18 Jan 1877
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1877
Page
1
Poem lamenting the rich crowding the weak and urging the poor to persevere. It speaks of elbow room as a metaphor for fair opportunity and urges the strong to aid fellow workers with dignity and Christian charity. The speaker calls for courage, mutual support, and a kinder, shared path through hardship.
In a New York meeting two merchants argue over extensions for debtor Carleton. Elder opposes extensions while Highland supports aiding Carleton, leading to a final decision to grant an extension. Carleton later repays as Elder avoids ruin, then helps Elder recover through mutual aid and a new shipment promise.
An arcane reflection on women and virtue uses ornate alliteration and archaic phrasing. A jokey aside about ears ends the fragment, offering little plot but a snapshot of dialect humor and social perception within a clipped literary aside.
A fragmentary reflection on skating as winter amusement and virtue, noting temper, charity, and social conduct. It mentions Canada post cards and a general emphasis on speaking honestly of others, with scattered aphorisms about knowledge, speech, and character.
A New York girl, Jennie Lawson, a pupil at Eighteenth Street fore grammar school, solved long arithmetical problems in her sleep after persistent nightly efforts. Her mother found the work completed, correctly ruled and without error, upon waking the next day.
The text presents a distorted character sketch using garbled phrases and odd metaphors. It likens an effeminate man to a weak poultice and a butterfly, filled with jumbled images of wine, corks, and muted restraint, conveying a cryptic, satirical view of identity.
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