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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
9
Fragmented OCR shows a local notice from Acton Ontario about cancellations and arrears with statements of subscription continuation. It mentions advertising rates on application and various column headings.
The appeal urges Acton residents to contribute $3600 monthly to fund military equipment for overseas forces. It explains costs for guns, tanks, planes, and ships and stresses continuous monthly savings until Hitler's defeat, calling every citizen to participate and push Acton over the top.
A wartime licensing regime will affect over 200000 businesses across Canada. Acton area firms face mandatory licences from the Wartime Prices and Trade Board by December 1, with nine regional licensing directors appointed and blue certificate badges to display. Licensees will carry unique numbers and must record both seller and buyer licence numbers on sales documents after December.
Editorial notes discuss Indian Summer delayed by a real touch of winter and promise more pleasant fall weather. It notes road maintenance will continue to improve Acton streets before freeze-up.
French troops recaptured Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux near Verdun after intense artillery preparation and a four mile front assault on Oct 24 1916. Moroccan colonial troops led the left flank, securing Verdun east of the Meuse and marking a turning point in the battle.
The 1941 Canada Year Book, authorized by Minister James A. MacKinnon, is published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. It extends to over 1,000 pages with updated chapters on production, trade, education, and social conditions, plus eight special wartime articles. It notes unemployment insurance acts, tax changes, public finance, and wartime economic effects with new tables and revised labor and wages coverage.
In Yarmouth Nova Scotia, herrings now fetch profit as a wartime staple. Fishermen drag less, boats catch volumes, and one company expects to export 22 000 boxes of processed herring this season from plants nearby.
Tables provide background for a national study of revenue sources. The Year Book is available from the King’s Printer in Ottawa for 1.50 per copy to cover printing costs. A limited run of paper bound copies is reserved for ministers, students, and teachers at 50 cents each via the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in Ottawa.
Britons in wartime England fight to defend water meadows green with cattle and the old market town. Patence Strong writes of streams willows swans and pools that hold light as the Minster towers loom nearby. This is what we fight for for the beauty and glory of the past.
Daily and Sunday schedules listed for trains from Acton including morning and evening times. Details include 6.04 am 9.49 am 6.28 pm on weekdays, 4.19 pm and 11.43 pm on Sunday, and special Georgetown and Guelph connections with flyers and westbound services.
A garbled OCR entry lists multiple departure and arrival times for Gray Coach Lines with codes a b c indicating service days. The text references Mandard Time FASTHOUND and WENSTHOUND with various times and notes about days, but specifics are unclear.
Wartime import conditions restricting mushrooms from France have opened the British Malayan market to a Canadian producer and canner. The change allows canned mushrooms to enter, expanding export opportunities for the Canadian company in the regional market.
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