Insanity in Canada Census Findings Highlight Care Levels
Dominion Census Commissioner Johnson presents a 1891 bulletin on insanity in Canada. It shows 13 355 insane individuals, 7 029 in asylums, with Ontario and British Columbia leading care rates and heredity cited as a major cause. Overall per-capita costs and provincial trends toward state care are noted, alongside methodology caveats.
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St. Ferdinand d’ Halifax
Canadian twelve-Penny stamp sale sets high price
A Canadian twelve-Penny stamp fetched as much as 100 dollars in Lon net long ago. In New York a number of Cherokee Indian girls supplied the singing at a church service on a recent Sunday evening.
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Western Union
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Victoria Niagara Falls Park
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India
China
Burmah
Siam
Tallport
Bowser's Ice Cream Trousers Cause a Tailoring Fuss
Mr Bowser receives ill fitting summer trousers that look wrong to him from the tailor. Mrs Bowser urges patience while he complains of knee room and length. He vows to punish the tailor but finally wears them and later boasts of the maker’s skill.
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Gen. Jackson
Mr. Bowser
Bunko
Borneo
A Patchwork of 19th Century Facts and Fancies
A wide array of curiosities from 19th century life, noting divorces in America and Europe, Silk and glass innovations, hat fashions, breech loading rifles, telegraph growth, and odd beliefs about luck with hunchbacks. Includes notes on silk from wild silkworms, urban storms, and byways of daily invention and superstition.
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Europe
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England
Schley County
Georgia
A. L. Beckwith
Experience Teaches in a Quip with a Clergyman
A humorous exchange unfolds as a bridegroom negotiates payment with a clergyman. The bridegroom wavers about gifting a large sum, proposing to settle later to learn the correct amount. The clergyman, jokingly self-deprecating as a married man, counters with a small immediate fee.
Fowl identity joke from a witty dinner scene
A playful exchange features a polite tramp asking about a fowl, the mistress identifying Plymouth Rock, and a joke about stone crushers on the premises. The allusion to Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stuart adds a historical flavor to the humor.
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Plymouth Rock
End of the Furrow A farmer’s tale of peaches and perseverance
An excerpt from The End of the Furrow shows a Delaware peach grower who shifts from selling fresh fruit to glass bottle preserves. His wife, a hospital graduate, helps stabilize finances by bottling peaches and selling to Baltimore hospitals, proving quality over quantity and building the state’s best orchard.
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Theodore L. Flood
Charles Barnard
Delaware
Baltimore
The Late Admiral Tryon death rumors clarified
A press inquiry debunks claims the late Admiral Tryon died by his own hand. Witnesses say his last moments occurred as the Victoria lurched and sank, with Tryon and Staff-Commander Hawkins Smith vanishing together after the forecharthouse capsize. The coxswain did not offer a lifebuoy. he leapt overboard with a lifebuoy as the ship listed.
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Press Association
Admiral Tryon
George Tryon
Times of Friday
Hawkins Smith
Lord Gilford
Sir George Tryon
Victoria
George Tyron
Unusual Siamese Hairdo Described By Reporters
A curious cultural note describes wives of Siamese nobles cutting their hair to stand erect creating a distinctive vertical style. The description notes hair length averaging about one and a half inches.
Denver Crumbles Under Silver Slump and Mob Violence
A Montreal Witness correspondent details Denver’s collapse as silver prices fall after Britain's coinage policy, triggering bank failures, widespread layoffs, and desertion of miners. Amid shortages and idle streets a mob lynched an Italian saloon owner, blue-collar workers flee toward the East, and local firms like the Denver Hardware Co. fail.
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New Mexico
Ariona
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Wyoming
Colorado
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Savings
Lightfoot
Santa Fe Avenue
17Th
Curtis
Denver Hardware Co
Apparent Intelligence in Plants
Apparent intelligence appears in certain plants as they perform varied functions. Their actions resemble animal behavior, suggesting a possible link between plants and animals and hinting at a form of intelligence or a similar phenomenon.
Fragmentary Newswire Recap From The Dominion Era
Disjointed OCR note lists several scattered events. Mentions five roundland incidents involving Alfred Or crushed, Toronto Gene Mr. Robert moving train Orillia, Valeria Ed driving with i on Sunday, Palm river accident injuring Michael Ti, mill owner refusing hands, a memorial for E Wade with $20 000, Cunard steamer trial near Cardiff, a dock strike in progress, British ship afloat at Car, and a murder at Bombay with Hind fatalities among other incomplete items.
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Alfred
Toronto
Robert
Orillia
Valeria
Michael
Palm
Cunard Steat
Cardiff
Grimsby
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