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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1878
Page
3
The item lists weekly Thursday publication details for the Free Press, pricing for ads, margins for late payments, and rates. It notes advertising terms, eight cent per line for initial ads, two cents per line for subsequent insertions, and discounts for extended runs. Births marriages and deaths notices are described as serial free.
Acton Babery Robt T Galloway promotes all library books and stationery in Guelph. Seaside Lakeside Fireside Boys libraries and New York libraries are listed with novels Silent and True Mildred A Jewel of 4 Girl Young Liusgrave. Orders sent by mail promptly and attended to.
Acton January 7 1878 sellers urge buyers to purchase harnesses at once at Ontario Saddlery. A splendid lot of new dollar loans is offered to finance purchases, promising value for money and quick service before the rush.
A brief note requests Short Hand to address S. W. Galbraith of the Free Press regarding matters noted in the Atol column, with emphasis on timely response and clarity.
The undersigned announces funeral services in Acton with a hearse, ready to attend on short notice. Stocks include caskets, coffins, burial robes, furnishings, hat bands, and gloves. Also promoting cash-only piano and organ sales by Daniel F. Beatty of Washington New Jersey with six year warranties and a generous test period.
A distressed man signs away his home to provide for his wife Kate and children while confessing that honest failure beats a palace. His daughter Hilda nurses a wounded Cyril abroad, while Wilda’s return fuels emotional conflict and a saintly nurse’s resolve. The tale ends with Cyril’s fate and a renewed family bond at Atherton manor.
Cyril Atherton and Hilda defy his father to wed a poor farmer's niece. Squire Atherton condemns the match, a stormy scene ensues, and Hilda urges patience, while Cyril vows to marry despite opposition.
A fragmented nostalgic list of cautions and maxims about conduct and propriety. It pairs social advice with ironic, somber tones urging restraint and humility. The piece touches on honesty, charity, grief, appearance, and daily duties through short imperatives.
There are over forty men in San Francisco whose fortunes exceed four million dollars each with many more at one to three million. None inherited, all earned through business and speculation within five years. The wealth craze in California is unprecedented as fortunes grow. Sharon, arriving in Sacramento in 1849, built his wealth starting in a small grocery on K Street.
A compact excerpt lists ancient conversions and facts such as a man walking three miles per hour a steamboat at eighteen and various barrel weights and measures for flour pork butter and salt it notes that a square acre is 209 feet on each side and claims 2700 languages exist while a life average is thirty one years ending with a moral line owe no man anything
In a Glasgow to Aberdeen steam trip a Scottish Gael, Donald, outwits two city gents with a simple count. He declares there will be a hundred, using a playful pun on numbers, leaving the crowd in fits as the crestfallen fellows retreat.
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