19 Feb 1880
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 19, 1880
Page
1
A stranger in a campus area aroused sympathy by buying meals for eight people with slow work. He brings in two more helpers, feeds fifteen, and disappears after promising more help, leaving a crowd cheering and a restaurateur astonished by the gesture.
Fragmentary verse recalls a farm life farewell and celebration of freedom from debt. It mentions Mary Bessie and a plan to visit a village with produce sales and a new churn. The poem evokes rural life, looser finances, and a hopeful start for a couple on the farm.
In Yorkshire, Lucilla Richmond hides a flirtation with a music teacher and a stash of love letters. Mr. Richmond confronts her with the letters, but his wife argues for happiness. He relents, and the couple wed the couple’s romance is resolved with parental approval.
A patient arrives demanding a tooth be pulled. George P. Jones explains gas anesthesia and the doctor prepares the inhaling tube. The patient offers payment with silver coins and banknotes before the procedure, causing amusement in the outer room as the scene unfolds.
A Detroit milliner’s sign misread as Mrs J Bienk prompts a painter to defend the error arguing marriage titles are flexible. The exchange critiques how titles like Mrs and Miss reflect status and age, with a local remark on couples calling each other old man and old lady.
A London patient visits Dr Sydenham who admits exhaustion of skill. He mentions Dr Robinson of Inverness as a more suitable expert and writes a letter for travel. The patient journeys north but finds no Dr Robinson, returns enraged, yet the doctor reveals the trip was to spur health and discipline through contemplation of the doctor.
A citizen arranged to pay an old colored man 15 cents weekly to sweep a room twice weekly from Munroe Avenue. After the first week’s pay, the man hesitated at the new payment and asked whether the job was temporary or permanent, signaling a desire for security before continuing.
The tale follows a village tavern scene where a colonel bets a subaltern on a wound claim and a man bottles his ruin at a tavern. A desolate young man pleads for more drink, then arranges to sell out to die, while the tavern keeper faces judgment and a manager’s grim resolve at the bar.
Sections offer practical advice on keeping foods in proper vessels and conditions, preserving lard and meat, cleaning oil bottles, and purifying cattle casks. It also includes cautions on household trouble, moral instruction for mothers and young men, and reflections on restraint and self control.
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