23 Jun 1898
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 23, 1898
Page
1
A fragmentary speech piece shows a crowd restless over a town meeting tale and a preacher’s role. The speaker urges brevity and prayer while mocking the louder follower causing disruption. The scene hints at public discontent and a call for restraint and faith.
Advances granted to responsible farmers on their own names with no charge for collecting Sales Notes if payable in Guelph.
Have you had one taken lately If not give Ramshaw the artist a sitting and you will be delighted with the result Courteous attention Satisfactory Photographs Prices reasonable Call to a day This weather just suits.
Dressing P Sayers promotes a full line of lumber, lath, shingles, cedar posts and wood. Custom logs and bill stuff cut to order on short notice with planing and matching. Prices described as cheap and tailored to customers pocket.
A compact 19th century advertisement urges readers to choose English Scotch and Canadian linoleums and oilcloths. It promotes a two location choice Wyndham Street and St George's Square with a convincing nudge to avoid cheap appearances.
McKEE's Vegetable Amibilious Pills claim to cure biliousness dizziness nausea drowsiness and other symptoms. They are made from pure vegetable extracts contain no calomel and supposedly produce no griping. Sold at 25c a box with 5 boxes for $1.00 and marketed as a remedy for habitual constipation and neuralgia headaches.
Ad copy proclaims affordable footwear with wide choice in tans and blacks for men and women. Promises quality, range, and low cost to attract shoppers seeking style and value.
W Williams operates as a booth and shoe dealer located on Mill Street in Acton offering footwear and related goods to the public.
The notice advertises a $65,000,000 authorized capital with ten year maturity shares paid in monthly installments of 60.00 per share for 120 months and a maturity value of 100.00. Money to Jom at 5 percent straight loan or repayable monthly on application to R. J. McNabb, Agent, Acton.
Major Levett learns his fiancée Mabel Lawson has wed his close friend Captain Arthur Donaldson. The shock shatters Levett’s plans for marriage in May, prompting him to delay leave and seek an exchange while he grapples with betrayal and heartbreak within his regiment.
The narrative follows Major Levett and Captain Donaldson amid a South African campaign. Levett seeks vengeance for a betrayal, confronts Donaldson in battle, and dies after a desperate defense. The tale contrasts wealth, health, and virtue with the perils of youth and the costs of revenge.
Observers describe an implosion produced by extreme deep sea pressure during the Challenger voyage. A sealed glass tube wrapped in flannel was crushed inward as it descends to two thousand atmospheres, with the glass turning to powder, illustrating the force of underwater compression.
Fragmentary remarks tout a hypothetical liquid air substitute priced at 60 cantas per gallon. Claims include instant freezing, rapid cooling, engine power, explosive danger under heat, and potential to transform ice cream trade and July carnivals in New Orleans. Promises wide uses from cooling rooms to uniforms in Cuba.
A humorous verse recounts Wille and his dog on the nursery floor discovering a florist catalogue. TIM flips it open and exclaims joy as he imagines gifts for a schoolbound boy, suggesting a rubber plant and an umbrella tree as practical whims. The playful verse reflects childlike wishes and parental care.
An 13-inch naval gun with a 1 100 pound projectile and 500 pound powder charge launches a 2 000 ft per sec shot. The energy equals about thirteen locomotives at 40 mph, illustrating the massive momentum and penetration of the gun against nickel steel armor.
A fragment recalls the Cuntlereighs castle beside Lake Swilly once famed in Ireland. Lord Londonderry halted stone thefts, ordering a six foot wall that later concealed the vanished castle. The tale includes Irish humors and pithy sayings from the era.
The article describes vast Alaska nesting grounds of ducks geese and swans where nests cover the ground so thick travel is impossible. Native hunters use six sinew arrows with ivory balls to catch birds at dusk. Eggs are taken for albumen but many nests are left damaged and birds suffer yearly.
A fragmentary poetic scene portrays a father guiding a child across a doorway labeled love-bridge. The speaker reflects on separation by night and wind, the gate open by the father, and the child’s return to the speaker.
A London Spectator correspondent recalls a Philadelphia public hall where a floor sank nearly three feet during a large gathering. The leader redirected the audience to safety from the hall’s end as timbers creaked and walls strained, averting a deadly collapse. No one in the crowd noticed the quiet heroism that saved them.
Magician Kellar, traveling from Valparaiso to Montevideo in 1875, amazed Chilean guards at Punta Arenas by conjuring a living flame from sand using a wand. An assistant hid sugar and chlorate of potash. sulfuric acid in the wand created fire, alarming natives and frightening them into obedience. The commandant kept silent on the incident.
The advertisement extols Diamond Dyes for baking powder, flavor extracts, and cotton goods, claiming superior color fastness and safety. It warns against inferior dyes sold by rivals, promising marvellous success and new dyes with a free 48 color card and directions from Wella & Richardson Co. Montreal P Q.
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