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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
8
A report details salary progress for female staff and job permanence for two others, with the board aiming to fill two positions by the first. It includes a word puzzle about letters spelling Su and I and E, then lists a petty anecdote about a man losing a carriage rug after a card game. It ends with council motions on taxes, by laws, and adjournment, including appointing a Poundkeeper and by law amendments.
Minutes of the sixth Glenboro council meeting held August 8 1902 adopt last meeting minutes authorize payment of A 8 Rose inspection bill 475 grant Cyprus Agricultural Society No 1 one hundred dollars for current year lost and then grant 150 to the CAS for current year carried.
An advertisement touts Dux King’s New Life Pills as a cure for liver trouble and skin issues. It claims the pills purify the blood and improve complexion, selling for 25 cents at Glenboro drug store.
London mourns General Sir William Olpherts KCVO VC known as Hellfire Dick for a Lucknow episode. He shouted Arrah ye divils and urged gunners to fire a smoking cannon, leaping to steady the charge and brandishing courage that earned his Victoria Cross.
The account surveys famines from AD 450 across southern Europe with severe starvation in Italy where parents ate children, through 739 in Britain and Wales, 828, and 954 with four failed harvests, to 1016 and 1193 to 1195 when crop failures caused widespread suffering and even cannibalism in England and France.
The article debunks claims that thumb print patterns never change while noting that thumb creases evolve with age and work. It explains thumb changes can signal nerve issues and paralysis, and that a thumb center brain operation can remove the disorder. It warns that a thumb resisting normal use may reveal mental illness.
A small pinked leather or enamel strip attached by brass nails to each shelf helps keep dust from reaching books in rented spaces with no permanent shelves. It serves as a narrow dust shield and saves front facing volumes from exposure while allowing quick contact for readers and collectors.
The method describes spreading lace on a cloth attached to a board, basting points, and cleaning with a rag dipped in hot borax water. Rinse with clean water, optionally add a touch of starch in the final rinse, then dry in sun. Remove stitches, unfold, wrap in blue paper, and store until needed.
An American party recounts a robbery involving a Greek con artist Talanti in Athens. With little money, they paid $3 each for passage aboard an old schooner and faced a night on deck. Officials promised action, but no one pursued the ringleader and about $6,000 in money and jewelry was stolen.
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