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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 12, 1893
Page
2
A playful poem from a five year old recounts bringing home a spade rake and seeds. The child tends a bed daily but learns that growth takes time and that seeds must be peeled from their wrappers before they can grow. The piece blends parental guidance with simple curiosity.
A Norwegian tale follows Esben who wins the king’s favor by tending magical hares after exchanging kindness with an old crone. He guards the hares with a magical pipe enabling control, outwits rivals, and finally secures a kiss for a price before the king steals the pipe and faces royal peril.
A princelike Esben persuades the Queen and King to honor a bargain. The King contemplates harsh punishment but yields, keeping a pipe and ensuring Esben may marry the Princess. The couple inherit half the kingdom and live happily.
A Kissingen dispatch says Prince Bismarck’s illness is dangerous and his family opposes Emperor William visiting him due to fear of fatal excitement. Return home seems impossible for now. The article notes his superstitions about 13 at table and Friday, moon-based haircuts, and a belief he knew his own death with a mystic date, later repeating it seven years later.
At the Pan-American Medical Congress railway surgeons argue daylight railway accidents cause greater horror and fatalities due to mental shock. They cite the flying switch hazard where a brakeman sees an impending crash, increasing fatal outcomes, while night accidents allow less perceived danger, reducing mental strain and deaths.
Russian naval authorities confirm the Roosalka, a 1960 ton coast defence ironclad with two turrets and four 15 ton guns, sank after setting sail from Regal for Helsingfors. Crew of 200 perished. wreckage found but no sign of the vessel. Storm separated it from the gunboat Tudk, and it vanished in the Gulf of Finland.
A lyric meditation on love’s gold and the misery that hides behind shining locks as iron bars cast doubt on beauty. The verse contrasts radiant tresses with harsh confinement and longing for freedom.
A long tale claims the Cherokee alone know the location of legendary gold mines in the Indian Territory. A white discoverer allegedly found rich native gold but was killed to conceal the site, with three Cherokees later guarding the secret and passing it to their sons. The story, now printed, preserves the mystique of a center of wealth and danger.
A developing French industry trades in milk frozen solid in cans. Milk remains fresh for over a month when frozen by a standard ice maker and shipped by road, rail, or steamer. The buyer thaws the product as needed for use.
The parish of St James Westminster has hosted at least six and three quarter million visitors since public baths and washhouses opened forty years ago. Kaiser Wilhelm reportedly toured Berlin’s Hebrew quarter recently as a Hebrew pedlar to gauge the condition of poorer Jews.
An overview of famed blind figures from Homer to modern times, noting how loss of sight sharpened other senses. It highlights scholars and artists such as Saunderson, Metcalf, Moyes, Euler, Huber, and Henry Moyes, plus travelers like Holman, and mentions King George of Hanover as a blind monarch.
A nine day ordeal ended when the British schooner Windermere sank 180 miles off Mobile during a squall. Three men survived clinging to the hull while captain Charlton his wife first mate Holmes and seaman August perished. Sharks circled the wreck as rescuers from the Palentino hauled the survivors aboard after a desperate struggle.
A poem-like critique contrasts Bedouin horse lore with old liverymen, noting reliance on tradition over anatomy. It describes nontechnical diagnoses, reliance on hot iron for lameness, and beliefs about aging. A British Parliament return lists medically unfit drafts: 33 cavalry, 34 artillery, 755 line soldiers.
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