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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
4
A garbled mixture of anecdotes, moral exhortations, tiny news items, poems, and ad blurbs. Items include a note on repairs and tools, odd anecdotes about Tammy Flag-Slater and Johnny Belgge-Wow, brief observations from trains and cities, plus colonial era product pitches for Kellogg’s Dysentery Medicine, Paine’s Celery Compound, and Mother Graves Worm Exterminator.
A fragmented tale follows Mrs Pook and her child Judith, amid odd medical accusations and a rural remedy scene. The narrative shifts from a physician unseen to a kitchen table of snacks, doughnuts and waffles, then veers into a patent remedy ad for Parmeleo Vegatatho Pills claiming to prevent internal digestive disorder.
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