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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 12, 1912
Page
2
A garbled OCR snippet hints at a trial involving a group described as horse traders or coastal workers. The readable words reference a meeting and a proceeding but lack clear names, dates, or places to confirm details.
Free Library Board met in the library last Friday to approve a consolidated catalogue of all books and to include funds for new purchases. The committee will prepare a complete catalogue at 35 cents, with an early annual book purchase to be included. The meeting also noted local officials mourn the death of Willams Logie and announced tax collector job applications.
James Keun Mardig reports the annual Trade and Labor Congress in Gualph drawing 1500 delegates from across the Dominion. Topics include dominion provincial regulations labor rights immigration hours legislation old age pensions and wage definitions. MP James Hardie arrives to address concerns and was welcomed by a large crowd.
A fatal accident in Alvinston on September 6 reports Hugh J. Carruthers, electrician and manager of the Brooke Municipal Electric Light System, drowned in a five foot water tank while fixing a valve. He was recovered after fifteen minutes. Carruthers had served Acton municipal plants for nearly two years and leaves a widow and several children.
Train services from Toronto list departures for Muskoka Wharf Hunteville and North Bay with daily and Sunday exceptions. Services include the Muskoka Express at 12 20 noon and Buffalo Express at 9 90 p m with routes via Muskoka Wharf and Hunteville. Several trains are noted to be discontinued after early September with last trips on specified Saturdays.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions places like Nanaagaweya Oak Orangeville Rockwood and a dated line referencing Ang 26 Hept 0. The text includes clipped dialogue about an applicant and a claimant her husband, with lines implying unpaid alienation and ongoing bills.
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