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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 05, 1893
Page
7
Poem and essays on optimism and etiquette urge choosing light over shadow and kindness over strict conformity. It contrasts optimistic living with the pessimist’s doom and calls for personal virtue, humane conduct, and practical wisdom in family life and society. It closes with Clara Ueland’s Housekeeper attribution.
A reflective piece on good manners rooted in sincerity, kindness, and self-respect. It argues manners express inner life, cross all races, and are fostered by mothers through love and gentle guidance. It cautions against forcing politeness and emphasizes natural, age-appropriate social development.
A collection of pickle and conserve instructions detailing cucumber and vegetable pickles, Spanish pickles, cucumber sauce, chow chow, and spiced peaches. Includes brining steps, vinegar blends, mustard prep, spices, and canning methods for long preservation. Names brands and measurements appear, with emphasis on safety and shelf life.
A vintage recipe fragment describes spiced tomatoes as a relish for cold meat. It instructs boiling sliced ripe tomatoes for twenty minutes, sieving, and sweetening with sugar and vinegar, plus cinnamon and cloves in a cloth bag, then reducing to marmalade and cooling in glasses. It also notes tomato stews in meat stock and a tomato butter fry method with eggs.
This article shares kitchen guidance for tomato dishes and preservation. It explains a tomato soup and rice with tomatoes, with spices and butter for serving, plus a method to brine and pickle tomatoes in a four gallon jar using salt, water, and a cloth weight for long keeping.
A 19th century style guide describes using kerosene mixed with soap to wash clothes. It instructs filling a boiler with water, dissolving soap in kerosene, boiling fabric batches, rinsing, blueing, starching, and line drying. It claims one bar of soap suffices for a large wash.
A sweeping overview of Brazil noting its size, population of about 15.6 million, abolition of slavery in 1888, Rio de Janeiro as the largest city, and a government cost near 100 million dollars. It details exports such as coffee and rubber, trade balance with the United States, Europe, illiteracy rates, railroads, telegraph ownership, and political turmoil after the 1891 constitution.
An elderly Glasgow engineer recalled in Kensington infirmary a tale from the Russo Turkish War aboard a Turkish ironclad on the Danube. Hobart Pasha visited the repair scene and joked that Hobart was his surname, not a Turk, revealing how he was mistaken for the title Pasha.
The Berlin experiments show iron heated in acid water can reach extreme temps, melting and spattering in seconds, with claims of 7000 to 14000 degrees Fahrenheit. The piece then shifts to cautionary notes on wealth and outside ventures, warning that successful founders risk ruin by funding risky patents and schemes rather than core business, urging restraint and focus.
New York financier David H. Lichtenstein of Lichtenstein Bros. dry goods, staying in Wave Crest, tried a stunt to feel the life of the poor. Disguised with old clothes and a borrowed organ, he played for neighbors and strangers, receiving only a few coins, until a dog recognized him and a child and guests at his home finally confirmed the tale.
The Westminster Gazette notes that women outlive men across ages, with a small overall female excess of about 34 percent. The gap widens with age, as women over 60 outnumber men, and past 85 the male population dwindles. Nanogenarians favor women, with 854 over 95 to 354 men, and more women than men reach a century.
Miss Teuia Henry of Honolulu describes a once practiced heathen ceremony at Raiates where two priestly descendants, Tupua and Tio, lead followers across a hot earth oven without burning feet. The ovens measure up to 30 feet, filled with ti plant roots and ape root.
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