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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 05, 1910
Page
1
The text notes a strong young man overcoming delicacy with Robinsons Patent Groats and Robinsons Patent Barley, claiming a rapid improvement and a robust build-up from the nourishment provided.
A passenger jokes about spending money on art while recalling a Chicago printing sold for five hundred dollars. A bashful traveler counters that paying more for a small painting is wasteful, joking about a painting at the end of a nose.
Reports describe extensive floods in the Thames and Trent valleys with rivers overflowing and villages at risk. Nantes reports seven thousand unemployed and many homeless as Montjean dam bursts. The Chamber of Deputies votes relief funds while Briand vows to battle alcoholism as the nation faces a grave crisis.
A Daily Chronicle report notes a shift among London clubs in St James's and Mayfair with barley water becoming the favored beverage for young society members. A wine shipper laments the change as ruinous to empire while observers debate whether temperance aids national vigor or dulls vitality.
In the Bank of Kingland area a Star report notes growing temperance trends. City landlords and buyers observe fewer drinks per visit as food quality rises and late trains push workers home. Officials from the Commercial Travellers' Christian Association corroborate the change, citing faster pace and keener competition reducing the need for alcohol at work.
At Warrington for the 75th Anniversary of the Independent Order of Rechabites public meeting the MP for Wigan Mr H Twist declared a permanent slump in the drink trade. He argued temperance progress outpaced brewery and publican profits and urged public bodies end domination by drink interests.
A captain of twenty years at sea recalls grog twice daily in older days but now no liquor is served nor allowed aboard. He notes passenger liquor sales have fallen 75 percent over two decades. A second captain adds liquor use on his ship is minimal and not consumed by the crew.
In Chicago a public speaker praised that 25 percent of Congress are total abstainers and warned that when abstaining becomes unfashionable the liquor problem will be solved.
A shipment of about one thousand turkeys was sent from Sydney to Singapore, marking a sizable export move. The operation reflects ongoing trade in poultry between the two regions.
A violent gale in the Sea of Azov drove water out three miles stranding ships and leaving crews landless. Copperhill Tennessee is burning with one street destroyed. losses reach £20,000 with no lives reported. Hackenschmidt beat Yussif Hassan in Indianapolis with two straight falls.
The report notes Jaques Faure a nephew of the French ex president dying in Quebec from typhoid after difficulties in the St Louis Balloon race. It also mentions Laurier likely to resign after an educational Navy tour through Quebec Ontario and other provinces and outlines rapid naval contract activity and costs. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught visited Martinburg Durban and Port Elizabeth with civic engagements and a foundation stone ceremony.
Airman Cuguet rose in a monoplane during the Austral meeting but the wind dashed the craft onto a hard tennis court, smashing the machine. He escaped unharmed. The cruiser Gibraltar has brought relief crews to the Australian station. Cane farmers limit planting areas due to labour shortages.
A large Wellington crowd gathered at the Town Hall to celebrate Mother Mary Joseph Aubert’s fifty years of care for the sick in New Zealand. The Governor presented a £2000 cheque from national sympathisers, to fund a new convalescent wing at the Island Bay Home of Compassion. Lord Islington praised her enduring service while Dr Izard and Rabbi Van Staveren echoed the tribute.
A court remark about defences and gentlemanly instincts, the Imperial Social Circle in Hampstead reaches its fifth season at Eustace Miles restaurant to combat London loneliness. A Boston Transcript piece cites a New York Jewish Evangelisation Society director with global Jewish population figures and professional presence.
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