01 Oct 1903
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 01, 1903
Page
1
An early advertisement details Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy priced at 35 cents and Chamberlain's Pain Balm at 23 cents Anantheptic Haiment claimed to be valuable for cuts burns sprains and rheums with prices listed for lanse 50 cents and other items is shown.
A misted city newsroom and a romance collide as young reporter Sheridan tries to interview Mira Winterton about an engagement. He resists revealing his own identity while the printer’s ink and memory of a past love pull him toward a forbidden moment.
The Fralt Division of the Department of Agriculture in Ottawa has issued two bulletins now at field sites. One outlines apple trade and export practices for European markets, detailing varieties, handling, packing, grading, shipping, storage, and related processes. The other covers pear growing and marketing. Each bulletin includes the Fruit Market Act text in amended form and inspector and packer notes. Send requests to Mr WA Mackinnon in Ottawa for copies. Letters prepaid.
In early town debates a physician emerges as a pivotal abolition advocate. He shifts from neutral to active, embracing anti-slavery ideals to influence local governance and public opinion. His Tribune copy sparks a testy exchange with a Democrat, illustrating the era's fierce partisan divides.
An East Side druggist preserves a scrapbook of unique customer orders, many from foreign born patrons, featuring odd, humorous and misread phrases. Examples include requests for medicines with broken English like five senna doses, powders for a baby, and remedies for stomach pain, all reflecting playful language and miscommunications.
A garbled reminiscence traces how The Girl I Left Behind Me became a standard parting tune for British troops in the 18th and 19th centuries. An incident of a regimental love-struck musician popularized the song as troops marched away, spreading through regiments and officers alike.
A girl across lower Broadway helps her nervous brother cross the street clinging to her and his ragged pack. After two cautious starts a friendly stranger offers aid and the pair, followed by others, move forward while the crowd watches. A passerby who smiles as a crude chant fills the air moves them along, the boy dragging behind.
The fragmentary text presents a fragmented monologue or dialogue with repetitive cries about leaving, staying, or avoiding a tense domestic scene. It mentions a mother figure and repeated pleas to get out of the way, with scattered references to a house and town. The source lacks clear events, dates, or identifiable entities to summarize into a factual card.
An army officer in charge of a native district during the late war notes a Katty boy named Threepence who is gifted a pair of strong armor boots. The boy proudly wears them for days, then soon follows with bare feet, claiming the boots are too large for walking, while insisting they must be kept for later wear.
A young minister mocked pomp by preaching about a half shirt. The next day a donor sent a new shirt to Tshouke, surprising him as he thanked the donor while noting the other half was in front.
Strange underground channels beneath Winchester High Street feed surface streams into the Itchon River where anglers pull fish through gratings using a long stick and line. Also notes a Croup remedy claimed to cure thousands, with various medical and household products advertised by retailers like Ay T. Brown.
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