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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1944
Page
11
Instructions for sending Christmas gifts to allied forces abroad before October 15. Details cover postal addresses, packing guidance, and required descriptions to avoid confiscation. Also lists suggested items, fruit cake and other bake recipes, and a US soldier’s letter from New Guinea about wartime conditions.
A narrator recalls sitting in a family heirloom chair by a blazing fire in England and compares memories of wartime homes with Canadian life. The piece shifts to reflections on fall weather, wartime work for Red Cross, and postwar civic duties, ending with a quiet closing as the day ends.
Anglican missionary Greta Clark, returning to Canada after 25 years in the Orient, details famine, destruction, and terror under Japanese occupation in a Nan Province city. She traveled on foot and by night to evade guards, relying on locals for aid while noting Christians' hope in righteousness.
On leave from duty four hours earlier, W1 Faulkner, a paratrooper who survived D-Day in Normandy, died in a fall from a 9 bus. Authorities report the incident occurred shortly after his homecoming.
In New South Wales a Women’s Pea-Picking championship drew 185 contestants who, despite heavy rain, harvested six tons of peas in two hours. Winn won the £100 prize in a lively event noted for outfits with numbers on the back and shoeless displays.
A jumble of humorous snippets and line gags about school, marriage, travel, and daily life. Jokes touch on hair, brains, combustion of dynamite, identity parades, and a hunter's tale, with playful exchanges between doctors maids and passengers and a judge grilling a prisoner.
A letter from overseas thanks Acton and the War Service League for comforts and outlines wartime mail mix ups with a Canada address. It mentions Leo Close and Herb Woods among Acton boys, and notes rain, crops, and trees. A Royal Ontario Museum fossil cone discovery in Red Deer Valley reveals a once vast conifer forest and links to western coal deposits.
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