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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 18, 1909
Page
3
An old advertisement promotes a stationery shop offering a variety of paper, ink, pens, and school supplies. It highlights affordable prices and mentions GEO. HYNDS JEWELLER LICENSEES and Acton making the ad look like a period business notice.
The Acton Tree Press edition for Thursday highlights community updates and local notices. Readers find brief reports on town events, upcoming meetings, and small notices from area organizations.
The report cites Halifax and Milton area items including a Halton Peeve Association meeting, Dominion Railway Commission set to discuss a new station, and a church site construction near Chaveh Attle. Wheat prices rise to 1.00 and buyers show strong interest in lawn equipment and farm machinery.
Local items describe construction plans for a church and street improvements, a fancy carnival skating rink event, a public execution report, a drinking incident and court fine, a wedding in Guelph, and a football game between Georgetown and Acton with mixed results. The mosaic shows civic notices, social happenings, and brief crime coverage from the Acton area.
Acton Eyaworth Langue faced Georgetown Langue in a lively debate on Canada’s independence and national future. Sixty eight participants attended with speeches praised for research and oratory as Acton narrowly lost to Georgetown after more than an hour of argument.
Mia Acho Sadun of Teronta and others are mentioned in social notices. Several locals like Mr James G McDonald of Sudbury and Mrs Halton Brown are noted as visiting, hosting, or returning from trips and events including church work, anniversaries, and a large gathering for Mr and Mrs James Cleaves’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary at their home with about one hundred guests.
The notice hints at a major sale with dramatic language about vast reductions. Shoppers are urged to come early and return often to view the extensive goods in the advertised event.
A historic retailer announces an up to date stock of dress goods silks and wash goods with seventy five new prices this week. Buyers are promised great variety and lower costs than before. The note highlights fifty cent and seventy five cent dress goods and dollar items.
Big sale features fur sets and stoles with prices slashed by up to half. Includes $10 stoles offered at 3.19 and 8.34 stoles, plus a single Astrachan fur coat reduced from $40 to 1.80, highlighting dramatic discounts on quality garments.
A local retailer advertises women’s coats skirts and wrappers at unusually low prices. The sale touts quality garments offered far below regular values with discounts of roughly one third to one half off and promises surprising bargains to shoppers.
Advertisement notes discounts on small articles including ribbions, hosiery, gloves, underwear, veiling and laces. Items such as hair pins at 2 cents and wool gloves at 18 cents illustrate the sale with prices well below regular value.
A retailer touts 100 new suits added from a manufacturer at low price. Prices advertised include 18 and 20 dollar suits for 13.08, 15 dollar suits for 4.00, 10 dollar suits for 6.19. Promotions claim one third to one half off regular pelicans. Mens linen collars offered at low prices.
Advertises carpet and rug sale with discounts from one-quarter to one-half off regular price. Highlights 75 cents and 1 dollar carpet pieces and rugs priced around 4.08 dollars, urging customers to shop early while stock lasts.
A sale lists staple goods such as flannelette flannel towelling powels tickings prints and cottons at reduced values from one third to one half off. Examples include 13¢ gingham 8c and 14¢ print 10c.
A good stock of fresh groceries included in this sale at cut prices. Raisins two pounds for 35 cents, currants one and a half pounds for 35 cents, tea 4 cans tomatoes peas corn or plums for 9 cents.
Every article in the store is included in the sale. This great sale offers unusually low prices and ends March 1. Shop early and bring friends. store opens at 9 am.
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