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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 08, 1894
Page
3
Local notices list jewellery ads at Kendall's and Johnston & Farr's, travel and social mentions of Gilbert Kincade, John Vance, and Mrs. Staples visiting Cobourg. Items include Shiloh's Medicine ads, spectacles by B. Laurance, railway conductors' trial, fall boot orders, gaslight pricing, and lost shawl notices.
Mrs W A Smith daughter of Mrs Burton improving if no relapse. Miss Burton not returned. The Standard Life has eleven million dollars in Canada with absolute security. Deer hunters return from the north mostly exhausted. Local editorials poke fun at Toronto mayor Kennedy and the Czar death while postmaster Vance moves fixtures to new building. Public notices include Liberal Conservative meetings, ploughing matches, and community events at Cavanville Bethany Millbrook and Cavan township. Discussions on newspapers aiding investigations, a Chicago wedding, an upcoming bailiff sale, and local weather and lamp issues conclude the column.
The notice lists symptoms of indigestion including nausea weight loss coated tongue foul breath and constipation and promotes Eseljay's Liver Lozenges at 26 cents a box or five for a dollar. It also announces I E Needham ready to handle auction sales on short notice under favorable terms inviting locals to bring items for sale.
Centreville General Store advertises a wide stock of household goods at the lowest prices and invites patronage, promising first-class goods kept in stock and urging readers to shop locally for value.
A collage of notes from JAS. T. C. LANG CORRESPONDENCE includes remedies for throat and lung issues extolled by Norway Pine Syrup, threshing records by Robert and Mark Houghton, testimonials from REN. LEISHMAN and K. D. C. praised as cures, Franklin cheese factory notes, and personal snippets about Miss Hattie Pritchard’s illness and W. A. Fallin’s city visit with a humorous remark about a city garb sighting.
John Boyd and Geo Seney left for a week of sport in the back country. Lindsay's court visits report the C O F flourishing in Sydney. I CGT officers elected: Heard, McLean, Jamieson, Rutherford, Gardiner, Henry, Folliott, Best, Lowe, Sutcliffe, Jamieson. IO GT honored Mr Beat with a Gold Headed Cane for his temperance work. Various local notices follow, including deaths, a whooping cough cure claim, a bereavement in Ida Jane Elliott, and notes on hunting, brick vault work, root crops, grain prices, and veterinary inquiries into cattle pleuro-pneumonia.
A local note outlines McFee the Tailor lowering prices on fall and winter suits and overcoats to boost home trade with the motto quick sales and small profits. The piece mentions a Sunday School Convention on Thursday Nov 15 with expected speakers and notes local improvements and price cutting by Jas T C Lang Centreville merchant.
The Progress of the World notes Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst’s persistent assault on police corruption reshaping New York City politics. It credits his steadfast stance, the public shift toward reform, and the ensuing respect and deference from Tammany as a personal triumph influencing the Strong-Goff alliance and nonpartisan reform momentum.
The Kingston Assizes heard Judge Armour state that townships and cow owners owe damages when cattle roam public highways. He warned owners to keep stock off roads after a buggy crash with a cow, noting prior fatal railway derailment risk. The Review notes the ruling as a stock owner caution and cites a B B B remedy testimonial from L Taylor of Holland Man.
Fall goods now in stock with a large consign ment of fall and winter suits. Competitive prices on overcoats. Quality and finish claimed superior to larger towns. Call to view stock. no appointment needed. Previous customers urged to continue patronage with prompt payment and satisfaction.
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