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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
2
A vivid tour of Paris markets reveals the Temple quarter with its crowded stalls selling secondhand clothing and oddities. The Red Children market offers oddities, sheep heads, corset lacings, and a strange insect seller drawing crowds in this historic working neighborhood.
The article notes shifts in parliamentary composition with university seats contributing 2% and 413 members from higher education in 1880, contrasted with earlier years. It surveys privately educated and self-educated MPs, highlighting a rise of practical knowledge versus pedantic scholarly influence, and recalls a lobby anecdote on speaking French in debate.
In Kagoshima prefecture anger grows as Chinese workers hired for a new railroad earn far less than Japanese laborers. Reports note mass meetings and Chinese notices posted on huts warning workers to quit Japanese sites, prompting police and Tokyo to weigh official steps.
Reader notes a collage of first lines from English Scottish and Irish songs. The medley blends verses about farewells voyages loves and nature with lines from classics like Coming through the rye and Jenny Lind era chestnuts, presenting a playful patchwork of cultural tunes.
The Boston Herald notes modern forestry care for old shade trees with limb amputation, cavity filling using preserving cement, and even tin roofs on wide branches to keep hollows dry, protecting venerable patriarchs from decay.
Queenie, a retriever at Kendrick pheasantry near Littleton, acts as guardian to ten day old chick pheasants after the barnyard hen died. The chicks seek shelter under her coat in moments of danger, forming an unlikely bond reported by the Denver Republican.
Winnipeg dispatch profiles eight Northwest Mounted Police volunteers returning from Fort Churchill to Cape Fullerton after a brutal 1500 mile trek. Sergeant J. D. Nicholson details days of sleet and storms, months on distant beats, and endurance amid portages, river treks, and Arctic isolation.
The article surveys Japan’s naval expansion, highlighting the Kure and Yokosuka yards, the rapid rise of battleship construction, and the production of the Satsuma Aki and other vessels. It notes the fleet’s growth, modernization, and the influx of ships from Britain and Russia, signaling imperial ambitions.
A miscellany notes the goat milk gaining favor for children, flowers warmer than air, the US government as top lamp buyer at 800 000 units, English chosen in Spanish schools, London designs many penny toys weekly, parrots’ music taste, bullfighters earning up to 20 dollars, orange trees yielding many fruit, a blind chameleon loses color adaptation, a child’s ears often grow after midlife, Holland’s queen limited hunting and loves animals, European grapes still bearing in vineyards, Saxony requires exams, an oriental carpet valued at 1 090 000 dollars studded with gems, Helland wields a motor vehicle warning signal.
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