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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 06, 1941
Page
7
A verse by Rhodes Stablyp speaks to resilience after defeat or faded glory. It centers on the question what one does next rather than past losses and public scorn. The poem urges focus on current actions over former plans or fame.
Local note recalls wintery morning as bread sells at nine cents a loaf. Acton Horticultural Society distributes hyacinths and bulbs to 200 members during Thanksgiving. Thomas Cutting moves to Winona. C J van Goozen buys McGregor farm. Dundas Street bridge nearing opening after concrete work. Fire at Mrs A S Hornby house. minimal damage to Batten and McKenzie properties. Van Goozen births announced at Georgetown. McEachern Mullin marriage at Bonview Farm Acton.
Forty airmen of the Royal Air Force born in Erie have won SS decorations since the war began. The honors include a Victoria Cross, five DSOs, 25 DF Cs, and 10 DFM s.
The lesson interprets Luke 15 11 24 with the father representing God and the wandering son as the backslider. It notes sin as self will, the far country as distance from God, and shows the remedy beginning with thinking and confession. The father's compassion, restoration as a son, and a feast illustrate divine mercy for returning sinners.
Farmer-Journalist John Atkins reports that the Canadian Federation of Agriculture calls for a national policy recognizing farming's central role, balancing agriculture with labor and industry, and establishing a two-price system. It urges long term planning, market programs for domestic and export needs, and nonpolitical collaboration with all governments to secure Canada's food supply.
Ottawa reports turkeys will be scarcer and pricier this Christmas due to a 10 percent drop in prairie production from unfavorable spring weather. Despite many small flocks elsewhere, the prairie supply largely drives the market. higher employment may lift demand and prices.
In London at Buckingham Palace 11 war widows attended an investiture to receive George Crosses awarded to their husbands. Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire, a recipient for bravery in bomb disposal work, lost her husband to a bombing last May.
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