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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Oct 26, 1893
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a furnace and a small manufactured item. The readable text is incomplete and lacks clear names places or dates to identify a specific event or entity.
A summary of weekly items notes Mr R M Horsey plans to organize a Kingston Historical Society. It lists broad events including Montreal real estate proprietors, Manitoba timber fires, a new BC college site, church choir tensions, and various political and international notes from Canada and Britain.
A notorious Irish character Terry, famed for laziness and wit, is invited to work a day for the priest with a promise of whiskey at six. After a day of steady labor he receives a full glass and jokes about how the whiskey was made, then returns for a second day holding an empty tumbler and quips that every drop is a nail in his coffin.
An old regiment drill instructor, famed as a martinet, leads a firing party through a funeral exercise. He forms a lane and, acting as the corpse, remarks that while hands and heads are correct, the men lack the proper look of regret.
In a shop, M Kinnon speaks with customers as a blind man enters and asks for sweet help. The grocer bets on his sensory judgment, asks the blind man to identify sugar by touch, and the man correctly names the sugar, provoking laughter from onlookers except the grocer.
A guest recounts a private August tour of Balmoral Castle in Scotland, detailing its grounds, architecture, and interiors. The piece notes the queen and prince consort’s private spaces, the Stuart tartan decor, engravings, the ball room, dining, and music rooms, and memorials on the grounds.
A village maiden enters a rural post office and calls for a money order. Jack, the teller, reads a note and is paid 5 shillings plus a hundred kisses for the young woman. The exchange ends with the old woman receiving the money and kisses, amid multi language Hogan papers.
A roundup notes royal interest in phonographs and typewriters, monarchs’ unique collections and hobbies, plus details on foreign emigration, small-scale crafts like hairpins and watch screws, new fashion canes in St Petersburg, and a camel- express postage stamp experiment in Obock and Somali coast colonies with a triangular mehari stamp showing a racing camel.
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