11 Sep 1879
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 11, 1879
Page
1
An old advertisement lists medical faculty and legal notices around Mill and Frederic Streets, promoting the best local Halton County paper. It urges residents and farmers to place ads with Keros-Freex and to support the Acrox Parss, noting offices on Frederick Street and Shop ick Street opposite Dr. Is Lower.
Miss Armstrong, a 21-year-old passenger, and Captain Armstrong recount a year long voyage from New York to San Francisco via Rio de Janeiro plagued by yellow fever. The crew suffered losses, including the captain’s wife, and the ship faced severe danger at sea with illness and near shipwreck.
The text outlines how to prepare meals and serve an invalid with cleanliness and respect. It emphasizes not consulting the patient about food or drink changes, anticipating wants, and avoiding distress, gossip, or pressure in the sick room. It advocates following the doctor’s directions and maintaining order, discretion, and tender nursing.
Describes two royal ceremonies of the Travancore king the Danam and Hiranga Garbha Daacu. The Danam involves weighing gold gifts for nobles and learned men, with lavish offerings and a martial procession. The Hiranye Garbham or Womb of God features a huge gold vessel filled with sacred fluids in which the king bathes and performs devotions with Vedic chants. The first ceremony dates back to 1829 and 1860 with later observances in the king’s tenth year of reign at age thirty eight.
The young daughters of the Prince of Wales appear in plain white or cotton dresses with a touch of red trim. They are seen riding and driving in neat solid dresses while accompanying their father to a recent French fair wearing brown silk gowns and cambric garments with crimson and pink accents.
A wartime commission finds widespread faults in construction and supervision of railway lines and proposes merging the fifty three railways into a few large companies to cut costs and improve service. It also calls for pension funds and a comprehensive railway act detailing rights and responsibilities. How much does a ship's companion-way
A foreign observer praises Italy’s secular government and the Pedagogic Museum in Rome, noting progress in education and the influence of German Prussian models on Italian gymnasia. Yet he warns Italian teachers cite gaps in geography and civic knowledge among graduates, arguing geography remains essential for educated society.
A Belgian experiment saw four Indian elephants brought from Bombay disembark near Zanzibar after a long ship voyage. The first animal, freed from ropes, swam 800 yards to shore and excited local spectators as the other three followed the next day.
The article argues most Russians favor the Czar and fear a constitutional grant would come from pressure by Nihilists. It suggests the Czar opposes a constitution now, hoping to avoid dealing with revolutionary forces, while the heir appears unable to sway him. The piece closes with a grim view of Russia’s bleak future.
A discussion argues geography remains a vital lifelong tool beyond school. It emphasizes maps and place awareness enrich reading, aid understanding of news, travel narratives, and literature, and suggests readers keep a handy atlas for quick reference to new names and places.
In a city market a dead dog with a halter is mocked as foul and polluting. Jesus pities the creature, saying pearls are not equal to the whiteness of its teeth, prompting bystanders to recognize him and depart in awe.
A Minnesota man writes to the Salem Gazette describing a claimed discovery in diphtheria treatment. He notes a case where an arm blistered during treatment showed deposits and a mild disease course, asserting the doctor’s theory links throat infection to skin outbreaks when blisters form.
Dr Hall advises that warmth, clean air, pure water, and rest are the best medicines even when a patient seems to improve by exertion. Pushing through illness can exhaust life and hasten death, while a warm bed and cool air aid safe, speedy recovery. Nature itself seeks quiet and rest to combat disease.
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