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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Mar 22, 1894
Page
3
Calcutta press reports welcome Lord Lansdowne’s rise to viceroy and outline of imperial governance. Discussions focus on sovereignty, absolutism risks, and the plan to renew neutrality and rational governance while addressing Rajah and Talukdar loyalties amid calls for firm administration and social reforms.
The article notes Canada and Russia face winter uniform challenges, detailing fur clothing in harsh regions, the mounted police, and militia strength. It covers the Northwest campaign difficulties, the Duck Lake fighting in 1885, and the invention of the gun sled to aid artillery in deep snow.
The London Daily News notes the old Kearsarge wrecked in the Caribbean with no loss of life and honors its duel with the Alabama. It recalls the Cherbourg fight, praising superior artillery, discipline, and patriotism, and mentions Deerhound rescuing about forty sailors as the Alabama sank.
Captain Feodor Zubovitch sets out alone up the Nile to free German prisoners Charles Neufeld and Slatin Bey held by Mahdists after the fall of Khartoum. The article recalls Gordon Hicks Pasha and Wolseley policy, detailing captives’ fates and the brutal treatment of Europeans by Mahdists, including Slatin Bey and Neufeld.
Lloyds reports three vessels overdue and missing after last known dates in 1893. The To Brodre from Chatham to Garston with wood goods sailed Nov 7. Hermod from Bjorneborg to Charles Town sailed Oct 19 and passed Elsinore Nov 10. Tyne Mouth Castle from Rochester to Leith with cement and sacks sailed Nov 15. Also Amazonas from Shields to Lisbon sailed Dec 15 and passed Dungeness Dec 17. Wave from London to Sunderland sailed Nov 7. Kirkconnell from Fowey to Runcorn sailed Nov 4.
A silver elephant ink bottle sits on a window table in Mr. Cecil Rhodes' Cape Town house. It bears an inscription stating it was presented to LoLengula, King of Matabele land. The elephant relic was found among Lobengula's kraal ruins after Bulawayo's burning, bearing marks of the fire.
A collage of humorous exchanges and anecdotes from a past era, featuring quips about debt, politics, love, ghosts, and social manners. The snippets include a high school boy’s four zones, and jokes about marriage, property, elopement, and a haunted flat. Notable names appear in banter about money, cars, and dogs.
Emergency Montreal meeting awards 3000 to fight scarlet fever. Obituary notes Henry Griffith nearly 103 in London. British topics include Lord Rosebery and Lord Tweedmouth deaths, Blondin’s 70th birthday, and calls for Imperial Defence. In the U S Kilrain near death, Talmage stays, and Rio de Janeiro grapples with yellow fever. labor strikes and public offices noted.
A London inventor Mr Howarth proposes a safety paraffin lamp. The oil chamber holds a porous absorbent core and asbestos space. Oil is retained by capillary action, so no free liquid exists. If overturned or broken only isolated fire points occur rather than a spreading flame.
Cape Ann fish market in Gloucester reported a mackerel with a rubber band around its body. The band trapped the fish as it grew, creating a depression about 3 inches deep but the fish remained healthy. The specimen measured 14 inches long with a 7.5 inch girth and a 5 inch depression, and the band stayed intact.
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