An Unfinished London Season Wedding Tale
A faded aristocrat Lord Verriner schemes to marry money by wooing an American heiress Hetty Leigh. The ceremony erupts in scandal as Verriner insults Hetty with a volatile temper, forcing a dramatic escape and a scandalous retreat to distant shores. Hetty defies her mother and secures a future as Lady Verriner.
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Lord Verriner
Japure
Fimbuetoo
Himalaya
England
Trinkers
Iffen
Verriner
States
London
Verviner
Hetty Leigh
Marlborough House
Mrs. Leigh
Lady Verriner
Hetty
Trousseau
Marquis
Broadlands
Restry
Kathilen Bae
Verriter
Anid Broad
Acton Free Press Advertising Rates and Local Notices
The Acton Free Press lists subscription options and rates, plus local professional notices and services. It details advertising rates by column inch, contract rules, payment terms, and a roster of local doctors lawyers and surveyors with visit schedules and contact points in Acton and Georgetown Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Licessep
Wellington
Halfon
Frex
Acton
Moxetto Léay
Newest Styles and Colorings for 1886 Designs
Fashion page lists the latest 1886 styles with elegant designs and colorings. It highlights refined silhouettes and decorative details for coats gowns and accessories, noting fabrics and trim trends. Local merchants advertise new arrivals and season highlights.
Best Stock to Select at Day's Bookstore Millinery Show
CuElph Lanits announces open Millinery Show Rooms with new spring hats feathers flowers wings laces gloves. Ladies are invited to call for best value and lowest price selections.
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Lanits
Our Dress and Mantle Making Services
The shop offers dress and mantle making with custom fitting and alteration, jackets and dresses cut to measure, hats reworked in latest styles, a selection of hair switches and waves, and apprenticeship opportunities. Located at 51 Lower Wyndham Street.
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Saratoga
John H Hamilton Granite and Monument Dealer
John H. Hamilton markets wholesale and retail cemetery products in Ontario. He claims direct import of granite and marble from Finity quarries and offers monuments headstones crosses urns at deep discounts, with prices 30 to 60 percent below competitors.
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Finity
Mexander Taylor
Ontario
Acton Meat Market Opens by Rutledge and Crosson
Rutledge and Crosgow announce the Acton Meat Market with H olmes sold to Fare. The firm describes themselves as practical butchers ready to ensure customer satisfaction and a full stock of meats in season. They pledge to stay in Acton and win public confidence through business principles.
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Acton
Lumber and farm supplies offered by Thos C Moore
An undersigned advertiser announces ready supply of lumber lath staves shingles wash tubs churns butter tubs pork barrels wood flour and feed at bottom prices for farmers houses or contracts.
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Thos
C. Moore
Unclear Catalog Note on Books and Periodicals
Fragmentary OCR item mentions Guelph Ontario accounts and periodicals with a note about binding, ordering and prompt handling. No clear event or person details. content appears to list types of books and service notes with missing context.
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Stirton
L.D
M.R.C.D.S
Ontario
Ontario College of Cenital
C. B. Hayes
Bji.s
Tovell’s Block
P.O
Guelph
OHN
J. Daley
Thompson & Jackson
Ominion
Europe
Guelph, Ont
Lone and Forgot Poem Fragments of a Dark Mourning
The verses speak of longing for memory after death and a wish for a solitary grave. The speaker imagines a faithful heart watching over a hidden tomb and laments leaving loved ones behind in youth.
London 1850s Growth Transforms City Life and Society
The author compares rapid urban change in American cities with London and Paris, noting London's 1851 World’s Fair influence, vast growth, new housing, and cosmopolitan influx since 1830. The piece highlights London as a global hub and the altered social tone driven by immigration and industry.
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London
Paris
Canada Ahead in Cheese in Bradstreet Dairy Review
Bradstreet's full review of US dairy trade ends April notes a disastrous year for producers. The main drop is in butter and cheese prices due to world dairy expansion, with Canadian competition growing and threatening US exports. Montreal cheese receipts rose from 544,679 to 1,920,337 boxes, while New York cheese receipts fell about 800,000 in five years. Canadian exports neared the US total.
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Bradstreet’s
United States
New York
Cleese
Montreal
Canada
Turning the Tables at Aga Recitation Class
An Aga professor Wag distributes notes with the word Monkey after a freshman joke. He later addresses his division in a sweet tone and mentions a student who left his card with him.
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Aga
Warner’s Safe Cure Restores Health in Liver Complaint Case
Lewiston January 8 1885 A resident reports long lasting back pain loss of appetite stomach sickness and right side pain believed to be liver trouble. After using six bottles of Warner's Safe Cure the person claims full improvement and health found.
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Lewiston
Inano
Trn
Warner
Fragmented ad copy on cabinets and medicine claims
The text blends a cabinet advertisement with mock dialogue about ready cabinets and waiting times. It then pivots to a dubious medical claim praising Burdock Blood Bitters and Ayer's Sarsaparilla as cures, using faulty language to imply health benefits from patent medicines.
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Ayer
The Great Advertisers Plan in Philadelphia Trade
The article argues that persistent newspaper advertising pays for merchants like Mr Waffsmaker. It asserts advertising draws transient trade, builds goodwill, and compounds returns like interest. A merchant should devote one third to one fifth of total expenses to newspaper ads for broad daily reach.
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Philadelphia
Waffsmaker
Seta
Ti & Man
Astleys Back Coat Embarrassment and Patent Remedy Ad
A historical fragment describes the artist Astley confronted by friends who pull off his coat to reveal a patched waistcoat with a landscape design. The scene is followed by an advertisement for a medicinal fluid claiming quick relief for nerves dizziness and bile, priced at 250 per bottle.
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Astley
Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Dallas
The
Acton Free Press
Thes Free Press Power Printing House
WTB
H. P. Moore
Gen. Wefiday Bureau
Business Directory
W H. Lowry
M. B
M.C. P.S
Trinity College
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Frederick Street
Trinity University
Fello
Trinity Medical School
Orrick
Campbell's Hotel
E. Stacey
Aeg Tein
L. Bennett
L.D.S
Georgetown
C. McKinlay
L. D
Ont
Royal College of Dental Surgeons
Toronto
Aéton
Orice—Agnew
Ohn Lawson
Ontario Veterinary College
Kenny Bros. Boot and Shoe
Pohnston & McLean
Orricy
Town Hall
Jonsatos, Wat
A. McLess
M. E. E. Mitchell
Sonicitok
Casveyancer
Orrice
Champion
Main Street
Milton
Qshilton, Allan & Baird
Barristers
Solicitors
YonoxToax
Orricks
Creelman’s
King Street East
W. T. Allan
J Khilton
Behead Baird
IAI
Laidlaw & Cos
Banristens & Souserrois
Imperial Bank
Wellington Street
Exchange Alley
Oronto
Joux Bax
Ch Ay Masters
Wu Lamia Groppe Kirrece
Henry Grist
Ay Gas Ada
Hemstreet
Queryeyor
John, Davis
C. E
Perth
John Day
Guhlyh
Queen’ S Hotel
Maker Square
Hanlan Barber Shop
Mit
Adiés
Se P. Wolves
OF the
County OF
F. W. Stone
Davidson
John Taylor
Aving
River Street
Han
Thos. Ebbage
John Street
Wm. E. Smith
MR. Smith
R. H.B. McCarthy
John Sreet
WM. B Smith
Acton Banking CO
Storey
Christie & Ed
Actoul
Bankers
Genera Banking
Mondy
H. J. Imcdonald. & CO
Victoria St
Fike Press Office
Borders
Day’s Bookstore
Day
E. H. Pass
Cuelph
Business College
Elph
M. Maccormick
LATH
Poe
Coal
Cain
James Brown
Lower Wyndham Street
Wellington Marble Works
Quebec St., Guelfh
John H. Hamilton
Rutledge & Crosson, Butchers
Fare
Holmes
Rutledge&Crosgow
Mae
Presners
Buccesgor To
Q. B. Chapman
Boorrinder, ‘Bt
George'e Aquare
Guelph, Ontario
Alii
Iide
Taunapar Monstra
Lone
Territorial News
McG Gist
Dragassure
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