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Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Sep 20, 1923

Page

9

Prohibitive Freight Rates Challenge Alberta Coal to Ontario

Ontario faces coal supply frustration as Alberta shipments fail to compete with Pennsylvania anthracite. Welsh coal arrives but cannot replace the preferred Pennsylvania product. The Ontario Temperance Act referendum debate continues, with calls for longer trial periods and proposals to reduce level crossing fatalities through better warning signs and surveys.

Alberta Ontario Canadian National Alberta Cozps Ont Pennsylvania

Canada Welcomes New Residents

Canada is ready to absorb large numbers of immigrants of a desirable class says Hon. J. A. Robb. Western Canada sees a bountiful harvest and better times ahead for farming and other industries. The policy aims to extend immigration despite earlier wartime regulations now largely cancelled.

Canada J. A. Robb Department Whch

Ontario Premier to restore two party legislature

The Premier plans a two party chamber by recognizing only the Liberal party as official opposition at the next session. This nullifies the Drury 1920 measure granting opposition status to any group with 15 members, sidelining the United Farmers of Ontario despite their twenty member strength.

Ferguson Mail and Empire United Farmers of Ontario Ontario Liberal Party Drury U. PF. O

Eight Per Cent Tenant Farmers in Canada and U S Observed

The Alliston Herald reports figures from Canada's Dominion Statistical Board showing 55 048 farms operated by tenants in 1921 and 39 062 by part owners, a small share of tenancies. It argues ownership sustains farming zeal and long-term soil care, contrasting with widespread tenant farming in the United States and urging Canadians to keep ownership to secure progress.

Dominion ‘Statistical Board United States Canada Archibald McNeilage Glasgow Toronto Alliston’ Herald

Ditto and the old man over a grocer’s bill

An elderly Yarmouth man refuses to pay for “ditto” he never received. The grocer explains the form and the old man leaves convinced. His wife asks what ditto means and he retorts that it means he is an old fool and she is ditto.

Yarmouth Sphorman London Suye

Ambition and Focus From a Telegraph Thought

A reflective piece urges practical aiming at immediate targets and steady effort. It warns against delaying work and advises youths to concentrate on present tasks to build future success and character.

Massachusetts fights drunk driving with license cancellations

Editorial notes 42 licenses already canceled under Massachusetts liquor laws and Attorney General Nickle vows strict enforcement of the new Botting Act. Canada’s wheat leadership highlighted as the cereal year ends with Canada supplying 40 percent of world exports. Local fall fairs are welcomed as farming winds up the season. A Morrison call for farmers to aim for fair prices accompanies cautions against politics.

Massachusetts Nickle

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