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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1942
Page
7
Edna Jaquer reflects on China during five years of war. The poem contrasts hardship with delicate crafts such as lace, ivory fans, jade trinkets, and toy tops. It notes peasants plowing and reaping amid cricket songs, highlighting enduring life in a vast, unconquerable land.
A record of Halton area happenings notes coal value shifts, farm mold incidents, and property transfers. Mentions D H Young on Main Street, farm lot 31 west tenth concession Enqueaing Township to F W Huggins, and local fairs with horses of T Bo and Henry Wallace. Reports crops, alfalfa harvest in Trafalgar, Acton beating Campbellville in junior league baseball 4 to 3, a marriage Lawson Paden at Belwood between Flora McDonald and Walter Lawson, and the death of James Vanaickle aged 85 in Trafalgar.
The Dominion Experimental Farm at Brandon Manitoba urges annual autumn cleaning of poultry houses. Remove refuse, sweep walls and ceilings, scrub floors and equipment with lye mixture, then dry and apply whitewash as a disinfectant. Weather during harvest aids timing.
A study of Judah pleading with Joseph for Benjamin and offering himself as a bondman. The lesson shows Judah’s tender, self sacrificial intercession and the later sign of a transformed heart as Joseph tests his brother in Egypt.
Charley Jones questions the term hay fever in Chanute Kansas noting hay and ragweed both mislead. He suggests a more descriptive name ragweed rabies to describe the allergic reaction.
Twenty five years ago British and Allied troops fought the Third Battle of Ypres amid severe weather and heavy German opposition. Canadian forces under Sir Arthur Currie moved to Ypres and later joined the Paschendaele campaign, aiming to break ground along the Flanders plain and stabilize the Western Front for winter.
Aviator Sikorsky predicts mass produced helicopters after the war, affordable as cars, powering vertical takeoff in small spaces and cruising at about 100 mph on low fuel with simple clutches to land. He envisions low servicing costs and an air bus service linking Toronto to downtown deliveries and daily work.
After a long bombardment the Third Battle of Ypres began July 31 with gains at Bixschoote St Julien and Pilckem Ridge but Menin Road held. Two weeks later Langemarck fell as Allied thrusts continued toward Passchendaele and the Canadians secured Passchendaele in October.
A six year old model in New York, Barbara Clarke, has worked weekly on fashion shoots and ads since age two but eschewed a social security card. After losing front teeth she visited a dentist and learned to snap her teeth in and out on cue, selling a toothy smile to clients.
An emergency appendectomy was performed in a ship’s captain’s cabin during a gale when crew member Lt Mek Hotuhten assisted by tying the surgeon to a table to prevent movement. The 21 year old man survived after a frantic operation amid storm conditions.
Halifax based Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy are described as the best sub-hunting ships yet built by any nation. Their design emphasizes powerful depth charges and anti aircraft guns, with comfortable quarters and ongoing improvements to speed and construction for better anti submarine warfare.
A collection of incidents shows mutilated currency rounds in Britain. A mouse carried a pound note for replacement. another sender sent fragments with no note and the Bank of England investigated. Earlier fire destroyed hundreds of notes and a Swedish wartime wood-cutting effort needed more labor to secure home fuel.
Page eight continuation reveals scores figures and entries from the Acton fair with numbers 1800 500 109 100 3 400 2090 00180. No clear names or events readable beyond this numeric list.
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