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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1893
Page
3
A fragmented tale blends a frog circus scene with technical instructions on metals and cement. The readable parts describe frogs leaping in a circle and a performer named Horton, interwoven with odd technical jumble about solutions, pigments, and cements, all from a late 19th century newspaper fragment.
A poem fragment portrays a wife who endlessly hurries through daily chores, pausing to stitch, sighing, and delaying rest while her husband urges sleep. She remains driven by duty as years pass and the angel calls, she replies she is ready to rest.
An article extols DIY tooth soaps as affordable alternatives to costly branded varieties. It lists ingredients for a general tooth soap recipe using orris root myrrh white soap saffron lavender and chalk, plus a milder child friendly version with Castile soap cuttlefish bone honey and lavender.
An ornate dining room displays embossed olive brown wallpaper with Venetian damask and gold tracery, oak trimmings, leather seating, and a paneled gold canvas ceiling. A compact library features a three-part screen, buckram envelopes, and bric-a-brac storage, with burlap portieres and bold red fringe. A teak divan from India, suspended from the ceiling with brass links and bell pendants, showcases a rare luxury in American homes.
A work table is detailed as an original idea with its maker and owner. The oblong top rests on a broom handle tripod and can be bought in furniture stores for fifty or seventy five cents. The top is covered with cream cretonne and daisies, with a fourteen inch deep foundation sewn around it and a double row of pockets on cretonne. A yellow ribbon bow accents one corner, attached by a hanging string.
A description notes narrow ribbons scissors emery and needle book as tools. A small pin cushion sits atop with a lacquer tray for odds like buttons and spools. The bag cover detaches from the table, can be turned inside out dusted and restored quickly.
A collection of vintage recipes for cakes including Jexste Lixp Cake and Ic nic For the Above with ingredients and steps. Also practical guidance on painting and maintaining painted kitchen floors, including prep, color choices, coat layers, drying times, and cost considerations.
The piece weighs options for kitchen floors in farmhouses. It weighs hardwoods like oak ash and pine and contrasts cleaning ease with wear. It notes oiling oak and white ash finishes and compares painted floors for easy maintenance and upkeep.
The article describes electric stamping machines stamping 30 000 letters per hour with a horizontal hopper feed and inking rollers, plus a telephoned telegraph system using 106 lights to Morse encode signals. It discusses Garnett's meter-based current control, cautions about fair energy readings, and urges agricultural electrical applications to boost homestead efficiency.
A London Times correspondent reports the Melbourne to Brisbane journey reveals vast monotony of grass and gum trees. He notes vast distances, sparse timber, and ring barking while reflecting on the future of young Australia and its expansive Queensland lands.
The London County Council’s new statistics volume aggregates population 4 231 431 in 1891 and ten year growth of 10 36 percent. It covers housing, local expenditure 10,726,000 pounds in 1889/90, taxation, rates, railways, gas and water mains, land and police costs, pauper numbers, school costs, death rate, open spaces, fires, and insurance totals for London and its environs.
The article describes a triplicate electrical safety system in a Boston bank vault combining relays recorders test boards and time stamps. It records vault doors street entrances and official movements with alarms and synchronized data to prevent disputes and ensure security from 4 pm to 9 am.
The excerpt describes a Queensland railway system with northern central and southern lines running parallel and turning at right angles near the coast. It notes no overland link, requiring ships from Brisbane to reach northern areas, and compares travel time to LondonSouth Africa journeys, indicating coastal ports receive inland traffic while distances span several hundred miles.
Sir Robert Ballis argued in a moon lecture that the satellite's geography is more fully mapped than the earth’s, noting nearly half of the lunar surface remains unseen unless the moon tilts or is struck by a comet. Paris engineers unveiled a tunnel lighting system using reflectors and tin to create soft light along the rails.
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