27 Jun 1878
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jun 27, 1878
Page
1
Acton bakery announces largest and best assortment of bakery goods in the village. Fresh bread rolls pastries cakes and fruit cakes with low prices and guaranteed quality. Grain bread and first class family flour also available with cash terms.
Book and stationery shop promotes latest novels including Mildred and Young Musgrave. Notices offer mail orders to Seaside Libraries Lakeside Libraries Fireside Libraries Boy s Libraries and New York Libraries with prompt handling by R W Petrie.
Acton January 7, 1978 R Creech advertises harness sale at Ontario Saddlery. Offer promises good value and new dollars on loan to buyers, urging prompt purchase before rush to secure a good set.
Readers eager to learn shorthand are directed to S W Galbraith of Free Press for instruction. The note encourages enrolling with the instructor known in local circles.
The undersigned offers funeral services in Acton with a new hearse and stock of caskets robes and funeral furnishings. Also advertises first class pianos and organs from Daniel F Beattie Washington New Jersey with cash sales six year warranties and trial periods.
A verse urging young men to abandon ease and seek honest gain by learning a trade. It cautions against dependence on inheritance or willful idleness, praising steady work, temperance, and fidelity to one's chosen craft as the path to respect, fortune, and lasting happiness.
In a remote canyon Benson and Ralph Stanton discover a hidden gold cave after outwitting the traitor Carston. Lucy Ellerslie funds a legal pursuit that tracks Carston to Petaluma, where Vigilance Committees ambush him. Stanton survives to honor Lucy while Benson dies freeing them as the gold ball is used to mete out punishment.
A dated anecdote recounts an employee who habitually left to drink and caused a nine percent loan from the cash drawer. After seventeen months the thief squandered his chance, while the loan funded a mechanic who repaid with interest and built a family and property. The other coworker is described as a bum.
A moral admonition on treating one’s wife with care. It warns against wounding her feelings with harsh words or public reproach. Emphasizes respect, attentiveness, and avoiding comparisons to other women to maintain love and pride.
An Irishman near third base was hit by a foul ball under the fifth rib, then quipped that it looked like a mule while calling it a fowl and exclaiming Begorra.
A New York Central conductor, offended by tobacco chewers, confronts a passenger who admits the offense and then offers him a chew. The incident ends with the conductor resuming his duties and chewing while calling for tickets.
A vintage feature explains hair as a psychic map with color and texture signaling traits from weakness to revenge. Straight hair supposedly marks cowardice while curly or frizzy strands hint at temper and coarseness. black hair signals resolve and vendetta. Brown hues suggest loyalty and kindness, with fine hair implying forgiveness.
A satirical piece lists noisy, unruly pranks to keep a boy at home and suggests even a grand moral show may be needed to calm the streets. It references chalking hall floors, molasses on tap, dog fights, a bully slide, a hand organ, a German band, and window breaking as mischief.
In a satirical dialogue Mr and Mrs Squibbles and a visitor discuss berry farming and fairness. A detached olive branch setting frames a blunt, shocking aside about silencing a child, revealing a tense domestic moment and social attitudes.
A London pickpocket tried to pass a watch to a bystander as a policeman closed in. Both the thief and the bystander denied involvement and were searched with no results. The thief then accused the officer, who, upon searching his own pockets, found the watch. The pickpocket confessed, easing the officer.
Reports of wage strikes in Chicago and Bury England affecting mill and cotton operatives. Notes on Nova Scotia prospects, a Manchester art school project, Montreal compositor strikes, and Mrs. A T Stewart owning a $35000 solitaire. Gregorian calendar likely to replace Old Style in Russia. British naval stats in 1814. Roy the Brabmin priest jailed for three months in Toronto. St John fire anniversary services and business suspensions. Earl Dufferin sends prize medals to Manitoba official for Icelandic farming. Jewish population estimates and distributions across continents. Hebrews comprise small fractions of Poland Hamburg Roumania and Austria.
The Eramosa Township Council met at the Centre Inn on the 17th inst with the Reeve presiding. Payments were ordered for gravel culverts and road work, notating road maintenance and property moves. A Court of Revision reviewed assessment rolls and adjourned to August 12 at ten oclock.
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