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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 08, 1905
Page
3
The page blends opinion on naval arms race post Port Arthur, notes on battleship vulnerability to mines and torpedoes, plus assorted ads and testimonials. Mentions British shipbuilding orders, Great Northern Railway excursions, and Minard’s Liniment cures alongside health claims and shipwreck notes.
Major Moodie states the proposed Churchill to Liver route can be used for at least four months annually. An advertorial claim says no worm exterminator matches Mother Graves Worm Exterminator for destroying worms.
Rev William Gunn of Aneityum writes from New Hebrides to Rev R Douglas Fraser recounting twenty years of patient work by Gunn and helpers to bring Futuna islanders into the church building. Williams had visited Futuna in 1839 but natives remain uncivilized and need instruction in proper clothing.
News from the Admundsen expedition says their exploring ship was wrecked in the Gulf of Boothia. One explorer died, the remaining crew are alive with the Esquimos and have been brought home.
It is estimated that there are over fifty Canadian physicians in Great Britain taking post graduate courses, including forty in London. Dr. George W. Ross, son of ex Premier Ross, has risen to his present role as pathologist and registrar at Victoria Park Hospital in two years.
Professor Mosby argues feeding bottles are not modern. He cites Greek nurses using honey pots to soothe crying infants and notes two 7th century B C Greek vases in the British Museum resembling later Roman feeding bottles. He mentions a red polished ware bottle found in Canterbury’s St Sepulcher cemetery in 1861 likely buried with a Roman child.
John Davidson compares Lord Byron and Napoleon in London Outlook, framing Byron as the passive tragedy of imagination and Byron’s Greek dream as abortive action, while Napoleon embodies active tragedy through world conquest and a futile memoir in St. Helena.
A historical excerpt recalls a bygone era when American ships carried commerce and American sailors manned them. The speaker Benton McMillin extols the flag over cargoes and the sea ports, linking homeland symbolism to national strength and beauty in the nation’s maritime past.
A London Telegraph note asserts Britain originated the postmark. The first postmark, used in London around 1680, was a simple circle split into two parts showing month and day, with no year. The date is inferred only from the letter dates the mark appears on.
A quirky monologue discusses different types of kickers, noting a high priced four legged hybrid, a two legged harmless animal, and a persistent tearing down critic. It urges readers to avoid joining a critics chorus and to retire to reflect rather than lash out.
Cyrus W Field once halted an Irish peasant requesting news of Blarney Castle and posed a riddle about Lucifer. The peasant replied that Lucifer would take him first, reasoning that Lucifer is always sure of him.
Two women discuss shopping at a store. Mrs Shoppen praises the store saying they have everything. Mrs Chase objects noting dissatisfaction and inability to please everyone with what they ask for.
A man in an English court was fined for contempt of court. He offered five pounds in payment and refused to take change, saying keep the change while the clerk noted the contempt. The judge fined him two pounds for the offense.
Advertises the Keeley treatment as a solution endorsed by lawyers doctors congressmen clergy and clerks who have used it. Claims it can save property reputation family sanity and life. Encourages readers to contact today for necessary information about the program.
The article notes that purchasing all railways would cost about £8.48 trillion, equal to Europe's eight years of revenue or one tenth of the world’s wealth of apes. It highlights railways as a remarkably swift rise in value and the most important, widely distributed wealth source.
The ad claims manly strength and womanly beauty rely on pure blood filtered by kidneys. It asserts kidney function failure causes weakness and that the South American Kidney Cure cleanses impurities, repairs weak spots, and restores power.
Dispatches from southwestern Russia report a strong push for Zionist emigration as anti Jewish disorders drive hundreds of Jewish families to leave or plan to depart for Palestine.
The Lake of the Woods mill staff prepare a large flour shipment for Japan. Two thousand bags depart Vancouver on December 16 bound for Kobe. A second substantial order will leave the coast on January 15.
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