A Swiss colony planned at Lulu Island mouth Fraser River
A wide range of Ottawa and London dispatches report proposals and elections. A Swiss colony is planned at Lulu Island mouth of the Fraser River. J M Gibson elected president of the Dominion Rifle Association. J J Foy to be Deputy Minister of Justice. The Commercial Cable Company seeks a third cable from Canso to Waterville. Ontario and Manitoba topics feature school lands and immigration. UK and US items round out the digest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu
Fraser River
J. M. Gibson
Dominion Rifle Association
Ottawa
J. J. Foy
Q. C
Toronto
Commercial Cable Company
Canso
N. S
Waterville
Ireland
Irish National In
Oxford County
Hamilton
Langford Evans
Manitoba
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
Frank Smith
Robert Best
Hamilton Lunatic Asylum
Department of the Interior
Quebec
Montreal
Dominion Alliance
Ontario
W. C. Mackay
London
Ont
Greenway
Tennyson on Laureateship and Creative Process
The poet recounts being offered the laureateship through Prince Albert and deciding after two letters. He describes inspiration as his work, writing mainly after dinner with a pipe, and the vast, unrecorded output that theory calls the sublime waste. Millais’s portrait captures him as a prophet and bard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Knowles
Prince Albert
Millais
Prison reform changes humane methods at Central Prison Toronto
A walk through Toronto's Central Prison on Strachan avenue reveals modern humane reforms under Warden Massie. The 365 inmates, ages three months to five years, work in shops making furniture bedding and clothing while a library, schoolroom, greenhouse, and orderly kitchens showcase inmate labor and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Central Prison
Strachan Avenue
Massie
R. M. Persse
Cerberus
Noted London Mission and Charrington’s Great Assembly Hall
The Charrington Mission in Mile End Road draws over 3000 weekly worshippers in a large hall. Frederick Charrington, from a brewer family, funds and leads the evangelistic work amid East End social ills. A separate item notes a Venezuela Colombia Ecuador pact framed as a forthcoming triple alliance, unrelated to the Panama canal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charrington
East End
Frederick Charrington
First
Whitechapel
Great Assembly Hall
Keith Falconer
Mission
Mile End
London
Venezuela
Colombia
Ecuador
Panama Canal
The Shelfishness of Mourning in March Lippincotts
An article argues mourning dress is self serving and burdens others. It questions widespread black attire, urges restraint for the young and ardent, and promotes a more subdued, practical approach to grief while praising acts of service for solace.
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Lippincott’s
Aera
Great Gold Yield At Sultana Mine Near Rat Portage
W H Harris of Port Arthur Ontario reports from Rat Portage area that Sultana mine stamps ran 36 hours straight. Ten stamps processed rock yielding 72 ounces of gold amalgam, concentrates worth 200 dollars per ton, from a twenty foot vein section.
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Port Arthur
Ont
W. H. Harris
Sultana Mine
Rat Portage
Sultana Mill
The Exalted Station of Household Work
A comic narrative where a husband learns the hard way that managing a home is a full day’s labor. He recounts blistered fingers from scrubbing and failed meals while his wife, capable and cheerful, runs the farm and kitchen. In the end he admits the wife keeps the family and runs a big machine.
The Wee Valentine Baby Seen Through Parents’ Eyes
A tiny newborn captivates a mother and father in a tender scene. They marvel at the infant’s delicate features, dimples, and first smiles while guarding against harm and sharing quiet pride in their unique child. The couple views their baby as the crown of their world and the sole true treasure in their lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Tale of Bricks in a Parlor Scene
A girl brings in five clean bricks and plans to display them on a parlor table. The bricks are labeled and admired, with Brick No. 1 used as a paperweight. One brick bears a painted flower design and is coated with blue paint, while others retain their original color.
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Women’s Christian Temperance Union of
Winnipeg
Chicago and North-Western Railway
Chicago
Harrison
Griggs
Nova Scotia
Henry J. Griggs
New England Dressed Beer Company
Buffalo
Wallace Bruce
Poughkeepsie
United States
Edinburgh
John Greenleaf Whittier
Scottish Society of Literature and Art of
Glasgow
Washington
Rome
Mgr. Satolli
Congress
Senate
Cleveland
West Shore Railway
New York
Rochester
Palmyra
N. Y
J. Sterling Morton
Germany
Bleichroeder
Berlin
French Board of Trade
Austria
Signor Grimaldi
Russia
Mr. Massie
Botanic Garden
Reformatory
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Hyacinthe
Victoria
B. C
Honolulu
British Columbia
Thomas Easterbrook
Tweed
Robert Fallon
London Township
Geary’s
Napanee
British
England
Dresden
Lancashire
A. J. Balfour
New South Wales
Midlothian Liberal Association
Scotland
United Ireland
Parnellite
Dublin
Parnell
London Standard
Arthur Stanley
Lady Stanley
Imperial Supplementary Civil Service
Behring
Great Britain
Enes
Canada
Lancs
Birkenhead
Liverpool
Alabama
President Harrison
Walker
Youngstown
Ohio
McKinley
Utica
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Rockafellow
Broken Bank
Wilkesbarre
Tennyson
Cockcrow
Durance
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