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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 26, 1879
Page
2
The advertisement lists D Matheson as attorney and solicitor in chancery with office next door to Wallace’s Hotel in Milford seeking legal assistance.
A Scottish merchant Barton presses for instant gold from manager Rockman to move his investment. After a tense night of drafts and a dramatic cash withdrawal, Barton travels by Hercules to England and returns triumphantly, leaving Rockman to admire his fortune and resourcefulness.
A tramp seeks food at a suburban farmer’s house and, after eating, questions why work is scarce. He tells the farmer he wants a vineyard where the late worker earns a full day’s pay, invoking biblical fairness. He then pursues more agricultural opportunities as a crowd marches by.
In a detailed page on kitchen garden care, the author urges constant weeding and staggered planting to avoid fallow ground. It advises letting beets, spinach, and greens reseed, rotating crops, using hoeing and raking tools, and protecting rows from pests with timely mulching and plant supports.
The text emphasizes regular mowing at least weekly, careful edging and weed control, and neat margins for a tidy appearance. It warns against overextending beyond one’s ability to maintain and stresses keeping ornamental beds well defined and shrubs properly trimmed.
A fragmentary reminiscence notes a sermon at St Marys in Oxford praising the imagination of musical sound as living entities. It recalls Newman and Reese on poetry and Tom Moore, with a hint of centenary controversy among critics and scholars.
OCR reads a garbled catalog of princas forts artresses and prisons tied to Versailles and Clairvaux. It notes the release of a venerable agitator and mentions places such as Sainte Pelagia La Conciergerie and the Prison of Mirani with era hints and destroyed structures.
A fragment reports on two large fine hing scales from Philadelphia praised for precision. One scale weighs 686 troy ounces at full load with a variation of one part in ten thousand, while the other weighs about forty tons, though text is garbled and incompletely readable.
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