15 Nov 1877
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 15, 1877
Page
1
A list of literary works for Sunday school teaching including Pro Sunday Teacher's Treasury and The Bible as well as essays by Louisa Davis Robert Dunning Samuel Green Crosier and others. A note that Day's book store offers a cheap large stock.
The Travelers Life and Accident Company promotes its all cash plan with no dividend promises and cheap premiums, claiming large policy numbers and substantial cash benefits. It advertises in $3 Adenido Street East, with Wilson Irwin as special agent. The text also includes a long verse listing many given names and opinions on their suitability.
A sketch portrays Daavid the Ca rural parish sexton as opinionated and self important. He rivals Rhadamanthus in village disputes and schemes to obtain whiskey, including a calf doctored with spirits. His graveyard mishap ends with help from a shoemaker and townsfolk.
A narrator notes Canadian children are trained with strict discipline at home. A mother orders several children to fetch wood while scolding and threatening punishment, reflecting on the harsh methods said to foster vigor and resolve. The piece comments that such upbringing is common and contrasts it with behavior in the speaker's own country.
The fragment argues punctuation changes meaning and cites a series of moral and religious critiques, describing a man who harms neighbors and undermines social and Christian duties. It includes odds and ends of dialogue about a nurse, a doctor, and a weary caregiver.
Mr Piazzi Smith, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, writes to Nature predicting a severe winter for Scotland. He cites 39 years of observations from 1837 to last year showing three major heat waves in 1846-5 1858 and 1868-7 with a likely cold spell near year end.
On Beaubien Street yesterday a crying boy with pale face and crape at his door encountered a ragged 12 year old imp. The imp offered to let the smaller boy maul him to seem fierce in front of neighbors, after learning the father was dead. The smaller boy declined.
The piece urges daily personal hygiene with eight essential items and tidy dress, warns parents to provide them, and mocks imprudent conduct with a courtroom scene. It warns that small errors can compound into large harms and cites humorous analogies about care and self-respect.
The Burlington Amateur Rifle Club prepared for the next year’s International contest, detailing a nine‑section practice range on South Hill and notes on training, equipment, and a confident forecast to win the shield and cup with enough iron tubing to span the range.
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