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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 30, 1876
Page
4
Acton items report village council plans and church events. announces Christmas goods at Post Office Store and Secord Bros. highlights local business promotions and editorials about A Eastman Wallace. public meetings set for December 20 and 21. social events and temperance circulars outlined.
A Guelph retailer loudly advertises an immense stock of New Autumn Winter goods with silk velvets jackets shawls carpets and dresses. The notice promises outstanding quality and low prices, highlighting exotic fabrics and new table coverings while inviting buyers to inspect the extensive assortment and special lines for fall wear.
Esquesing Council approved payments for surveying roads from Acton to Nassayaweya, bridge and culvert work, and road repairs. Commissioners were named to repair Stewarttown hills and a crogs road culvert, with additional grants for culvert construction and maintenance. An allowance was set for Mrs Whiteside and expenses on Ignac Cooper’s sickness.
An Acton advertisement from November 23, 1876 announces GEO. YEMEN purchasing out a prior grocer and opening a cash only shop for groceries crockery glassware van paper and stationery. The dealer pledges small profits quick returns and invites the public to inspect stock and trade produce for goods.
An advertisement from Guélph dated November 25 1816 promotes extra heavy fabrics at low prices. It highlights brocaded sateen at 30 cents, figured alpaca lustres at 30 cents, line plain wool serges at 30 cents, all wool serges at 37 and a half cents, and a general sale of 25 percent off with a great variety of textiles.
Christie Henderson & Co. will buy any quantity of dressed turkeys geese ducks and chickens as soon as frost sets in for market.
A local notice urges debtors to settle accounts promptly or face court action. It lists Galloway Bros as bread suppliers and Acton firms offering dairy butter and baked goods. The advertisement touts china, glassware, lamps, and china sets for sale at Sevord Bros in Brent, with household items displayed for sale in Ton.
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