26 Mar 1908
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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
1
Hope, posing as Mary Smith, joins Lady Dimsdale at Prestowe Hall after leaving the Radfords. She adjusts to new duties, endures snobbish guests, and receives a lavish gown that makes her feel transformed. A chance meeting with Arthur Dimsdale hints at a growing, concealed attraction.
The Toronto market report lists Manitoba Wheat No 1 northern at 1.21, No 2 northern 1.18, feed wheat 67 to 34c, No 2 feed 61 2c, and assorted grain prices. It covers oats, rye, buckwheat, barley, peas, corn, flour, butter, eggs, cheese, beans, straw, hay, potatoes, pork, lard and various cured meats with current price ranges and market notes.
Montreal March 24 flour market remains lively with spring wheat patents at 6.10 and variations for seconds and winter grades. Cheese and butter demand strong. egg market firmer. Western and eastern September grain prices listed. various lard and beef provisions quoted. Buffalo and New York price snapshots for wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye and wheat futures follow.
A few good exporters were offered with sales up to 5.25 dollars. Heavy bulls sold from 3.86 to 4.25. Best butcher cattle alloyed first quality with strong demand. Cows were aggusttal and 3.60 to 4.10. Calves brought 3 to 6.50 with an average around 7 per calf. Sheep and lambs not heavily offered and bucks slightly higher with limited sales.
Last year’s surplus totaled 696000 with receipts 8320419 and expenditures 7714245. For 1908 estimated receipts are 9595856 and expenditures 7501875. Three year surpluses total 1656174. If credit to lumbermen had not been extended, surplus would be 1106000. Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway revenue 853000, province 235000 applied to English loan. expected this year 306000. Railway to connect with Grand Trunk Pacific at Cochrane by Sept 15. A loan in England will be issued this Autumn.
A fire drill at a Kattowiz Prussian Silesia school triggered a stampede when an exit door was accidentally locked. Ten children were trampled and rendered unconscious as others pressed forward. passers by freed the door and doctors revived the injured before they were sent home.
A Montreal despatch predicts 198 will be among early Springs with a red letter year for shipping on the St Lawrence. Weather and ice conditions point to the first ocean vessel entering Montreal harbor around the 15th of next month as open water reaches Batiskan and Cape Rouge remains free of ice.
A Toronto dispatch reports 2610 deaths from all causes in February in Ontario with a population of 2,161,200 a death rate of 14.9 per 1000. The prior February had 2760 deaths in 2,128,320 people a rate of 15 per 1000. deaths from contagious diseases are listed.
A Rochester despatch reports a wedding at Fairhaven New York where guests threw rice and shoes as the couple left. The frightened horses bolted the carriage overturned pinning the bride under it and dragging her twenty feet before the groom stopped the team. She is bruised and under a physician care.
Vague dispatch notes farmers in good shape with brief mention of a winner. The fragment hints at an associated appointment or inquiry but is unreadable.
Budget figures report nine month period with net debt down to 3.37 million and Transcontinental Railway progress. Revenue estimated at 96.5 million for the year, expenses 12 million, post office revenue 5.06 million with 3.98 million in expenditures, and a projected surplus potential of about 19 million if targets hold.
In the Lords Lord Tweedmouth argues Britain should pause large battleship orders as an experiment. He says Temeraire ships surpass Dreadnoughts, St Vincent ships would improve them, and by spring 1911 three St Vincent squadrons of four ships could be fielded, unmatched globally.
A North Portal Sask despatch reports nearly a thousand land seekers and settlers arriving over the Soo line on Thursday. About fifty cars of settlers’ goods passed through customs, mostly Midwestern men who took up land along the Soo line west of Moose Jaw last Fall. Most newcomers are Americans from Ohio Indiana Iowa Nebraska Minnesota North and South Dakota, experienced farmers with from $10 to $30 000 for land and buildings.
Winnipeg dispatch reports W. A. Hunt once chief clerk in the C N R accounting department sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for defrauding the company with forged pay checks. His confederates received lighter penalties.
A dispatch from Idaho reports Judge Fres mont recommends commuting the death sentence of Harry Orchandway, who was sentenced for murder, to imprisonment. Governor Stuerpenberg weighs the recommendation as the state contemplates clemency and legal options.
A Cornwall despatch reports 20 year old Philly Kk Low, son of Finch merchant J W Low, confessed to involvement in a major Finch Village blaze on May 14 last year and a prior fire. The blazes nearly destroyed schedules tied to the Q and NY cables, causing over 85000 dollars in damage.
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