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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
4
A collage of town notices, meetings, and community updates outlines council plans, church events, and local happenings. Items mention the Milton Champion, a monument fund, road improvements, a telephony company inquiry, and school and youth programs with dates in June and July.
The Young People’s Association of St. Jude’s Church organized a lively town holiday for forty boys from Acton to Limehouse. Activities included rope, cave exploration, tubing, baseball, and a morning feast. Mr. Gowdy led a Nikator program with talks by Att. Moore, and the group planned future in-town and in-country gatherings.
A garbled, partially legible excerpt shows a speaker asserting singular permission and urgency, with intermittent phrases like cannot tally and a refusal to reveal more. The text contains numerous typos and nonsensical segments, indicating OCR damage rather than coherent narrative.
The note lists various items and figures for a farm or property including acreage and stock. It mentions 16 cattle, 6x24 measurements, and a price of 6000 dollars. Names and places are garbled but suggest a sale or arrangement involving several unnamed parties and tools.
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