03 Jun 1908
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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Jun 03, 1908
Page
1
A novel telewriter couples a pencil input with a receiving ink pen to reproduce written messages and drawings across telephone lines. It preserves signatures, offers private communication, and can render signs and sketches at distant sites. The device promises shop window demonstrations and advertising use without voice transmission.
A Scrap Book review discusses Professor Ferriani's survey of 100 recently married Italian women. It reports that 69 percent married for love or domestic happiness, while 31 percent married for reasons deemed frivolous, such as seeking freedom from seclusion or curiosity about life.
A man peeks over a garden wall and asks what is buried in a hole. He is told seeds are being replanted, but another man insists the “seeds” resemble a hen. The replier assures the seeds are inside, ending the exchange with a humorous twist.
A fragment notes the saying that womans work is never finished and mocks the idea with lines about a woman always working to keep the home together. It references a peppermint cure and winter illness in a crude, dialectal voice.
The Dundee whaler Windward was wrecked near Carey Island on June 15 in dense fog. The Diana crew, arriving from the Arctic seas to the Tay, recounts how 12 days and nights of peril followed as mariners in open boats battled scarcity, ice melt for water, and near starvation while steering toward Pond's Bay a 400 mile voyage away.
Two Misses Allen Browne retired to Honfeld in Sussex and began growing herbs and sweet English violets. The venture moved from general farming to a specialised violet business shipping boxes across the British Isles and beyond. The violet scent gains popularity, with weddings and decor work for wealthy clients, and the Henfield farm sparked a growing violet farming industry.
An advertisement proclaims Frootoids as superior to ordinary aperients, removing waste from blood and tissues, easing headaches, liver function, and digestion. It cites rapid relief, dangers of daily-dose regimens, and urges purchase via chemists or direct from proprietor W. G. Hearne in Geelong Victoria, with a New Zealand branch listed.
London April 16 Lord Crewe Milnes born Hart of Crewe becomes Secretary of State for the Colonies succeeding Lord Elgin. A poet and political veteran, he previously served as Lord President of the Council and Ireland administrator. Colonel Seely appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies. Times notes tact and sympathy but doubts the scope for colonial concessions. Evening Post correspondent.
Belfast based traders advertise direct imports from Belfast showing a mix of goods with names like nestitehell and Sdrbar. The notice reads as a catalog style brief.
A mother asks her five year old to recite his morning prayer and he asks if he should say nurse's prayer. She directing him to nurse's prayer, the child solemnly asks in prayer if he has to get up, revealing a humorous misunderstanding.
Stand lamps from 2s each drawing room lamps with fancy shades from 9s 6d hanging lamps from 10s 6d to 4s each Etz oil lanterns from 3s each candle lanterns priced, all as listed.
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