06 Aug 1908
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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
1
Tillie sails into a quiet head of a bay sheltered by cliffs and arrives at a thriving valley with a log cabin. She meets a deformed, enigmatic girl named Floss Beevil on the veranda and seeks rest, signaling the start of a tense new encounter in a remote setting.
Tillie Ward drifts in a birch-bark canoe as silence and darkness close in on the great waterway. Fatigue and sleeplessness strain her frame while the murmuring waves mingle with the wind in the authorial mood.
Ontario Wheat old at 83 to 84 cents and new at 81 to 82 cents. Manitoba Wheat quotations at Georgian Bay ports with No 1 northern 1.10 plus percent terms, No 3 northern 1.07 and 1.06. Barley No 2 58 to 60 outside, No 3 56 to 57. Bran 16 to 18 per ton in bulk. oats Ontario No 2 white 44 to 46 outside Manitoba No 2 48 lake No 3 46 rejects 45. Shorts 20 to 21 outside. flour Manitoba first patents 6, seconds 5.40, bakers 5.30. Ontario winter patents 3.20 to 3.30.
Butter receipts remain large as market holds. Creamery prices range 24¢ to 25¢ per lb solids, dairy prints at 28¢ to 24¢, tubs 21¢ to 22¢. Cheese 12½¢ to 13½¢, eggs around 20¢. Potatoes Ontario 90¢–$1.15 per bushel, Americans $3.35–$3.60 per barrel. Pork short cut $23.50 per barrel, mess $19–$19.50. Lard 12¢, various smoked meats listed with cents per unit.
Flour patent spring wheat traded at 6.10 to 6.20 per unit with second patents 5.50 to 5.70 and winter wheat patents 5 to 5.50. Straight rollers 4.25 to 4.50. Oats prices 2.50 per 90 pound bag rolled oats. Cornmeal 1.85 to 1.95 per bag. Millfeed Ontario bran 20.50 to 21.50. shorts 23 to 24. Manitoba bran 22 to 23. shorts 24 to 25. Provisions include barrels short cut mess 22.50, half barrels 11.50, clear fat backs 23, salt back 11c, plate beef 17.50, half barrels 9, lard 3.5 to 9c, pure lard 12.5 to 13c, kettle rendered 13 to 13.5c, hams 12 to 13c, breakfast bacon 14 to 15c, Windsor bacon 15 to 16c. Fresh hogs 9.75 to 10, live 6.85 to 7. Eggs 23c selected stock, 20c No 1, 16c No 2 per dozen. Cheese Westerns live 12.5c and Eastern 11.5 to 11.75c.
Buffalo and New York market notes show firmer and lower bids across grains. Wheat, oats, barley and corn prices listed with quality grades and delivery terms for spot or afloat in early August.
In Toronto on August 4 the cattle market shows a range of values by class with loads at 5.30 per cwt and good cattle around 5.00, light cattle 4.80 to 5.00, with choice butchers at about 5. Canners bring 1 to 2 per cwt while stockers earn 3 to 3.75. Lambs 5 to 6 cents per pound. hogs at 0.90 per cwt. calves 3 to 5% per pound. Hamilton Health Board asks milk dealers to register names on bottles and assume responsibility for contents.
A Swedish foreman aboard the Sutton and McArthur work boat on the steamer Standard threw overboard a young Scottish worker named Robert Mc Kay during a Monday altercation. Despite rescue efforts the man did not survive and the Swede vanished. A search for the missing Swede has begun.
Nova Scotia plans to present the Princess of Wales with a mink coat featuring fur trim and 24 karat gold buttons valued around $8,000. In a separate incident, several Brockville boys teased an elderly man named Kenylle, whom they taunted until he hurled a stone and struck George Whaley in the face, causing a lifelong disfigurement.
Lord Roberts planned western reach to Banff. Woodstock voters defeated a school funds bylaw. Farmer R S Price related to Lord Roberts. Fred Howe fined for sidewalk loitering in Hamilton. A H Pridy jailed in Winnipeg for mail robbery. Lindsay OKs 10000 debentures for ozone plant. J A O'Brien admitted guilt in Montreal for Express Company robbery. Italian immigrant Isaac Scigliano arrested for murder, captured in Michigan and brought back.
A British board will inquire into meat preservation methods. Mr Joseph Chamberlain is reported gravely ill. The House of Lords passes the old age pensions bill with amendments. Mr Lloyd George blames armament costs for German distrust. Three hundred MPs back removing the cattle embargo. Universal Peace Congress delegates welcomed by the King and Queen. Sir Edward Grey rejects isolation of Germany. Sir Percy Scott takes a new command to ease friction with Lord Beresford. The Admiralty exonerates Beresford and Scott over the signal incident.
A state decision in North Dakota directs construction of a Theodore Roosevelt monument. In Greenville Texas a Black man accused of assaulting a white woman was killed by a mob in the public square.
The report notes Turkish Muslims growing pro British stance while Gen Von der Goltz plans to reorganize the Turkish army. W K Vanderbilt's stepson dies in France in a motor car crash. A Chinese vessel sinks in a typhoon near Clanton with 300 drowned. Clark Kennedy, the captured Englishman, is released.
London dispatch cites The Daily Telegraph praising Quebec battlefields as sacred to Canadian genius within the empire. It lauds Canada’s future role between Britain and the United States and lauds the Tercentenary’s success, urging fidelity to Canada’s traditions to forge an unrivaled community.
Despatch from Beamsville Ontario reports Rev G B Brown pastor of the Baptist church drowned Thursday afternoon at Jordan Harbor during a church Sunday school picnic. Bert McEnteer swam ahead and called for assistance as Brown tired. Brown, 52, of Beamsville, was found drowned.
A. despatch reports the death of prominent broker Mr. Vieter Gray of Montreal after being found unconscious in a hotel. He was a member of J. H. Dun & Company and the Montreal Stock Exchange, about 33, and recently married Miss Clayton of Ottawa.
Fort William despatch reports train No 2 struck an oncoming gang of sixty on the eastbound track at Osco. Three men, Wasya Cushkewicz John Luciczyz and Diemetro Wyshnowski, died. a fourth, John Cushkewicz, was injured and died en route to McKellar Hospital. All were dock workers with local ties. Engineer Robinson halted the locomotive within two train lengths after spotting the workers.
A Winnipeg despatch reports July crop conditions show less rainfall stress than June but general rain shortage reduces yield. Harvesting starts earlier than last year yet delays persist, with light land wheat cut mid August and main harvest mid August to late August. Overall yield likely above average in quality, with an across the country crop of over a hundred million bushels.
A St Petersburg despatch reports cholera in Russia this year is highly virulent. In Tsaritsyn 12 cases have 11 deaths. DeputyVon Anrep notes horrible Volga town sanitation with no sewerage or water works, risking a wide epidemic.
A despatch from Quebec reports Percy Daniels died an hour after receiving a shock from a live wire while installing a motor in a sos storage warehouse on Wednesday. He was a Toronto figure, once with General Electric, nephew of H. B. Angus, Bank of Montreal director, English by birth, about 30, unmarried.
A new epoch in western transportation began Thursday morning as the first train pulled out for the west over the Grand Trunk Pacific route.
The group includes England Ireland and Transcontinental cars with General Manager Morse and western officials plus eighteen guests. They will inspect the line to Battle River 675 miles west to ready opening for traffic and expect first passenger and freight timetables upon return.
A Wednesday announcement reduces shiplap and boards by 5.50 per thousand to 17 per thousand. Dimension lumber falls 3.50 per thousand to 19 per thousand. Applies to all lumber from British Columbia and western points.
Halifax dispatch notes the Nova Scotia Government Summer Crop Report, estimating six leading crops at percentages of a normal year. Hay 90, oats 97, potatoes 105, apples 100, plums 90, and small fruits 90 percent of average.
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