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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
10
May dt describes support for reactivating the Acton local association and organizing a cooperative effort to benefit Acton and district. It acknowledges past shortcomings but asserts shared benefits from cooperative leadership and community work, pledging the paper’s full backing.
Acton and district rally to support YMCA war services for boys at the front. A local committee oversees subscriptions payable at Acton banks. The appeal highlights past wartime efforts and urges citizens to provide comforts for overseas troops.
A Woodstock sixteen year old girl dies in a motor accident. A Tavistock hotelkeeper is fined eighty dollars and costs for supplying liquor to minors and the hotel license suspended. In Barrie a seventeen year old is jailed on three breaking and entering charges blamed on drinking. The piece argues liquor control failures endangering young lives and calls for a provincial clean up to aid the war effort.
The piece urges recognizing mothers on Mother's Day next Sunday as the best friend who gives constant care. It cites Washington Irving on a mother's enduring love and loyalty through trials, urging readers to show appreciation beyond one day.
Wear a flower on Sunday in honor of mothers memory. The gross production value of Canadas artificial and real stick industry in 1938 totaled 23871092 dollars. Domestic exports in March reached 82720453 dollars up from 69269525 year earlier. Gasoline retail sales in 1939 rose to 807666000 gallons from 762740000 in 1938. Next years motor license plates will be white with green letters. Many homes begin spring cleaning and may find missing items. Gardeners who sift soil and drop items into tin cans are not the early potatoers. A soldier stationed at Guelph who stole a car after a lift demonstrates that uniform does not grant immunity from law. Central electric stations in Canada produced 2367031000 kilowatt hours in February up from 2214174000 year ago. Despite a shorter month, daily output rose from January 1940s 2526143000. About 2850000 now goes monthly to homes of men on active service. total beneficiaries reach 55000. Payments cover assigned pay and allowances to wives children parents or other dependents. Contracts worth three million for completing the Queen Elizabeth Way between Toronto and Niagara Falls were let. The twelve mile Acton to Milton section was to be RENATOR by three parties over twenty years but remains gravel. That section has a record in many respects.
Graham F Towers notes the need to produce and pay for supplies while Shelburne village Council approves an iron clad by law. It imposes a $1 annual license fee on victualing houses and lodging establishments and bans slot machines, pin ball games, or any device deemed gambling or mixed skill and chance.
Ontario readers see predictions for Parliament's coming session as Canada faces wartime taxation and tight fiscal policy. Government signals a balanced plan to fund the war by domestic revenue, with Canadians urged to cut nonessential spending and assist the economic front.
The South African Trade and Labour Council opened a Cape Town conference on March 26 urging full support for the war effort against the Nazis. Leaders warned that failure to back the Allied cause could threaten trade union unity and national resolve, aligning with New Zealand and British warnings of wartime costs.
Readable fragments describe stained glass windows being shipped amid war disruption. Craftsmen salvage and reassemble shattered panels while orders from abroad press on. The text references European origins and mentions workshops in Europe and the United States, with notes on the impact of conflict on production and delivery.
Reading shows a timetable with times 648 a.m. and 1.29 pm. It lists items 46 pom, 7 Oy parr, and 143 pom with day markers indicating Saturday activities and exceptions for Sunday.
Fragmentary OCR shows times and routes with westbound to Kitchener and other nonsensical entries. Specific trains or services are unreadable, providing only scattered numbers and letters without coherent schedule details.
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