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Acton Free Press

Location

Acton, Ontario, Canada

Date

Nov 08, 1877

Page

2

Montreal and More Rally Hopes Amid Unclear Note

fragmented OCR item mentions Montreal and a possible rally or tournament context. reads as a short news brief with uncertain details and no clear outcome or dates.

Thanksgiving Day Holiday and Local Notices

The issue notes Thanksgiving Day on the 22nd as a holiday. It reports upcoming sermons by Rev. Davidson and Rev. Mandhee, local auctions, wages shifts, and church offerings. It details court cases in Nassagawoya, theft and assault concerns, and community notices on poultry prices and store sales at McLeod Anderson Co and Christie Henderson Co.

Nassagawoya Sodom Robert Meade John Holliday Meade Holliday J. P Agnew's Hotel Arch. Campbell Wm. Allan Esq’s Guelph Afe Gibbon Milton John McTaggart

Telegraphic office messenger breaks left arm in fall

A cold snap left outdoors icy and treacherous when William Dunning, late of the Dominion Telegraph, slipped from a rail fence between Beardmore's tannery and Storey’s tannery. He fractured the elbow and broke the arm in two places, though a companion helped him home. Dr. Lowry is treating him and recovery will take time.

Wm. Dunning Dominion Telegraph Office Beardmore Storey Lowry

New Household Inventions Drive Canadian Hiring Push

An advertisement touts L. E. Brown & Co. patented household inventions from Cincinnati and seeks reliable canvassers in Canada to sell them. It also promotes clothing and millinery items from McLeod Anderson Co and Christie Henderson Co, plus Canadian blankets and fur goods, urging early stock examination and pay. A separate note mentions a fire at Farmers' Warehousing Co. elevator in Belleville destroying 38,000 bushels of grain and a rural debating club discussing which is the hotter job pop corn or pop the question.

L. E. Brown & Co Cincinnati Ohio United States Dominion of Canada Elm Street McLeod, Anderson & Co Georgetown Spriggins Christie, Henderson & Co

Wholesale Grocery Advertisement From June 187T

Extensive catalog of groceries and wares including Blacks and Greens teas, coffees, cacao, dried fruits, canned goods, canned fruits and vegetables, biscuits, confections, spices, sugars, and household items. Also glassware, tableware, paper goods, washboards, medicines, and general merchandise with note selling at manufacturers' prices. Acton June 187T Conveyancer issuing marriage licenses and insurance services listed.

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