17 Aug 1899
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
1
The piece outlines two kinds of men based on dress at work. Laborers wear heavy boots while business people prefer comfortable shoes. It notes footwear ranges for boys, girls, and ladies with the latest novelties.
Sam Walter Foss reflects on frugal living and ownership of a mountain and sea as sufficient wealth. The speaker declares minimal needs, a tranquil estate, and enduring resources, while contemplating ancient tales whispered by eternity and gods.
Crawford and Vandeleur bandy war wounds and old loyalties at the Palace Hotel as Miss Sinclair returns. Vandeleur recalls a past love and a vanished manuscript while a renewed confession and a broader reflection on home and marriage follow amid memories of Om Durman and a fragile recovery.
A discussion notes that heroines in novels have shifted from youthful twenty-somethings to middle aged women. It argues that women over thirty can move the world more effectively as matrons than as maids, citing historical figures and traits of aging femininity.
Colonel Sunn, a surgeon in the Spanish war, explains to a representative of Afen' that general debility causes most rejections. He notes lack of natural sleep as the main issue, saying sleep before midnight and sufficient rest are crucial for men to improve their physical condition and earn admission.
A drummer relates quitting his old job after seeing an advertisement for a two volume work titled Light of Life. He claims it combines a New Testament commentary with apostles biographies and features notable art by Thorvadeon and Blockhornt engravings. He urges others to contact Brantford House for similar positions.
A devotional meditation on doing good without expectation of reward. It praises humble selfless acts and daily fidelity to Christ as the true marks of virtue. The piece urges living by quiet, unglamorous deeds rather than vainglorious praise or ostentatious charity.
A fragment reveals a domestic quip about dirty outside windows to avoid prying eyes, a student religious service with an earnest plea for pure hearts, a rough joke about a killing in a field, and a Northern Visitor remark about crops in Georgia.
Charles Matthews, failing to meet his bills promptly, vents temper in a sharp note to Berry who had recently taken over his father’s business. The sailor faced Matthews’s scolding about sending the bill before it was due, with a string of playful Berry puns.
A Detroit clergyman complains about a church attendee who has been absent for weeks. The man, not a communicant, is described as strongly opinionated and skeptical, with politics becoming the topic of many conversations. The exchange shows tension over differing views and the preacher’s attempt to provoke a response. The quote is attributed to the Boston Journal.
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