16 Apr 1908
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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
1
Hope admits she is married and refuses to reveal her husband’s name. Arthur consoles her as the family urges honesty. Miles returns to work while Hope faces the consequence with her grandfather Sir James asserting that honor means more than a spoken word.
In Toronto April 14 market report Manitoba wheat bids for immediate delivery range No 1 Northern 118 inches and No 2 Northern 114 with May delivery No 1 Northern 142 No 2 Northern 107 No 3 Northern 104. Ontario No 2 white 90 cents and No 2 red 89 cents at shipment point. Prices for oats and buckwheat also listed with freight notes and flour grades.
Prices for eggs honey butter beans cheese hay straw maple syrup park turf and meats shown in a dense list. Ontario potatoes curb track prices. various dairy prints and condensed summaries indicate regional market quotes and commodity ranges.
Montreal reports no new developments in the local flour trade with spring wheat patents at 6.10 dollars and seconds at 5.50, winter patents 6.10, seconds 5.50, rollers 5 to 5.25, bags 2.35 to 2.56, plus fills and extras. Manitoba and Ontario feeds list bran at 22, shorts 23 to 24, middlings 24 to 25 per ton, cereals and oats prices noted alongside cheese butter eggs and various provisions in Canadian markets.
The market reports sheep at 4.75 to 5.50 dollars per ewt with end bucks and calls at 75 cents, hops priced at 6.59 dollars per unit, and lights and fats at 6.25 dollars per ewt. The data reflects commodity prices and market movement for the period.
An order in Council changes seed grain distribution in the west allowing advances to settlers who did not sow grain in 1907. Officials report few applicants, yet many Alberta and Saskatchewan farmers seek seed for the coming season, with Parliament's appropriation more than needed.
An attempted train wreck on the northbound C P R line occurred about two miles south of Strathcona Alberta on Wednesday. Two ties were placed on the track and flung aside by the engine, narrowly avoiding a family, with the locomotive staying on the rails. No clue to the culprit, officials suspect a tramp seeking revenge rather than children.
Ottawa reports the Postmaster General will require future mail contracts to bar carriers from transporting intoxicating liquor. The measure, supported by temperance groups, would cancel contracts if carriers violate the condition, aiming to stop liquor being delivered with official mail.
New York despatch reports Bernard Carlin shot and killed his mother Susan Carlin at her Quincy street home in Brooklyn. Carlin, recently released from Napanoch reformatory for stealing a horse and wagon, told police he killed her because she made him do bits all his life.
A. Johnson, engineer of the waterworks department, and Thomas Claverley were asphyxiated by gas in well No. 4. Claverley, in charge at night, descended the air shaft without testing for gas. Johnson died attempting a rescue. Claverley was a young Englishman with no relatives here. Johnson left a wife and family.
Chicago dispatch reports the Millers National Federation adopting a resolution to petition Congress to amend tariff laws so Canadian wheat billed for foreign countries may enter duty free. About two hundred members discussed the issue and referred it to a committee, which supported the petition and drafted the memorial to Washington.
Despatch from Vancouver reports a seven hundred thousand dollar timber deal involving two hundred million feet of lumber. The tract on Manguin Creek near Span Monley was closed Wednesday by D Van Wagner London and New York and J G Filchy of California. The timber purchase price and erection are planned for June.
Percy Bowins was acquitted at noon Thursday in Detroit for the murder of Mother Cornelia. The judge denounced the jury for releasing a suspected killer, calling it a miscarriage of justice, as Bowins prepared to move to Toronto with his mother and then Woodville.
A discussion of Easter gift trends notes growing comic decorations featuring chicks hares and ducks in playful scenes. While noting their popularity in shop windows the piece questions if such playful imagery preserves the sacred character of Easter and urges home and church to keep the holiday reverent.
A Victorian style guide outlines Easter egg crafts and party games. Players color eggs in red blue green and other shades, arrange them in a pan to form rows, and take turns pulling one egg to force five in a row. A blindfolded player uses a wand to touch eggs while reciting names and earning forfeit rules based on egg colors. The white egg carries a penalty and the golden egg has the highest value, with play ending when twenty points are reached.
A guide to making festive Easter eggs from simple hard boiled shells to etched designs. Instructions cover coloring, inking with nitric acid greetings, filling shells with candy, and shaping shells by soaking in warm milk water to create decorative cuts and gilded surfaces.
From Montreal a dispatch notes the Grand Trunk Pacific Executive is tendering 206 more miles east of Prince Rupert after a BC government agreement on Indian lands at the terminus. No official details yet. Port Arthur adopts eastern lime extending daylight for recreation after work.
Despatch from St Paul reports a surge of U S traffic northward surpassing railway expectations. Five Soo Line specials will head toward Canada carrying homeseekers and goods, with other lines from Chicago to Burlington and Rock Island contributing. Destinations include Battleford Prince Albert districts in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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