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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 27, 1941
Page
6
A nostalgic verse warns that children outgrow shoes quickly and families stretch tight budgets. It contrasts worn footwear with health making family care essential, noting shoe costs rivaling medical bills and prompting parental thrift.
A 1921 lookback notes Canada receiving its first automobile twenty years prior. The Acton Crossroad farm changes hands to S. E. Scott of Woodbridge, fifth owner in five years. An excavation on the Nathan Turmer farm reveals 25 skulls and items suggesting an ancient burial site. Parliament lists 630 candidates for 285 House of Commons seats with party tallies. McPherson Smith marriage in Toronto links John and Edith Elizabeth Smith. William Allan Leishman dies at Acton residence aged near 11.
Britain mobilizes metal resources as the Welsh Highland Railway rails are torn up I2200 tons to be reused for armaments. Old locomotives and rolling stock join dismantling yards as a nationwide drive to convert railings and plant into rifles tanks and armour, with Buckingham Palace railings among the first offertories.
Dining car menus change with the seasons according to W. W. Swinden of Canadian National Railways. Apple pie remains constant for twelve months each year, and in Christmas season pudding and hot mince pie compete with a wedge of apple for dessert orders. Cold and jellied consommé, iced tea and coffee disappear from menus while ice cream remains year round. Hot joints and fish are in demand now, reducing requests for cold cuts and salads.
A Sunday school lesson summarizes Pauls contrast of love with spiritual gifts in Corinth. It highlights love as the essential ornament surpassing tongues prophecy faith and martyrdom and lists fifteen marks of love, ending with the call to mutual self sacrifice and the new commandment to love as Jesus loved.
Health League of Canada calls for a nationwide public education program to curb illness costs surpassing the Royal Air Training scheme. It argues sickness drains economic and human resources and urges a cooperative Dominion provincial plan to prevent needless suffering. The appeal cites statements by a government minister on rising illness costs and the need to act now.
Reports from Leicester claim fire watchers sleep on hose as rumors spread. City council clarified that workers actually rest in clean sheets with pillowcases in proper beds, refuting the gossip about sleeping on hoses.
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