10 Aug 1876
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 10, 1876
Page
1
A poetic meditation on social roles as lords, sages, maidens, sailors, hunters and soldiers play out life. Despite grand palaces and churches, the farmer remains the essential sustainer, feeding all who labor or rest. The refrain repeats that whatever happens the farmer must feed them all.
In the Arctic starboard watch episode the crew, stuck in a snow cavern after a collapse, battle two white bears and save shipmate Dave Burr. Bowlegs Brown and gang chase Eskimo help, skin bears for a litter, and haul Dave and the bear meat back to the ship through a narrow gully under moonlight and cold. The crew recovers with hot coffee and meals, and Dave survives the ordeal.
The speaker argues that education must integrate religious and secular instruction. He contends that solely intellectual training neglects the soul and morals, urging simultaneous cultivation of conscience, desires, and emotions alongside mind and memory. The discourse defends religious influence as essential to true human destiny.
In a polemic voice Dr Munirde argues alcohol is not a necessity as shown by the mass of drinkers versus the ruined lives of criminals paupers and lunatics. The piece notes condensed eggs added to prepared foods with a process drying eggs to meal and sealing them like canned goods.
An old puzzle tells of twelve travelers allocated to eleven rooms by a maid. She places two men in room 1 then sequentially assigns others to rooms 2 through 10, leaving room 11 empty. The twelfth traveler is said to end up in an occupied room, and the narrative hints of a fallacy about identifying the odd man out.
An OCR fragment surveys moral sayings on ego, knowledge, and temperance, interwoven with a Scottish marriage rate note. It cites virtues and follies, then reports a drop in marriages in Glasgow and Edinburgh for the week ending June 3, comparing with last year.
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