19 Dec 1910
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 19, 1910
Page
1
A businesslike gentleman urges a large whiskey advertisement but the editor halts the plan, instructing the newsroom not to run the editorial on The Curse of Drink this week. The scene underscores editorial control and temperance pressures in a newspaper office.
Dr Wilfred T Grenfell was awarded Companionship of the Order of St Michael and St George by the late King for work among Labrador coast fishermen. He denounced alcohol as useless and destructive, saying saloons prey on sailors new to sea ports and lure them to crime.
A servant maid offers a teetotal carpenter hot coffee and bread and butter during repairs at a gentleman's house. The scene contrasts abstinence with generous hospitality, noting how providing decent refreshments can promote sober habits among workers.
The piece argues moderation is unclear in practice, noting children should not drink due to immature brains. It cites Basle chemist G Bungo and others on how alcohol affects adults, compares various “laws” of safe amounts, and urges weighing personal benefits before drinking. It warns of loss of self-control and promotes restraint.
At Birmingham Assizes Judge Darling condemned a juryman for pocketing the small fee and using it as drink money. The foreman admitted the theft and the panel suggested diverting funds to the usher, the poor box, or other uses. The judge warned such acts would be punished and stressed the money belonged to jurors.
Severe storms flood Midlands towns and coastal resorts. Dover mail services suspended. Selsey defenses swept away turning peninsula to an island. Ark an fishermen drowned. Hastings Portsmouth and other areas flooded. Police battle burglars at Houndsditch. five officers shot, three suspects captured. Robbery gang includes two women and three men.
The report covers Alsace Lorraine constitutional reform votes, war scare cites by Mr. Hirst, Brazil's Dreadnought purchase, Japan-US rivalry, and disarmament talks. It notes British policy shifts, Ontario and Canadian tariff views, and infrastructure plans like the Hudson Bay railway. Also mentions floods near Seville and a Paris-like emergency rail safety trial in Sydney.
A novel treatment for nervous disorders at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Palsied in Queen Square Bloomsbury uses hanging by a rope. The patient is suspended by a padded rope and gradually raised over weeks to stretch neck muscles, with brief rests between sessions each morning.
Advertises Frootoids as a remedy for congestion blood poison brain apoplexy and related conditions with claims of quick relief when other aperients fail. It asserts liver improvement regular digestion and annual use weekly dose at bedtime and eventual independence from aperients. Price 1/6. Sold by chemists and W G Hearne & Co Geelong Victoria.
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