13 Jan 1876
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 13, 1876
Page
1
A reflection on time from youth to old age, using river and season as metaphors. The speaker notes how time speeds as friends depart and fortune fades, while Heaven grants strength to endure. The piece contemplates the swift current of life and the sorrow of bereavement.
Jakey recalls rumors about his father Jacob as Mrs Watts nervously confronts her husband about infidelity. The tale widens to include a Sunday School teacher and a string of family misdeeds, then resolves with Jakey’s reassurance and a plan to live quietly in poverty.
Instructions for washing damp flannels to maintain softness and whiteness. Use rain or spring water, boil soap and soda, dissolve, add warm water, wash flannels by hand, rinse, and air dry flat or on a board. Do not dampen other clothes while ironing.
A Be on the Union traveler found a large carpet bag seated with him at a restaurant along the road. The owner charged two dollars for the meal and the bag for occupying a seat. The passenger then fed the bag from the table, and other passengers helped, until the bag was loaded with food and carried away by its owner.
A Birmingham week survey lists immense manufacturing results including fourteen million pens, six thousand bed steads, seven thousand guns, three hundred million cut nails, one hundred million buttons, five billion coins, twenty thousand spectacles, six tons of papermaking material, £150 000 in jewellery, four thousand miles of wire, ten tons of pins, five tons of hair pins and hooks, five hundred tons of nuts bolts and spikes, fifty tons of wrought iron hinges, three hundred fifty miles of wax for vestas, forty tons of refined metal and German silver, plus vast brass and copper wares and related items exported worldwide.
A detailed account describes Mr Miller and the narrator’s educational survey across Parry Sound and Algoma districts. They visited fourteen townships, inspected forty one of forty two sections, examined fifteen teaching candidates, and traveled about 2 500 miles, noting rail routes, lake passages, and local schooling needs amid rugged roads and sparse settlements.
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