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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 17, 1878
Page
3
A midnight Night Express timetable notes departures toward Acton. The schedule lists arrivals and evening services from Western to Talmar, with Galmi and Patmeal stops and a weekly church event at the Methodist Church led by Pastor Woerns.
Read of new photographic work by C W Hill and Hill’s Photo Studio. Advertisements warn of low prices at Covistie Henderson Co. and note the passing of a court election for Tate School Trustees. Disciples’ meetings and Zionist sermons announced with dates and times, plus local business updates on stores, imports, and subscriptions.
The readable lines discuss a mil iain of Albon's day and a confession to Mr Dison. Mentions a Palate Scient Tushi guna Acton and an interecting secourt of the fort. The text references helping in Len Week and Algoma Miss with unclear details.
The Acton Pythian Lodge honored Mr J F I Hacking for two and a half years as editor and citizen with a formal supper and speeches. A second item reports the suicide of 22 year old Mary Jane Levis in Credilln on the London Huron and Bruce Railway, found dead with a throat wound. cause remains a mystery.
The Acton School Board met on Monday evening and elected J Matthews as chairman for 1873. A standing committees for 1878 were formed including Finance Grievance and Fuel with members named. The Finance Committee recommended paying Moore & Galbraith Printing and A Stephenson, and caretaker bids were opened with Mrs Laghes bid accepted.
A fragmented article discusses municipal boundaries and potential city status for a southern area linked by the Credit Valley Railway. It envisions a Grand Diver boundary, a navigable waterway, a lighthouse, and governance shifts affecting prisoners, the Poor House, and local towns including Elois Salem Aboyne and Pergos.
Breilevil Tidelligencer reports a friend sent a Christmas box holding a rattlesnake preserved in a bottle with a cork. The snake has lived four months without food, enlarging despite the isolation.
Tie Trnstee examines a new process costing 20x to 3dc per thousand feet using slack Lituminous coal. Inventor offers free use of a patent to the city while consumers are charged 50c per thousand. Potential daily savings cited at 310,000 to 315,000 with plans to offer New York City the same proposal.
Washington reports a new counterfeit five dollar note from the First National Bank of Hanover with date February 20 1864 and signatures Spinner and Chittenden. Helmick promotes his counterfeit detector and a guide priced at 1.60 including postage to Cincinnati Ohio.
Farmers were seen working in fields around Winnipeg on Christmas Day as snow dusted the rural landscape. The scene reflects the ongoing winter farming activity amid holiday observers.
An elderly doctor, long retired, claims a simple vegetable cure for lung and throat ailments and nervous debility. He will mail a free receipt in German, French, or English with full using instructions, from W W Sherar Rochester NY. Dated notices for several deaths follow.
An old advertisement for a dietary tonic from James Errs & Two promoting pure blood and a nourished frame. It claims to boost digestion and immunity using cocoa and other ingredients. The notice cites London addresses for the supplier and urges readers to buy only packets labeled by the firm.
A fragmented OCR readout lists farm items such as Fall Wheat Wheat Oatbarley mixed with quantities and prices, plus entries for potatoes apples hay and poultry including chickens turkeys and various per bag or per ton rates. The legible items include potatoes apples early apples hay and oats with mixed numeric values and unit notes.
The notice advertises farm for sale near Rockwood to Guelph Acton area with 150 acres, 120 cleared, wheat rye 25 ploughed, cedar pine hardwood, orchard of apple trees, spring and wells, possession immediate, liberal terms. Also offers farms for sale or rent in Sid Conway Lequesing region with 83 to 90 acres cleared, good maple wood, grate barn, time options, advance rent. Beneficiary listings note churn enterprise and Acton Ontario sellers seeking buyers or renters.
Elias, Russell and Son sell out to Pringle for cash, offering the entire stock in Guelph at low prices. Pringle denies any fealty beyond agent status for Russell watches and plans a large cash only stock of Waltham and Elgin American watches. Christmas goods including gold chains rings and lockets arrive daily.
Fragmentary stock listing notice from a local shop dated December 12 invites examination of assorted goods including tobaccos, sugars, biscuits, coffees and related items.
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