12 May 1898
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 12, 1898
Page
1
Advances made to responsible farmers on their own names with no charge for collasting notes if payable to Guuelph. The fragment outlines financial terms tied to farm credit and a payment designation to a city or institution.
Local reader Frank L Branran voices concern that illustrated Bibles and modern imagery crowd out traditional gospel. He argues the plain family Bible remains sufficient and questions the value of pictorial evangelism replacing plain faith.
Scott Surrey, a romance in late Victorian diction, falls for Rosamond Knight the moment he sees her in church. He overhears plans of wealth and status as she becomes the center of a high society circle, while Boott Surrey’s infatuation contrasts with class difference and fate.
Scott Boott learns Rosamond’s wealth buys a gilded life while he fears poverty but his pure love endures. Akron counsels retreat as Rosamond toggles between glittering society and genuine affection. He plans to leave to spare her, but she sketches a future with fourteen hundred dollars a year.
A Scottish American tale tells of a widow who cannot afford a tombstone for her late son. She buys a discarded slab marked only with the name Mark and later adds the epitaph “the perfect man” in a mischievous ruse that exposes the stonecutter’s wit and her thrift.
A Boston hospital plans to install a buzz saw device powered by an electric motor to perform amputations. The tool uses a flexible shaft with a swiveling handle to guide the saw, enabling faster cuts with reduced heat damage to tissue. Initial blade diameter will be four inches and will operate at high speed.
In a humorous sermon a preacher ridicules bible critics by mixing a duck counting lesson with family dinner plans. He jokes that duck one becomes the father's portion, duck two the mother's, and duck three the boy's, claiming three make a meal.
An old citizen and his stingy wife keep a single morning match for lighting the fire. When it fails, the servant asks for another. A hushed council ends with a risky, whispered decision between the pair, leading to a startling, dark outcome. Beckers after gold are often disappointed. Beckers after health take Hood a Sarsaparilla and find it helps.
The article notes railway trains named for their character, from the Irish Mail to the Gold Train of the Canadian Pacific. It describes how travellers in Windsor Street station watch departures of the gold train, symbolizing the Klondike rush and attracting diverse passengers seeking fortune.
The tale recounts Zola attempting to order a "sphinx sla Marengo" in a Paris restaurant and being told the sphinx is not fresh. A waiter, leaning in, whispers that they are not fresh and that he does not wish to serve them to the eminent novelist.
A boy named Johnny tells his father he went to a store and stayed alone near a barrel of apples. He says the groceryman left the back room and he could have stolen all, but chose honesty and took only two apples. The World reports this anecdote.
Readers from Albany Ontario Manitoulin Island Surrey Centre and Peterboro share long for Diamond Dyes praising their reliability and vivid colors. A separate note touts Ayera Hair Vigor as a nourishing tonic for hair roots and scalp health.
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