09 Sep 1880
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1880
Page
1
Bakers and confectioners Marx and Mice Sraters solicit village patrons with offerings and thanks to supporters. They advertise supplying the countryside with grain and goods and invite new customers to visit.
An idiosyncratic essay arguing dogs vary in usefulness and temperament. It treats breeds like Newfoundland, terrier, shepherd, and bloodhound with practical notes on profitability, loyalty, and the value of dogs beyond mere companionship.
In a village tale a thrifty couple faces loss as illness tests their care. A five year old boy, Johnny, is echoed as a brave helper while a parable about work and honesty unfolds through a family's plight and a farmer’s struggle with fate.
A country family hosts John Farley during a visiting expedition while Mollie Danvers, seventeen, negotiates duty and desire. Amelia Danvers looms as the family’s belle as Mollie contemplates chores and proprieties amid social expectations.
A young customer questions a jeweller about rings described as gold yet not truly gold. The shopkeeper and buyer argue over the type of ring and its cost, while the buyer insists on a cheaper “begagement ring” with rough language and a boastful demand.
A Manchester workingman delivered a temperance talk in a public square using a loaf and knife to symbolize taxation and government. He split the loaf to show burdens on local and national authorities and urged the crowd to support public houses and family welfare. The audience reacted with applause and laughter at the allegory.
A garbled account recounts Bishop Selwyn speaking to a crowd about sharing service and a copper tea kettle. The tale mentions a governor and miners, and a plan to sweep dust with freshly cut grass to refresh a carpet, framed as a moral about avoiding fear and deceit.
A garbled mix of moral maxims and literary quips on virtue trust and social behavior. The text quotes Tennyson and a French writer while musing on honesty, kindness, and social norms. It includes stray lines about a washerwoman and a mule with a distorted, period voice.
A garbled set of notices reports a Georgian clergyman spending a night in a remote cabin and an elderly man tending to his appearance with a tin pan and teeth removal. Other items note a group of sixty raftewen leaving Ottawa to work in Peterborough woods, a new London paper bar factory, and selective board estimates in London Ontario. Mentions of fires, railway damage, troops arriving from England to London, mining, emigration, and a strange laundry anecdote follow, with scattered local anecdotes and minor incidents.
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