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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 14, 1901
Page
2
A sale notice advertises seed oats 3k to 4oc with 12 varieties including Alto Mandecheur Barley, Black Barley, Goore Seed Wheat, Spring Rye, Speaktz, Cow Peas, Grane Peas, Pentelan Blue Peas, Mack Joanatte Oats, Ligowa Oaty and a 6th Century Oata. It invites customers to view stock of choice red clover, alfalfa, lucerne and timothy seed at low prices.
A damaged, highly garbled text presents as a lengthy verse with speech about a beloved dead, royal pageantry, moonlit scenes, and mourning. The readable parts evoke a speaker lamenting a lost beloved and reflecting on memory, with scattered archaic diction and incomplete phrases.
In a frail tale a worn woman helps with a swamp hog tale marked by hardship and improvised cooking. The narrator recalls a harsh day, cold ground and a long task of draining bacon and lard, with neighbors and a maid nearby. The scene centers on struggle, labor, and improvised sustenance amid poverty.
A fragmentary diary style narrative portrays domestic mishaps with poultry losses and a neighborly chat about luck and repairs. A detached column later shifts to a humorous tale about a deaf couple at a wedding and public reactions, followed by brief notices on China turmoil and an art market anecdote.
Readable fragments recount a moral on helping others and a long school anecdote from Daniel Webster era. It mentions Buckley’s citizen ideal, a rambled tale with a doctor and pupil, and a digression on ancient arithmetic from a 1700s papyrus.
A garbled late 1800s notice discusses baggage handling and railway efficiency. It weaves stray anecdotes about theft and misrouted luggage with a courtroom anecdote and stray references to Constantinople and St Sophia mosque, reflecting era transportation concerns and legal quips.
A widely circulated booklet offers free copies detailing home made crafts and decor for ladies, with designs for doormats and floor cloths. The ad urges readers to request a copy from The Wellat Richardsai Co in Montreal Quebec, promising practical and attractive patterns.
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