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Newspaper

Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Mar 11, 1943

Page

5

Weekend Visits Across Towns Mention Family Gatherings

The note lists numerous visits and stays involving the Currie, Pluke, Sayers, and Jessop families across Milton, Windsor, Ottawa, Vulcan, and Charlottetown. It mentions Mr and Mrs Geoffrey Pluke of Windsor visiting with Mrs Albert Currie Jr and family, and Robert Currie’s extended travels including a furlough in Spain. Trans Canada Airways flight activity and training arrangements for Flight Lieutenant Jessop are also noted.

Geoffrey Pluke Windsor Tean Aobt. Currie Jr Edwin Currie Bobby Milton Hoelgtta Vulcan Alberta Nto Charlottetown Prince Edward Island Win Trans Canada Airways Sput Firank Jessop Mra Jeasap Jessop Kitlchener

Alberta Cities Cut Debts While Province Dodges Bills

Edmonton and Calgary reduced debt over the past five years while Edmonton redeemed 893,700 in bonds and Calgary 472,000. Their bonds trade near par, up about 150 per 1000 since last year, signaling benefit from financial restraint amid provincial debt concerns.

Aliberta Aberhart Dtda Edmonton Calgary Almot Edmanton

Please Don’t Be A Wrong Number Teletype Etiquette

Grace Martin urges courteous telephone use during wartime. She questions readers’ numbers, clarity, and politeness, urging direct speech and brief, respectful conversations to avoid tying up operators and wasting others’ time.

Acke Grace Martin Niagara

Gregory Theatre Presents Peculiar Cast in Odd Postcard Tale

A fragmented notice mentions Gregory Theatre with a cast including Ray Bail land and Paulette Cofdard, plus Monty Woolley and Ada Dimino. It references Perils of Nyala safbenay and a Bee event at 6 30, with unclear titles and garbled names in a quirky program snippet.

Fin Technicolar Ray Bailland Paulette Cofdard Smperman Safbenay Mame Os Matias Ufe Becins Monty Woolley Ada Dimino

Insurance Real Estate Bid for Bert McDowell Estate

For sale is the brick double dwelling on Mall Street owned by the estate of the late Bert McDowell. Both sections have baths and good cellars, location is excellent, one section ready for occupancy April 1st. Estate wind up requires sale.

Seedmorle Mall Street Bert McDowell

108 year old Oswestry man lives tax free

At 108 Thomas Pine is described as the oldest free man in the city. A bachelor and famed old boy of Oswestry Grammar School, he began business here in 1849 and continues to enjoy tax exemption.

Liverpool Thomas Pine Oswestry Grammar School Extreer Leatt Wis

Over 1,000 attend Victory Minstrels performances

Large crowd fills venue for Victory Minstrels shows as plans for additional performances are announced. Event details and venue remain listed in the public notices.

Wartime Fund Campaign Rouses Town to Support Fighters

The fragmentary text depicts a community rally urging residents to fund war efforts. It speaks of unity, raising funds, and boosting morale for fighters, with exhortations to attend performances and send cheer to troops. Chorus promises victory and homecoming for the boys.

How to Reckon Canning Sugar

Instructions outline a method to calculate sugar for canning by counting sealers, recording quarts of fruit and jam, multiplying by sugar weights, and summing results. The steps guide filling an application with total pounds of sugar needed.

Moas of New Zealand One of the largest flightless birds

New Zealand moas were large flightless birds that flourished in the past and vanished in recent times. Some varieties stood up to ten feet tall with a long neck and thick body, while smaller forms resembled turkeys. Fossil remains and a noted five foot skeleton exhibit in the Royal Ontario Museum accompany reports of their extinction and hunting by Maori legends.

New Zealand Royal Ontario Museum

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