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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 13, 1893
Page
7
Fragmentary report outlines tensions between British rule and local powers in Uganda and surrounding regions. References to king names, chiefs, and Sudanese and Danish influences hint at a border policy, uprisings, and efforts to pacify tribes while expanding protection along Lake Victoria and Albert.
Major General Drayson of the British army found rapid breathing relieved his heart pain within seconds and ongoingly reduced its frequency. He cites oxygenation from fast breaths as a substitute for exercise, noting pure air improves blood and flesh while impure air from smoke or ventilation causes disease and weakness.
The article argues that ice use in summer should follow health laws to reduce sickness and death. It claims cracked ice can aid cholera and summer ailments more than drugs, when used properly, and contrasts internal cracked ice with iced water. It advises hot poultices and feet-warmers, and suggests cracking ice to stimulate appetite and relieve headaches.
An editorial warns against chimneyless heating stoves and similar oil, gas, and carbonite devices. It argues all such stoves emit dangerous gases, require vents, and remain unsafe indoors. The piece urges strict legal condemnation and notes risks of using these stoves in bedrooms.
An analysis of rain and snow shows air carries germs and microbes as it falls to earth. After heavy rain or storms the air is momentarily purer, but damp warm air allows beaten-down germs to rise and fill lower air layers for several hours, affecting susceptible individuals.
After a heavy shower the air becomes more dangerous to health as bacteria rise and mix with the air. Winds lift germs higher or sweep them toward Earth, with most poisonous germs rising in the morning and descending toward night, making early morning, evening, and night air especially risky.
An eight year old boy from Boston travels nearly to Montreal in a box car to escape poverty. He reaches Bona Venture Station after a long journey hungry and barefoot. Montreal authorities refuse to shelter him, sending him back to Boston, leaving the chief of police to seek a solution.
Colonel Baudouin, French meteorologist, claims a discovery on hail formation and a method to prevent it. He argues hail forms as clouds rise and thicken in storms, each cloud adding ice layers. By suppressing intermediary clouds with an electric kite, the upper cloud would not reach freezing, ending hail production. he plans a full Academy report and practical use.
A visitor questions a boy in a poor Staffordshire school about a lake and the reply compares a lake to a tin with a hole in the bottom. The piece then notes Paris area mushroom production exceeding other regions.
A collection of curious historical notes on phrases and curiosities. It traces how Cambridge students adapted a line about deer scraping earth to label perplexing troubles. It includes a London trip anecdote about a country fellow seeking the Queen and learning a hard truth. It mentions early newspaper ads, mosquito teeth, ancient dials, and widespread silver use.
The Montreal Witness reports on the Dr Williams Medicine Co of Brockville expanding to Britain with Pink Pills for Pale People. It credits Canadian pluck and merit, notes rapid success in Great Britain, and details a Nottingham case where paralysis improved after using the pills. The piece urges trust in the medicine and lists sales details and cautions against substitutes.
Angelina tells Augustus she cannot leave her mother while her father travels to a silver mine. She asks how long he will wait. Augustus answers he will wait until they learn how the silver mine turns out.
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