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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 04, 1893
Page
2
A playful verse asks who among Annie Fanny and May is described as witty pretty and naughty all day. The speaker asserts a pet darling who is repeatedly kissed and dearly loved, claiming no one could spare the naughty dolly.
Maud resists gardening while her mother wrestles with a spreading bed of periwinkle and early chores. After memories of her mother’s sacrifices and a slow change, Maud begins helping at home, culminating in a grateful, tearful recognition from Mrs. Crowell.
In a small village tale, Ponto the pious dog follows his mistress to church every Sunday. On a blossoming Sabbath, he mounts the aisle and takes a pew beside his mistress, drawing amused comments from Deacon Jerry as a local couple enters with a suitor amid discreet family bustle.
A station master nearly caused a catastrophe due to lapse of memory but quick wit and nimble fingers averted the fearful tragedy. The incident highlights the dangers in railway operations and the value of prompt action by railway staff.
A Chicago dispatch reports that visitors from tropical regions face severe illness in cold weather. The piece describes widespread la grippe among Arabs Cingalese Japanese and Zulus at Jackson Park with workers unable to finish their pavilions and a scene of a railway station master reacting to a crucial message about stopping a freight train.
The document notes that after the family arrived at church Ponto waited for them outside and then began a pattern. From that day until his death he vanished each Sunday morning and reappeared in the church yard at 10:30, but he never crossed the church threshold again.
Reports cover Nordic trade using saad as money, France dynamite factories, watch hair springs by women, Southern California orange harvests, Canadian Pacific weekly earnings up, a paper clock by Mr Henry in Longuyon, Ontario wheat prospects, New York gold exports and imports, Isleton Swiss dynamite origins, Rome electric street lighting from Tivoli line, Niagara Cataract’s massive turbine project, predicted future glass housing, and gold flow driven by loan demands and currency movements amid European accumulations and anxieties over Canadian cattle pricing in Britain.
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