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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 25, 1893
Page
3
The scene presents a heated conversation between two figures, Lady Branksmere and Shanks, with sudden claims of past betrayals and emotional confrontations. Implicit tensions point to a proposed departure tomorrow and unresolved loyalties amid shifting affections and remembered pasts.
A roundup of events including Ottawa and Montreal political and police shifts, coroner inquests in Toronto, a fatal accident in Hamilton, dock strikes in Bristol, and the Quebec, Manitoba, and Ontario scenes. Notable items include proposed amalgamation of Mounted Police and Indian Departments, a fatal shooting in Montreal, a coroner's inquest planned for Toronto, and large-scale international political developments in Cuba, Ireland, and Britain.
Describes fruit acids and nutrients as outlined by George W. Johnson in Cheis try of the World. Explains malic, citric, tartaric acids in rhubarb, citrus, grapes, and other fruits, plus flavoring compounds in asparagus, cucumber, beetroot, carrot, horseradish, Jerusalem artichoke, garlic and onion family.
Canada's mineral department under Mr David Boyle of Toronto displays Ontario's nickel resources with a centrepiece nickel block and labelling. The Ontario court features fruit plates, glass jars of preserved fruit, and a rich floral exhibit by Houston and Ewing. Visitors are urged to wait until mid June as the fair's installations are still incomplete.
The British ship Hyderabad arrived in San Francisco from Swansea after a 272 day voyage marked by a savage storm. Captain D. F. B. Scott’s two daughters aided crew through famine and cold, serving coffee and tending wounds as repairs at Port Stanley took five days and the vessel needed 100 days more to be seaworthy again.
A survey of ancient and medieval arms notes the Greek pike at 24 feet and the medieval lance at 18 feet. The Roman short sword measured 22 inches while Richard I’s helmet weighed 25 pounds. Cain and Abel, David and Goliath are cited with weapons. The crossbow appears in the twelfth century with a 40 rod range. Armor evolves from chain and plate to light cuirass by Gustavus Adolphus. Damascus blades, pikes, and early shields are referenced with dates ranging from BC to late medieval times.
A historical note on tears and insanity asserts that the insane rarely cry, except when recovering or during certain epileptic episodes. It contrasts the tearful plea of sane women with the dry-eyed lunatic, suggesting tears relieve pent up feelings and mark reason’s return.
An English technical journal describes a method to make well drawn tubes from steel sheets pressed into discs then drawn through dies to form tubes from sixteenth of an inch to one and three quarters inches. Other notes cover street cars with mail boxes, goat aided dam construction near Santa Fe, longer locomotive steam ports, oiling schedules for East Tennessee Virginia and Georgia locomotives, and electric drives for traveling and stationary cranes with slow speed reversible motors.
A Tennessee case from Trimble describes John Henry Leake who swallowed a lemon seed that lodged in his stomach. A growing mass formed, causing severe pain and eventual death. Surgery failed to locate the seed, and postmortem revealed the seed sprouted, sending shoots that gnawed at the stomach walls.
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