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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 24, 1945
Page
10
Paris women embrace mil dering changes as spring styles bring flowers tulle and feather hats. Boaters bretons and picture hats top headwear while tur bans fade from favor. Simple coifs replace elaborate updos with emphasis on neat grooming and ready made shoes rise in popularity.
A Canadian wartime policy states every ship leaving a Canadian port is supplied with enough food for outbound and return journeys under strict accounting to prevent black market sales. The program aims to mobilize food as a wartime resource and ensure stores reach troops and escorts. In Algonquin Park Ontario, ex C O George Phillips, 51, now oversees the game reserve and reports dramatic wolf hunting from a Bravo plane with a firing cycle through the cockpit.
The Ottawa column describes postwar plant retooling from war to consumer goods with management removing wartime restrictions. Workers face job losses, new production lines, and the challenge of converting automobile and truck plants. Trade rules and cross border purchases are noted with changes in allowances and currency controls affecting Canadians.
Washington outlines an expedition sponsored by the Central Brazil Foundation to explore the Brazillian plateau and river systems. The plan includes base camps near the Uruguay and Rio das Carcaras, with aims to map resources, establish small colonies, and potentially create a route linking Rio to Manaus and Miami.
Fragmentary dialogue set in a muddy shell-hole in Thailand features Owen McGitcuddy, Erin Go Bragh Pai and Mike discussing De Valera. The exchange touches on election plans, wartime relief themes, and imagined future political shifts amid humor and grit.
A report describes Kenya experiments in coffee growing in the highlands near Nahoohe. It notes involvement of local cooperatives and officials, disruption of equipment, and claims of misused funds and mismanagement affecting workers and facilities.
Daily schedule for Georgetown Flyer with exceptions on Sundays. Details include routes and operating days. The text lists daily departures and mentions Sunday service limitations and special notes for Guelph crossings.
Fragmentary notes show bus or train times with destinations Guelph Kitchener Stratford and holiday services. The text mentions Sundays and holidays and two daily mentions, but details are incomplete and unclear.
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