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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1903
Page
4
Capital six million dollars and rest ewe vee two million nine hundred thousand payable at any banking point in Canada outside Yukon Territory may now be procured at the Bank Counter without delay. Open Fridays six to eight o'clock. A H Devitt Manager.
Chamberlains Paln Balm is an antiseptic cream useful for cuts minuses and spins. Hewitt tins priced at 25 cents each.
A fragmented fiction like scene unfolds with a grieving mother and a doomed lover amid temperance preaching, wedding plans, and a country festival. Gregson and Disbrow circle Alice Davin as Greyson and others drift toward separate futures, while a sermon on cheerful living and faith closes the piece with a moral note.
A college town tale tracks Gregson’s reputation with multiple brief loves. Women from Prof Deschelte’s daughter to Bowdoin’s heiress and a theater star all fall for his charm, before society’s chaperons warn him as he quips about heart’s power.
Agricultural notes describe free material for three experiments on winter wheat and rye as fodder, pest control with winter wheat, and nitrate application. Applicants should specify test, receive testing instructions and reporting forms by mail or express, with material free until exhausted.
Employment expert Hapgood argues modern hiring rewards broad education and mental training. He notes strong demand for graduates, with technical roles requiring solid preparation and personal skills. A civil engineer profile shows firms seek engineers with broader, polished abilities for high-grade placements.
Prussia moves to curb drunkenness with a general ordinance directing government offices to cooperate with temperance societies. The plan includes creating workmen classes with food and literature access, erecting drinking fountains, promoting nonalcoholic beverages in stations and on roads, and systematic anti drinking education in schools, welcomed by temperance workers as decisive progress.
A fragmentary ad touts bargains on thermometers, claiming stock bought last winter when prices were low and now rising. The ad hints at enterprise and price movement, noting high demand and suggesting value in purchasing before further increases.
A trader questions how corn and whiskey could be turned into profit. They discuss corn worth thirty cents a bushel, $40 per hundred, and $1,000 from distilling 1,000 bushels into whiskey, then selling at retail for $6,000, amid a skeptical exchange in The Tan's Horn.
The text argues animals communicate through distinct sounds and gestures across species. It notes dogs and cats express hunger joy and fear, primates convey emotions, and various birds have rich calls. It claims universal language exists among sentient beings and even uncivilized creatures show complex vocality.
Fragmentary dialog quotes on idleness and work from historical figures. The passage centers on a boy delivering a letter, a remark about people posting letters unseen, and reflections from Kam’s Horn and Burke plus Franklin on idleness and labor.
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