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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 16, 1893
Page
3
Disjointed phrases describe a tense scene in St. Louis with a distressed speaker Bowser and references to a malice and threats. The text suggests a chaotic domestic moment and mentions traffic concerns and an arrest linked to a broader intrigue.
A poetic meditation on daily tasks and emotional weight. The speaker notes constant duties and challenges—from stitching and binding to weeded paths and unspoken words—forming life’s enduring, nuanced whole.
A column offers financial wisdom for husbands and a set of practical etiquette tips. It cautions about men dominating family spending while noting wives often manage budgets, then shifts to a domestic vignette on frugal bread making, ironing methods with kerosene, and good table manners.
Advice on proper table manners for children instructing them to drink from the cup not the saucer keep teaspoons in the saucer limit napkin use avoid noise while eating eat slowly and finish served food or leave it quietly on the plate without comment.
Canned and dried vegetables offer healthful economical options. Rinse canned peas and beans, then heat with butter sugar salt and water for ten minutes. Cook corn in milk and butter ten minutes, strain overcooking. Soak Lima beans overnight, cook with water butter salt, or with milk. Combine corn and beans into succotash. Tomatoes serve many uses in soups sauces entrees and as a vegetable staple.
A collection of oatmeal recipes including Oatmeal Bread Oatmeal Gems GatMgaL Biscuit Oatmeal Musu OaTmEAL Crisps Oatmeal Blancmange Oatmeal Crackers Oatmeal Matrixs Oatmeal Cream Pie Rolled Oats and serving tips. Includes proportions, baking times, and serving suggestions using milk sugar cream and spices.
The article notes factory shoe assembly speeds with many parts combined quickly, then explains a microscopic view of plant leaves showing tiny openings that breathe, purifying sap and matching a man’s daily breathing. It also recounts carpeted royal ceremonies in Prussia and Danish kingly life, with nobles and public entertainments described.
A 15 year old boy, son of a former lodger, confessed to killing a workman’s wife and her child in a shop area. He described luring with money gifts, staged New Year premeditation, and used a mangle roller and a stab wound to the neck. He stated the child’s scream prompted the final act.
Captain Atkinson and Lieutenant Drever led British forces against Kachins in Sima district. They overran a stockade and block-house, killing thirteen Kachins while suffering two dead and six wounded. A Meungyin relief party, 45 strong, repelled 200 Kachins with eleven enemy deaths. British suffered no casualties.
A foreign cruiser’s brass condenser tubes show corrosion after over a year of use. Electrolytic action between tin lining and brass, with sea water as electrolyte, caused tin loss and copper-like sponge transformation. If unlined, pipes would have stayed intact.
A Cleveland judge dismissed suits by Samuel J. Ritchie of Akron against the Canadian Copper Company and the Anglo American Iron Company, ending a sprawling litigation tied to Canadian copper and nickel discoveries led by H. B. Payne, Stevenson Burke, C. W. Bingham, and the late T. W. Cornell. The row included stock losses, pending suits for $265,307, and ongoing claims from Picton, Ontario stakeholders. The copper venture refined ore to 95 percent at the mines and redirected refined product to Brooklyn.
A Niagara Falls dispatch reports a terrible gas explosion at the Ontario Silver Company manufactory in Humberstone. Four workers were seriously injured and one likely fatally. Injured include Leonard McGlashan the manager and Delford Utt engineer. Bert Fraser a boy. Belford and the insurance agent Mr Bellford were also affected. The blast damaged the large building, shattered windows, and moved the plant off its foundations though machinery may be salvageable.
In Paris during a quarterly draw a woman seeks to pay overdue calls on an 1888 bond to make it eligible for a prize. Directors delay as numbers are drawn and the winning bond comes up for £4000. The board allows the offer, and the woman is notified she has gained £4000 after paying.
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