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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1944
Page
3
Instructions detail overseas Christmas gifts for Allied forces in UK Iceland and aboard His Majesty's ships with a 15 October deadline. Items include medicines foods and handmade treats plus practical gifts and careful packing with full addresses and BEF c/o Army Post Office where needed.
A reflective wartime diary piece recalls a English chair by the fire, memories of England and Canada, fall weather, and the call to continued Red Cross work. It notes knitters and volunteer efforts for service personnel, heat contrasts, and concern over civilian postwar needs.
Greta Clark an Anglican missionary returns to Canada after 25 years in the Orient describing famine, scorched towns, and fear under Japanese occupation in 1941. She traveled on foot through ravaged villages to evade guards and spoke of Christian hope amid misery.
Four hours after arriving home on leave, Wil Faulkner a paratrooper killed in Normandy on D-Day died in a fall from a bus. The incident occurred while he was back with family during leave.
In New South Wales a rainy Women’s Pea-Picking championship drew 183 contestants who harvested six tons of peas in two hours. The winner was Miss Thelma Batchelor earning £100. Her bag weighed 147 pounds and spectators noted fashion among participants.
A compilation of humorous snippets featuring anxious passengers, teachers, students, a nursemaid, a hunter, a doctor and a judge. The pieces include quick wits, playful misunderstandings, and light social satire with dated slang and dialect. Some lines lean on racial stereotypes of the era.
A war era letter from Acton shows gratitude for home comforts and local support, with notes on mail address issues, fellow soldiers and community aid. The piece also reports a Royal Ontario Museum fossil cone discovery in Alberta, describing its preservation, rarity, and link to ancient forests and coal deposits.
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