15 Jul 1886
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 15, 1886
Page
1
The Acton Free Press lists subscription rates and payment rules, ad rates by column and line, and terms. It includes local business directory items with names such as H. Eboway M D, C. E. Stacey M D, A. C. McKinlay L D S, Lawson veterinary services, Johnston & McLean solicitors, and other Ottawa/Guelph area professionals.
Young men and women are thoroughly prepared for positions in bookkeepers shorthand writers caligraph or telegraph operators. Students have come from nine provinces and states. Graduates find success in Canada and the United States commercial centers. Rates moderate, accommodation excellent, enroll anytime. Address M MacCORMICK Principal 146m.
Mr Smith purchases the livery business from H B McCarthy and moves it to John Street stables in the town center. He has long experience and promises satisfaction to patrons offering commercial pleasure or company rigs with first class turnouts on short notice. Horses boarded and sold.
A wholesale and retail dealer offers marble and granite products for cemetery work. Direct importer of all kinds of granite and marble.
Rutledge and Crosson announce Acton establishment with a full stock of meats in season. The firm states it will stay in Acton and operate on business principles to win public confidence and support. Acton Feb. 9th, 1886.
The undersigned is prepared to furnish on short notice quantities at bottom prices first-class Lumber Lath Staves Heading Shingles Wash Tubs Churns Butter Tubs Pork Barrels Wood Flour and Feed and related farm house keeper and contractor necessities.
A reflective poem portrays a grandmother watching a sleeping baby at her breast as sunset fades. The speaker muses on separation, aging, and the looming departure of loved ones, ending with a note of hopeful acceptance and the harvest of life’s grain.
Lina Michel, a rich socialite in Paris, searches for a Munich garden painting that mirrors a forbidden romance between her cousin Henri Kleber and a youthful Hebe at a fountain. The artist reveals the scene mirrors a past love. Lina buys the painting to relive memory, while Henri longs to gaze again at the fountain where they first met. The twist: the painting awakens a shared past and potential reunion.
The piece surveys reactions to Gladstone's Home Rule push, noting shifting party lines and split loyalties. It highlights John Bright and Rev. Spurgeon opposing the bill, Dr. McCosh of Princeton weighing in, and Irish Presbyterians and Methodists positioning themselves amid cross Atlantic views.
Fragmented, archaic passage discusses temperance principles in labor circles and opposition to drink selling. It references members, ballots, and a political stance with tangential remarks about influence and control within a labor brigade and broader public sentiment.
A Belleville notice proclaims the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb welcomes deaf children from Ontario regardless of parents’ means. It promises tuition and care, with devoted teachers and room for all who apply, as Superintendent R. Marinos urges informing readers of this generous provincial provision. The note is followed by an unrelated discussion on labor agitation and working conditions in the United States and Europe.
A sailor buys medicine from a famed doctor and pays seven and six pence. The doctor quarrels over odd and even numbers. The sailor insists six is even and seven is odd, leaving the doctor with a small profit as the sailor walks away content.
A statistical expert discusses long term figures for a cohort, noting year one results around 53 000 and projections across five years. The text analyzes how many would quit or stay, with references to aging gray heads and potential retirements in a race context.
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