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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 15, 1900
Page
14
GEO Hynde in Acton Ontario advertises best choice and lowest prices on jewellery. The brief notice promotes sale items and mentions jewellery offerings at GEO Hynde.
Henderson pond reports whaling week with odd notes on winter, local church week of prayer progress, deaths referenced in local notices, barber association push for shop closures, and a mix of small town happenings from mills to school fund drives and notices of church events and property moves.
A parlor concert with a program to be finalized in December will be held at Moorecroft under the auspices of the Methodist Church tables. Residents plan a remembrance for the late Bombertier W. J. Moore who died in Pretoria, and messages note the congregation’s anniversary services and steady church activities with Rev. J. M. Wager delivering sermons. Field reports from Winnipeg discuss rail construction and local prospects, while reflections on bereavement, family sympathy, and community progress fill the piece.
Georgetown library board members met Friday in the library with J. A. Macpherson and others present. The librarian Lelee reported August to October. the board adopted the report and discussed accounts, discounting a $260 note, and authorized opening an account with the Merchants Bank of Canada. In Georgetown progress notes, a Boy Scout event and a high school concert were announced. a local robbery case was noted.
A garbled social column lists visits and contacts around Acton including residents from Hamilton Toronto Guelph Nassagaweya Limehouse and Norwich. Readers note names such as Mr Alurton Mrs A E Nickita and Mrs Hart McKerlan visiting relatives in Kingston and Toronto with mentions of church events and a death notice for Color Hergt Moore.
Fragmented OCR shows a colonial era merchants catalog and advertisement. It mentions Oiwapusa brothers, planters, tea brands and foreign beverages. The text also touts cemetery plots and a Guelph store offering holiday goods and materials.
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