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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1875
Page
4
A garbled page fragment covers diverse wartime scenes including a critic’s remark on money, a domestic quip about smoking, and a distant reference to a noblewoman. It shifts to a rural exchange about shingles, an insurance altercation, and a fight cue before moving into an extended wartime weather and crop notes.
A Second Street scene features a blue eyed flaxen haired girl and a boy discussing a game of chicken as neighborhood kids watch. The exchange includes playful chatter about taking sour candy and a promise to demonstrate as the six year old narrator leads the way.
An New York paper reports Beecher at Plymouth Church Friday evening urging that regardless of the Tilton jury verdict he should continue preaching. The audience reacted with cheers and well wishers shook his hand as he affirmed his innocence and pressed ongoing liberal religion. Separately a Massachusetts board note discusses methods of humane fish killing and fish handling observations.
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