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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 18, 1909
Page
1
The article contrasts English and German marriage aims, arguing Germans marry for home and family, with dowries and in-law support shaping finances. It describes a typical German bachelor’s path from rented rooms to a furnished home, boosted by his wife’s management and in-law aid, and notes social prestige linked to marriage.
A historical leaflet by the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals appeals to carriage drivers and owners. It voices a horse’s suffering from beating, overwork, and neglect, urging mercy and humane treatment to extend the animal’s life and usefulness.
The article compares starting efficiency of steam and electric locomotives of equal weight. It notes electric locos have maximum constant torque, while steam engines suffer dead points. The improved four cylinder balanced steam design offers steadier torque and nears electric start efficiency from rest.
At Flower Hospital New York Professor Dieffenbach and Dr Helmuth report a cancer patient cured after radium treatment. Three incisions with radium capsules reduced a large stomach tumor in five weeks and the patient went home then recovered fully. They say several other cases show similar benefit.
A letter from Mr Th Halderness praises GENUINE SANDER S S THUCA LYPTI EXTRACT for coughs and lung issues and urges use of Sandier extracts. It warns other eucalyptus products contain irritants and claim past harms and deaths from inferior formulas.
Salvation Army figure criticizes free passage idea for British maids to New Zealand arguing women would seek better lives and marriage there, not domestic service at home. High Commissioner doubts project. some servants already travel with partial fares paid by government stewards. Other items note a Saxony man’s bun wager death, milk ban for Malta garrison, blind cyclists’ London to Birmingham ride, alloy science, a NSW boy’s suicide, Gainsborough and Fuseli anecdotes, Capablanca’s chess triumphs and expected Lasker match.
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