16 Jul 1896
Page 1
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 16, 1896
Page
1
An Ontario veterinary college honorary member list and local notices appear. Open office daily including special days with reduced fees and services for farm bases. A will directed to Acton residents is mentioned along with fundraising and youth league invitations.
A damaged ad lists items including plaster and green manure blends with fertilizer uses on cabbage cauliflower and tomato. It promotes Pure Pari Green brand and slug shot fertilizer, with prices and quantities in Ontario. The note also mentions marble and granite in Hamilton and various seed types from Norway Sweden Russia England Ireland and Scotland in stock.
Jumbled fragments tell of a family dispute over estate duties between Mr Crawford and his widowed wife, a cadet on river limits at West Point, and a skating house pursuit ending with a moral about honesty. The scene shifts to a revival meeting and then to casual chatter about marriage and social norms.
Betsey Crawford, once in poverty, works to make her husband John Crawford rich while planning for their children. John remains head of the family but agrees to a potential will that would split property after death, prompting conversation on ownership and future security for their daughters.
The narrative traces the life of Obie journalist John Banton in Canton who founded the Obi Repository and married Ida Baxton in 1871. It highlights Ida Baxton’s education, her father James Baxton’s banking ventures, and Ida’s shift toward self sufficiency and independence. The piece also mentions McKinley’s courtship with Ida, their January 23 1871 wedding at a Presbyterian church and Ida’s move to the Methodist Church.
A tale unfolds at a rural gathering where Temperance and a clever impostor cause village disruption. Dick Waterman disguises himself to prank a guest, while Charlie Slocum and family endure awkward romantic advances and a moonlit chase ends with laughter and a cranky observer’s downfall.
The Diamond Dyes are advertised as the only household dyes that give perfect bright unfading colors for cottons and mixed goods. They claim resistance to washing, sun fade, and claim many Diamond Cotton Dyes are patented. Counterfeit imitations are labeled cheap and worthless.
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