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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 18, 1893
Page
2
The essay argues cholera is a disturbance of intestinal motion and that early, simple measures such as rest on the back, a tight woolen abdomen wrap, and ice to quench thirst form the safest first steps. It urges delaying remedies until a physician arrives and discusses calomel pills as a decisive, if controversial, early treatment.
The text describes rice based mush from rice flour or parched rice boiled to liquid, strained, rice steamed separate grains, eaten with butter every five hours. It adds a warning that strict bodily quietness under nature’s promptings could have saved thousands from cholera, attributed to an physician William Watson Hall.
W A Black of Pickford and Black in Halifax describes a growing Canada Indies trade. Four ships including Alpha Beta Tay mouth Castle and Duart Castle sail Halifax to West Indian islands, with Demerara service expanding. Canada exports oats potatoes meat canned goods and textiles while the islands import tropical fruits sugar rum cocoa coffee and woods. An Halifax association aims to strengthen trade ties as demand grows.
In Toulon a South American government warship faced angry creditors owed about 30,0007. who crowded the dockside and tried to board. The crew warned with swords and forced entry blocked. French cooks and stewards deserted the ship over fear of mistreatment. Creditors sailed ashore to lodge a justice of the peace complaint and plan to appeal to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
A nobleman's house near Marble Arch in London sparked a dispute over a supposed scripture passage. A dusty Bible from the late noblewoman's shelf yielded a bank-post bill for £40,000 as a bookmark, with no explanation found for its placement.
Esbeen called Jack seeks fortune for his brothers Peter and Paul. A self interpreting tale shows he uses a talking axe a talking spade and a talking walnut to cut the oak and dig a year round well. He wins the princess and half the kingdom after clever observation and effort.
A reader recalls an English hospital tale where a doctor learns a porter silently delivered the fatal truth. The physician reproaches himself for not calling to comfort the dying Robinson, who died after a brutal bedside exchange. The porter’s blunt pity underscores the harsh humor of the incident.
Mary Jones fourteen resident near Holywell died in Holywell Workhouse after severe burns from clothing catching fire while at Gorsedd Schoolhouse. She fled to fields, fight with flames, later treated, but died of exhaustion amid injuries and embedding bandages.
Archaeologist Armand Vire uncovers a Neolithic village in Seine-et-Marne France. Foundations of an entire street with regular layout emerge and a baked clay fireplace remains intact. Cinders attest to primeval fires and cooking, drawing parallels to Kabyle dwellings in Algeria.
A prisoner before the Police Court admits the town offers him credit and keeps returning, claiming he is always charged with something. The judge remarks on the lack of credit and sentences ten more days.
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