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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
4
A collage of verse fragments and scattered notes covers poetry lines about a boy Tommy and caring, a beet variety Madame Plantier, a worm expeller claim for Dr Low, reflections on mediocrity, engagement rings, and assorted oddities from period magazines.
An old advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as the cure for poor blood, need for flesh, and throat or lung weakness. It claims the product contains cod liver oil emulsified with hypophosphites and glycerin to ease weakness and boost vitality.
A Strand Magazine writer recalls riding a balloon over London at more than half a mile high. He heard a deafening city roar from above that could not be felt on the ground and noted the air as a perfect conductor of sound. As the balloon drifted toward wooded countryside, the distant murmur of trees moving in the wind became audible half a mile below.
A narrator notes a talk titled Rhymes and Rhyming delivered to a rough crowd near Haven Diala. The speaker boasts about how poetry can lift the poor and jokes about choosing rhymes at the expense of clarity. A listener cites a legal sentence, and a condemned man speaks of dying on the wheel.
A man identified as Mr Dunbar reports fifteen years of bufferer work and seeks relief after hospital treatment and patent medicines did not cure him.
An officer details a beguiling courtroom scene as a limbless man in intoxication is examined for pawning his cork leg. The magistrate dismisses him, urging aid to recover artificial limbs. A separate note touts Dr Jons Worm Syrup curing worms, Haggard Oil as a stain free healer, and Burdock Blood Bitters praised for blood disorders.
A report highlights the Atlantic Avenue factory known as the largest windmill manufacturers operating under a British flag. The piece notes production scale and international branding efforts.
An assorted fragment offers health advice and quirky product pitches. It promotes Laxa-Liver Pilla laxative and Milborn Starting Headache Powders with exaggerated claims and misspelled phrases, amid misquoted prose and language statistics.
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