29 Apr 1897
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 29, 1897
Page
1
Mrs Staunton loses her husband, Ethel finds happiness when Major Horton declares he loves her. He offers a home brightened by a shared future, while Mrs Staunton faces the shock of a long hidden plan to pair Ethel with Horton.
Ethel Matherson, kept busy by Mrs Staunton’s lacework and dutifully engaged as a companion, endures a draining life of servitude and hopes for Major Horton’s affection. Julia Staunton schemes to use music to move his heart, while Ethel frets over a life of debt, loss, and unsteady prospects.
A reader urges investing in growing plants and flowers to warm homes and minds. It argues greenery improves children, manners, and happiness, with anecdotes of a family using roses at meals to inspire tidiness and gratitude. Flowers are presented as a small, lasting refinement worth 25 cents for ivy and blooms.
A fragment outlines boarding-house terms and rules such as landlady, boarding-houses, and rooms. It defines relations like wrangles between boarders, meals, and charges, proposing equalities of bills under matching disputes and a method to reduce the landlady’s terms through propositions.
A late note on William HH Vanderbilt recounts a tale of his father the Commodore testing his son. The young man reportedly claimed a need to improve the garden, and was sent to fetch one load of refuse from the stables which the boy allegedly loaded into a barge rather than the garden.
A Western New York immigrant in town for a week argues Prohibition is a failure. He cites limited drink options and a morning park scene as proof, while others compare criminal justice outcomes to repeal. The exchange ends with him leaving after no resolution.
An old man deters two youths from entering a saloon by sharing his bitter experience with alcohol. He warns that the first drink can lead to a lifelong addiction, urging them to pledge never to take that first drink as a temperance lesson.
A Louisville Post tale of a country gentleman shelling peas on the back porch while his wife hosts stylish visitors. A window opens and two bonnets appear, prompting a mortified scramble to hide the scene and a quick response about mowing the grace before Ali returns.
A countryman and others misread simple notices leading to comic clashes. A pawnbroker customer demanded 40 shillings after reading Look at this watch for 4 05. A man rang a bell for the caretaker and demanded explanation after the caretaker asked what he wanted.
An old man on his bed near death asks his wife Jeannie to keep away the band arriving with a brass band sound. In a fierce moment he jumps up, throws a bootjack at the musicians, then returns to bed and improves.
A Cleveland hardware merchant confronts a new employee with a blunt test of honesty. He offers to pay the employee the exact amount he might steal to prove integrity, insisting the offer will preserve the man’s character. Only one applicant accepted, and no money was stolen in the merchant’s experience.
This excerpt lists various old measurement units and conversions such as a rod equaling 164 feet and a mile equaling 320 rods or 5 280 feet. It also covers areas like a square foot, square yard, and acre in terms of square feet and acres per section or quarter section.
In past years many goods were ruined by inferior home dyes. Diamond Dyes offer special formulations for cotton silk wool blends that resist soap and sunlight. Diamond Dyes for mixed goods are marketed as the only reliable option and are guaranteed to do perfect work. Ask your dealer for the genuine Diamond Dyes. beware imitations.
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