An unedited transcription of a page 1 article from 9 Jun 1898 Waterford Star

Where is Owen's New Book

This question is being asked every day by many people in Norfolk. Those who placed early orders were promised the book long ere [sic] this and they don't understand why it has not made its appearance. 

The canvass was begun in Waterford and the various villages in the County where it met with marked success, and it was supposed that the farmers would appreciate the enterprise as generally as the business and professional classes have done, but the canvass in the townships has proved to be up hill work, causing a tedious delay in securing sufficient number to meet the cost of bringing the book into existence. 

There is every reason to believe that the requisite number will soon be procured and that the general delivery will be made during the month of September next. In the meantime those who placed early orders will appreciate the situation and kindly await the result.
                                                                                      E. A. Owen

An unedited transcription of a page 1 article from 24 Nov 1898 Simcoe Reformer.

E. A. Owen's Book

An advance copy of E. A. Owen's book "Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement" has reached the Reformer table from the publisher William Briggs, of Toronto. The book is well printed, substantially bound and altogether presents a most prepossessing appearance. A review of it is necessarily delayed for a future issue. Mr. Owen was in town on Monday on his way to Waterford, from which point he will deliver his Townsend orders. It will be some days before he will make his Simcoe deliveries. The edition, which will be the only one, consists of fifteen hundred copies of which almost twelve hundred are already sold. Parties who have any desire to possess the book should not delay in securing one. In a very short time it may be everlastingly too late. 

 
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