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Newspaper
Oxbow Herald
Location
Oxbow, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Apr 09, 1914
Page
3
Molly Gale enjoys a colonial ball with Ned Hildred while Billy Moore vies for her attention. Billy’s jealousy peaks after confessing to a guilty lie about Hildred, prompting a confession from Hildred and a tender reconciliation with Molly and Billy.
The London Graphic notes the Cape to Cairo project as central to Africa’s opening, with British control extending along a 6944 mile rail corridor aided by Congo land grants. Rail and steamship links aim to connect Cape Town to Cairo within two years, boosting commerce though not challenging the sea route.
Makambo reports Ambryn Island in New Hebrides has been transformed by a January eruption. The mission hospital site lies beneath the sea, two miles of hills vanished, and the sea boiled with lava streams while natives sought refuge in boats.
In 1812 J Wil t ama of Redruth Cornwall claimed three dreams on May 3 predicting Spencer Perceval being shot in the House of Commons lobby by a man in a brown coat. He consulted kin but was urged not to warn Perceval. The Chronicle notes the dream’s timing and the moment Perceval was shot by Bellingham.
The European element in India uses many imported buckets and pails. Few Indian houses outside Bombay and Calcutta have water pipes, so baths rely on servants carrying water in galvanised iron buckets into bathrooms and pouring it into bathtubs.
The Liverp ool sect story recalls Cardinal Manning in a gaunt, ascetic state. A convent visit prompted a nun to kneel for a blessing and joke about the pope’s blessing as she pleaded may heaven forgive your cook.
The article outlines medicinal lemonades with alneit suseeed and lemon juice, a quick mustard plaster using bread and mustard, an old fashioned lint for rheumatism with eggs vinegar and turpentine, camphor gum headaches, earache steam from a heated brick, and a burn salve of lard resin and turpentine. It notes to use the salve soon after making and seal for longer storage.
Attractive picture frames shown in newoak ing frames and mounted in renaissance gilt. One frame features a novel shape with braid trim and art silk under glass. Dainty frames make charming gifts and are useful to replace old shabby ones that hold portraits.
Household hints cover carpet care with padding and dust control while brushing teeth tips suggest salt and water rinses. Advice includes stain removal with salt, linen pillow cases, glycerin for burns, venting sickrooms, and almond consumption for children in a brisk, period voice.
Captain C H Stigand recounts a barrow escape from a young bull elephant in Hunting the Elephant In Africa. After dodging the charge he crawled through fallen branches and, with a loaded rifle misloaded by a subordinate, fired the final shot into the elephant's brain as it charged, ending the struggle.
The Seathwaite area in Mogland is famed for exceptionally high rainfall. Within a 250 yard strip on Sty Head, the rainfall averages about 210 inches per year, while surrounding areas drop by roughly 50 inches annually. Local explanation remains unclear to residents.
The piece argues that life imprisonment is effectively twenty years in Mogland. It notes that all life terms are reconsidered after twenty years, with harsh results if behavior falters. Offenders must report monthly and can be returned to jail without trial, typically never released.
An old London bookshop at the gateway of Gray's Inn is highlighted as Jacob Tonson Pope's publisher’s site, noted for publishing Addison and linked to notable figures like Johnson, Osborne, and Tomes, with confusion about another shop under Holborn gateway.
In the reign of ward IT English cloth and woollen weavers named Blanket produced a fabric later known as blankets. They were the first to manufacture this material used for peasants clothing and it carried their family name.
The Dover England to Calais France line opened in 1860 as the Great Submarine Cable, one of the earliest transchannel communication links. The undersea line connected Britain and France and marked a milestone in telegraphic technology.
The article traces Box Hill as a long standing pleasure spot linked to railways and Victorian leisure. It notes its appearance in Jane Austen’s Emma and mentions Keats and Defoe visiting the hill, the famous beeches or “bos trees,” and the grove’s enduring cultural allure.
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