Winnipeg and Manitoba News and International Briefs
The week’s items report Manitoba grain exports and prices, new railway contracts, population and settlement data, and local weather. Also covered are political appointments in Canada, trade talks, European tensions, American prohibition fears, and maritime incidents with ships Hindostan and Britannia.
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CPR
Hochelags
Prairie
Dade Taylor
Wallbridge
Wer
Pears Busiace
Moentreal Street Railway Company
Masiteclin Kapesitor
Towaring
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Red River
Clowel Baker
Kootquay
B.C
oBers
Prince Edward Island
Mounted Police
Maaiwobe
Odds and Ends from Rewsia 255000 Inventions and Oddities
A collage of curious facts mentions 255000 workers in Rewsia's terraces, 1886 land use at 2006 barrels, 80 to 990 Boston born subjects of Britain, California grape and pear shipments weekly, Ressis exporting 64000000 bushels of wheat up 16000000 from last year, Russia harvests by women with sickles and hand threshing, a London anti fat restaurant, a tobacco buyer who earns $10 annually yet abstains from tobacco, rapid paper making to publish Sea newspaper in 36 hours, an intermittent lake at Kirknits in the Austrian Alps that dries up seasonally, and an underground lake system connected by a continuous current.
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Interior Department
Ottawa
Nova Scotia
Edward I
New Brunswick
Ontario
Manitoba
British Columbia
North West Central Railway
Department of Agriculture
Dominion
California
Ressis
Russia
London
Incinnati Tobacco House
Kirknits
Austrian Alps
Sakaan
Rumored Alaska Vegetation Described in Vivid Detail
An observer describes Alaska's Alexander Archipelago voyage landfall with dense evergreen forests, moss carpets, and luxuriant vines reaching high into trees. He notes Sitka spruce and totem poles hosting vigorous plant growth, including seeds germinating from totem poles and even trees growing from telegraph poles.
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Alaska
Alexander Archipelago
Mantalini
Pness
Indias
Mons
No Danger In Thunderstorm Visit To Widowed Household
A night thunderstorm drives a distant traveler into a village where a widow and her two daughters shelter. The curate uses the moment to boast of courage, retorting fears with philosophy as lightning crashes. He reassures the women there is no danger as a boy is sent to inform his mother.
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Central America
Jean
Eccentric Caller Delights in Unwanted Visits
A curious gentleman from the last century, Sir ates Rae Gacek, repeatedly visited public figures and households. His interruptions drew officials to improvise to avoid him as he chatted with residents, joked about meeting the parrot, and claimed to set his watch by the morning.
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Sirates Rae Gacek
Farh Wherex Cane or Cows
An American issue argues for open windows and fresh air to prevent illness in households and stables. It contrasts close warm stoves and confinement with well ventilated spaces that boost health, suggesting cows benefit from outdoor time and exercise in cold weather.
cistern construction with cement lining and earth platform
The article describes building a deep egg shaped cistern with eighteen inches of surface soil removed to prevent frost and heat. It details cement mixing water lime and sand, one inch thick walls, bed stone floor, and a strong four inch plank floor laid on beams with a manhole for cleaning.
Managing Fowls in Small Furnished Spaces
The article advises housing six by eight foot rooms with a small yard for no more than about twelve fowls. It favors board floors over earth, argues lime on boards improves cleanliness, and notes reduced need for disinfectants. It outlines winter feeding with warm chopped corn and meal, salt and pepper, and notes oyster shells for shell strength.
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Santien
Stock Watering Troughs for Herds and Winter Ice Control
The text advises providing sufficent water troughs for twelve to fifteen cows, recommending four widely scattered or protected troughs. An octagonal trough frame or circular arrangement ensures access for all cows. Waste should drain away to prevent winter ice, with troughs emptied as needed. In summer a constant water flow is desirable, using a water ram or a reservoir sized to meet demand.
Winter Dairy Management and Healthful Cleanliness
The passage advises thorough personal hygiene and skin care during winter, plus abundant absorbents like dried swamp muck, hardwood sawdust, and leaves for cleanliness. It urges liberal, regular feeding of the dairy stock to ensure butter quality and quantity, noting winter is a grand opportunity for manure production.
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Manipore
Americas Agriculturist
Exercise Enough for Him in Early Sea Crossing Tale
A ragged voyage anecdote recalls a demon passenger and an Irish traveler aboard a pre steamship crossing. The mate muses on endurance and the need for exercise as a young man endures the long sea passage with a fixed gaze on the mast.
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Eagland
America
Reflections on Women's Roles Through History
A discussion tracing how women were viewed in medieval and early modern times as servants, ornaments, or sources of pleasure. It cites quotes by John Stuart Mill and a 19th century author criticizing enforced ignorance and limited education for women. The piece contrasts past subjugation with present possibilities.
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Boone
John Stuart Mill
Sensations at High Altitudes on Popocatepetl Summit
The narrator describes a grueling ascent to the Popocatepetl summit with repeated rests, shrinking breaths, and dizzying fatigue. Guides pace the party as they push through thinning air, battling nosebleeds and headaches before finally reaching the crater and smelling sulfur at the summit.
Emperor of Germany Visits Krupp Works and Delays Hammer
The Vienna Free Press recounts an imperial tour of the Kasen Krupp steel plant. Emperor watches Ackerman halt a steam hammer within a hair’s breadth of a watch, then Krupp offers the watch as a gift wrapped with a 1000‑mark note, kept for Ackerman’s memory of the moment.
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Germany
Krupp Steel Works
Kasen
Vienna Free Press
Herr Krupp
Ackerman
Krupp
Curious Clocks in Royal Tales of Timepieces
An ex-emperor and clock-maker Torriano crafted wondrous clocks at the Monastery of St. Yusto, leading monks to suspect the devil until demonstrations proved otherwise. A Spanish king in Geneva viewed a clock with animal figures that reacted to time, sparking fear and belief in occult hands.
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Spain
St. Yusto
Torriano
Charles
Geneva
Droz
Sree
How to Be a Nobody Watchman Advice
A fragmented excerpt advises becoming a "nobody" by frequenting a drinking saloon and wasting time with dime novels. It hints that staying away from reading and self distraction leads to a social drift toward being a first class nobody unless one becomes a drunkard or a professional, which is worse.
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Philadelphia
Teese
United States
Supreme Court
Hindostan
New York
Marseilles
Medison
Britannia
Tampa
G. Francklyn
Horn Silver Mining Company
Ludlow Street
Bayard
Garland
Behring Sea
Dominion
Pla Gudtsdin
Titan
Byrne Amou
Randy Soigredasie
Veal and Sago Broth and Other Gentle Dishes for Ills
Practical kitchen tips for convalescence include veal and sago broth with barley and cream, fillet of chicken in reduced broth, and a tender rabbit soup. Directions cover soaking, simmering, straining, chilling, and serving with hot toast, rice or vermicelli, plus a convalescent drink with gelatin cream and cherry.
Purifying Blood Through Diet and Air Beliefs
Health guidance argues impurities in blood come from rich foods and poor air. It warns against animal parts like kidneys and liver, urging pure foods and clean air to aid nature. It suggests using irritation to bring eruptions to the surface and cautions on treatment.
Absent minded professors and a forgetful Reichstag member
A New England college professor is famed for forgetting names and faces even of his own son who asks for permission to leave. A German Reichstag scene shows Herr Wichmann calling his own name twice, then loudly roaring it, prompting collective laughter at his expense.
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New England
London
Reichstag
Herr Wichmann
School Dress for Equal, Simple Uniforms Suggested
Opinion argues that girls schools should enforce plain uniform costumes to reduce class gaps and rivalry. Proposals favor healthful, modest attire in school years with varied color to avoid monotony, reserving fancy outfits for social debut and future independence.
Trees With a History Buttonwood Tree Age Discovery
A buttonwood tree believed to be 150 years old was recently measured near Middletown New Jersey. A silver maple, reportedly 16 feet in girth, grew from a traveler’s stake planted in 1340. Arkansas also appears in the fragmentary text.
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Middletown
Arkansas
Leopard Tales From A Himalayan Jungle Hunt
An English hunter recounts leopard lore in India and Nepal. He describes two leopard types the small hunted by natives and the large man eater of the Terai linking encounters with shikars Ghoorkhas a Ram Bex and a dangerous night chase ending with a clever ambush and rescue.
Leopard Attack Ends in Camp Skirmish and Mourner Amulets
After a hot march we reached camp at noon where villagers mourned as parents received claws of the leopard that had carried off children. In the clash Ram Bax, a Ghorkha, and a hunter killed the beast with rifle and hook knife, while skinning the prey.
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Ram Bex
Ram Bax
Ghoorkha
Sheet
Scientific notes on Northwich subsidence and new railway effects
Reports describe large subsidence near Northwich caused by brine pumping for salt production. Sinking began about 1770, with lakes forming up to 100 acres and depths to 45 feet. Other items discuss rainfall and washouts tied to railway construction and the impact of typewriters on business and clerical work.
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Northwich
England
Thomas Ward
Dendelatera
Mexican Central Railway
Dore
Floating mineral waters of Mono Lake described by Nevada paper
A Nevada paper describes Mono and Owens lakes as mineral rich with soda and borax. It notes natural cleanliness of clothing via rinsing, wind driven suds walls up to ten feet, wind blown mineral balls inland, and vegetation damage on the eastern shore. The water is said to serve as a barber shampoo and the residue as laundry powder.
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Mono Lake
Nevada
Owens and
Mono Lakes
Virginia Gentleman Considered Too Old for His Bride
In a dated tale a Virginia gentleman near retirement plans marriage to a younger woman. His visit prompts Aunt Chloe to bluntly say he is too old for Miss Lucy, prompting a forthright reaction and comic misgivings about their match.
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Chloe
Lucy
Mars’ John
Aunt Chloe
Miss Lucy
Joe
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Ponsonby
Esther Lloyd
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Popocatepetl
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Sport Ein Far
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Terai
Alora
Nepal
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Mle
Poser
Buffalo William
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