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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
8
The Glenboro Gazette lists ad rates and insertion rules including price for display ads and notices. It notes charges per line, single and multiple insertions, and advance payment terms for local notices and ads.
Mrs Barker returns from Ekbora. R D McLachlan visits Arcola. A shooting match yields turkeys for winners. Rev Cooke preaches at Cypress. Miss McComb visits Carman and another plans permanent residence. Frank Taylor and M Hill to run rink this winter. Thanksgiving visits and a winter Literary Society form at the church. Sabbath School children rehearse a Christmas program. Frank Taylor rents the skating rink with sailing. Annual School meeting elects J J Fawcet trustee. Widespread wheat marketing with low dockage. car shortages noted but likely to ease. Mr F Taylor leases the rink. courteous treatment promised. Oven fixtures price rise ends two-pound loaf. John notes three meals for fifty cents.
From Coupersville Michigan comes a claim of a tasty liquor-like remedy that helps sleep troubled by coughs and promises to cure coughs. Mrs S Himelburger cites three generations using Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption and Colds. Guaranteed bottles 50 cents and $1.00 at Glenboro Drug Store. Trial bottles free.
In selecting a weekly premium for the season TWw1L-42 the Free Press Winnipeg notes value to farmers in Western Canada of an accurate thermometer and reliable rate meter. Negotiations with manufacturers yield instruments tested for extreme climate, promising practical usefulness.
The article describes Chinese shop practices with weight based pricing and bargaining. It notes signs display lists of goods rather than names, phrases like One word hall reassure customers, and customers bring their own scales. It mentions perceived bad faith but fair enforcement after payment.
In Life style chatter a couple, now married, must cut back to recover money spent during courtship. The tone hints at financial strain and wiser frugality arising from prior expenditure.
A testimonial advertisement praises Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery for nervousness, appetite, sleep, and maternity comfort. It claims regularity, healing of weakness, and cures for female diseases with endorsements from Mrs Flora Aroc of Dallas, Missouri.
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