23 Oct 1941
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
1
The Acton Free Press in Ontario reports cancellations and arrears issues with subscribers. It notes some continued service despite arrears and mentions advertising rates on application across columns.
October 20 to November 20 is a drive urging Acton residents to provide regular savings to fund armed forces equipment. The town is asked for 3600 dollars monthly to help buy guns and vehicles, with larger sums for bigger armaments, stressing no half measures until Hitler’s defeat. Citizens are urged to participate, support from all, and aim to “over the top” for victory.
An Air Acton council session features auditors and veterans of municipal affairs discussing how auditors should engage with councils amid rising taxes and new wartime controls. The piece outlines upcoming licensing by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board affecting over 200,000 businesses, with nine regional directors and licence identification for licenses valid until 1942.
The column muses that Indian Summer follows a real touch of winter and hints at more pleasant fall weather ahead. It comments on Acton street work, imperial trade edits, and wartime rhetoric from Bevin and Brockington. An ad mentions licenses required for most merchants under an affected order.
French troops recaptured Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux near Verdun during 1916 after Allied Somme offensives forced German withdrawal. Mangin’s two fort victories secured control of the Verdun front east of the Meuse, widely hailed as a global turning point.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics announces the 1941 Canada Year Book, authorized by Minister James A. MacKinnon. The over 1000-page volume covers natural resources, production, trade, education, and social and economic conditions, with eight wartime focused special articles and updated chapters on labor, public finance, and taxation.
In Yarmouth Nova Scotia during wartime, herring industry profits rise as firms brace for export. Fin fishermen harvest big drifts of the fish, taken to nearby plants for processing and packing. One company expects to export 22 000 boxes of processed herring this season.
The tables provide a national background for revenue sources. The Year Book is available from the King's Printer in Ottawa for $1.50, covering paper printing and binding. A limited number of paperbound copies are set aside for ministers of religion students and teachers at 50 cents each, via the Dominion Statistician in Ottawa.
Reflective piece by Patence Strong in The Mirror describes water meadows green with cattle and old stone bridges. It envisions England’s beauty and history as the motive for wartime resistance, citing shrinking landscapes and the Minster towers over quaint market town streets as the cause to endure.
Canadian National Railways time table lists daily and Sunday services in Acton at standard time. Services include morning departures at 6.04 am and 9.49 am, 6.28 pm weekday, 4.19 pm Sunday, and late evening trips including 7.00 pm and 11.43 pm. Flyers to Georgetown and Guelph are noted with multiple daily runs.
Timetables show Mandard and Fasthound lines operating with early morning starts and varied mid day and evening slots. Notes indicate several trains run daily except Sundays and specific weekend and holiday exceptions.
Wartime conditions block mushroom imports from France allowing Canadian producer to access the British Malayan market for canned mushrooms.
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