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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
2
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Pseudoscience and home tips fill a late nineteenth century text on eye care. It warns against neglecting eyesight and suggests hot or cold water baths for tired eyes, claiming space acclimating cures and various foods or routines. It cites an oculist, warns against self treatment, and urges medical consultation for eye ailments.
Practical domestic hints cover washing in hot water avoiding salt and Alvin, keeping carpets clean, using paraffin, soaking vegetables with roots, browning beet water for color and flavor, extinguishing oil fires with flour sand or earth, improving gloss with soapy water, boiling foods briefly, and storing a small “horse purse” for tools. Also includes corner rhymes games and cautions about strict discipline, marriage advice, and ink eradicators.
A fragment essay questions modern reform and progress urging caution in altering established norms. It contrasts skepticism toward rapid change with calls for improvement and notes enduring gender roles and deception fears. The piece includes quirks and nonsensical lines reflecting OCR errors.
A fragmentary account describes hauntings at Hampton Court Palace with tales of a long vanished court, sightings of the ghost of Jane Bynmonye and other spectral presences. It notes discovered remains in the fountain court and references to Henry VII era legends in London Chronicle.
A detailed description of a massive floating drydock complex outlines capacity exceeding 35 000 tons, its independent power and anchoring system, electric cranes, and the ability to dock warships of great size. The narrative contrasts it with the Dewey dock and notes its innovative pontoon and ballast design, enabling versatile placement and operation.
A distorted passage features quoted phrases aimed at women of various ages and hues. It includes lines about looks and flirting, with odd names and garbled text. The fragment centers on social slights and perceived color judgments.
A varied town report details damages from a workshop accident, a pipe of events at Acton Council including street work, a building collapse near Jamnee Andersons and a duck scare at a Lowan pond. It notes school staff appointments, clergy visits, and a memorial to Janta of the region, with residents traveling for vacations and illness.
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