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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
1
A fragmentary 19th century style dialogue touts Shilohs Cure and similar tonics amid garbled medical chatter What follows mocks nerve disorders with exaggerated testimonials and dubious claims Of note is the line about a 34 year track record and a money back guarantee during a comical debate over medicine efficacy.
In a crowded party Miles Anderson confronts grief over his wife Hope who vanished after an unhappy marriage. Grace, the hospital sister, offers gentle sympathy amid gossip as Miles contemplates a possible new life while wrestling with remorse and a ring that ties to his late spouse.
An Italian man Antonio de Treca aged about forty was murdered Friday evening by another Italian, Micelar Viti, who had been his friend. They were drinking at a dive near their boarding house when a quarrel escalated, leading to the fatal blow. The report notes recent immigration statistics from January detailing ocean arrivals: 2,418 passengers, with 2,418 men, 40,781 women and 36,261 children under twelve.
GranTrank Pacific plans a spring sale of sixty two town sites west of Winnipeg. Rivers a divisional point 142 miles west Nokomi 282 miles west and To field Beaver Lake 268 miles west of Edmonton are ready for sale. Prices range from 100 to 560 for town lots with fixed prices for smaller sites. A historic sale of building lots will occur at Prince Rupert when the road opens.
Ottawa dispatch notes the January statement from the Department of Finance showing reduced bank liabilities from December. Note circulation fell from 77 504 398 to 66 871 376 dollars, current loans dropped to 546 957 658, saving deposits declined to 399 407 294, and demand deposits slid to 146 757 963 dollars, total liabilities down about nine million.
Kingston dispatch reports Babcock of Murvale arrested on Thursday charged with in human treatment of his four month old baby. It is alleged he twisted a crying infant's arm until it broke. Mother and child admitted to Kingston General Hospital.
Toronto market notes list Manitoba and Ontario wheat prices with assorted grades and futures, plus corn oats rye and buckwheat. Included are flour, poultry, butter and dairy prices, with a freight and on-track summary. Also reports New York and Buffalo wheat, and a Quebec tercentenary funding motion. Meat and provisions prices feature heavily.
A wide array of terse notices touches on Canada and the world. Highlights mention Berlin public library volumes, Brant county jail inmates, a new bridge by the C. P. R., Hastings House of Refuge inmates, and Montreal refiners cutting sugar prices. Other items cite population figures for Guelph, tax and revenue movements, railway earnings, weed control proposals, and various accidents, crimes, and political developments across North America and Europe.
A St Petersburg police sweep arrested about fifty men and women linked to a planned assault on high officials. The operation near Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich’s palace wounded ten officers and killed one. Police found explosives and a concealed dynamite packed muffin.
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