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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 01, 1894
Page
7
A fragmented account describes a contested inheritance with claims from an elderly line stretching from London to New York. Heirs named include Mr Hill and Mr Cooper with connections to Sam and Rachel Cameron. The narrative also digresses into a natural history scene about condors, unrelated to the land dispute.
The fragment discusses a Bible printed in 1533 and a small weekly paper from Oswego New York. It mentions the Kalendarium from 1494 and 1513, news from Europe, an old Joinville letter dated AD 1315, and notes on ancient Hebrew characters and vowel usage.
A Christmas eve memory of three children writing New Year resolutions. One vows quietness to avoid noise, another limits cake portions, while the third begins with resolve but falls asleep before finishing.
A New York Observer tale follows Master Corwin who uses a pocketbook ladder gifted by Peter Schuyler's grandparents to teach daily virtues. Honesty, Diligence, Temperance, and Prayer guide Peter, help him repay a debt, and inspire the teacher to resist temptation, realizing true strength comes from faith and study.
This Canadian Magazine item chronicles Longfellow’s ties to the Wayside Inn in Sudbury Massachusetts built by John Howe in the 17th century. It details the inn’s evolution from Red Horse Inn to a famed coaching station and its Howes, including Colonel Howe and the Loyalist John Howe who settled near Halifax. It notes Lyman Howe the landlord, Lafayette visits, and Joseph Howe, an orator and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, with the chain ending in a peaceful farm era.
An old health column argues night air is beneficial and warns against sleeping with closed windows. It cites a medical authority suggesting city air improves after ten o'clock and urges airing rooms from the outside whenever possible.
The article argues sleeping on the left after meals worsens digestion and causes an unpleasant morning taste. It notes food exits the stomach to the right, making left-side sleep inefficient and tiring. It suggests lying on the right side or back as more natural, with right-side sleep recommended for rest.
The article explains dyspepsia as poor digestion from fast eating and insufficient gastric juice, linking it to bad blood. It prescribes outdoor living, gradual eating, small portions of bread, meat, and fruit, plus walking and rest to improve digestion and blood quality, noting biliousness as a related symptom.
In a discussion attributed to Hugh Slevin M. D. the text explains that discharge colors reflect bile deficiency or excess. It argues both conditions indicate too much bile in blood or gall bladder, and that purifying blood plus careful eating strengthens blood. It prescribes outdoor activity and diet to aid stomach digestion and nourish the body.
A Boston Transcript writer urges immediate debt payment and circulation of money during hard times. He argues hoarding harms communities and that spending to support workers and merchants boosts prosperity, challenging Franklin’s parsimonious ideals and highlighting the tension between duty and commerce.
An orderly officer on a Portsmouth to India troop ship asks sailors to report bad meat. A salty meal dispute follows when a complaining man insists the salt junk is unfit. The doctor quips that Nelson ate it in his time, implying age explains the quality. The exchange ends with humor about ships’ provisions.
A holly tree near the Lake of Menteith Hotel in Scotland toppled during a gale leaving a deep soil cavity where a gold wedding ring with initials W.A.G. was found by a nearby woman. Three weeks later another gale lifted the tree back to its original position, and the owner of the recovered ring remains unknown.
Storage batteries were used to create a soft even glow in a large library at a wedding reception. Cells were set up in a barn 50 feet behind the residence with temporary wires into the house. The plant was erected and ready to operate within twelve hours, showing the storage battery as a handy electricity reservoir for special occasions.
Electric power advances in drilling and quarrying machinery promise a revolution in tunnel engineering. Excavations that once took years can now be completed in months, with Simplon tunnel cited as a cost and pace leader. Water power in Switzerland and easy transmission support rapid progress, aiming for a five and a half year Alpine tunnel completion.
A London paper argues electric cooking will create a highly scientific chef with up to date views on living wage. It cites a manual showing precise temperatures for various foods and notes growing mastery of heat control and culinary nomenclature.
The London Figaro notes Nina, Lobengula's royal sister, as a plump figure with coppery skin and no dress except waist chains, brazen bracelets, a Free Mason apron, woolen neck wraps, a black ox hide skirt, bare legs, bells on ankles, a floral headdress, bee eater tail feathers, and a red clay ornament. She is said to be a favorite with European settlers.
Two years at Gizeh convinced Flinders Petrie that 4000 year old Egyptian stone workers used modern sounding tools. Solid and tubular drills and straight and circular saws were employed. Jewels, likely corundum, set drills and even lathe edges show expert cutting. Tool wear was imperceptible on granite, with a tenth inch cut per revolution, boring through all materials smoothly.
A comic exchange centers on Johnny Jerkins receiving a Humane Society medal for rescuing a boy from the river. Billy expresses envy and a desire for a similar honor while Tommy devises a plan suggesting a near drowning to trigger a rescue, noting Billy cannot swim.
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