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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1876
Page
2
The lines evoke summer light and winter snows, love and longing, a siren hope that quickens vision, a drooping spirit, and memories hovering. Hyelids bear the seal of death as the faltering breath ends.
Abel Webb, a fifty five year old warehouseman, walks home after paying five pounds ten and tallying ninety pounds total with his daughter Polly. Polly, industrious and devoted, supports their plan to clear debt while Tom Smith remains a hopeful suitor. The scene blends old life and quiet resolve as Abel toils for a better future.
Dr Beard analyzes life stories of many men to claim the golden decade spans forty to fifty while the brazen decade is twenty to thirty and the iron decade fifty to sixty. He argues youth and middle life surpass old age in original work as fame arriving late.
Two younger Rothschilds buy Paris properties. Edmond de Rothschild acquires Hotel Pontalbu near the British Embassy, plans grand grounds and bibliographic collections. Arthur de Rothschild demolishes two mansions on Avenue Marigny to build a palace with Italian gardens and a vast stamp collection. He is a leading postage stamp dealer and seeks American stamp displays at the Philadelphia Exposition.
Gen. Merideth Read, American Minister to Greece, presented a Peninsular Marble relief and diplomatic inscription discovered on the southern Acropolis to the U.S. Department of State as a personal gift. The find includes a Panhellenic treaty fragment dated to the 83rd Olympiad and a full inscription linked to Thucydides, Diodorus, and Plusith.
The piece argues inner peace, cheerful demeanor, and self control as true riches. It links a serene mind to family happiness, warns that anger worsens affairs, and emphasizes moral strength to govern oneself and endure trials.
A garbled excerpt discusses adding brown sugar to a paste to fasten lasks to tuy and jabals to tin ears, mentioning lousekeepers losing jubelg from fruit and avoiding annoyance by remembering this.
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