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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 05, 1894
Page
4
An essay urges mothers to instill daily hygiene in children, from brushing teeth and nails to regular bathing. It warns of health risks from dirt and unclean habits, shares a story of consequences, and emphasizes teaching cleanliness at home and in schools.
The Edinburgh Review argues high wages boost productivity by improving labor and justify better machinery. Higher pay spurs employers to invest in new tech, while rapid mechanization reduces costs. Conservatism and old machinery hurt firms in depressions. better wages and shorter hours raise efficiency and demand for industrial profits.
Western Pennsylvania authorities move to enforce a statute that makes cage bird possession prima facie evidence of snaring. Pittsburg warden pledges strict action to free protected birds and prosecute owners, noting foreigners profit from selling songsters to dealers and milliners. Red birds and cardinal grosbeaks fetch up to 25 dollars each, as officials urge farmers benefit from insect control through songbird protection.
Fragmentary note describes a dairy cow barn building with stalls and partitions for cows, a manger and drop area, and mentions possible use of similar farm buildings for horses and young stock. The illustrated ground plan shows stable layout and partitions.
Describes a barn cross section and exterior, 36 by 68 feet, with twenty two foot posts, accommodations for forty cows, and a central passage. Explains grain and hay delivery via chutes, granary above the stable, and a suspension floor system that avoids center posts, plus efficient manure handling through twelve inch by eighteen inch drops and a six inch lower driveway for wagon loading.
A detailed plan describes nailing floor planks for a barn’s first story using cheaper wood that is water proof and rat proof, with ventilated cupola shafts, a banked second story, and braces of spruce. The design promises economy in construction, labor, and manure handling while maintaining sanitary conditions for both man and beast.
The Khyber pass is navigable with British engineer roadwork and few grades. Military strength could hold Alli Masjid defile against an army, while northern Tartara and Bazaar routes offer limited use. From Peshawar to Kabul spans about 170 miles by caravan, with rail extension shrinking distances to India. The temple interiors show Hindu craftsmanship, stone corridors, lions and pillars, weathered by time and modern whitewash.
March 18 1718 at Belgrade Lady Mary Wortley Montagu caused her infant son to be inoculated with smallpox matter. Her persistence spread inoculation to England and beyond. Thomas Dimsdale aided Catherine I and Grand Duke Paul in Russia earning nobility and pension. Jenner’s 1791 vaccine discovery eventually ended inoculation with a 1840 act.
The completion of a rail link from Tientsin to Shan hai-Kwan showcases a striking irony as the world’s oldest monumental barrier yields to modern progress. A Chinese minister travelled by train to the coast, reaching Shanghai by steamer instead of enduring overland winter journeys, a remarkable triumph praised by the Westminster Gazette.
A crowded coach on a daily Lake District excursion faces a steep descent. The driver initially refuses the drag, but the passengers fear a scare as the coach plunges. A jesting request for chalk sparks dark humor about marking limbs for identification if injury occurs.
Narrator, traveling with a horse named Blue, helps Pretty Voice Eagle free a stuck wagon in Dakota’s spring thaw. The exchange includes rescue, camping life, tobacco and trade, a brief renewal of friendship, gifts of meat, and a humorous twist when a clerk at a trader’s store demands payment for antelope hams as a supposed gift.
Prince Galitzin, recently linked to Salvation Army conversion reports, announces a new plan to ride from St Petersburg to San Francisco. fresh from a 12000 mile journey across Turkestan and Tibet he claims to be the first to attempt such a crossing. He describes perilous passes at 19000 to 20000 feet and vows to use sea transport at Behring Sea and inland routes to reach California. He is a multimillionaire with estates in central Russia and near Moscow producing vast grain crops.
Opals regain favor as lucky stones and are explained as sensitive gems. Heat, moisture, and body vapors can dull their color, while calm handling preserves their rainbow play. Hungarian opals are rarer, Mexican stones prized for fire, and excessive washing or wear can lessen brilliance.
Mrs Brannigan jokes about a wooden bird’s intelligence in a humorous exchange with Mrs O’Flaherty. The tale highlights that even a carved wooden bird can seem to “tell the time” by cuckooing. The dialogue uses a folksy dialect to underscore amusement at cleverness.
Gus de Smith questions a letter found on a table as a colored valet admits tucking it to the post office and placing it in a hole. The envelope lacked an address, and the valet hints at a hidden recipient while refusing to reveal the addressee.
The article outlines wreck-raising methods used by London salvage firms, detailing pontoons, combing walls, and air bags to lift sunken ships. It cites notable raises including Great Britain of 1843, Utopia, and Sultan, plus treasure recoveries from Japan and Alfonso XII, with notes on diving limits and plans for reefing unsinkable vessels.
The Interior Department issued 2936 letters patent and sent or received $5939 from or at the department, down from $84193 the prior year. Sixteen ranch lessees in Alberta applied to buy portions of cage leaseholds under the 1891 offer. Visitor numbers to Banff rose sharply. An egg of the Great Auk from Yarrel's collection sparked high bidding at Stevens's Auction Rooms, with the last known specimen extinct and the final value reaching £100 before rising further.
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