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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1877
Page
7
A passenger warns of pickpockets on a railroad car. A repentant thief recalls stealing a basket at Rickaday station, only to be trapped by a snake released by a menagerie man. Milk calms the snake, revealing the thief’s conversion and leaving him with a moral verdict from a bystander.
The article discusses how weak eyesight is often blamed on insufficient light and argues that faulty artificial illumination causes certain eye injuries. It compares light sources, recommends lamps like German student lamps and gas with Argand burners, and advises on lamp placement and shade use to reduce glare. It also warns against sleeping with bright light or near windows and notes the eye’s sensitivity after rest.
A discussion catalogs personal habits that harm health including overeating and excess alcohol with late hours and poor hygiene. It then cites a French statistician’s study on 19th century war deaths, noting a terrible overall loss of life nearing two hundred million when considering wounds disease and starvation. The piece warns mortality is likely to rise further as the century progresses.
A chicken owned by Henry Rudge of St Stephen, St John’s Telegraph reports, hatched in mid April and at four months old began laying four eggs, continuing to lay one egg each day since. The notice highlights remarkable poultry precocity.
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