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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 10, 1898
Page
4
A speaker extols the daily press as a fresh photograph of life and a source of knowledge and moral insight. He praises newspaper advertisements for wit and power and argues regular reading grows a minister in grace, despite some editors’ flaws.
A Swedish worker at a Northwestern planing mill tells the manager Johnson the foreman has quit. He leads him to the river where Johnson’s drowned body lies at the bottom, proving the quit claim was mistaken.
A neighbor bursts in with a startling story Mrs Gadding shared, begging secrecy. The speaker laments not arriving sooner to hear the tale and questions what might have happened, setting a tense mood in the home.
The article discusses grippe as a widespread danger linked to nervous toxins and cites Bir Morrell MacKenzie’s theory of nerve poisoning. It extols Paine's Celery Compound as a nerve tonic and preventive, warning buyers to avoid inferior substitutes and promising renewed vitality for the robust and weary alike.
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