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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 09, 1878
Page
3
The fragment lists train times and routes including Expresa and Western mail trains. It notes a weekly Methodist Church service led by Rev. R Homes with Saturday and Sunday meetings in the evenings and mornings each month.
Local items report a license grant to Mr. Glark of the Royal Exchange, business updates from McGarvin’s store on seeds and goods, and notices of upcoming events. The Acton School Board met to approve finance, repairs to the pump, and yard cleanup with adjournment set for June first.
The Acton Division 3 opened its meeting in Temperance Hall with Mr. John Warren presiding. Rev. Davis Hobbs Speight and readings by John Ross and W. H. McDonald were featured while Misses Nicklin Christie and others provided music. A door crack caused a temporary excitement as the packed audience left.
A three year old boy, Charlie Ramshaw, son of Robert Ramshaw of this village, was badly injured when his right hand was caught in lathe cog wheels at the Plow Works. Doctors dressed the wound and he was seen playing in the yard the next day, not seeming to complain. The New Dominion Monthly May issue is reviewed with notices of Canadian history sketches, ethnology topics, and a feature on the Dene-Dindjie Indians. The periodical costs $2 per year and is published by John Dougall & Son, Montreal.
The report cites a Portland court verdict of 315700 against Grand Trunk Railway in Oliver Cummings case after a Minneapolis explosion killed eighteen. Whitby trials sentence Burk and Macpherson to hanging for an assault on Mrs Ellen Bennett. A Toronto skating walk plans 25000 miles across 1880. Died Mable Estelle Wilson in Waterdown aged 2.
The Weekly Globe reports continued strong circulation averaging 37 000 weekly despite economic pressures. It highlights improved design, illustrations, and varied content including geography, biographies, science, education, and correspondence. Subscriptions stay two dollars per year with free post, and Britain and Canada reach via postal arrangements.
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