22 Aug 1910
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 22, 1910
Page
1
A recent cable report outlines the move toward decimal calculation in English commerce, weights, and coinage. It compares the US dollar and British money, discusses possible decimal coin schemes centered on a sovereign standard, and argues that imperial adoption is only a matter of time.
Very Rev Father Hays urged abstinence as the duty of empire citizens after a June 26 1910 sermon marking the church anniversary. He blamed intemperance for poverty and ruin, calling alcohol the foulest peril to religion and country and urging strong drink abstinence as Christian duty.
A funeral scene for temperance orator J. B. Gough features a handkerchief placed at the coffin head. A poverty memory recounts a wife’s gift of tears and a vow of renewed faith, noting the husband’s ruin and eventual restoration with moral resolve.
A dominion newspaper letter condemns hotel bars as the source of the white plague. The author, a former hotel servant, argues expectoration in public rooms spreads tubercular particles through smoking and drinking. He calls for compulsory disinfection and removal of hotel bars to allow healing air and sunlight.
The article notes 300000 copies of a dry petition were distributed in Chicago by the Waited Societies to boycott and blacklist signers. It mentions Mide's Criterion defending the whisky faith, calling for consistency in advocates of personal liberty.
The South China Weekly Post warns of rising unrest in Southern and Western China predicting a large anti Manchu and anti foreign revolt. It claims many soldiers are foreign drilled and armed with modern guns and will join revolutionaries. The native press cites possible uprisings in Yunnan Szechwan and Beijing with danger to foreigners.
The article notes about 50,000 boys in America with personal wireless installations, some more advanced than official systems. Some youths allegedly sent bogus distress messages to revenue cutters, prompting fruitless searches, prompting consideration of legislation to curb youthful Marconis.
A new tobacco cartridge soon to hit markets promises pipe smokers a single pipeful without carrying a pouch. Current cartridges require whole packets, but upcoming wraps with a slit tape allow retail of two pipefuls per purchase. The change could boost pipe use over cigarettes, as noted by a Home exchange.
Telegraphs from Veracruz say 5000 Mayans attacked Valladolid killing officials and seizing arms. Towns including Tinum Uayma and Tunkas were hit as Merida braces for influx of refugees. Rebels use strong entrenched positions aided by local sympathy and problems in Mexican command.
An advertisement touts Frootoids as a cure for headache indigestion constipation and biliousness. It claims rapid relief where ordinary tonics fail and notes liver cleansing blood and tissue benefits with weekly bedtime doses. It also asserts the remedy can end dependence on ordinary aperients.
In the House of Representatives the Note Issue Bill was further debated and adjourned. Opposition criticism was much less severe than in earlier speeches.
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