21 Dec 1908
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Dec 21, 1908
Page
1
A Bertin firm reports a new electric knife tested by Professor Bier at the University Surgical Clinic. The device uses high frequency current to emit a spark that cuts tissue like a hot knife, promising rapid healing and sterilization. However initial trials show more hemorrhage than with a standard scalpel.
At Auckland Education Board hearings the Education Department granted £3500 for an agricultural school at Hamilton and £592 for a manual training school at Cambridge. The group praised the move, noting the district’s farming character and the benefit to Hamilton High School pupils and Riakura station. Land value cited around £1200, with modern standards planned for the new Hamilton school.
An Exchange discusses prejudice against women doctors and the limited demand for private practice. A surgeon notes wide fields in maternity and public health, yet calls for moral stamina and nerve as barriers to women surgeons, while predicting gradual change.
A London Daily Mail correspondent notes Johannesburg’s revived stock market vitality after years of stagnation. Brokers flood the streets, theatres fill, debt is paid, and new members join the Exchange as optimism about South Africa’s boom returns.
A Sydney Morning Herald report notes three Divorce Court cases showing husbands leaving without trace after brief marriages. In one, a man left a year after marriage promising to seek work. in another, he borrowed tram fare and vanished to Neutral Bay. in the third, he urged a farewell and departed after twelve weeks.
Advertisement extols Froctoids for headache indigestion constipation and biliousness claiming rapid relief when other medicines fail. It asserts liver support and blood cleansing with a nightly dose and promises independence from doctors. W G Hearne Chemist Geelong Victoria sells at 1 shilling 6 pence.
Professor E W Scriptors argues handwriting and educated attitudes toward it are deteriorating. He contrasts lax legibility with social tolerance for poor script and notes the Japanese view writing as an art form and discipline. He asserts careful expression shapes inner character and supports using the hand as a communicative art.
The Persian Shah raised his children with Western ideas and sports. His son is a keen shot. Crown jewels inflate Persia’s wealth, including the Peacock Throne valued at three to four million, the Daria-i-noor, and the Globe of the World with emerald seas and turquoise Persia.
A New Zealand advertisement promotes to measure and buy George Davies suits in Christchurch. It touts low prices from £2 5s to £3 3s with a cash only policy and a Keep-Shape front preventing backstretch. Readers may request free samples and measurement forms by mail to 178 Colombo Street.
French Parliament sees two Bills to curb absinthe pricing or ban it, as reformers push for relief from a liquor blamed for crimes. Reports note scientific warnings on toxins, and calls for broader action beyond absinthe to protect health and public order.
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