27 Feb 1879
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1879
Page
1
Local Acton Free Press outlines advertising charges with rates for single copies, eight lines, and business ads. Notices of births marriages and deaths are stated as free insertion, with paid special notices and monthly billing terms.
An advertisement touts Gore and instructors for quick easy beautiful handwriting without a teacher. It promotes Beattie’s writing manuals and a German and Old English ornamental text, with a case and price listed. Other lines offer at home money making jobs with unspecified terms and prompts to apply.
The performance features the Dean and Queen's scholars in a lively stage show with Latin elegy, a mix of amateur players, and backstage banter. Audience exits lead to supper as the curtain closes and cast and organizers reflect on the entertaining yet imperfect event.
A fragmented item describes a plumber visiting a Pine Street house in New York to attend to a job. The owner detects him as he leaves, and the man plans to inspect the roof, while keeping a precise time record.
A reflective concept for a weekly periodical focused on biographical sketches of notable figures. It envisions memoir style portraits, moral impressions, and anecdotes that reveal genius, philanthropy, triumphs, and daily life details to illuminate character.
A scanned page compiles household recipes for cleaning beds and culinary oddities, listing beverages and dishes such as hash meals with eggs and cream, potato puris, and pastry buns. It includes kitchen tips, a hospital nourishment note, and fragmented social anecdotes, all reflecting domestic life and humor.
A collage of quirky notes and snippets. Observations range from stage gossip in London to domestic scenes, travel curiosities, mistaken readings, and moral quips. The text strolls through plays, marriages, shipmasters, and a dramatic tale of an iron cage, peppered with folklore and social vignettes.
A lively portrait of Macaulay’s kindness to children and his playful routines. He spends mornings at Hannah’s with the youngsters, takes them on city trips, and shares lively outings to galleries, waxworks, and the National Gallery. He cherishes Valentine notes, pets, and moments of simple delight with nieces and siblings.
A garbled collection of aphorisms and maxims on beauty virtue and fate. scattered phrases mention modest women worthiness humility and self command with assorted stray lines about luck secrecy and effort.
A city gentleman kept a canary in his reading room and smoked near it. Over time the bird stopped singing and grew weak. After moving the bird to a smoke-free room the bird showed slight improvement but soon died, with the cause linked to tobacco smoke.
The article surveys ancient Egyptian pyramids as royal tombs and examines their design origins, scale, and relation to temple layouts. It contrasts pyramid construction with desert shapes and discusses how kings planned additions and tomb chambers. It also notes 19th century London church capacity and population pressures, citing figures on crime, foreigners, and church funding needs.
From the Atchison Patriot: along the Central Branch toward Glen Elder on the Solomon River a steep bluff of about three feet high is being cut back to widen the road. Workers report dangerous blasts and heavy rock and earth, with fragments falling during a harsh winter, making the area hazardous for Tie crew and nearby fields.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses political themes with references to spring, inauguration, a president and Republicans. Readable entities are sparse. key details and proper names are not recoverable from the excerpt.
The article recalls Michael L. Sullivant once hailed as a great Illinois figure who built the vast Sullivant farm of about 47 000 acres in Vermillion County. It notes his 1867 move to a large land tract, mounting debts, and a drastic decline leaving him nearly penniless after years of financial strain and a costly personal loss.
A historic note describes a railway with a major tunnel and 12 additional ones totaling 15,278 metres. It covers 52 subsidiary tunnels, 16 miles in all, with 3 longer tunnels between Airolo and Gju binsco and 25 shorter, and bridges over Valencia-like terrain. The highest point is 3,807 feet above sea level, the lowest between Cadena riso and Mag ailino at 67 feet.
A confused excerpt describes a dog and other animals in a cabin setting with scratching and disorder. A correspondent recalls a peculiar episode of mischief, a cough, and a tense moment among inhabitants, ending with a vague note on a tiger cabin scene.
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