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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 29, 1897
Page
3
Capital (all paid up) 1 260 000 Reserve Fund 725 000 Total Assets 89 846 678 45 Nearly Ten Millions of Dollars Board of Directors John Stuart A G Ramsay President Vice President iko Rokon Joux Procron A T Woop A B Sue Toronto Wat Ginson MP Turnbull Cashier 1918 Brven Ant Cashier H Mf Watson Inspector
A description of banking services including discounting notes of farmers, collection of sale notes and commercial paper, drafts issued payable in Canada and United States, drafts on Great Britain bought and sold, and deposits starting at $1 with interest at current rates. Special deposit receipts issued for large sums.
Irises on your pot hint at renewal urgency for a subscription. The ad reads as a terse prompt urging timely action to avoid lapse and preserve service.
Readable items cover Acton civic holiday prospects with excursion ideas to nearby towns, calls for better street lighting, and local updates. Reports include renovations at Ziegler’s store, church work, farming prospects, a wedding, a Milton vs Acton baseball game, and community notices from the Free Press.
A major blaze swept Wranto Ontaly’s business section early Monday around 8 00 burning the Sadnera Bros store area and surrounding sheds. Firemen battled a stubborn fire as brick and stone fronts slowed access. Several businesses including Fielding flour and feed store Sadler Bros dry goods Fisher’s drug Davia watchmaker tailor Miller and Mechanics Institute suffered losses. Insurance on meat was small. The fire burned into dawn.
Local residents and visitors are listed with travels and calls across Ontario and neighboring areas. George McLennan left for Chicago, Misa Minnie Orr went to Hamilton and Buffalo, and many others including Dré Halsteda, Ming Corridan, J. McMahon, Mrs. Sullivan, Rev. Swanson, and more were noted for visits, holidays, and greetings. Ex mayor Thoras Watson returned after fourteen years, praising progress but noting missing sidewalk lighting improvements.
In Charlottetown P. E. I. the vote on repealing the Canadian Temperance Act shows 673 ballots for repeal and 789 against. The act, in force for about eighteen years, faced opposition as the Liquor Regulation Act previously governed the province.
Mr and Mrs Gladstone marked their fifty eighth wedding anniversary at Loxpow on July 25 a crowd of townspeople greeted them on their way to pharoh. They remain in good health with Mrs Gladstone walking vigorously and animated in conversation. The G T R announces changes to its employee uniforms with new coats and brake men adopting Pullman porter style garments at divisional headquarters.
The August Cosmopolitan offers five engaging stories including a firsthand India famine report by a special Cosmopolitan commissioner. It also features Yale president Dwight on liberal college education, Portar on Japan’s greatest actor, Le Gallianne’s rendering of the Rubaiyat, Godfrey de Bouillon, and a Bret Harte poem.
An advertorial warns against substitutes for Putnam's Pain Less Corn Extractor, claiming it is the safe, sure and painless corn cure. The copy touts Putnam's as the best, safest, and only painless remedy for corn treatment.
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