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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 11, 1877
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR line mentions lumber, piano, school, and a master blooding through unclear text. The readable terms point to a school setting with a piano and a master figure tied to lumber context, but details are insufficient for a full event. This item appears as a stray archival fragment without a clear narrative.
In Acton 1877 a banker and a minister witness a secret wedding where Ellen Latour pays twenty thousand dollars for Doctor Pomeroy to marry her. Years later, Pomeroy learns his wife used a false identity and a hidden past, revealing Ellen Latour as his true spouse and shattering his earlier vows. The story ends with the couple reconciled and Ada finding a home with Ellen.
TE K MORROW of Bellevue College New York and Victoria College Canada offers consultations on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9 am at residence Hower Street Acton. Also advertises real estate services including deeds mortgages and money to loan or mortgage security. Office Gragew House Acton. D Henderson Convey.
A historical notice extols the Life and Accident Insurance Company with 600,000 paid up capital and 142,000 in government deposits. It compares The Travelers Insurance Company as a large life and accident writer, promising low upfront premiums and no medical exam. Agents C F Russell and Wilson Irwin are listed in Toronto.
A speaker laments being a bachelor as society assigns mates by statistics. He argues the world runs twenty women for every twenty men, leaving him excess. He insists his single status isn’t due to flaw, but fate, and imagines his place among those left unpaired.
Dr. Pomeroy receives a cryptic letter offering twenty thousand dollars for a private marriage ceremony at South Street Church. He wrestles with poverty and temptation as the eight o clock cue arrives and he approaches the veiled meeting with a stranger and a gentleman in attendance.
A Detroit Tribune item recounts a brine preservation method using salt and unstooked lime. Eggs must be fully covered and kept cool, with careful handling to avoid cracking. kept from September to May for usage in cakes and omelets. A store commission anecdote notes a barrel of overlooked eggs kept in brine for nearly two years remained sweet.
James Combs of Blythe Ontario escaped from a hospital room during a delirium caused by typhoid fever and died after attempting a bath. His burial followed on Thursday and his father died the day before.
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