25 May 1893
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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 25, 1893
Page
1
W Vance Cavanville J B McKay and Co announce the grain market will reopen in the first week of June. Agent C B Lowe will be at his post to assist farmers disposing of held grain this season and advises not to hold grain too long. Community notices include church calls, sermons, and local farm improvements.
The Peterborough District annual meeting of the Methodist church convened in the Charlotte Street church school room with ministers present. Rev J H Locke Geo Edwards Peterborough and others led the opening. W G Clarke elected secretary. Probationers Boyce and Bowers passed doctrinal reviews and advanced. Osterhout of Bridgenorth was recommended after a strong examination.
Call at Lerch's drug store to obtain a bottle of Harper's Arabian Balm described as the best liniment sold. The note ends abruptly with a number 16, suggesting a price or page reference.
At its last meeting the Ottawa Board of Trade adopted a resolution favoring relief from municipal taxes on buildings and improvements to real estate, petitioning the Ontario Legislature to empower by law local option to exempt improvements or capital from taxation. The move, led by C. H. Chrysler and backed by Abraham Pratt, signals clear support for Municipal Single Tax and Local Option in taxation.
An observed habit among Italian laborers using English name abbreviations for tools like shovel as show and hatchet as hatch. Foremen adopt these shortcuts, while Italians often misinterpret English words, including oaths, greeting the boss with Damn cold morning.
A Boston Transcript excerpt mentions a 12 year old girl at breakfast asking for less languid adjectives and a peer describing a toadstool as brilliant yet morbid in tone highlighting playful language use among young girls in Boston society.
The piece wanders from Mexico as a strawberry haven with five cent quart fruit markets to descriptions of exotic fruits and a playful ad for Syrup of Figs. It also includes a brief joke about Irish eggs and Ulster hens, touching on trade and light humor in a mixed newspaper fragment.
The testimonial rhetoric touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as proven by reliable readers and urges trying the medicine. It claims Hood's cures constipation digestive and liver troubles and promotes Hood's Pills as an unequaled dinner aid.
The Tomb records two death notices dated May 19 1893 and May 24 1893 Sophia Byers wife of Robert Byers aged 25 Isabella Henry wife of Robert Henry aged 60 deaths occurred at Bewdley and Mount Pleasant respectively with local burial notices implied
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