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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
9
The piece urges continued support for fall fairs as community gatherings during wartime and discusses postwar regulations on shop hours, owner operated stores, and business trends. It notes education's role in wartime and predicts shifts toward smaller businesses and potential local photography ventures in towns of 2000+ people.
Editorial notes describe Labor Day as typical with celebrations or quiet observances. A Deloraine reader urges households to stock fuel now and praises Canada’s resources. Tax forms on rural routes are highlighted and a reader commends ongoing No 25 Highway resurfacing as the best road this summer.
Southeast Asia command reports a roadblock in Kandy Ceylon where a mahout intoxicated by arrack rode an elephant. The mahout fell, the elephant bared tusks as a driver approached. The wife arrived later and led her husband away by the ear, the elephant tagging along.
The Prince Edward Inland Command of the Canadian Legion met in Charlottetown and passed a resolution urging the establishment of divorce courts on the Inland. A. B. Clark of Charlottetown was elected president.
Lynn River Tensen Olive of Em Hornby farm has raised her lifetime milk to 123 46 percent in production with 4 012 pounds butterfat. Milking twice daily across eight lactations, she set multiple 305 day records and achieved a best test of 639 pounds butterfat from 18 215 pounds milk in 30 days. Olive is rated Excellent in Selective Neglatration.
In Fredericton the vital statistics bureau reports July had more births than any month in city history, with 12 more births than June. The record indicates a rising birth rate for the month across the city.
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