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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 31, 1907
Page
3
The community prepares for opening deer hunting tomorrow with Thanksgiving events in Knox Church. Halloween gatherings, evening lights, and a street ballooning display mark a festive week. Local officials note city improvements and church activities while residents await new housing and infrastructure projects.
An old scanned advertisement claims Buna Baby's Own Tablets are the safest remedy for minor ailments and teething, boasting a government analysis as a guarantee of no harm. It asserts effectiveness for various childhood complaints and urges purchase from medicine dealers, printed with location Brookville Ontario.
Union Thanksgiving Service planned at Knox Church at 10 AM with Rev J O Wilson preaching. Local notices cover registration of deaths, court cases, ministerial association meeting, and a quiet wedding at Sunderlandville, with details on participants and travels of Dr. Mercer and Miss Nicklin.
Obituaries note the deaths of Owen Trobortenn of Bequealng and Albert Hall of Seafalgar, with churchyard funerals at Evergreen and Churchville cemeteries. Alongside, large wheat and barley price shifts, a winter fair prize list at Guelph totals 11000, and a socialEpworth League event features a book themed album and a spelling contest among Acton area residents.
Community items From Acton area detail travel, visits, and health notes. The Postmaster General’s nine month report shows postal revenues and mail volumes for Ontario, Halton, and Canada, with one reported misdelivered letter case in Appleby. Nearby sightings include weddings, visits to Felanda and Anglewood, and residents returning from Toronto and Vancouver, with several families mentioned by name.
A scrambled summary notes the Michigan Central Railway paying 623000 for cave in damages at Hamilton Ontario, McGill University appointing W. W. Tory as Alberta Provincial University president, the Bank of Canada inaugurated in Winnipeg, General Booth fainting on arrival in Pittsburgh from Columbus, a Bechuanaland Police officer arrest, Reuben Graham fined for after-hours liquor, Gravon townspeople debating a local option by-law, Dominion Parliament to open in November, and Anglian passengers delivered to Me company’s lines in Winnipeg with 1 2000 plus cars cited.
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