16 Nov 1899
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1899
Page
1
Staples recounts a farmer and wife who live by different means. The husband boastfully buys finery then spends it on a hay mishap, a failing cow, and a costly legal fight over disease control. The tale blends rustic stubbornness with courtroom menace and rural pride.
A farmer new to sheriff duties debates the role with his lawyer and wife. The Staples household navigates mortgage pressures and public office appeal while maintaining a rural, pragmatic tone.
Two little siblings walk to a nearby church with their mother aware of their plan. During a long sermon the older child tries to leave by the pulpit asking to go home. The clergyman smiles and grants permission as the pair head out.
A five year old girl on a country visit observes sheep and lambs for the first time. She exclaims they imitate her toy lamb by squeaking and sharing hair texture. The remark highlights a childlike comparison between real lambs and toys.
A London night walk with a despondent friend leads to a Victoria Station encounter. A little girl named Topsy asks for lights and a sixpence, explaining she prays by her mother’s bed and believes their Father in heaven will provide. The tale ends with the child returning home, and the pair finding renewed hope.
A Kansas City Star feature on the Osage Nation highlights their vast income from government payments and land rents, and how easy money leads to large families, reckless buying, and dramatic purchases including a wealth-wielding Indian arriving in Coffeyville with a bought hearse and a wagon load of wheat.
A morning walk near Bradtwood ends with Mrs Ruskin guiding an artist to the drawing room of the famous John Ruskin. The visitor asks permission to meet the critic and is astonished when Ruskin himself appears and poses a question about his own reputation.
John Philip Sousa scolds an organ grinder near Grand Central Station for playing the Washington Post March poorly. Bouas, visiting New York, intervenes to tutor the musician, prompting crowds and a signature improvement. The next day Sousa observes the same performer now playing correctly with Bouas’s instruction.
A veteran transit worker complains that women pedestrians on Cleveland streetcars are painfully slow to board and alight. He recounts an incident where he lifted a stout passenger to clear the car doors as she accused him of rough handling. The passenger accused him of rapacious conduct, while the conductor claimed she blocked the exit and hindered the stop.
A Christmas gift suggestion promotes a year’s subscription to The Youth’s Companion with weekly pleasure, plus an option to include the 1900 Companion Calendar in twelve color prints by a noted American artist. Free illustrated prospectus available at The Youth’s Companion, 2038 Columbus Avenue, Boston.
The passage notes rising pressure from managers of wealthy interests to require total abstinence from all trusted personnel. It argues abstainers gain advantages in obtaining roles, while capable moderate drinkers struggle, highlighting a shift in employment standards influenced by temperance aims.
A traveling acquaintance recalls a remark about a boy and an aunt questions if the person is connected with the railroad. The dialogue hints at a scheme offering free or discounted newspaper subscriptions from now to 1900, advertised by H. P. Moonz of the Faux Press.
Poem condemns gossip and the so called House of They as a clan of prying, nosy delayers who spread tales. It mocks the Thoy family for spying on neighbors and circulating private affairs while avoiding accountability.
A Georgia boy riffs on poets in a humorous, rough-edged prose piece from the Atlanta Constitution. He sketches poets with feet but unstable rhythm, long hair during hard times, and hungry living conditions from garrets to ground floors, ending with motherly doubt about poetry’s impact and a tongue in cheek monument image.
A rural editor replies to a reader about writing an obituary for an elderly woman who kept her age private and lived a quiet, steadfast life. The exchange hints at Providence shaping her fate and the community’s respect for her understated presence.
Delegates to the Provincial Woman's Christian Temperance Union convened this morning and re elected most officers. President Mrs May R Thornley of London and Vice President Mrs Jennie Cavers of Gilt remain. Mary Wiley of Richmond Hill is Corres ponding Secretary and Gordon Wright of London the Recording Secretary. Jennie MacArthur of Cornwall stays as Treasurer while Alice Saenby cannot return.
Mr B B Bigger of Toronto editor of the Canadian Journal of Fabrica has issued pamphlet essays on The Boer War its Causes and its Interest to Canadiana with a glossary of Cape Dutch and Kaffir terms. He lived in South Africa and offers precise information for Canadians at this eventful time.
A man seeking information asks about church practice in retiring clergy. The informant confirms churches care for aging preachers and discusses the difficulty of setting a retirement age, noting often a thirty year gap between a pastor and his congregation.
A fragment from the Chicago Post shows a tense exchange where a man comments on a room’s closeness and a woman hints at more, while she remarks on his delayed response after she broached the topic of ice cream soda multiple times.
The claim that generic dyes color cotton and wool the same is false. Diamond Dyes offer fibre specific formulas for wool and cotton and for blends, claiming superior, longer lasting tones equal or better than European professional dyers.
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