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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
14
A fragment from Leigh Hanes in Song of the New Hercules evokes a cold autumn day. It contrasts frosty air with distant tasks and a lone traveler walking a wavering road. The imagery centers on nature, shifting light, and a sense of movement through a decaying season.
Frost ends the fall bloom destroying garden plants. Poppy Day promotes Armistice Day support. Rockwood Station Hotel fire destroys private dwelling. Hydro public fountain gift by Women's Institute completed. New Hydro shop opened with crowd, tea, and biscuits. Births marriages and deaths note Orrie Lamb birth and Marshall McDowell wedding. Myrtle Irene Smith dies in Stewarttown.
The Central Valley irrigation and flood control project in California is now under way with costs totaling 264 million dollars.
New York dispatch reports orders worth 900000 pounds or about 3.24 million dollars have been placed in the United States by Australian elites for firefighting equipment.
In Auckland New Zealand authorities plan for possible real blackouts after several practice outages. The government appealed for old candle lamps used in buggies and 60 were produced.
AWA C P explains Canada's Dairy Products Board moving cheese and evaporated milk to Great Britain under wartime contracts. It coordinates exports, sets product types, and pays producers promptly while using government control to maintain supply through British channels. Members include J F Singleton Felix Desmarais John Freeman and secretary Dr H A Derby.
Berlin Anzeiger runs a want ad seeking funeral preachers for permanent employment. Pensioned clergymen and teachers suitable.
A wartime editorial praises farming as essential to victory and peace, arguing food sustains humanity and morale. It stresses urban support for fair prices and balanced urban rural policy to ensure productive farmers receive fulfillment and the nation secures food for postwar reconstruction.
The piece argues farmers labor intensely to produce food amid high expenses from fuel seed livestock and repairs. It contrasts city views of farming with the reality of costs and effort behind farm profitability, noting food value comes with heavy workload and dependence on weather and markets.
A Sunday School lesson appeals to obedience to Jehovah's laws as the path to national well being. It contrasts blessing for faithfulness with punishment for disobedience, and looks forward to the Day of the Lord when righteousness will prevail under Christ. The text cites Deuteronomy 32 33 and Isa 28 1 6 to illustrate divine judgment on drunkenness and pride and urges personal choice toward holiness.
At a welfare conference in Reading England workers and employers discuss tea service. Mrs Smith a Midlands canteen worker argues teapots beat chromium fitted tanks. A plan emerges to brew in tanks then pour into pots to serve fresh tea. The industrialist agrees to try the method at his factory.
London reports New Zealand has sent Britain enough butter to construct a wall six feet high stretching from London to Edinburgh during the current war.
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