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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 24, 1904
Page
3
A fragmentary pirate yarn recounts the Nepy brig crew turning to piracy then trading. They burned traces of buccaneering during a Kingston stop, discarded paper-filled canisters found on sinking ships, and were later tried and hanged at Port Royal after a British frigate involvement.
A tradition notes that when a Husain dies he is buried with a paper in his hand bearing the Christian name and a prayer for the soul. The practice marks a personal farewell and spiritual wish within the burial rite.
Fragmented Victorian era text notes delays in marriages and long engagements while mentioning London motor omnibuses, the Rotherhithe tunnel project, a London County Council work tender, and the death of Goridge a 96 year old Swansea resident with a varied past as sackmaker miler putcher sailor farmer and smuggler.
Val releases fall reading lineup with The Witch's Daughter by Macken and A Ballad of Dundee by Chas Wood alongside Everyman tie in October.
A historical sketch recalls Daniel Lambert born 1770 in Leicestershire and dying 1800 in London famed as a corpulent figure who reached fifty two stone. Brighter contemporaries Poward Bright of Malden weighed forty two stone seven pounds and died at thirty. Both men attracted crowds yet remained good-humored and popular. The piece ends noting fiction’s Fat Boy of Peckham eclipsing real figures in lasting fame.
During a banquet for James Russell Lowell in England Sir Frederick Bramwell prepared to reply to the toast Applied Serence. A scientist near the bar improvised a dangerous phrase about lighting a bedroom candle with a match. Lowell then sent Bramwell a note joking about youth’s companion talent.
A Mr and Mrs Dancer, famed as public misers of the eighteenth century, amassed £20,000. Their disposal of wealth after death was bizarre: £2,500 found in a dunghill, £60 in an old coat nailed to a man ger in the stable, £2,000 in a chimney, and several jugs of corn secreted in the stable loft.
A tale from the London Mail recounts a piece of English freedom saved by chance when a merciless tailor began cutting a document sealed with a great seal. Sir Robert Cotton stopped the man and gave fourpence for the paper, which now rests in the British Museum under glass with melted wax seals and legible characters preserved.
The clipped dialogue shows Said Malad and Miatren discussing visits with a Girls' society and a maid's reply. A flirtatious suitor speaks frankly about bearing a thorn and a warning, while a comment mentions a Leonardine hair dye priced remedy claimed to restore hair color.
The text notes that De Pounder, a musician, performs entirely by ear, questioning how such ear instinct could produce larger effects. It suggests a curious, almost aphoristic reflection on listening and skill in music.
Ottawa resident Mr. San Cassidy, Bijou Hotel proprietor, well known hunter and sportsman, praises Dodd's Kidney Pills after years of kidney trouble. He claims the medicine cured him, urging others with kidney disease to try it. Also noted is Jane Poult, 9s, widow of Edward Poultney, who founded a rescue home and recently died in Stepney after a neck injury.
A London electrical engineer drowned after a wave swept him from a pier in County Donegal. Sir John Noce Moore, former Lord Mayor of London, died at Rusell Square after a lengthy illness. born in Storsport in 1826.
General and Lady Audry Uutier have sold the London house and Sir Redvers will lead a country squire life at Crediton Devonshire. Several men were fined in Monmouthshire for being helplessly drunk on rhubarb wine.
Washington observers recount a dinner for cabinet and senate guests at the Capitol where Jenny Lind and Daniel Webster shared a stage. The Swedish soprano opened the program with Hail Columbia and Webster joined the chorus, prompting repeated bows as Lind blushed and the audience cheered.
The term mess derives from French met s and Latin mensa meaning a common meat dish for four at one table. It evolved to mean a group or the number four in other contexts and appears in Shakespeare and Love's Labour's Lost. The practice survives among soldiers and at London inns of court.
The article discusses lemons' purported benefits for rheumatism and consumption, recommending a rising dose up to twenty-five lemons daily for rheumatism and a preventive half lemon daily in hot water. It also mentions hockey’s prominence in the Dominion and notes a Sunday street-noise crackdown by Bradford corporation, alongside various brief items about people and events.
A London Chronicle note recalls debate among readers on how to pronounce Pepys. It mentions Mr. James Carcasse, who joined Pepys on a boat to view a fire and later wrote sharp verses. The piece cites the debate as unresolved with scholars offering variants like Pepys, Peeptes, and Chumley.
A garbled prose piece cites a Southwark court defendant speaking on principle and temper. It mentions a Liverpool magistrate, Abbotsford and Sir Walter Scott, betting men in drinking shops, and a host of odd details about clergy, the GWR dog Jack, and a Lincolnshire farm value shift.
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