02 Feb 1882
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 02, 1882
Page
1
A retirement party for Doctor Tourniquet prompts an old surgeon to recount his most interesting case. He recalls competing with Old Carver, who coveted the field and seized control as a patient bled, narrowly preventing the prognosis from failing.
A chaotic tale centers on Old Carver and Dr Tourniquet as a supposed quack performs a mock amputation. The injured leg is revealed to be wooden, swapped for a better substitute, ending in the hoax’s exposure and the doctor’s rising fame.
A Texas town recounts that sixty cents worth of whiskey killed two men left a widow and imprisoned others at great expense. The Star of Hope argues liquor is evil and urges destroying liquor as a public duty, questioning why whiskey sellers hide their trade behind screens.
In M71 the first printing press was set up by Carton with musical notes printed by 1502. Metal type matrices were made in 1472 by Peter Schaefer in Nuremberg. The Gazette, a World newspaper, issued in Nuremburg in 457. Lead pencils were first made in the United States by William Monroe in Concord New Hampshire in 1811. Postage stamps began in England in 1840s and the United States in 1847. Printing reached Cambridge Massachusetts in the United States.
A compiled set of folk therapies recommends popcorn for nausea cranberry for malaria sun baths for rheumatism clam broth for weak stomach cranberry poultice for exyerpelas Wat towel at neck for sleeplessness swallowing saliva for sour stomach onions horseradish for dropsical swellings buttermilk to fade freckles and tan cod liver oil in tomato catsup to improve palatability fumes from turpentine or carbolic acid for whooping cough powdered borax for catarrh two silk handkerchiefs for cold wind a garden of sunflowers for malaria and a chest preserver made of newspaper in extreme cold.
Mrs Phipps recalls narrowly escaping ruin when burglars stole the money she planned to deposit in the savings bank the night before its failure. The bank later failed but burglars were caught and she recovered only a fraction of her funds, prompting a grim comparison of burglars versus savings banks.
A disjointed traveler scene from a Philadelphia man on a Tennessee train shows a passenger pressed by a stranger over tickets and baggage. The encounter hints at confusion over travel rights and fare rules as they argue about boarding and fees.
A reflective piece extols virtue of self guidance over kinfolk, praising a calm temper as a bright influence. It urges focus on the present blessings rather than past misfortunes and suggests moral guidance shapes character more than relations.
An inquiry uncovered that a barrel of genuine oysters is used to pad out supply by dealers who add water and lime to swell volume. Adulteration in canned oysters is as common as in bucket sales, driven by regulation loopholes in the oyster trade.
An army officer recalls a charge where a bright young Irish soldier was captured from the foe. He refuses to send the captured item to the rear, claiming there are many more trophies behind the ridge beyond where he obtained this.
A fragmented, satirical stream of phrases on life ethics, crime, and human foibles. The text wanders through quips about lawyers thieves and left vs right, with stray lines about a mother and child, a salt joke, and reflections on publishers and editors.
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