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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1877
Page
3
Our local columns are barren with no notable events in the past week. The writer laments dullness and quiet business, noting no energy for invention and a wish for something dramatic to break the monotony.
John Speight installed officers for the ensuing quarter in Acton Division. W P Bro Joseph Fyfe. Sister Helen Shaw. RS Bro Henry P Moore. ARS Sister Warren. Treasurer Bro Ben Nicklin. F& Col Bro James Warren. Chap Bro R B Cook. Con Bro Robt Galloway. AC Sister Maggie Shaw. IS Bro Dennis Kells. OS Bro John Stevenson.
Letters to several Montreal volunteers warned of serious consequences if they join the protection force procession on the twelfth. City authorities say participants must march without uniforms. In Hamilton area, about four hundred railway navvies were discharged after grading work finished. A Milton gang works on station grounds and grading on the Grand Trunk bridge at Georgetown proceeds. A jail scene ends with a prisoner escaping after a kiss unlocks his wrist restraints and a window jump during rapid transit to the state prison.
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