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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1945
Page
15
The piece describes a morning glory day with dawn breaking from a pear and rising light. The sky overcast by afternoon mirrors petals falling from evening clouds and a dream of midnight calm. It hints at tomorrow bringing back a garden's magic hours.
Acton fall fair banner ads by Nicol adorn Mill Street as the town marks a change of ownership at the grain elevator with FH Lindsay buying from Robert Noble Ltd. The Acton Ladies softball team beat All Stars 12 to 9 in a visit to Tuellph. Poultry pens were supplied for fair space by Mr. G. T. Beardmore amid community support. Obituary notices: Mrs Mary Fo Wilds, widow of James Wilds, formerly of Acton, and Edward Murras son of Pawarnes Kings.
Letter from The Hague dated August 1945 describes a Canadian soldier who befriended a Dutch family. Vague, warm notes praise the soldier as honest and well behaved, recounting wartime hardships in Germany occupation, food shortages, and shared English letters. The family asks for a reply.
Ottawa faced a mass labor showing as 250 delegates claiming to represent 1,000 union members from Trades and Labor Congress and Canadian Congress of Labor arrived by motorcade to press the government on reconversion and job creation. They urged action beyond talk, warned of risks to wages, and called for shifts away from corporate interests while Parliament debated postwar policy and meat rationing.
Leeds hosts a Labor Women conference opening September 4 as delegates push for compulsory pay equality by sex across industry and armed forces. One motion seeks equal wages for domestic workers and a family allowance, while proposals urge extending wartime childcare and benefits.
An article describes fully packaged pre cooked frozen meals sold in grocery stores with a laser of convenience for housewives. The system includes grooved containers and special ovens for reheating in minutes, marketed as a revolution in household scheduling.
The Nova Scotia coal industry announces an increase of ten cents a ton to fund higher wages and an additional paid vacation week for about 12 000 miners.
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