Toronto Tube Consciousness In Daily Life And Hospitals
A humorous reflective piece on Toronto’s heavy subway and tube use. The author notes pervasive tube installations in streets and hospitals, mentions intravenous feeding, and praises local doctors for tube procedures. Observations extend to Ontario towns and a view of the city as an assembly line of tubes.
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Toronto
University Avenue
Robert Saunders
Hiram McCallum
Stratford
Guelph
Kitchener
Chesley
Ontario
Acton
Baxter's
Light From Behind the Curtain Brightens Cold War View
Secretary General Trygve Lie reports cautious hope after talks with the four major powers. Moscow shows potential easing while Berlin crisis rumors loom with a promised May 28 demonstration and Allied defense plans pending.
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Iehind
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Lie
Moscow
Washington
Berlin
Mr. Lie
Paris
London
Highway 25 Reveals Springtime Beauty Across Stretch
A reader praises Highway 25 for its enhanced scenery after two to three years of construction. The column notes green fields, streams, and leafing trees along the route, highlighting a roadside waterfall south of Speyside, bush borders, and distant mountain viewpoints as springtime attractions.
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Speyside
Employment Upturn in Ontario Region As Jobs Grow
Ontario region shows rapid decline in unemployed through National Employment Service offices in April. Agriculture and construction add jobs with shortages in skilled bucklayers noted. Iron and steel, pulp and paper, and auto sectors run near capacity to meet strong domestic demand and US pulp and paper purchases.
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Ontario
Declne
National Employment Service
Apal
United States
Acton Public Pool Renovation Urged For Summer Use
Community notes urge accelerated funding and construction of Acton swimming pool begun in 1950. With heat expectations and safety concerns for children, officials are pressed to start now, prevent rides to distant centres, and ensure supervision for safer swimming.
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Acton
Rockwood
Central Ontario editors form press association at Camp Borden
Grey North York Simcoe Dufferin and Muskoka weekly papers met at Camp Borden to form the Central Ontario Press Association. Eighteen papers represented. A car named The Canadian Statesman honored the district with the first Canadian built model presented to George James editor of Bowmanville's The Canadian Statesman. Sewerage work on Mill Street east end features wall points drawing ground water to a street drain.
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Grey
North York
Simcoe
Dufferin
Muskoka
Camp Borden
Central Ontario Press Association
George James
Bowmanville
Mill Street
Recollections of Acton Sor olY Syplieas or BACK IN 1900
From the May 24 1900 issue notes show local business activity James Matthews strong demand for rein protector with orders from Winnipeg and Ansinabata baker Mr Geo Bratham closes Waterloo shop to work with father in Acton. Know Church congretation rejoices over Rev HA Macpherson loyalty to town. Dr FP JF Forster departs Acton for Calatorville. Melty electrician moves to Willow Street opposite St Alban's Church. Obituary Thomas G Wyder of Plainfield New Jersey son of late James Ryder Acton aged 26. CHEWSON in Georgetown William M Crewnon dies aged 10.
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James Matthews
Winnipeg
Ansinabata
Geo. Bratham
Waterloo
Acton
Know
HA. Macpherson
Strathrey
Guelph
BR. Forster
Bia
Calatorville
Hitawa
Melty
St Alban’s Church
Willow Street
Rod Ryder
Plainfield
New Jersey
Thomas G Wyder
James Ryder
Chewson
Georgetown
William M Crewnon
Back in 1930 Parish News And School Festival Notes
From the May 22 1930 issue of the Free Press the rural community highlights the opening of the ball season with Acton versus Oakville and a Knox Presbyterian Church induction service for the new minister Rennie. A Musical Festival at Walton Public Schools drew record attendance and Acton won a prize for the boys choir while family travel and local society notes fill the page along with a death notice for Gladys Margaret Cole.
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Acton
Oakville Rey Eeo
Rennie
Knox Presbyterian Church
G King
Dorothy
England
Walton Public Schools
St. Pauls Church
Milton
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