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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 03, 1908
Page
5
A fragment from Life and Sport in China describes Chinese street birds and tethered songbirds. A man walks with a perch and a stringed bird, while another carrier holds a wicker cage with songsters on his shoulder. Bystanders cheer as a lark bursts into song. Benevolent visitors buy sparrows to release them, seeking moral redress for captivity.
A collage of quotes from classic tales and letters highlighting truth, deception, love, and social roles. Authors include Mary MacLane, Philip Payne, Mrs Fred Keyhoe, Jane Weiss, Vickar-Collins, Max Adeser, and James Lane Allen. Reflects satire on fraud, marriage, self, and moral instruction.
An aging dapay stands with a white Massachusetts investor as a passerby child and the man’s dialogue reveal racial tensions. The old Garay insists he is as good as Maree Clarice, despite a difference in appearance and status, illustrating neighborhood attitudes.
Bir Peeds struggles to describe his wife’s symptoms to the doctor. The physician asks if the cough is bellows or hollow, noting a secrecy in the household and hinting at a mystery surrounding Kannyway.
A curious illusion uses a fresh pipe with a cork stopper and straw to lift a cork ball via breath. A second cork ball on a pin creates a hanging hook that catches the funnel, making the ball rise briefly when inhaling. New York mystery item explains the setup and aim.
The article outlines spelling party games using a base word like catastrophe. Players list words from its letters starting with a chosen letter, then compare and cross duplicates. A variant called the cate game lasts a quarter hour and ends with aloud word reveals and a prize for most unique endings.
The article explains Maury’s planned fixed Atlantic lanes to reduce collision risk for fast liners. It notes two seasonal highways, summer and winter, laid out north of the direct great-circle route, with east and westbound tracks. Griscom and Ismay privately adopt the routes for their lines to gain advantage.
A Stratford Ont Beacon summary reports tests by Hotson Bros on cool cured cheese versus ordinary cheese. Cool cured cheese arrives in superior condition and quality, selling at a higher price, while English dealers resist, but advocates see reduced shrinkage and preserved quality. Government cold curing praised as advantageous for Canadian cheese makers.
The report outlines railway construction from North Bay to Boyce Lake with grades, curves, and timber supply details. It notes 40 miles ready for steel by June and track laying at about 25 miles per month, plus camps, hospitals, and physicians established for crews.
A playful guide describes a soap bubble party for children. It instructs hanging five cardboard rings wrapped in bright tissue, spaced in a doorway, with rings seven to nine inches across. Prepare bowls of strong soapsuds with glycerin and provide clay pipes for blowing bubbles.
A series of dairy conventions organized by the state dairy and food commission takes place in Minnesota. The Hutchinson meeting drew over twenty creameries with Governor Sant attending and delivering remarks. Officials including W. P. McConnell A W Trow BD White O Greg of the farmers institutes and L Haecker of the state school of agriculture spoke on dairying and farm economy. They urged selling inferior cows for beef and feeding high quality milk producers, promoting clover and alfalfa as substitutes for bran, and better milk handling and aeration for top butter quality.
A discussion of feeding dairy cattle using bran substitutes like hay and vetch. The text cites Alabama and Oregon experiments showing comparable value to bran, noting cost reductions and effects on fat production. It also covers fresh cow feeding, water needs, and monitoring temperature with a clinical thermometer.
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