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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 12, 1877
Page
3
A collection of town items reports a fire casualty, new lodge and temperance officer installations, a plow award, estate sales, and local business promotions in Acton and surrounding areas. Prolific ewe births, sidewalk concerns, and community events fill community columns with promotions from McNair estate auctioneers and local merchants.
A creditor reports information from Mrs. McNair claiming an unnamed person in Acton possesses her account books and invoices. They advise leaving materials with Mr. Allap the assignor so the rightful recipient can claim them, urging neighbors to improve properties for broader benefit.
A period newspaper fragment lists assorted prices for flour and grains then promotes Epps Cocoa as a strengthening dietary beverage. It cites a Civil Service Gazette endorsement praising cocoa for supporting digestion, blood nourishment, and disease resistance, attributed to Jaurs Errs & Co. in London.
An advertisement touts Wood's Improved Restorative as a unique hair product with vegetable tonic properties. It claims to restore gray hair to natural color, revive dry and falling hair, remove dandruff, irritations, and scalp scaly dryness, and even aid prematurely bald heads. Sold by druggists with manufacturers and agents listed in Chicago and Toronto.
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