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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 10, 1879
Page
2
The publication warns subscribers that the Fur Paras has expired and urges timely payment of due subscriptions and advertising accounts. Readers with outstanding bills are asked to settle them when presented and to prepare for end of quarter account statements.
A damaged public notice laments repeated destruction of ornamental trees during Deeg time and urges village authorities to protect streets. It requests by law to curb vandalism from April to November and notes past damage from careless owners and animals.
The text discusses Toronto hosting a major provincial exhibition next September with Lord Lorne and his wife expected in attendance. It highlights the city’s central location, new buildings, and plans to accommodate a large audience with extended viewing, plus hopeful prospects for a bountiful turnout and strong Dominion reports.
In East Farnlem Vermont a boy described as Charley Ross is said to be living with a man who speaks no English. The man denies knowledge of the boy, claiming he is paid $150 for his keep with drafts sent from New York every six months payable at a Montreal bank. Investigators from Philadelphia are expected to arrive.
A fierce wind rain and hail struck Harrisburg Ontario around 2 30 pm on Sunday. Trees and vegetation were flattened and a scale-house of the Great Western Railway was destroyed. Four freight cars on a siding derailed and damaged the line while brakes held.
Reports from Emerson Manitoba note harvest prospects improving in some districts amid population migrations into Canada. Across the frontier a murder case near Fort Bark Saskatchewan is alleged, with gruesome details of a wife and four children killed and remains found. A separate incident recounts a farming accident near Glengow with two youths injured, and a farm collapse elsewhere. Government advisories urge Canadians to return and help settle the provinces. meanwhile industrial accidents and exotic bonds surface in Detroit and Toronto markets.
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