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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 18, 1893
Page
3
The excerpt presents scrambled dialogue and narrative fragments. A girl named Mary, living near Hywell, is linked to a fire and a court scene involving a judge. The disjointed lines hint at a crime or accident, with references to a well, a scrip, a porter, and a missing or dead girl, though details remain unclear.
The week’s items report the Governor General delaying England visit until August, Winnipeg smallpox quarantine extending, appointments to Canadian World’s Fair and North American ventures, new steamship Chippawa launch, and large gatherings including a Montreal convention. Also noted are incidents from Britain United States and Europe, from royal health to Behring Sea arbitration and World’s Fair progress.
The temple in Salt Lake City is denounced as a clumsy, ignoble structure despite a forty year effort and five million dollars. The critique scoffs at its lack of architectural merit and spiritual inspiration, contrasting it with Nauvoo’s limestone courses and Salt Lake’s Tabernacle.
At the equator the limit of perpetual snow is 14 700 feet. The speed of the falcon often exceeds 150 miles an hour. The largest mammoth tusk yet discovered was sixteen feet.
The article recounts Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley’s succession as Earl of Derby after his brother’s death, tracing the Stanley lineage from the 15th and 16th earls, their political roles from Henry VI to modern times, and noting the Governor General of Canada’s links to blue blood. It also covers O Connell’s clash with Stanley and introduces the 16th Earl and his wife Lady Constance Villiers, highlighting his career and education.
The Garter peer has eight living children, seven sons and one daughter. The eldest son, a Grenadier Guards lieutenant, recently wed the Duke of Manchester’s daughter with royal attendance. He was elected to the House of Commons at the last election.
A Vancouver telegram describes a mainland BC petition asking the Governor General to veto the Parliament buildings act. The petition calls for separation from Vancouver Island, cites borrowing for a new capitol and railway guarantees, and argues the Legislative Assembly is non-representative while mainland resources drive prosperity.
The article describes wrecking on the rocks with smugglers looting ships, noting salvors and coastguardsmen profiting from wrecks, and recounts a captain spared from blame. It adds a critique of nonlocal workers and parallels Russia’s Jews with a call for local employment in Canada.
A survey of misused idioms and mangled phrases in English by non native writers from British Columbia to India. examples include literal translations from French and Japanese letter writing and the notorious Onoocool Chunder Mookerjee memoir noted for its eccentric style.
United States representatives argue before the Paris Arbitration Court that seals in the Behring Sea are domestic beasts rather than wild animals. They claim seals are born on U S soil, go to sea for food, then return, making them property even if not easily identifiable, while opposing views challenge this ownership concept.
A London dispatch reports the White Star line plans a rival liner named the Gigantic, larger than the Campania and the Great Eastern. It would run about 27 knots, with 700 feet length and 45 000 horsepower, promising a transatlantic voyage of just over four days.
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