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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 04, 1877
Page
2
A temperance alliance in Ontario and Dominion regions frames a platform urging prohibition amid Dunkin Act debates. The group argues licensing fails to curb vice, while endorsing a wholesale ban to reduce crime and improve societal health.
Right Hon. Sir Hugh E Chil ders s traveled with his party from Wintgar to London a distance of 110 miles in 33 minutes. They stopped four times and had a 10 minute delay at Jennette Creek making the actual running time about a mile a minute.
The London Advertiser reports the Provincial Exhibition of 1877 as the most successful ever held in Canada. Attendance surpassed 75,000 with admissions nearing 18,800, a wide array of exhibits, strong rail traffic, and unusually orderly crowds with minimal drunkenness.
Reports from the Bulgarian front indicate Russian forces plan to establish winter quarters south of the Danube with extensive rail construction and large hospital capacity. The Russian left wing has reoccupied Pupaskei, while Turkish movements push from Silistria to Kalarash. Cossacks are linked to alleged atrocity actions near Bayazid, corroborated by Mr. Ashbury, MP.
An exchange argues publishers must travel nationwide to collect pay while farmers sell wheat on credit. It warns a farmer who distributes wheat across many counties and states with extra bushels each year will learn publishers will not supply many papers without payment in advance.
Mr. Wa. Dredge, president of the Nassagi neys Agricultural Society, returns from Manitoba praising the Prairie Province as fertile and desirable for farming. He brings samples of full wheat and barley, both said to be good.
Missing registered mail from a Montreal route reportedly contained 275 dollars. Investigators note the bag was part of an evening mail run and the money was not recovered. Public security units are reviewing routing logs and security procedures.
Mr. Thos Gowdy of Guelph narrowly escaped serious injury at Georgetown station when a dog jumped from the platform into Clark's open buss. The carriage lurched as he turned, the rear wheel grazing his ear and bruising his head while a leg was hurt. He has recovered.
Representatives of Grand Trunk and Great Western Railways held secret meetings in Sarnia. On Friday presidents Tyler and Childers ordered equal fares and facilities and a joint committee to enforce this, signaling a possible joint purse arrangement.
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