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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 11, 1945
Page
14
A portrait poem about a man with much to do who always chooses kindness. He greets strangers with warmth, shares smiles, and refuses to hold grudges. Despite fatigue and a busy life, he finds time to comfort others and spread cheer.
The note lists multiple events from October including a Wilbus Street house sale to Melbourne Overholt, Harold Farmer’s return from a three and a half month trip in South America, a Young People’s League rally and banquet, and the Central Ontario Beagle Club field trial in Acton. It also records a birth on October 17 at Lake Avenue and the October 6 death of Sarah Kennedy, widow of Stewart McCutcheon, in Erin.
Farmer's Bulletin 113 from the Dominion Department of Agriculture outlines cheap, practical methods for building a basement storage partition for garden produce. It covers ventilation, temperature control around 35 to 38 degrees, flooring, crate construction, and handling tips to avoid spoilage and disease during harvest storage.
In Walsall England a sale of 400 houses owned by the First National Housing Trust drew a long queue from 5 20 in the morning. By 9 am about 500 people were waiting. The sale used a first come first served method with priority for service and ex servicemen. Homes sold on a 9 year peace plan for prices from 500 to 857 pounds.
The lesson centers on Deuteronomy 6 4 9 and Luke 2 51 52 stressing that loving God with heart soul and mind guides family life. It argues teachers and parents must model scriptural obedience and place God first in all axes of life.
An extensive public auction offers Holstein cows, dairy equipment, tractors, poultry houses, and furniture from the Cook Estate near Trafalgar. Sale starts 12:00 PM Wednesday October 7 with real estate pieces including East half Lot 4 Con 9 and West half Lot 4 Con 10, both Trafalgar twp, offered with reserve.
Halifax mayor Alan Butler used a novel excuse when summoned for supreme court jury service claiming he was too busy. He said his duties as mayor prevented participation and asked to be excused.
Registered Ayrshire cattle horses and sheep will be sold at Farley Farm MMETH Lot 9 2nd Line Erin five miles north of Acton one and a half miles south of Highway 24 on Saturday October 1 1965 sale under cover in case of bad weather Roy Hindley and Frank Perch auctioneers.
Public auction conducted by JR Elliott and Roy Windley for farm stock cattle cows heifers calves and young stock including Hereford and Angus animals plus implements hay and grain. Items listed with due dates and removal terms as no reserve since farm is rented. Auctioneers McMillan clerk.
Fort William Canada begins production of Press-to-Lay a domestic fuel made by compressing sawdust at 20 000 psi into small log shaped units four inches in diameter and eight pounds weight. The fuel burns clean with little ash soot or smoke and can be stored and handled like coal or coke.
Public auction of horses cows heifers steers and farm implements plus household items and lumber. The sale by Amos Auctioneer and Moffat Clerk to be held Friday October 19 1945 at one o'clock on Lot 14 Cow 4 Nasagaweya near the Rockwood line eleven miles east of Moffat. Items include a grey team 3 cows various heifers several young stock one purebred shorthaired bull 2 redsteads stove range chairs and many farming tools and farm equipment. Cash terms.
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