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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 24, 1927
Page
7
Reading of village events lists visits by residents to Acton and Windmere, farm sales and price trends, a barn roof repair, a quarry operation resumption, and upcoming church services. Mentions of postmaster health, teachers, horticultural society plans for 1927, and a notable death in Willow.
A grainy reminiscence in the Adams home at Acton Ontario recalls Adams family elders, the Acton townscape, and a letter from Miss Agnes Adams to Mr Mackensley. It preserves memories of Rev Zonas Adams and siblings born in Adamsville, with sketches of early carpenters, home life, and a 19th century rural household.
Readable fragments report town events at the Town Hall and Church a corer. Mentions of Mr John Thominite corner of Church Street and a hockey match Acton versus Milian with a 6-4 score. An obituary notes Kennedy in Turnbarry aged 68 and Mrs James Molam to attend a midland event.
A garbled ad-like text touts a defective remedy that claims to cure skin spots rashes and open sores rapidly. It mentions a mysterious bottle and a money back offer but contains many illegible phrases and improbable health claims.
Public auction at the Campville Inn by R J Kerr for the real property in Nassagawey County described as Lot 17 in the Nassa ward, containing about 100 acres. The sale follows a mortgage dated April 1 1827 between Vynoan Cappice and William Howard on the Shewwald farm with a two storey roughcast dwelling, outbuildings, wells, and cultivated land. The sale date is to be fixed, with legal formalities stated in Milton Ontario.
A public auction on the premises near Brumben Township lists lots of cows calves and heifer stock with breeding notes and a large range of farming machinery including hay loaders plows mowers and harvesting gear. Items include Holstein cattle yearlings oxen sheep and a registered Yorkshire boar with no reserve and terms of cash or credit on approved notes.
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