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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 02, 1875
Page
3
Acton Post Office hours described with morning and night express trains and local message deadlines. Notices request local event items including church services meetings and accidents, with postage and publication details for the weekly paper and submission deadlines.
The Milton council meets tonight as stores close at 7 30. Dancers at the office store and other social events draw comment. A call for earlier store closing and a public reading room suggestion aims to curb disorder, with announcements of church and temperance hall activities and a Sabbath School anniversary on Thursday the 23rd.
Fragments describe an upcoming public meeting with five charged individuals for the purpose of discussing the issue. Citizens are expected to attend in large numbers to hear views and participate in the discussion.
A festive list of gifts for family and friends invites purchase of a splendid assortment of wares. An order for a quantity of Mann's celebrated tea to Ireland is noted, with mentions of meteors and medicinal teas as novelty items.
Indebted customers must settle at once or face collection. The ad urges paying now, offers watches, rings, gold and silver jewelry, and a wide glassware selection. It touts low prices on china sets and festive Christmas stock for Secord Bros.
The Esquesing Council met with all members present and approved payments for sheep losses and support costs, admitted members to the workhouse, and authorized road and bridge works. Commissioners were named for the new road through Nickell’s land and for bridge work on base lines, with multiple grants approved for road safety and infrastructure. The session adjourned with notices on post office discounts and a call for fair cash pricing and produce exchange.
A fragmented report notes two tea sellers in the neighborhood touted by the Free Press. One firm sprays the tea pota with claims while another mocks the competition. The Post Office Store advertises a 50 cent tea with medicinal properties and hints at a testifying witness regarding a sick ages claim.
The listing shows prices for white wheat, spring wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, dried apples, onions, eggs, and butter. Notable rates include spring wheat near 1.00 to 1.03 per unit, oats around 35c to 70c, onions 98c to $1.05, eggs 17c per dozen, and butter 17c to 20c per pound.
An 1875 advertisement promotes Poor Man's Friend as a universal wound remedy and Dr Roberts' Pilulum Antiscrophule for blood purification. It lists prices in old currency, claims broad healing uses, and notes dispenaries run by Beach and Barnicott in Bridport. Also offers a farm for rent or shares near Esquesing with details on land, improvements, and contact.
Notice proclaims that the pills and univent are not manufactured or sold in any part of the United States. Each pot bears a British government stamp with warnings and the line Heilloway's Pills and Olxtmext. The label lists the address 583 Oxford Street, London.
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