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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 19, 1877
Page
4
Train schedule shows night and day express routes with connections to Acton Toronto and London. Auction sale of house and lot and notices from Christie Henderson Co and estate notices for Mia McNair appear alongside debtors notice and miscellaneous ads from Fyfe McNair and Walker.
Halton County Spring Show in Milton tomorrow. Butter and eggs prices tumble. East End Clothiers advertise shirts and tweeds. Rev. Mr. Lee ill with erysipelas. Fire Press aids estate records of Mrs. McNair. Secret societies grow with five orders listed. Hotel license debate at Main Street building. Acton Methodist Society annual meeting reports $100 plus. Odd Fellows lodge instituted with about seventy-five members. Acton Lodge No. 204 formally installed with officers named and supper served.
In Nassagaweya on Tuesday evening last week, an 8 Jad worker for Mr. Eliott accidentally set fire while checking eggs in a barn on lot 18. The blaze engulfed the structure and contents including seed grain hay and feed four horses and ten cattle perished. loss estimated at 81 809. No insurance.
Spring has arrived with signs in nature and the April showers. Obituary notes Mr. James Gordon of Acton, a pioneer resident and former alderman, who died after a brief illness in Kinloss. He leaves four sons and a sister, with funeral processes at Lucknow and interment in Adem. The piece also lists local ads for Christie Henderson & Co, Morse Bills, and various goods and services in Acton.
A milk company has been formed at Milton with plans to ship predominantly to urban markets. The venture targets supplying major cities and expanding regional dairy sales.
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