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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 15, 1877
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes show references to Night Express schedules, multiple routes and times including 3:88 am and 9:10am, with mentions of Day Express and Western mails. Limited legible items suggest a historical train or mail service timetable with mixed entries.
Advertisements include listings for Ontario Saddlery Sreech Big Posh Williamcon Co Durham Bulls sale by C. B. Smith Stephenson Plow from The Acton Plow Co Tetie Working Class Geo Stinson and races and Paper Hanging by W. H. Walker.
The April 20 Milton event includes a social for Congre gational Church funds at Mr P S Armstrong’s residence. Lectures by Prof Buckland in Bilton on worn out soil. New Temperance Hall opening at Creweons Corners with announced programs. Various local notices of carts, cartographers, and charity sales accompany reports of store inventories and missionary services with modest receipts.
A tea meeting will be held at the Episcopal Methodist Church on Enquesing Street two miles west of Acton next Thursday evening. Several well known speakers will present addresses and two young ladies will contest for a prize cake. Proceeds go to the Sabbath School library. Also notice that all debts to Galloway Bros. must be settled by the 28th else court collection with costs.
Advertisements report Secord Bros continuing their Cheap Cash Sale for another week with a range of goods. The notice highlights tea offers, priced at 30¢ per pound, four pounds for $1, and promotes a broad stock of teas, crockery, glassware, china, hardware, and groceries at favorable prices.
Georgetown rink carnival drew about 500 with many in home made costumes and multiple prizes awarded for best and comic roles across 60 entries. The event featured bands from Acton Brampton and Georgetown. County Orange Lodge elected officers including Master Wm Easterbrook Co Master John Wales Chap James Brokes and others.
Auction notice lists dried apples potatoes and bits apples among items sought at Secord TOs. The fragment notes a request for various dried produce and related goods for transportation or sale, indicating a local trade listing.
An early catalog note promotes Vicks Quarterly Journal with elegant colored plate and price of cents for the year. It mentions German and English editions and a cloth covered issue priced at 1.00. Rochester, New York author JAMES VICK listed.
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