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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 11, 1941
Page
15
Poem conveys resilience with lines urging persistence when facing hardship. It emphasizes that success may be near during the darkest moments and that giving up can cost a hoped for victory. The verse encourages steadfast effort despite fatigue and doubt.
Twenty years back in Sawe of the Free Prous of Thursday September 1kth 1021 Acton High School reports 63 students enrolled this term while the Public School lists 302. The St Alban’s Sunday School picnic drew about 200 at Springbrook Farm with sports in the afternoon.
A 16 year old girl in Bristol died after severe sunburnt arms and back. The coroner's jury returned an accidental death verdict from excessive sunbathing and delirium prior to death.
Revelation chapters 7 9 12 portrays a vast multitude in heaven during the great tribulation. The faithful from every nation worship the throne and the Lamb, wearing white robes with palm branches, while angels elders and living creatures join in praise and declare the eternal blessings of God.
The article notes expansion of sugar beet plantations across Ontario Manitoba Alberta and Quebec with large yields and planned processing facilities near Winnipeg Hasamerunda and Dieture Butte Ontario. It compares beet and sugar production to traditional sugar cane and discusses regional irrigation and new factories to process beets in Kent Lambton Essex Elgin and Middlesex counties.
The article recalls Canada’s first railroad on wooden rails slid with iron, running from La Prairie to St Johns Quebec on July 21 1946. A bronze tablet marks the event per the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. It traces plans from 1824 to link Lake Champlain with the St Lawrence, notes Champlain and St Lawrence Railway later becoming part of the Montreal Champlain and Grand Trunk systems.
London reports 30 percent of workers at a Bristol Beaufighter facility are women. They are promoted to cockpit and fuselage work, don blue trousers, and handle delicate instruments with steady fingers while test flights remain the realm of pilots.
The House debated feeding America better with margarine and other fats. A committee proposed vitamin rich meals costing 2 cents per three meals while critics called the program government propaganda and hurtful to farmers amid a broader argument about fats supply and pricing.
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