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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 16, 1940
Page
6
A stark vacant home shows empty shelves, ajar doors, and sunlit rooms. Windows bare, no clock or radio, no children's laughter or cooking sounds. the space echoes as if awaiting someone. A somber scene of loss and absence fills the air.
Twenty years ago From The Free Press May 20 1920 reports Acton and the Carpet Mills Guelph opening football season Tuesday evening with Guelph triumphing. Includes engagements births deaths moves and property sales notes involving Acton Ontario and Windsor Dr R B Holmes selling Windsor property for 100000 and local family relocations.
Canadian fur farming expanded from under a thousand farms in 1920 to 10,455 by 1938, with silver foxes as the dominant revenue source totaling 4.51 million dollars from pelts and live animals. Farms numbered 8,073 fox, 2,222 mink, and 160 other farms, housing 270,431 animals valued at 8.93 million dollars.
In a reflective chronicle, the article recalls familiar faces from past years as the pages turn weekly. It honors longtime locals and landmarks, celebrating memories tied to the town’s seasonal rhythms and community events.
The column recalls Rev. C. D. Draper once a respected Methodist pastor about 28 to 30 years ago. It notes his activity with the Church Baseball League and the King's Orderlies Bible Class and mentions Niagara Falls as the last known posting. The reader is invited to recognize the face in this week’s Family Album.
A German press critique outlines tightening wartime controls and shortages. It notes rising food rationing and price fixing, propaganda pushes to reassure housewives, and metal and nickel withdrawals for armaments. The piece highlights scarce paper, fuel, and imports, plus satirical and grim anecdotes from occupied regions.
Two young Icelanders act as unofficial ambassadors at a London office near Buckingham Palace. Petur Benediktsson, 33, represents Iceland’s interests on the Anglo Icelandic Joint Standing Committee in England and promotes trade with Britain as Germany loses access to Icelandic fish and frozen lamb. His associate is Hilsner Foss, nephew of Iceland’s Parliament president.
In a terse exchange a question about the fate of Charlemagne’s sons is answered with a stark line. The dialogue implies the extinction of the line, marking a historical memory within a sharp dramatic moment.
A Sunday school lesson centers on Jeremiah denouncing false prophets and urging a return to true faith. It contrasts true messengers who speak God’s word with hirelings who mislead, stressing the danger of envisioning doom if people reject truth and urging fidelity to Scriptural guidance.
The text argues that God’s word is like fire and a hammer, capable of judging false prophets and apostasy. It cites Moses and prophetic warnings, urges self examination of attitudes toward scripture, and promotes knowing obeying and living by the Bible as salvation in Christ Jesus.
Professor Frank Hutchinson of Rutgers University reports a survey of 286 New Brunswick and Highland Park housewives. Nine of ten said newspaper advertising is more helpful than radio ads, with 93 to 94 percent finding ads helpful for shopping and 81 to 83 percent saying ads help them keep up with latest styles.
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