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Newspaper
Charlottetown Guardian
Location
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
1
A narrator recounts insomnia cures and a surreal dream sequence. The narrative blends peanuts and milk as a sleep aid with vivid, fantastical episodes including a dragon, a two headed bull, a windlass request, a time warped train, and a tent lifted by a clown, ending with waking and noting the ten minute slumber.
A discussion on how a well-trained mind aids business and personal relations, noting that character forms slowly and is reinforced by childhood environment. It contrasts money focus with mental discipline and cites Lady Burton's rigid upbringing as an example of early moral constraint.
Two young women reading papers on child rearing at a mothers meeting leave their husbands at home with the children. After the meeting they go to a friend's for refreshments and return to find both husbands frantically tending a pair of crying babies when they reach home around 11:80.
In a crowded second story room at 11 Suffolk Street a Jewish school faces eviction as City Marshal Lazarus removes the meager benches and furniture. Children watch a white bearded rabbi teach prayers while the marshal offers a small mercy fund to aid the needy congregation and its teaching.
An old column blends social critique with practical home remedies and a peasant anecdote. It contrasts Portugal's fragmented land inheritance with southward unused fields, then shifts to nosebleed care and a lecture on business acumen in the Adirondacks.
Mrs Wary Brandes, wife of a wealthy hotel keeper, testified to police that Miss Delia Goff and Jacob Lemondorf extorted her since December 11, 1906. She claimed they coerced her for 15,000 dollars through threats and false advice to obtain a divorce, including advice from a fortune teller and a cash advance of ten thousand dollars.
A Chicago diner asks for a novel menu item and the waiter offers a tale of the whiffletit a fish that lives in circular lakes. The fish swells after cheese is lured through a hole and the patron is amused by the absurd plan to “laugh the whiffletit to death.”
In Reigate Surrey a windmill near the border heath was converted into the Chapel of the Holy Cross for a small congregation. The mill, after rat removal, became a public worship space with four alcove buttresses and an iron bound center shaft. The rent is 25 cents yearly.
In the village church of Comfort near Pont-Croix Brittany a rare wooden wheel of fortune with bells is described. Peasants believe running it over a sufferer’s head cures him before a child’s speech delay prompts a local inquiry. Bizarre relics and tourist chatter mix with Swiss independence centennial kits and novelty souvenirs for visitors.
A Chicago Tribune observer describes a relief train scene at a railway wreck. The first victim, dirt on hair and torn clothing, sits calmly on the grass. When asked about injuries, he says no one is hurt and he is the road's claim agent who does not reveal identity.
A historic Vienna facility, nicknamed the Fools tower, showcased a grim array of restraint devices and devices used on the insane. It featured a swinging machine, a wheel akin to a squirrel cage, and an upright English coffin box. Built in 1794, it housed 200 to 260 patients in 139 cells before replacement by a modern building.
An ambulance lecture in Hipkinstone East Lothian Scotland drew a humorous comment from jaminer. The lecturer claimed a fine pointed knife could relieve choking until aid arrived. A miner warned that Elphinstone folk would prosecute either way if the patient died or recovered. Geierw!
Workmen uncovered traces of a fresco hidden under plaster at a Hal church restoration. A local man devised a method to lift the plaster intact on canvas, enabling recovery of a valuable fifteenth century painting. Brussels museum authorities now seek to prevent its removal.
The Witminster Gazette notes robins nesting in unlikely spots including a meter cover at Market Drayton Electric Light works, a book shelf in a Chiselhurst nursery, an axle of a daily-used colliery wagon at Seghill, a scarecrow breast pocket at Ashbourne, and other odd sites such as a village forge box, a crow skeleton, and rifle range butts at Ticehurst.
In Morocco men hide most wealth from family fear of murder, and diggings begin after the head's death. A coast town reported a house demolition uncovered a notable stash of money concealed in the wall, implying many fortunes lie hidden in odd corners.
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