15 May 1884
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 15, 1884
Page
1
A narrator recounts waiting for a promised reunion with Jesus and centers a domestic mystery around Mrs. Graham. Dick, a local sleuth, and a detective uncover a bad-lace scam involving stolen jewelry, a disguise, and a cunning escape, ending with Mrs. Graham and Jeannette evading pursuit.
A young narrator recalls a sturdy country home left by parents and the plan to take in two respectable boarders, while a charming widow Mrs. Graham and her maid Jeannette arrive for a short summer stay, drawing close the household under a spell of beauty and hospitality.
A garbled prose excerpt discusses flattery, surgical skill, patience, and taste. It muses on choosing time and company, the value of education, and a caution about superficial beauty. The passage presents aphoristic style with scattered maxims on virtue and society.
An American newspaper crowd-sourced joke evolution likens wit to a snowball that grows. It parodies Tennyson, Vanderbilt, the US mint, watchmakers, merchants, shoppers, and laborers to illustrate how perception of value and capital shifts with context.
The passage asks if teachers and parents question the power of reading and whether it is possible to estimate our force. It notes that all pupils above nine years are able to read, though many younger girls are hungry for reading.
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