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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1899
Page
5
In Springfield Massachusetts the Staples family faces legal pressure after a cow named Betty dies from a hay wire obstruction. A sheriff describes life on the farm, debts, and social pressure as neighbors threaten prosecutions for animal cruelty and damaged property.
In this rural tale a young farmer wrestles with becoming a sheriff while his wife questions the impact on their farm. The lawyer guides him through serving a writ as rumors swirl about the farmer’s growing public role and social pretensions. The Staples family facing mortgage pressure reveals tensions between ambition and duty.
A brief tale reports two young siblings walking to a church near their home. Growing tired during the long sermon, the older child asks to go home. The amused clergyman permits them to depart as the congregation smiles.
A five year old girl visiting the country excitedly exclaims at the sheep that the lambs imitate her toy lamb, noting their squeaks and hair. The passage ends with a reflection on modesty in discourse and truth.
A despondent man and a child named Topsy at Victoria Station share a moment where a request for lights leads to a lesson in faith. The girl explains she prays Morning and Night, asking for sixpence. a two-pence becomes a gift proving belief in a heavenly Father who provides.
The Osages receive quarterly income from government interest and grass land rents, encouraging large families. The piece recounts an Osage with excess pay buying luxuries, using credit, and a humorous episode in Coffeyville where a buyer purchases a black wagon with a glass side, the undertaker joking about the Indian's town fashion.
A morning walk near Bradtwood leads Mr. Ruskin to a curious scene as a woman on a campstool asks about a house linked to the famous critic. He guides her inside and jokes about meeting Ruskin, prompting surprise at the encounter.
John Philip Bouan, angered by off key performances, corrected an organ grinder in New York City. He demonstrated the proper tempo, prompting a crowd and a follow up lesson before Bouan reportedly stopped sharing music lessons with strangers.
A motor conductor complains that women passengers slow to board and alight, joking about a stout middle aged commuter whose backward tumble into a car prompts an assertion of rough handling. The exchange turns into a comic quarrel over movement and timing on the platform.
A six year gift option offers a yearly subscription to The Youths Companion with weekly pleasure. A Companion Calendar for 1900, in colored prints by a celebrated American artist, may accompany the gift. Includes remaining 1800 issues and a free Illustrated Announcement prospectus.
The text notes that wealthy interests push for total abstinence among those handling property and trusted roles. It argues abstainers secure jobs over capable, moderate drinkers who may be denied advancement, highlighting a bias in hiring toward complete sobriety.
A traveling acquaintance is praised as a fine boy while a mother questions a stranger's ties to the tabloid press. The dialogue hints at a plot to expose someone as a fake subscriber and ends with a sales pitch from the Faux Press announcing new subscriptions through 1900.
A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox rails against the so called House of They, a gossiping clan blamed for spreading tales and invading privacy. It lambasts ridicule of rumor mongers and the harm of social surveillance.
A Georgia boy contemplates poetry in playful terms from The Atlanta Constitution. He notes poems have feet yet wobble, poets grow long hair during hard times, and imagines poets living on bread credit and later on the ground floor to flee bailiffs. He recalls his father asking if poetry makes the world better while his mother doubts the type written.
A rural subscriber asks the editor to write an obituary for an old woman. The editor recalls the difficulty in determining her age and notes the subject’s lively, durable disposition. Providence and Providence’s sense of business are referenced as guiding forces in life and death.
Delegates to the Provincial Woman's Christian Temperance Union elected officers with one exception. President is Mrs. May R. Thornley of London, Vice President Mrs. Jennie Cavers of Gilt, Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Mary Wiley of Richmond Hill, Recording Secretary Mrs. Gordon Wright of London, Treasurer Miss Jennie MacArthur of Cornwall. Mrs. Alice Saenby could not serve another year and Mrs. Wright was chosen in her place.
Mr B B Bigger of Toronto editor of the Canadian Journal of Fabrica publishes a pamphlet on The Boer War its Causes and its Interest to Canadiana with a glossary of Cape Dutch and Kaffir Terms. He offers accurate information from years in South Africa at 10 cents.
A man seeking information learns from another that the church cares for its ministers who become too old for active duty. They discuss when preachers should retire, noting a wide gap of up to thirty years between the congregation’s age and the pastor’s.
A Chicago Post item quotes a terse dialogue about a cramped room and a sharp retort over a topic raised repeatedly. The snippet hints at social tension and a playful clash of words between a man and a woman about politeness and timing.
The advertise claim asserts Diamond Dyes color cotton and wool like true dyes. It refutes rival crude dyes as false and promotes separate wool and cotton formulas. Diamond Dyes are said to meet home dyeing needs with authentic colors, fastness, and comparable to European professionals.
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