29 Sep 1887
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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 29, 1887
Page
1
Poetical fragment reflects steadfast friendship and enduring love despite doubt. The speaker celebrates loyal friends and a steadfast hearth, noting fear and tears are absent when affection remains true across the years.
A narrator recalls Dinah helping with washing and sometimes taking clothes home. A twelve o'clock business break follows as a boy arrives and a polite youth named James Axmetrong enters with a letter from a well known man. The scene hints at social expectations and incoming visitors.
The text surveys ancient wealth figures for Croesus Seneca and others, then shifts to a Maine reply on prohibition. A Maine editor recalls a village ban on liquor reducing drunkenness and boosting quiet, followed by a humorous Boston Transcript anecdote about Tommy and a party of boys.
Two executors who believed a scrap claiming "Seven hundred pounds in Till" led them to inspect a book sale. After selling the late friend’s library, they later bought back a Tillotson folio from a bookseller and discovered banknotes totaling seven hundred pounds concealed within several pages.
Fragmentary text describes a Wayne County author and references drought era activities, graves, a house visit, and a distressed scene with doors and a late dawn knock. The readable content is highly obscured and lacks coherent narrative or verifiable names and events.
Reported in a brief street encounter a firm head discovers a dead boy reading a dime-novel in a small Michigan Avenue shop. The inquirer notes no partner, mentions a mortgaged wife and a temporary hold until spring as authorities prepare to open and liquidate stock at low cash prices.
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