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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 06, 1941
Page
15
A fragmented verse asks resilience after failure and scorn. The speaker Rhodes Stab ley ponders actions following lost plans and fading fortune, urging focus on the present effort rather than past outcomes.
Winter hint in morning air. bread priced nine cents a loaf in town. Acton Horticultural Society gave bulbs to 200 members at Thanksgiving. Thomas Cutting plans move to Winans. Dundas Street bridge across Sixteen River near Trafalgar to open soon. C J van Goozen bought McGregor farm. Fire on Bower Avenue damaged front of house, Batten’s loss noted. Born van Goozen Georgetown November 7 1921. McEachern Mullin marriage at Bonview Farm Acton November 5 1921.
Forty eight Royal Air Force airmen born in Elie have earned decorations since the war began. The tally includes a Victoria Cross, five Distinguished Service Orders, 25 Distinguished Flying Crosses, and 10 Distinguished Flying Medals.
The lesson presents the father as God and the prodigal as the wanderer, with the elder brother representing Pharisees. It highlights sin as the desire to be independent of God, the far country as a life of folly, and the return as salvation beginning with thinking, confession, and the father’s compassion. The narrative ends with pardon, robes, ring, sandals, and a feast for repentant sinners.
John Athing argues for a national agricultural policy guided by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. He outlines five core aims including fair price relations, a two price policy, a two-year production plan, and a marketing program to feed homes and aid exports. The federation seeks to educate Canadians and align farming with national interests.
Ottawa reports turkeys will be less plentiful than usual this Christmas with higher prices. Unfavorable spring weather in the prairie provinces reduced the turkey volume by about 10 percent from last year. Most birds come from the prairies where conditions drive the market. demand and employment rises may lift prices. Last season wholesale grade A turkeys sold at 27 to 28 cents per pound. Chicken supplies increased by about 15 percent, but two chickens may substitute for one turkey at the Christmas meal.
The Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire, a war widow, attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace with 10 other widows to receive George Crosses awarded to their husbands. Suffolk, who earned the medal for bravery during a bomb disposal incident, was killed by a blast last May.
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