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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
3
Community news reports a Christmas service at St Alban's, church events, concerts, and Sunday School notes. It records municipal election hints, deaths, local visits, and a festive Canadian Victoria piece, with multiple church, business, and personal notices across Acton and surrounding towns.
A summary of local activities includes Dr BOD Ault delivering a Bible lecture next Sunday after noon at Do'elock with expected good attendance. The Mablic and High School closing exercises were held on Tuesday, marking a busy period of school life and community notices.
Reading fragments reveal a Acton area note on a large trade show and a reported new pumping apparatus by a Chicago firm, plus discussions of workshop improvements and a pending demonstration. The text also mentions deaths in London and a church gift article amid charity discourse, with references to Booths Kidney Pills and local advertisers.
An old advertisement claims a guaranteed lung healing medicine for coughs colds asthma sore throat and consumption. It promotes doctors endorsement and 260 bottles for sale by B A Robertson druggist in Stout-Argton.
Social and personal notes list residents visiting, returning home, and holiday plans. Names include Misy Robena Chak Ia hoon from Arvin Mise 1 lialph, Margaret Ceanatt bloom, Florance Tones, Norval, EG Savard of Kvanaville, J. A. Sinithy of Creo, and many others visiting relatives or spending holidays in Berlin, London, Toronto, and Acton.
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