower shortages and advise early planning. Equipment buyers should shop now to avoid delays and failures. Experts suggest tripods for windrow curing when weather is uncertain and cooperative work with neighbors to spread loads and extend daylight harvesting.
Prices Board acts to cap the price of new Canadian potatoes No. 1 grade old stock under a ceiling effective June 7. The action addresses an acute shortage not expected to ease until after the July 1 harvest, delaying new arrivals until around July.
During the past week TS persons were convicted on charges involving breaches of Wartime Prices and Trade Hoard regulations. Seven cases were dismissed. Offences under gasoline regulations led to 23 convictions.
Wartime dispatch notes that scrap metal rubber fats and bones are essential to manufacture planes armoured vehicles ships and bombs. It highlights Department of Munitions and Supply figures showing output of planes guns ammunition and explosives and urges citizens to salvage unusable farm machinery to feed steel and other materials into war production.
The article analyzes Peters call to growth in grace through knowledge of God and Jesus Christ. It outlines virtues such as virtue knowledge self control patience reverence love and their role in spiritual maturation and godliness. It warns that neglecting growth leaves one blind and distant from judgment and calls readers to diligence and election.
A religious reflection questions why many Christians drift from faith and cling to worldly elements. It asserts believers have an abundant entrance into God's everlasting kingdom, granted by the Father, received through regeneration, and kept by faith in Christ. It cites Luke 12, John 3 3S, Hebrews 12, and Revelation 2 15 19.
Through its central potato control the Wartime Prices and Trade Board has undertaken to ensure equitable distribution of Canada's scarce potatoes. The board now has the authority to divert potatoes from any district to other uses if necessary, with diverted stock already reaching areas of extreme shortage.
A Berlin dispatch says foreign diplomats, impressed by RAF raids, will move their offices to Wannsee outside bombed areas. They will take crafts and families to small houses where chancelleries will be reestablished, a move Nazi authorities approve to curb reports of damage.
A Hamilton Ontario tailor was convicted of selling two-pant suits in breach of Wart and Trade Board regulations. He pled guilty to two counts and received fines totaling 1000 dollars, 500 dollars on each charge.
The small British Navy craft ELT 34 is described as a fast, high destructiveness vessel from eighteen to thirty-two tons and about seventy feet long. It can reach 50 knots and carry two 22 inch torpedoes, two machine guns, and depth charges. Crew endure a tough ride with padded areas to prevent injuries as they deliver sudden blows to the enemy.
A condensed advertisement in The Free Press led to real sales and returned items from a window display. A license plate went to a truck in Guelph, twelve enquiries arose, a hub cap fit four cars, and many small items found owners, showing advertising draws a merged audience and aids local merchandising.
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