Local Advertisements and Notices From Acton Listings
The page lists subscription rates and ad pricing for the Penns-The lyn Press with annual, semiannual, and quarterly terms, plus professional cards and transitory ads. It also features local notices from Lowry, dentists in Toronto, and various professionals in Acton including a barber shop opening and services.
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Wellington
Halton
Frex
Acton
Maxey
Loay
Imoney
McEst
Way to Womanhood Town and Manhood Town Poem
A verse dialogue contrasts paths to womanhood and manhood through domestic duties, self discipline, and care for others. It frames maturity as earned by work, kindness, and resisting bad habits, ending with the couple moving toward a grown-up life.
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Mayicke
Tia
The Tin Safe and a Savings Plan in Hard Times
Caroline Lynford quietly saves by a tin safe, depositing a dime nightly and later more into bank accounts. Her husband Charles, a struggling mechanic, is unaware of the growing nest egg until a 1875 panic forces them to lean on the savings to survive until better days return.
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Charles Lynford
Caroline Eustis
Alleighbor
Caroline
Dar
Carrie
Charles
Charlie
Alfred
Savings ‘Bank
Nok Bo
Sw ‘Ag
Yoll
Mrs. Cs
Ghareb
Littts Tin Savings Bank Atills
Wisdom and whimsy in a rambling lecture collection
A fragmented listing captures quips and questions from a classroom or lecture setting. Items range from a Luger quote about nobility to a joking puzzle about a hat blowing away. The text includes a donkey remark, a postal-card note, and reflections on education and curiosity.
Fragmented Nature Vision Through a Forest of Scales
A surreal description compares a forest to a forest of scales and pits. It imagines hollow hairs and fishlike surfaces, with pores and water threading through like a sieve. The text breathes with odd biology metaphors and ends with a quoted phrase.
Brown's Household Panacea Elixir Promoted as Universal Remedy
An old advertisement extols Brown's Household Panacea as a universal remedy for cramps stomach pain and aches. It claims internal and external relief and urges purchase from druggists at 25 cents a bottle.
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Brown
When the boys come home in hopeful verse
A patriotic verse envisions joyous return of soldiers, with families awaiting them. The lines express relief after conflict and the nation’s pride as “the boys come home” and war’s toll is recalled. References to tears, prayers, and enduring national unity frame the hopeful mood.
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Alee
Gess
Peteny Leah
The Great Bourbon Orange Tree of Versailles
A venerable orange tree in Versailles park stands housed in the Orangerie in winter and rests in the gardens in summer. Planted in 1411 at Pamplona it reached 478 years old, its branches spanning eighty feet and supported by steel ropes. It was presented to Louis XI in 1500 by grateful subjects, marking France’s first orange tree sighting and drawing vast crowds each spring.
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Versailles
Orangerie
Aimimer
Pamplona
Navarre
Ita
Louis XI
France
Locke
Revised Old Testament In London May Sixteenth
Copies of the revised version of the Old Testament were distributed to newspapers at midnight. The revision preserves the Masoretic Hebrew text and the language of the authorized version while correcting translation errors. It is hailed as the most significant change to the English Bible since King James.
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London
Kingames
Church
A Rosebud and Charity
A fragment reflects on charity as withered faith, comparing open hearts to blooming roses. It warns that a religion lacking visible love for others is weak and morally decayed, naming James Hasuiton.
Cautionary letters praise marital proposals and patent tonics
A fragmentary page recounts a jewess commercial traveler offered a daughter's hand by a Frankfort benefactor, with the traveler asking travel costs if displeased. It also advertises Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething pain, and Hollyway’s Blood Pills as remedies, urging mothers to use them for infants and nervous constitutions.
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Ted
Winsslow
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Héton Sree Press
Free Press
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Mall Street
A Tons Ontaito
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H. P. Moore
Business Directory
I. Lowry
Richity College
College of Physicians‘and Surgeons
Frederick Street
E. Webster
C.M
College of Physicians and ‘Surgeons of Ontario
Man St
Campnenn
S “Tores
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L. Bennett
Georgetown
Ontario
Mckinlay
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Toronto
Royal College of Dental Surgeons
Baptist Church
C. B. Hayes
Iugs & Ivory
King and Yonge Streets
John Lawson
Jurio Veterinary College
Kenny Bros. Boot and Shoe Store
Apowat
McLean
Pown Hall
JOA
Mowat
Wan. McLeas
Goodwillie
Notary Public
Kc. Grancetown & Acton
Fohn
Gurren
Oxt
Erriuc
Queda 5
Market Square
Es Laidlaw &Co
Bristers
Somerrons
Imperial Bank
Wellington Street
Exchange Saley
Joux Baus
Q. C.-C. A/Masses
William Lina
Grouse Repree
Henry Grist
Ottawa
Oaxapa
Francis Nunan
George's Square
Guelph
Wn Hemstreet
Wohn d
DALEY
Thompsoy & Jackson
Mortgdoés
Motey
Dominion
Europe
Guelph, Ont
Weo ™ S ‘Barbershop
J. P. Worden
Mill Street
Ad P,. Worden
Agton Banking CQ Y
Christie & CO
Bankers
A. dkMean Banking
Mola Boaiap
E. M.garvin
Acton - Ont
Gl Company
Allan Line
Greatritain
East Jand
Dlan! Pacific R
Motley Saydd
J.B. McGarvin
Stock Brokers
Toronto Stock Exchange
New York
Montreal
Chicago Board of Trade
Hudson’ S Bay
Quebec
Guelfh
John H. Hamilton
Foundrny McQuillan & Hamilton
Exuelph
Tedersigned
City and Country Schools
Day
Waltham and Elgin
B. Savace
Petrie’s New Drug Store
Hill’s
Tin& Stove Depot
J. O. Hill, MII
Coal & Wood
Cain
Reason
James Brown
Oo Guelph Business College
Prieces &ix
M. Miccormick
Shaw &Grundy
Merchant Tailors
C. Speicht
A. Speight
Lan Chita Ie
C. Speight
Rhn Hasid
Pur Sidry
Miss Jessie Bhatt
Dorn
Philosopher
Amma
Poll Lyon
Bat
Eva
Grace
Jane
Rhode
Tiland
W. Losereutow
Frankfort
HéUpway
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