02 Feb 1888
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 02, 1888
Page
1
A Chicago tale recounts Friend Jane, a Quakeress, sheltering a young burglar during a devastating fire. She tends him, inspires reform, and later helps him start anew with the aid of fellow Friends Ephraim and Smith as Chicago burns and a city learns mercy.
An Englishman lodges in a remote French village inn and plays with a one legged owl. After finishing his work he finds a round legless bird on his table with sauce and learns the maid fled. The host explains the chef used the owl to create a dish ending with the Englishman realizing the owl was killed for supper.
A ten year old boy living with his parents near Bristol was found starving and frozen in the hollow of an old elm tree after wandering away from home. He claimed he left after losing his school-money and was pushed into water by strange boys, surviving six days and nights in the tree before rescue. He was taken to the workhouse and described as skeletal, receiving care from a nurse and his parents insist the child had no reason to run away.
The January number adds eight pages to become the largest musical publication with a neat typographical display and a varied table of contents. Notable features include Maiden's Vois by Anton Strelezki and May Time by Louis Meyer, plus a portrait of the boy pianist Josef Hofmann and notes on Jenny Lind. Subscription is 1.00 a year, specimen copy 10 cents from North's Musical Journal, Philadelphia.
A historical column questions what it implies when a church member vows to resign over disputes in singing or preaching. It argues true membership requires conviction and community peace, not selfish action. It challenges readers to consider Christlike humility and self denial in church life.
A comic tale centers on the Rev. Mr. Daft who brags of using the largest words and entertains a cryptic dialogue with Jadon and Madan. The exchange escalates into strange farcical phrases and a ritual-like action as he contorts language and performs a bizarre gesture with candles.
A jagged excerpt describes shimmering colors and a figure named Bearlet with a Ginger face, joy in expression, and a cryptic line about finding a piece of frozen rain. The writing appears as garbled OCR with odd spellings.
A humorous tale unfolds as a newspaper man and a fruit dealer debate counting bananas. The dealer ridicules the reporter’s counts 163 147 and 130 before revealing a standard method using pins to verify each fruit. The exchange ends with a quip about precise counting and a note on practical tricks.
A six year old girl boasts of a hen that laid an edge in one day while a parent claims a corner-stone. the text notes distress from worms in children and promotes Mother Gravee Worm Exterminator as relief through removing the word the.
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