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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 02, 1893
Page
2
A sentimental verse urging weary mothers to treasure their noisy children. The poem thanks mothers for their blessings while contrasting daily vexations with the later longing for a child’s kiss and voices. Florence A. Jones signs the piece.
The article argues that opposition to new ideas and refined manners harms youth and social progress. It urges parents to support personal grooming and education, showing examples of disciplined habits and the consequences of neglect, and includes kitchen and curing recipes for sausage, Drip Beer, and Currie Hams.
Miss Harrison of the Kindergarten College in Chicago rejects corporal punishment for lies. She urges a constitutional treatment, classifying lies by type such as exaggeration from imagination and egotism, recommending accuracy training and insistence on proven facts.
The author argues that lies stem from envy and harm a child more than others. The cure is to involve the jealous child in the life of the person they envy, turning them into a partner and service contributor to reduce jealousy. Punishment is deemed arbitrary and improper in correcting this fault.
A tested recipe outlines making Movipep Snow by scalding milk, thickening with cornstarch, adding sugar, and folding in stiffly beaten egg white before chilling. It warns against undercooking cornstarch and describes a cocoa sauce served alongside, mixing cornstarch with milk, adding melted chocolate and sugar, then combining with the hot mix.
Instructions for making talcoca nour cream tapioca pudding hoaxeycoms pumpkin pudding and creamer y sauce with detailed steps for beating eggs sugar and chocolate as well as almond custards with tips on blanching and shredding almonds.
A Toronto dispatch reports Canada's mineral display for Chicago stirring concern as the floor cannot bear expected weights. Trestle supports are being added. The Sudbury ore block weighs about ten tons. Burke metals from Port Arthur arrive for Chicago. Gold and silver from Lake of the Woods prompt an $8000 bond for safe return. American capitalists show strong interest and seek locations. A New York capitalist paid $400 for a survey of galena samples.
The French Academy reports an eighteenth month old child from St Jeanne undergoing petrifying skin disease. The body is mostly cold and stiff with limited movement, sleep dominates, and only small warm patches remain. The condition dates from a head injury after a fall and is linked to nervous shock. thirty ninth case on record with whole body involvement. doctors say death is the only relief.
The Queen of Saxony adores children and caresses a nurse’s babies in the park. She misidentifies twins as a matter of pride, prompting the nurse to admit the error and avoid contradicting the monarch.
In a terse exchange, Hicks asks if a dog belongs to a man, while Wicks responds the animal is a K9. The back and forth highlights a mistaken identity moment centered on a canine unit.
Polly and Jack take baby Joe in a soap box wagon with Rover attached. A rabbit spooks the dog causing a crash and the baby rolls down a steep bank. The mother arrives, baby is unharmed, and Polly vows never to leave him again.
A historical note describes Louis XIV sulking on a hot day when hunting near Marly. To entertain him, courtiers bring a telescope, enabling distant viewing for ten miles. The monarch becomes absorbed, then suddenly grows pale and drops the instrument as a new distraction ends.
Dispatch reports Jacob Mumma a Hanover area recluse died at his York road residence. Once a world traveler who sought 109000 for a patent right, he spurned society, lived in a cellar in winter and atop floors in summer, and stored a burial casket and tin box for his remains. His father and brother once owned Mumma's mills and farm the property later sold to Samuel Bare.
English readers are urged to note that laudanum drinking is reportedly common among Sunderland women. A coroner inquest revealed a long-term chemist supply, with three ounces lasting nine days, prompting calls to tighten laudanum sales. Clergymen corroborate similar reports in other regions.
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