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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 08, 1895
Page
2
A Liverpool Comic report notes a man arrested for kissing a woman on the highway. He claimed she wore bloomers, mistaken for his brother. Magistrate discharged him amid a railway of bicycle and bloomers demand among local tradesmen.
In Cornwall a 14 year old girl fell ill with a wasting disease. Her mother began Dr Williams Pink Pills after medical help failed. After months the girl recovered to full health and strength, with Mrs Dore praising the medicine. The ad claims Pink Pills restore color and vigor in women and list Brockville Ontario and Schenectady New York as manufacturing sites.
An old advertisement touts Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry as a prompt cure for sudden illness in children including colic cramps diarrhoea and dysentery. It also promotes SHILOH'S CURE with a guarantee, claiming it cures incipient consumption and serves as a top cough remedy with prices listed and sold by A Leacu.
The meeting lists buyers and suppliers from Lakefield Keene Oakdale Westwood and surrounding towns. Bidding for selections reaches 7 1 6 d and 7 s but several firms including Keene Oakdale Westwood Meir Abworth Smith Lakefield Pine Grove Peterborough and Keene refuse. The board adjourns for one week as companies debate terms and final bids.
Receipts today total 54 loads including 12 milk cows, 70 calves, 750 sheep and lambs, and 1,200 hogs. Cattle supply lighter due to rains, better feed, trade urged to select quality. Export cattle prices mostly 4 to 4.4 cents per lb. butchers’ cattle firmer, range 2 to 5 per head. best 3.80 per cwt. Milkers +3-4 per head. Sheep and lambs firmer. good lambs in demand, common lambs weak. Calves 4.50 to 7 each. Hogs steady 4.60 to 5.50 off cars. Overall market activity moderate with demand for good stock across categories.
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