03 Feb 1887
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 03, 1887
Page
1
Old style Acton Ontario notices feature doctors dentists solicitors architects auctioneers and money lenders. Local professionals like Ohn Lawson J. McKinlay Hilton Allan A Baird J. Shy lton and J Mowatt advertise services with visits to Acton and Georgetown notes on loans and mortgages plus auctioneering and binding.
In overcoatings fancy melton checks and plain meltons in all shades plus Moscow beavers and plain and fancy worsteds offered by a merchant tailor in Guelph.
A speaker watches a neighbor’s door and hears distant cries from beyond a wall. The night deepens into dawn as the speaker recalls unspoken sorrow and the weight of another’s suffering, while their own pain remains unheard as they fear repeating ancient tears. Mary E. Bradley
Sophie discovers Barton Bangle arrives seeking family and a place to stay. Uncle Nathan fears poverty, but Barton learns he is not poor and is welcomed. The tale ends with Barton’s hopeful integration and Sophy’s upcoming wedding to the prosperous cousin.
John H. Hamilton promotes wholesale and retail cemetery granite and marble work. He claims to have bought Bog of Fundy stock and Alexander Taylor inventory and offers monuments and crosses at prices 50 to 65 percent below rivals with first class warranted work.
Joseph Patton Bernier announces purchase of Wm. Russell's ordering business in Actén. He pledges straightforward service with guaranteed customer satisfaction and fresh meats poultry fish in season. Nov 1886.
Andrew Teskey announces purchase of the General Blacksmithing Business of P J Sustu in Acton. He invites customers and public to patronize the shop with special horseshoeing, careful shoeing and curing, and repairs of agriculture implements and machinery. He guarantees satisfaction.
The article argues naming a farm lifts home pride among farmer children. A suggestive, sonorous name tied to a local feature such as a grove, springs, hill, or valley enhances identity and honor. The piece cites American Agriculturist and emphasizes keeping the name humble, memorable, and ear friendly, not derived from classics or turf.
A quick survey lists celestial events and holidays for 1887 including partial and invisible lunar eclipses, Queen Victoria’s jubilee, Canadian and U S anniversaries, and key religious feast days. Bank holidays in Ontario include New Year’s Day Easter Monday Dominion Day and Christmas.
An anecdote follows a rural candidate who wins a legislative seat and telegrams family “Paint my old home red” in celebratory slang. In a prank, colleagues paint the house barn pens and hen house red, leaving the farmer astonished at the readied display and the cost of the painting.
The article urges careful Christian benevolence training in Sabbath School. It encourages guiding scholars to give intelligently, reporting how gifts aid various objects, and stressing giving as a duty to God rather than mere pennies.
An editorial letter extols Warner's Safe Cure as a remedy for kidney disease and uric acid in the blood, claiming millions of cured cases and endorsements from medical talent worldwide. It argues kidneys are health keystone, cites Bright's Disease risks, and urges readers to trust the product through public testimony and trials. It also promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a superior worm remedy.
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