30 Jul 1884
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 30, 1884
Page
1
Licensed auctioneer announces orders left at Fare Parsa Office Acton or at residence Acton will be promptly attended to Terms reasonable for Wellington and Halton counties.
Poem extols lifelong fraternal bond between two men named John. They vow to walk together through good and bad times, sharing wisdom, love, and mutual support as brothers united since childhood. The verse echoes family ties and enduring companionship across life stages.
A mountain innkeeper recalls his harsh temper after clashing with his daughter Nellie over a peddler suitor. He chased rebels, disowned Nellie, and endured four years of sorrow until a tribal trader’s visit changed his outlook.
A weary landlord shelters a peddler and his heavy pack from rain. The pack proves a smuggling trap for a road agents gang but a ghostly visitation reveals the landowner’s lost Nellie as a child and prompts a poignant end to the tale.
Clara Bello recounts a health exhibition where a wax figure illustrating corset torture drew laughs from female spectators rather than instruction. The piece condemns tight lacing as rare now and mocks comments by Dio Lewis while praising Fiji island appearances.
A compact truism notes that every base occupant sharpens patience but dulls elsewhere. It argues ceremony as wise mens invention to fence fools, while good breeding helps one navigate wakes and equals both fools and the wise.
A medical man in Regent's Park chats with a Marylebone Poorhouse pauper about his sixty year beer habit. The doctor calculates sixpence daily for sixty years would amount to 3225 pounds, which, if saved, would yield 3 pounds weekly for life instead of poverty.
A humorous tale compares two boastful men in a voyage brag and a business clerk duel. An Englishman and American trade exaggerated feats of swimming and travel while a punch line reveals one man claims to have been the very person in a tale. In a second vignette, two clerks spar over pen and ink costs, boasting one shop saves money by omitting dotted i’s and crossed t’s.
The passage portrays city kin planning a seasonal visit to boost family health and enjoy berries, milk, and fruit. They critique daily life, pose as urbane, question your routines, demand attention, and threaten to leave for Newport or the mountains while shifting costs onto you.
A fervent appeal to electors to reject licenses for liquor sales and embrace prohibition. The speaker links votes to liquor’s reach, crime, and family ruin, urging voters to dethrone the trade and enforce outlaw status. Selected quotes stress personal responsibility, social harm, and the duty to vote with conscience.
A North Side woman reads a bundle of old love letters from her husband’s halcyon days and the humorous misprints and witticisms that follow. The collection blends romantic promises with quirky misheard phrases and stray aphorisms about life, fashion, and manners.
A tired mother suffers illness as a father returns from the yard to kiss her. The household chores proceed with breakfast, cleaning, and care for children. The wife sits by the fire while the husband and children share a tender, hopeful moment about marriage.
A collection of brief aphorisms and quotations from various authors. Topics include conscience, faith, city life, youth, creditors and debtors, trust in God, learning, and the impact of printing on society. References include George Eliot, David Webster, Pascal, Yoseph Cook, Gough, Franklin, F WV Faber, and Wendell Phillips.
A compilation of last sayings and reflections from historical notables including Byron Elizabeth I George IV and Paine. The quotes touch on mercy death virtue faith and striving for a better afterlife amid personal and public trials.
A pithy aphorism notes that time is a resource to be used wisely and that behavior reflects character. It asserts personal discipline and self-application shape outcomes and character, like a mirror showing one’s image.
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