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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1878
Page
4
The fragmentary text mixes character dialogue with stray comments about trains ships and poets. It mentions a charity ball a concern over footwear a veil and a wish for a partner and includes asides about a Chicago Chronicle and a Michigan man who lived forty days on water.
A historical note explains using soda and alum powdered into a mixture added to cream during churning. Twenty pounds of butter receive a pre mingled powder to firm texture and improve color without entering the butter. The powder acts on the cream and is expelled with the churned butter as a separate odor.
A fragmented, humorous piece notes a Brooklyn woman assuring a friend Harry Thoxwell is not dead. The scene shifts to a lazy fellow under a prank and a drawn bridge addressing an approaching locomotive. A lecturer’s description ends with a murky exchange about a witch and a chaotic scene.
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