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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 13, 1909
Page
1
A Times analysis argues most habitual criminals are not glamorous villains but compulsive minds driven by vanity and the glamour of money. It contrasts coiners, petty thieves, and those using false pretences, noting their shared urge to gain without legitimate work and their rebellion against lawful life.
The article surveys imperial settlements from Canada to the Indian Ocean, detailing loyal settlers in Canada, Labrador, Uganda, Rhodesia, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the West Indies. It highlights colonial loyalty, frontier life, and the role of officials, traders, missionaries, and farmers in sustaining the empire.
The advertisement touts Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as the best family medicine. It claims a thorough course of treatment improves appetite, restores color to lips, fills out cheeks, and restores health, with renewed energy after hot weather.
E A Steiner argues in the American Review of Reviews that in 1907 about 860000 immigrants returned to Europe and transformed Italy Austro Hungary and Russia by removing inefficient labor elevating peasant living standards and spreading new ideals. He notes emigrants themselves benefit from contact with American life if they avoid industrial dangers.
At the International Congress on Applied Chemistry Professor Berningen showcased a 1905 method by Otto Schorherr for producing air saltpetre. The live audience saw a blue flame and nitrous oxide as nitrogen from the air was fixed, yielding calcium nitrate or calcium nitrate fertilizer. The aim is scale output to about 100,000 tons annually.
Experiments on codlin moth control show best success from the first two sprays. Only sprays at petal fall and just before calyx closure yield meaningful results. Larvae hide in the calyx and feed on calyx lips, so most poison must reach the open calyx. About 30 percent of eggs are laid on shaves, not fruit, so foliage must be well covered as grubs feed on leaves before reaching fruit.
In spring a young man’s fancy toward love shifts from Sue Jane or Nancy to trust. By autumn and winter his thoughts veer away from girls and toward woods, as a playful ad copy touts Great Peppermint Cure.
A Brunswick Victoria gathering of the Independent Order of Stec Habites featured Premier Murray who urged prohibition of cigarettes as a public health measure. He recalled a horse trainer advocating stamping out smoking and argued for public opinion education and harsh censorship. He favored targeting drink with a focus on moderates and claimed personal evolution from moderation to prosecution.
The Oregon Experiment Station director argues against dual purpose stock. Meat and milk production are opposing functions. few animals combine both traits with lasting lineage. He emphasizes that modern agronomists view specialization as essential and incompatible with serving two masters in farming.
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