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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 02, 1943
Page
15
A poetic fragment speaks of a devoted partner and intimate care. It contrasts serene days with fear of loneliness and hints at shared music and laughter as solace. The lines suggest a longing for companionship and evening solace through mutual tenderness.
Twenty years ago events include Acton teachers duties and a Montreal purchase of a house on Church Street. Football results show Acton winning one game and losing another 6 2 and 4 2. A Japan earthquake destroyed major cities with heavy casualties. Marriages and obituaries appear with dates in 1923, including Rum ees, Cree and Bauer notices.
Halifax is cited as Canada’s top doughnut consuming area by H. E. Perrot of the Canadian National Railways hotel the Nova Scotian. He notes annual Halifax doughnut mix use at 2000 barrels yielding about 12.6 million doughnuts in twelve months among Haligonians and nearby Dartmouth.
Canada issues its third wartime ration booklet stressing that rationed goods are limited and must be bought for essential use. It warns against selfish overbuying and urges households to act as the permit holders only for their own needs.
A Sunday School lesson outlines holiness as God’s demand and path to reconciliation. It cites scriptures from Leviticus and 2 Peter, stressing reverence for God, honoring parents, Sabbath worship, truthful conduct, fair justice, care for the vulnerable, and love of neighbor as core to holy living.
A reader explains how the cost of living index is calculated by the Bureau of Statistics, using data from 1,500 Canadian families. The article covers which expenses are included, how prices are tracked, seasonal fluctuations, and notes that income taxes are not part of the index. It discusses who benefits from the cost of living bonus and why some groups, like farmers and small proprietors, might not receive it.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture urges cleaning poultry buildings during range seasons. Empty houses should be stripped of equipment and sun disinfected. Remove roots nests and walls for thorough scrubbing with strong disinfectant. Roosts and dropping boards treated with coal oil and used crankcase oil to kill mites. Inside space aired before reintroducing birds.
From London the CP reports German newspapers fault citizens who fail to give the Hitler salute properly, urging stricter conformity amid mounting nationalist pressure and public shaming of offenders.
Wartime Prices and Trade Board reports considerable improvement in the milk can situation. The Beanfs program advances to supply enough containers to meet increased milk production this year. Leslie Burrows, administrator of Metal Containers, says arrangements provide sufficient steel to extend the quota beyond 140 percent of 1940 production.
Small motor boats are dropped by parachute to airmen shot down in British waters. The craft carry food fuel and navigation charts and have saved scores of air crews in the Atlantic and North Sea after design by air era rescue experts.
Five members of the 1st Port Colborne Bay it Troop donated ten dollars to the Chins Up Fund to aid British Scouts affected by a cottage fire in Port Colborne Ontario. The Scouts and Cubs of Canada have sent more than $37 000 to British Scouts to date.
The Ration Board allows more tea for home use after a safe shipping route from Ceylon. Millions of SALADA fans rejoice as availability increases and anticipation grows for relief in rations.
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