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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jan 04, 1894
Page
3
The text presents scattered figures about production and consumption of peas wheat cheese coffee and other foods. It references millions of people, annual tonnages in crops like wheat and beet ore, and mentions exports and nourishment demands with unclear context and numerous garbled terms.
Elias Bennet creates a cheap patent medicine from herbs, labeling bottles with a catchy brand. The tonic gains local prominence until a deadly fever afflicts Oswood County, Em’ly dies, and Totten condemns the medicine. Elias abandons the business to protect his sister and family, burning the remaining stock.
A Buffalo despatch reports a fashionable Buffalo family narrowly avoiding tragedy as a young woman near death was believed dead by the coroner and undertaker staff. A second physician revived her, revealing suspended animation. The case prompts notes on belief and the morgue.
An observant French doctor reported a successful use of kerosene as an antiseptic and antispasmodic to treat diphtheria in several patients, starting with a seven year old girl. He swabbed the throat with petroleum, noting relief and no losses, and sent samples to a bacteriologist for confirmation. The article warns of easy transmission via shared objects and emphasizes careful administration to avoid choking or eye exposure.
A storm in Stewartstown Ireland left house fronts trees and hedges thickly coated with salt. Drumcairne thirty to forty miles from the sea saw similar deposits. Garvagh twelve miles from the sea reported salt lines on hedge rows and windows indicating a cyclonic storm.
A German process creates artificial sandstone by drying sand with 2 to 3 percent clay, lime, and steam pressed in iron molds. The method uses steam at 45 psi and 6 psi, three days pressurization, twelve hours cooling, and yields colored varieties. Tests in England show buff cubes averaging 196.6 tons per square foot to failure and gray at 177.6 tons per square foot.
The article estimates the total arcual value of the world’s minerals at 1.09 billion dollars. It states Italians own 4,420,000 houses, with 650,000 in cities and 3,770,000 in the countryside.
Edward Handfield, a Denver, Colorado youth from a wealthy Ashfield Massachusetts family, led a dissipate life after arriving in Denver. He forged a name to steal goods, pursued a marriage with Miss Ida Hall, and, after tensions with her family, shot her in the breast and then killed himself on Welton Street. The 18 year old Ida Hall survived to seek help as Handfield died.
The piece argues electricity resists full explanation, likening it to other core mysteries of nature. It warns against overconfident lay explanations and credits physical experiments by Hertz and Tesla, while noting metaphysical speculation yields little real knowledge. It emphasizes the vast scale of the challenge and the potential ultimate unknowability.
A humorous dialogue mocks fashion and oil versus gas, with remarks on stage heels and refined oil. It notes Miss Emerson and Miss Warren from Boston and New York. A British Commons speaker praises French President Dupuy for coolness after a bomb scare, praising courage akin to soldiers.
The week reports the death of Mrs. Brady in Ottawa at age 102. Also notes events from Canada including a winter carnival cancellation, a Montreal civil engineers meeting, and appointments at Bank Montreal. The dispatch lists various international notes from Europe and the Americas, with multiple deaths and political moves.
A chemist in Preston England sought to reclaim a mailed letter. He used a ruse at the post office by claiming to send it by special delivery and placing sixpence as payment. The clerk returned the letter, which he then tore into fragments claiming ownership. The post office and courts disagreed, and he was fined 25 dollars.
A fragmentary exchange shows a doctor near a bell and a caller speaking in a clipped, unclear sequence. The text offers little context, presenting only partial dialogue without identifiable events, names, places, or outcomes.
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