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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 23, 1878
Page
7
Local column listing train departures and arrivals, shop ads, appointments, and town notices. Mentions weddings, theatre, creamery offerings, millinery sales, street repairs, and council business with brief inc‑idents and community updates.
A pleasure steamer carrying seventeen passengers went over Blain's Dam on the Grand River near Galt on a Wednesday evening. Eighteen bodies were listed, eight drowned, with fatalities including H. J. Jaffray and others. Multiple funerals followed, and the Queen's Birthday celebration was postponed due to the disaster.
A United States cutter departed Cleveland for a Lake Erie patrol along the Canadian shore, aiming to look out for Fenians. J. E. McGarvin, a druggist from Acton, is mentioned in connection with the notice.
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