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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Nov 15, 1900
Page
3
A light petty nickel plated alarm clock, bought for 60 cents at a bargain sale, disrupts a date at Uranbrook. The clock rings loudly, startling the young man and prompting a hasty exit, leaving the pretty girl in blue in tears over the mishap.
Sherbrooke witness recounts a horse that stumbled on a steep hill last August causing severe cuts to head and body. A rider applied Minard's Liniment extensively and the horse recovered in a few days.
A ragged collage notes William Waldorf Astor fleeing to Germany after rebukes from London's smart set. Amid frost and snow in Europe he seeks relief from unbecoming fortune leeches while editors debate his English identity and the cost of his birthright. Descriptions mix satire with health misadventure and social snubs.
The Golden Penny notes horses perish from hard work and hunger during sieges. During the Hlevna siege 66000 draft horses carried stores from Sistova, with 22000 dying by exhaustion. Starvation, injury, and constant sea transport hazards render many horses useless for war.
In Damascus a cache of ten manuscript books is guarded by Nazem Pasha and a sealed committee. The German Academy hopes the originals lie there, with a German professor to join a Sultan request and search.
Mrs Martin wife of Frank Marein, an engineer to the Ameer of Afghanistan, recounts her time in Kabul. She notes the Amirs courtesy to the English, few Europeans in the city, and the strict British escort system amid a wary capital. She recently arrived at Simla.
A flower called the laughing plant grows in Arabia and bears bright yellow blossoms. Its seeds yield fumes resembling biting gas, while the seeds are solid black beans.
The Hissin Wistoriana Russia's Academy of Science awards 1,600,000 rubles for the best history in Russian of Alexander I. General Arakezeijew contributes 60,000 rubles, accumulating to 125, with three quarters to the winner and a quarter for printing and translation for a second prize. Totals approach 2,000,000 rubles.
The poem laments a woman trapped by gloom and memory. It speaks of death as a tomb and the desire to resist change while clinging to a fragile love. The speaker questions fate and finds scant solace in distant, unnamed figures.
The piece describes dagger and stiletto use in assassination, detailing grip, motion, and technique. It compares the dagger to the stiletto and notes the blade shapes, handles, and historical uses. The article notes the stiletto’s rarity outside museums and its lethal efficiency when used.
A western couple visiting New York stayed at the Waldorf Astoria and spent their first day admiring the hotel’s Myrtle Room Astor Gallery and grand ballroom. The husband’s awe was tempered by a quip about his shoes to be blackened outside the door, noting the scale of the hotel’s opulent fittings.
The account describes students at Western Maryland College stealing molasses, spilling it in a dormitory kitchen, and provoking a reaction by Dr. Ward. A subsequent confession by Ward reveals a long bizarre anecdote about a theoretical experiment involving worms and body parts.
An excerpt shows a dialogue debating earnings from whisky and the morality of wealth. A speaker claims money for a house came from whisky profits while another defends labor and ancestral virtue amid a remark about a husband at a bargain sale.
An early description details Chicago fire trucks with twelve ladders up to 90 feet, track extensions, and a Junior extension for tight spaces. Equipment includes axes, crowbars, picks, tin cutters, window breakers, sealing belts, various hoses, nozzles such as the distributor, cellar pipe, extinguishers, portable fire escape, life line guns, jumping net, smoke masks, signal rings, and red lanterns.
At the 1896 Atlanta exposition the Virginia aristocrat’s framed family tree was sent for display in the Pomological department after committee outreach to southern women. She finds the entry listed as loaned by Mia of Richmond, mistakenly placed among fruit exhibits, provoking embarrassment.
A pair of bicyclists on the Long Island shore seek rail station directions from a local Black woman. Her guidance mixes humor with memory as she directs them toward the old post office corner. They reach the station but still recall the missing corner once named by locals. A lawyer tale follows with a litigant challenging a fee and the lawyer’s blunt reply on charges.
At The Gables in Surbiton England owned by Mr and Mrs Alfred Cooper a convalescent home for returned soldiers has residents knitting for pastime and comfort. One man knitted stockings for his baby in a day and others knit belts bearing their name and the battle in which they were wounded.
The tale describes Mrs Gravel of Quebec recovering from heart palsy after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. It cites relief from sharp heart pains, restored appetite, strength, and ability to work, and urges purchases via Brockville Ontario. A second tale follows a farmer and a grateful former beneficiary.
Public health notice warns against mercury containing catarrh ointments and urges prescriptions from reputable physicians. Hall's Catarri Cure by F J Cheney & Co Toledo claims no mercury and is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Independent testimonials offered. price 75 cents per bottle. Halle Family Pills also advertised.
An Investigation by a fire insurance company examines whether rats or mice can ignite matches. In a cage with sulfur and safety matches, rats ignited the sulfur matches while mice did not gnaw them. The study notes safety and practical implications for preventing fire risks.
The anecdote recalls Bishop How noting a sermon long yet praised by a lady who saw a saint in the pulpit and a martyr in the pew. The passage warns that lingering coughs can lead to consumption and promotes Bickley Ant Consumptive Syrup as a remedy.
The Baltimore American notes grim reports of railway horrors and Hell disease as a deluge of gossip floods the era. It claims Parmalee's Vegetable Pill offers a cure for misery and debility, touting Mandrake and Dundlion as ingredients.
Trade auction houses including DONALD FRASER & CO. WINNIPEG SUCKLING & CO. and firms in TORONTO MONTREAL WINNIPEG offer catalogues. Receipts indicate sale listings and contact options for Toronto Montreal Winnipeg offices.
The passage features Chitwan asserting a lofty view that humanity forgets much of civilization. A contrasting thinker argues that little wisdom remembered is often better than a wide but forgotten past.
Fragmentary clipping discusses Hotel Balmoral and a critical view of ineffective colored water medicine. It questions whether a mere syrup solution can claim healing power and cites mind cure as a related idea.
The snippet records Tess ending an engagement with Tom and Jess noting the break is temporary. Tess sent back gifts and asked not to be contacted again, while a P S request asks to acknowledge the presents and letter. A pillow embroidered with Absent minded Beggar features in the tale.
The Philadelphia Bulletin quotes a quirky snippet about Minard’s Liniment curing diphtheria and parodic lines about medical cures. It references odd dialect phrases and a joking line about girls being idle, captured as a clipped historical chat.
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