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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1959
Page
5
Mrs Somerville reports on the ninth Triennial Conference of the Overseas Women’s Institute ending in Edinburgh with a Beating Retreat massed pipes and drums display. Delegates toured Belfast Dublin Amsterdam Brussels Paris and London visiting gardens canals farms and lace works before a Welsh weekend and return to London.
A mother asks little Willie what his father said when he fell from a ladder. Willie responds that the father said nothing then, prompting a pun on naughty words.
The Lorne Scots pipes and drums seek to attend the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland next summer with about 25 bandsmen from Milton Brampton and nearby towns. Funds are being raised by tri county units and a April 1 deadline is set to confirm accommodation. the Duke of Argyll and Lancashire Fusiliers invite the band to their castles.
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