23 Jan 1908
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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
1
In a awkward church wedding, Doctor Anderson and Miles wed to the anxious Hope. The clergyman offers the marriage lines as witnesses, while bystanders mock the ceremony as Grace and Mrs. Brooks discuss the young bride and looming happiness.
Hope endures a lonely wedding day as Miles, a dedicated doctor, forgets her amid a gloomy Harley Street household. The housekeeper’s cold welcome, an uneasy teatime, and Hope’s longing for her former lodgings deepen tensions as she confronts being newly married without love and with an unwelcoming environment.
Ingersoll dispatch reports inflammable celluloid film ignited the moving picture machine at the Theatorium causing an explosion and fire. Audience escaped through a rear exit, plate glass shattered, firemen extinguished the blaze, machine valued at 350 dollars destroyed with no insurance. building damage insured.
London Ontario dispatch reports four hospital patients after a sleigh ride collision with a Southwestern Traction Co crossing at Simcoe Street. Albert Murden and son, Joseph Hardiman, and Beatrice Hardiman were hurt as a heavy car struck the sleigh. Hardiman regained only minor injuries at the hospital.
Toronto market notes Manitoba and Ontario wheat values with No 1 and No 2 grades, feed wheat and flour bids, along with barley, peas, rye, corn, oats, buckwheat, bran, shorts and dairy products. Includes poultry, butter, cheese, eggs, potatoes, pork, lard and assorted meats with current price ranges and track quotes.
Montreal reports no new flour market developments with various wheat patents priced from 5.59 to 6.40 and other grains and mill products listed. Butter cheese eggs and meats show steady or limited movement with current price ranges for lard beef and hogs noted alongside packaged goods and fresh arrivals.
Buffalo and New York market notes show wheat prices steady to easy with No. 2 red at 1.04 to 1.05 dollars and No. 1 northern at 1.21 to 1.25 dollars f o b. Corn and oats prices firm or lower with various grades quoted. rye and barley bids listed.
In Toronto on Jan 24 exporters sold a few bulls at 4.75 per cwt with bids up to 4.50 for top animals. Export cows brought 4.50 cwt, choice butcher steers 4.50 to 4.85, medium to good 4.00 to 4.50, common 3 to 4. Cows 3.50 to 4, medium 3 to 3.25, common 1.75 to 2.75. Canners 0.75 to 1. Stockers and feeders 3.50. light stockers 2.6 to 2.75 per cwt. Milch cows 10 to 55 each.
Cattle values ranged from 25 to 35 dollars for common to fair stock. Calves moved at 63 to 64 cents per pound. Ewes sold 4.00 to 4.40 dollars, bucks and calls 3 to 4, lambs 5 to 6.25 per ewt. Select hogs brought 5.70 and light hogs 5.45 per ewt.
A Hamilton lad named Cummings died from wounds after a Friday morning fight at the McPherson shoe factory. Kirkpatrick allegedly seized a knife during the scuffle and stabbed Cummings in the face. Cummings died about midnight after initially appearing not seriously hurt. Kirkpatrick was arrested on a wounding charge and may face a more serious count.
A Brampton family suffers a fatal outbreak as James Fallis Sr. dies December 28 from erysipelas and blood poisoning, his son-in-law Alex Brad dy dies January 8 after contracting the disease, and Mrs Fallis, aged 70, dies soon after eight o'clock Thursday night. The family were longtime town residents.
From Johnstown Pennsylvania comes a tale of Poswell once saved from destruction by a spontaneous snowball assault. With no fire department and scarce water, hundreds joined to throw soft wet snow at a blazing boiler stocked with powder. The effort halted the blaze and kept it to six buildings.
A Kenora dispatch reports four station gang members killed in a premature dynamite blast on Thompson and Egan's sub contract of the National Transcontinental north of Hawk. Seven worked at the rock cut when the accident occurred. two men were blown from the cut and died, two others were blown to atoms, and three were seriously injured. The dead were all Russians and names could not be given in the moment.
A Beamsville boy named Karl bought Spanish fly blister from Dr Fairfield's, claimed for horse blistering, shared candy with classmate Russell who fell violently ill but recovered after medical aid. County Constable Tufford investigates the incident.
Despatch from Winnipeg reports shortages in freight at Canadian Pacific. Five employees Sidney Mason Ernest Haigh Robert Thompson Gavin B Landers and Raltheson were arrested on duty. Stolen goods include cigars whiskey and sugar valued at hundreds of dollars.
The Bugian Party Commission is expected to reject King opald's Congo treaty while endorsing parts of it Japan warns China it will halt duties on goods to Manchuria unless customs laws are enforced against Russia.
At Woodstock last week the Western Dairymen's Convention heard Owen Sound president John McQuaker report a strong year for western Ontario dairying with factory improvements totaling around 25,882 and creameries 16,954. Labour shortages were blamed on short-year contracts. Ottawa's H Grisdale urged year‑round hiring and fair wages. Commissioner J A Ruddick warned of competition from Siberia Australia and New Zealand, noting Irish butter quality and growing creameries. South Oxford MP M S Schell cited exports rising to roughly 24 million since 1868 with 20 million forecast for 1908. Ontario Agriculture Minister N Monteith outlined development registers.
Ice fills the St Clair River while Hamilton reports multiple deaths and polio-like cases. Brockville bans skating without vaccination. Portand trains resume in March. ex Premier Walkem dies in Victoria. Coleridge sees a conductor killed. a Montreal girl dies from lye given as a joke. Prince Rupert layout hired by Grand Trunk Pacific. Canada tightens foreign shipping rules. Quebec tercentenary eyed with possible royal visit. Winnipeg aims to borrow 12 million for taxes. Ottawa cables to Tokyo on immigration. Several smallpox cases noted in Manitoba. highway robberies lead to life sentence in Toronto. Flogging proposals surface for crime. various civic finance moves and seed grain aids discussed.
In Scranton Pac three girls died in a factory blaze on Friday. British mill owners and cotton operatives broke off negotiations. William O'Brien and Timothy Healey pledged to work with John Redmond to reunite Irish National forces. Two Cork Nationalists allied with O'Brien were expelled from a United Irish League directors meeting in Dublin on Wednesday.
Mrs Louise McLure aged widow, married in Canada two years ago, drowned herself in a bathtub in New York on Wednesday according to police reports.
A Tangier despatch reports Mulai Hafid has proclaimed a Jehad across Morocco with public criers urging Marrakesh to exterminate Christians. Fears spread of Fez involvement and Dutch and French experts warn of fanatical action threatening Europeans in coast towns.
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