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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1893
Page
2
Grandpa Gray narrates a reminiscence of his youthful soldier days and a courtship with Grandma, depicting battles, a surrender as victory, and a wedding dance. The piece closes with Rob and Roy grown, calling him Grandpa Gray as grandchildren gather to hear more.
Johnnie obtains a magical wishing stone and becomes a fairy king with a green frog adviser and a yellow monkey prince. He causes chaos in his castle, loses his appetite, and learns even magical rulers suffer dyspepsia. He seeks the old woman for relief but learns only one wish remains.
A fairy tale scene unfolds where Johnnie Sizzletop renounces being a fairy king and, after consulting with a fairy, uses a wishing stone to restore himself from a green frog and yellow monkey to his original self. The tale ends with his joyous return and renewed appetite for dinners.
A detailed tour of a large flouring mill explains how wheat becomes patent flour. It describes rollers, sieves, middlings, reels, and the separation of bran and germ, tracing processes from initial grinding to final packing in barrels or sacks.
The piece advises on canary care stressing proper diet and cleanliness. Feed like their natural food and avoid hemp seed. Include gravel, cuttle bone, salt. give raw vegetables and fruits sparingly. provide a daily bath. A mirror may curb loneliness. place the cage in a sunny spot and beware upper-room heat.
A reflective piece on married life urges spouses to bridge silence by creating pleasant dialogue. It cautions against scolding a man for silence and suggests fostering enjoyment in conversation to encourage open communication.
A reader notes a simple stone in a churchyard reading She made home happy. The anonymous funeral epitaph contrasts a lonely grave with moss and a soldier’s tomb, praising a mother’s quiet, unrecorded heroism as more grand than military feats. Henry Coyle writes.
A discussion on the art of perfect housekeeping stressing concealment of effort, calm mastery, and a steady system. It highlights timing turns, daily routines, and trained servants as keys to a smooth, orderly home.
This item lists do it yourself mends and handy hacks for the home. It describes making a flour paste with corrosive sublimate for long storage, a gum arabic and plaster cement for china and glass, and recommends screw eyes for shelving and airing clothes, plus a cork substitute for saucepan handles.
A colonial style menu features Cooks recipes including thin biscuit crust with apples baked in, a creamed butter and sugar sauce, and plumb dumplings steamed in cups with liquid sauce. Also includes French toast, graham pancakes, bacon with sweet potatoes, good pancakes, and caramel cake with a brown filling.
A recipe describes boiling sugar and butter with sweet cream for twelve minutes then straining through double cheesecloth. Flavor with one and a half tablespoons vanilla, cool to thicken, and spread between and on top of cake for a clear glossy finish resembling maple sugar.
The article advises isolating any unhealthy winter window garden plants to prevent contagion. It recommends severe cutting back, repotting in smaller pots with good drainage, thorough washing, drying before reintroduction, and careful watering only after new growth begins. Occasional light feeding with weak manure or ammonia water is advised for healthy, actively growing plants, not for unhealthy or resting ones.
Practical household guidance covers broom care by washing with ammonia, airing beds, fortnightly ticking brushing, kitchen cleanliness as a daily rule, light silkeline comfortables, ready made or DIY fold away flap tables, marble cloth tops, and clean shelves for a fresher, neater home vibe.
Instructions describe refreshing faded straw matting by removing tacks, beating, protecting broom bristles, heating, laying strips, sprinkling corn meal to fill cracks, brushing thoroughly with a clean broom, and using strong clear brine with a stiff brush and white cloth to rewet and mop the matting in its original lines.
In an Australian Assize a judge battles a deadlock as eleven jurors press for a verdict of guilty while one juror alone argues for not guilty. The judge rebukes their stalemate and highlights the juror’s stubborn stand in a humorous exchange.
London reports Queen Victoria maintains four royal forests Balmoral Ballochbuie Abergeldie and Whitemouth totaling about 29 000 acres with Lochnagar included deer hunting welcomed by bridle paths and abundant corries. Victoria shows affection for ex Empress Eugenie with Balmoral hosting her and a Windsor ball recalls Napoleonic era intrigues. The British Post Office annual report notes 2 785270000 pieces handled and a $51 740000 revenue, plus curious recoveries of bonds and odd letters including Jacob Stainer and a Nebraska inquiry, ending with a human interest note of a lost relatives search and a humorous deflected misaddressed letter to Sir Humphrey Davy.
Fragmented OCR style notes show a Coboe area page with names like Mr Henry Mrs Turner Rev William and Mr Doak. Mentions include a bridge assizes, a robbery, venison hunts, ads for enamel goods and shovels, and a subscription fund to a committee. Also references to Kells Fowler and McColl and Toronto party.
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