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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 05, 1903
Page
3
Bank of Hamilton announces general banking services. Savings department offers interest from day of deposit. No formalities or delays in drawing money. Farmers urged to use services with notes for promissory and loan facilities. Collection department handles sale notes and promissory notes at low interest. Established 1872 with capital 2,000,000 and assets around 20,000,000.
The Acton Free Press covers church moves and local notices from February, noting a London season start, weather remarks, a $12 course shipment, donations for a Free Library, a long list of community names, talks, and upcoming services. It highlights school delays, municipal auditors, and a surge in Hamlock harvest activities with local social happenings.
Community items from Oakville to Acton cover church anniversaries and weddings, school reopenings, and public health notes. Mentions include a Baptist pastor’s return, Halton Orange Lodge events, Knox Church renewal, and a smallpox quarantine in Guelph with local officials enforcing the measure.
Personal and social items report visits and greetings among residents of Georgetown and nearby towns. Notes mention J E Calduay visiting friends, Miuiplay Nicklin, and Mrs Wis Turton. several travels to Acton, Toronto, Collingwood, and Collingwood schools. recoveries from illness, engagements, and family moves.
A fragmented notice blends observations on cod flavor removal with stray references to instruction, parenting, and a machine setup at a Guelph site. It mentions Grantley and Mark Moumente and hints at low prices for work, urging readers to call at a workyard drop for "Cough and Work" tablets and supplies.
A local sale highlights drastic cuts in dress goods with many items reduced to low prices. Serges show marked reductions while silks, woolens, and other fabrics receive discounts. Shoppers are urged to inspect random stock selections and draw their own conclusions from the bargain offerings.
Our firs are contributed by the lost Coreiors in the country and represent the best of manufactury, richiesa and elegance of style. Fars alka come in for their ahary of the price cutting during thig sale, and when you consider that the coldeat weather hag yed to come, and that all firs ts be higher ha price next year, you cannot help but appreciate the saving advantages of this event. Whether two fur anak, a caparine,a fur collar, a Mun,or wry, you can aave money by buying now. We have to ask you to come up one flight of klulls but our goods and prices will reward you for thie little extra exertion.
A stock reduction sale features wool blankets at deep discounts including pale white and rose shades, heavy throws and Alexandrie blankets. Men’s overshoes and kid gloves offered at low prices, along with rubbers and Bonnets for children. Groceries and linings also discounted with broad assortments advertised for a quick pickup.
Parlor suites bedroom and dining room suites springs mattresses and couches included in this sale. Fancy furniture also available call or telephone for details.
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