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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
6
A crowded Jersey City station features a witty Bureau of Information clerk answering a flood of oddly specific questions. A fussing woman debates train times and fantasy travel plans while a bronzed traveler quizzes him on Seattle arrival and local weather.
The Punta Gorda Herald describes a tiny annual red herb that traps insects with a secretion at its leaf tips. It grows on low sandy lands and appears in late winter to early spring, curling into a cup to capture prey before returning to its small form.
A Pittsburg editor recalls Ira D Sankey dining in Philadelphia noting a man who drinks a full quart of champagne. Sankey calls such capacity foolish and sinful. He also tells of helping a beggar with 20 cents who boasted he could not get drunk on that amount.
A tale recounts a thief who, craving a plank, cuts across fields and sinks in a bog. A neighbor with a lantern arrives, and the man explains he took the shortcut to hurry home, the deeper he sinks, the more the reader sees the lengths of his deception.
Two aging men beg the dean of a New York medical college to buy their bodies for dissection. After hesitating, the dean asks for a price. The spokesman recalls $40 reportedly paid in Philadelphia.
A Chicago News quote asks for the three most uncertain things in the world and answers with a joke about a woman and two other women. The exchange features Tambo Say Mistah Bones and Bones Adunno in a playful dialogue about uncertainty.
In a Scots dialogue Erchie and neighbors discuss Carnegie’s pension for heroes and who deserves it. They debate a Canal rescue by Will Macintyre, domestic heroes like Mrs Cameron, and whether true heroism is deliberate or sudden, with humor about age limits and pay.
A. L. Nichols of Brentwood Tennessee recalls a balky horse that would not move. An old Black man reportedly rubbed dog fennel weed under the horse’s nose and the animal was instantly set to trotting. The method, he claims, cured the horse of balking thereafter.
A young boy on a crowded streetcar rides with his mother to the theatre. He asks if they will sit in a box and then gleefully hopes that the curtain stays up so the lid remains open. The Cir cle remarks on a child’s enthusiastic theatre curiosity.
The sprawling Tule tree in the Santa Maria church courtyard near Tule is fourteen feet in circumference, six feet from the ground. A tablet cut from the bark by Humboldt over a century ago remains visible, though partly covered by bark.
Scientific observations show glaciers receding worldwide, notably in the Alps, but new data indicate a reversal in Norway. Since 1904 Norwegian glaciers began advancing again, and by 1907 the progression became general with advances ranging from 1 to 12 metres.
A proofreader confronts a suspicious intruder and ejects a loiterer from the workroom in a terse exchange. The scene centers on a tense, unnamed confrontation and immediate removal.
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