07 Feb 1878
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 07, 1878
Page
1
Fragmentary text mentions Guelph and Jersey and piano sales or canvass. It is a damaged OCR snippet with scattered terms about prices, interests, and a store name. No coherent event or attribution can be confirmed.
A fragment from a Thursday issue lists advertising rates for the Fro-Press, with ten cents per line for first insertions and two cents per line for subsequent insertions. It notes free notices of births marriages and pages, and credits Moorer and Galbraith as editors with staff details and office location.
A shop owner expresses thanks for the year's patronage and asks customers to continue their support. The note promises consistent top quality and courteous service.
Fragmentary ad listing various goods and services including bread and confectionery, with references to R T Galloway Acton and West End Bookstore. Mentions Guelph Books Stationery Seaside Libraries and multiple library items. unclear chronology or full context.
Buyers urged to purchase Harriss at Rue Ontareo Saddlery Acton to secure a timely deal before rust begins. Limited stock described as a splendid lot of new dollars on bani and related items offered by R. Creech.
A brief note seeks a shorthand instructor for S. W. Galbraith in Bree Prega Adon. The item names the party and location, signaling a request or advertisement.
A fragmentary notice describes He Nay L Drake and L Liver Lozier offering plastering and a rough-case loan with reasonable terms. It mentions Robert Agnew as actor and a new hotel with furnished rooms and travel accommodations.
HSIENSTEEET licensed auctioneer announces orders left at the Free Press Office Acton or at residence Rochworl will be promptly attended to. Terms reasonable.
A well known house has undergone thorough renovations and is now furnished with modern furniture and prepared to provide storasy accommodation to the public. The proprietor has received a ceases and will keep the bar supplied with the best liquors and cigars. Stabling is large and well fitted with ample shed room. Public patronage is respectfully solicited.
The Acton advertiser announces a ready hearse and funeral services on short notice with stock of caskets burial robes and related fittings plus hat bands and gloves. John Speight Acton Massachusetts February 1877 also promotes Daniel F Beatty Washington New Jersey piano sales cash only six year warranty and free trial with freight paid both ways.
Advertisement notes prompt execution of all kinds of job printing at the Free Press Office located near the Post Office on Main Street.
In an autumn Paris setting thirteen guests once gathered for a legendary annual dinner. Now only painter Rubelles remains, aged eighty four, sitting alone in the plush room and drinking to the memory of the dead comrades.
A prowling thief in a glooming crypt unseals a carved coffin to seize diamonds rubies and pearls adorning the Lady Eva’s shroud. He pauses amazed by a warm flexible diamond ring finger as the lantern reveals the treasure and the veiled corpse.
In a Gothic tale a robber torments a coffin bound Lady Eva while a false murderess seeks the jewels. The murdered wife haunts the turret door with a bloodied hand, Frederick believes the spirit, then rescues Eva alive. The villainess dies mad, and Eva bears a daughter who inherits the Gordons jewels.
Charles H. Smith a telegraph operator from Muster Illinois walked a New Year’s path along a railroad trestle when an armed tramp forced him to surrender his revolver cash and jewelry. Smith hurled the robber off the bridge to the ice below and the villain was soon jailed.
A Detroit saloon keeper rigged a makeshift telephone with a wire and clockwork for a prank. A well dressed man ordered brandy and claimed to settle later by cheque, prompting the saloonist to call the chief of police and describe a suspect. The ruse backfired when the officer paid a half dime for brandy and the crowd overheard the setup. The beat cop exited muttering in anger about Professor Bell.
A dozen couples stage a surprise visit to a married pair in Chillico. The guests burst in at nine, finding the husband in the alley and the gas lit, while twelve older women guard a stunned Mattie upstairs causing the party to end without a kiss or basket.
In Cork, Father O Leary and Rev Afr Flack debate what religion a dog would adopt if it could choose. O Leary jokes the dog would become Protestant since it would avoid pork like a Jew and not eat meat on Friday like a Catholic.
A pious Boston boarding house owner once refused all tenants who did not accept eternal damnation for many, until a bluff old sea captain asked for two days board. When pressed about souls in hell, he guessed perhaps fifty thousand, and the landlady decided fifty thousand was better than none.
A chaotic meditation with notes on a medieval Winchester Cathedral bill from 1182 and the early sketching life of Roy Turner, the barber’s son who becomes a painter. The piece wanders through odd anecdotes, artistic beginnings, and a playful vandalistic list of mischief involving religious figures.
A young visitor at the State Prison encounters Rattleslake Dick a trusty worker jailed for highway robbery. Dick admits robbing Col Stone a lawyer in Virginia City but insists the act was done in self defense as he explains to the intrigued young woman. The account from the Virginia City Enterprise highlights the unexpected defense offered by the defendant.
A jumble of garbled phrases and exaggerated headlines features jokes about a locomotive, a lioness, a flag, and a barber. Nonsensical lines mingle with misheard references, mentioning a desperately mixed set of topics and misread names without clear story coherence.
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