10 Jan 1884
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 10, 1884
Page
1
Bankers in Acton Ontario advertise general banking services and money loans on approved notes. The ad mentions a growing season for Imac Cards and china, with a claim of larger stock than ever before and a promise to serve customers.
Readers are urged by testimonials from professors physicians and other eminent men praising Warner's Safe Cure. The writer admits trying the product and reports no injury and possible kidney health benefits while noting physicians admit the challenge of kidney ailments.
Local advertisement by Ly G Smith & Co selling Thortey’s Horse and Chili Food with bold claims of quality and value. Includes phrasing about choosing quantities to suit the buyer and mentions diamond wyes as a best end cheap option in the trade.
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An elderly man sits silent by a cottage door. his blue eyes gaze toward memory. A visitor speaks softly of time, love, loss, and the approach of death as the speaker sits nearby with a Panama hat and a wandering, dreamy theme of life’s end.
An emaciated boy asks Miss Abigail Barr for food in her shabby home. Prudence resists, but the boy offers to milk and help with chores, signaling a potential change in the stern recluse’s life.
Barry Olmstead, a twelve year old runaway from Trescott after his mother dies, seeks work and food at Miss Abigail and Prudence's home. The two women shelter him, and after a dramatic call with a tin horn, Barry returns, bears fruit, and becomes a valued helper on the farm and student in the village school.
A king visits a Redditch needleworks to see superfine needles and a monarch head hair bore into a needle, while Queen Victoria possesses a miniature Trojan column needle from the same factory. The tiny needle opens to reveal inner eyes and tiny relief scenes, requiring magnification to view.
A 1889 portrait of Benjamin Disraeli and his wife showing her financial and emotional support shaping his career. She organized his day, supplied news and facts for speeches, and steered his public image, while encouraging humility and focus on making others happy.
Essay argues the saying What is good for one is not poison for another is flawed. Advocates moderate, plain foods and healthy habits as universal meat including beef bread sun light air temperance and sleep. Notes many suffer from diet by deprivation and urges sensible eating over luxury or extremes.
The fragment notes a bemused line about a bee sting and a glass maker earning 175 dollars monthly while risking all if he errs. It also jots a quip about a girl’s band and a rough, slangy exchange. Overall it reads as humorous scraps and aphorisms.
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