17 Feb 1898
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 17, 1898
Page
1
A fragment lists subscription price of one dollar per year in advance for a local press in Acton Ontario. It notes subscriptions end when weight levy payments expire and shows advertising rates for transient and nonparalleling insertion with per line charges.
In a brief insert, the retailer announces a clearance for best value room items as it makes space for upcoming products. The notice highlights discounts on selected furniture and decor while stock lasts.
A store advertises twenty percent off every lamp as it announces March 1 start of stocktaking and urges customers to buy lamps before stock takes place. The message frames the event as a chance for shoppers to grab lamps before removal.
Nettie A. Perham advocates temperance education and agitation to curb alcohol. The piece urges teaching in public schools and Sunday schools, printing temperance literature, and motivating voters to prohibit rum at the ballot, aiming for a settled public cure.
An advertiser boasts about superior footwear with a “bulge on him” in stock. The copy touts quick service and a wide, varied selection to fit all requirements and purses.
In a strained household Mrs. Brook and Faith contend with mounting debts to keep their ailing father housed. Faith resents a rich neighbor and fears eviction, while Mrs. Brook proposes patience and a last plan to save their home. Cupid observes, as Faith struggles to complete a valentine for him.
Faithie and her mother fear eviction when Basil Todd faces debt and a looming mortgage. Cupid the live valentine arrives, and the old man is touched by a gesture from the child to cancel the burden. A hopeful valentine yields forgiveness and a softened heart.
The Marquia de Compiegco, a French nobleman who lost his fortune, travels from Florida to France then Africa to become an explorer. After a perilous trek he battles a gigantic gorilla to rescue a woman, firing double shots that kill the animal.
A Georgia barbecue tale recalls seven hungry men lurking in the woods, then rushing the feast as the crowd is stunned by their appetite. A Civil War anecdote follows Major Wright recounting a Union adjutant wounded at Wilderness who exchanges cards with a Confederate officer and reaches safety for amputation and return home.
Fragmentary text describes a racial threat exchange and intimidation in a town. It references Uncle Ben and fears of African American residents, implying threats against Black people and concerns over chicken theft and location secrecy.
A verse fragment describes a sudden snowfall ending a warm stretch. Night winds bring a gentle wintry scene with silver light and quiet woods. By morning the world lies white with newly formed crystals and a stark, tranquil burial ground.
A historical account describes how households lit homes in early colonies by using fat pitch pine and tallow. Women built candle-making rigs with candle rods and multiple wicks, repeatedly dipping them in melted tallow to grow the candles. Deer, beef, and mutton tallow plus wax were used to craft candles, with wax candles formed by pressing wax around wicks.
A vivid 19th century scene shows Pompey the bright young domestic helper in a boarding house. He struggles to read a clock while a young man in the room questions and teases him, highlighting daily life and literacy challenges in the household.
In Paris a street brawl drew two young men ready to fight before one stopped, folded his arms, and declared the clash beneath him since the other was only a coachman while he was a valet de chambre. The incident satirizes rank and precedence in Old World society.
An advertisement extols the Diamond Dye Blacks as worldwide leaders in fast color for wool, cotton, silk, and feathers. It claims permanent deep jet black, restoring faded fabrics to like-new condition and praises the product as superior to all rivals.
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