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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1908
Page
6
A quaint overheard telephone exchange scene centers on callers seeking names. Knott asks Watt for who is present and confirms mishearing names as Knott and Knott family members tease in a comic, clipped dialogue thread.
A pastor recalls stopping a crowd as a Scotsman and an Englishman fought in a spirited pugilistic display near a railway. The minister intervened, delivering a rebuke and inviting a thrash by proxy, while the onlookers debated whether the preacher could truly fight.
A mother wakes to a scream finds her son Harry terrified and asking if he is all there. He recounts believing himself a chocolate stick and realizing he ate himself, a child’s dreamlike confusion sparked by fear and imagination.
The bank leader argues that stringent finances stem from a universal trend of spending more and saving less, describing it as an inherent global consequence. He links rising costs and cautious budgets to broad economic behavior.
A column on New York City life notes car conductors wages and morale, Bronx Park Zoo visitors, subway ridership gains, and a $15 000 higher city budget in 1908. It cites nourished schoolchildren, Brooklyn frame homes at $410, Bronx brick houses at 6500, a burglar’s quip about finance, streetcar riders paying five cents to ride, and sanitation staffing needs. It adds meat poultry and bread price changes, incoming transatlantic trunks, and parks used as sobriety venues with a policeman’s advice.
The submerged poet Francis Thompson, selling matches and cabs for food, buys laudanum to end his troubles. In the hour of swallowing most of the dose, he is halted by a hand from Chatterton, recalled that a magazine editor had traced his location that same morning, and a late relief was within reach.
A village wedding went ahead at a church but the groom froze at the vows confessing he was not the right man. He revealed the actual groom was hiding at the bottom of the church due to shyness, causing a comical ritual delay.
Dialogue shows a Scottish couple celebrating twenty five years of marriage with light banter about temper and harmony. The wife notes thirty years? of market days and their quiet life, while the husband jokes about his sweet temper. A playful exchange ends with the wife unable to respond to Pag.
An Atlantic style essay on love and remarriage cites authorities on whether women can love multiple times and men only once. A man recounts recovery from consumption after using Psychine, crediting it with saving his life and foreshadowing future marriage. He includes his photo and testimonial from Mrs. Wells Lyndall Man, claiming long health since treatment. Psychine marketed as cure for coughs colds grippe pneumonia and related ailments with prices 50c to $1.00 via Dr T A Slocum Toronto.
Joe Chandler Harris argues paternalism harms families and warns of growing state control. He suggests law officers discipline negligent parents to steer youths away from alcohol and cigarettes, predicting police involvement in guiding every boy.
A reader asserts relief from goitre with Minard's Liniment. The note mentions Bayard McMul of Ontario cured of inflammation by Walsh, and Mrs W H Johnson. Another person, J H Bailey of Parkdale, Ontario, reports facial neuralgia relief.
The German army begins a major wireless telegraphy series at Metz Strasburg and six forts Konigsberg Thorn Danzig Posen Cologne Mainz. One thousand reservists with prior telegraphist service are called to work with current troops, continuing until January 15 1908.
A short item markets Maiard's Liniment as curing distemper with a proverb framed by a Solomon quotation. The note riffs on tradition and aging wisdom, recalling a winter like this “way back in ’54” to emphasize enduring practice.
The article surveys feigning death as a widespread adaptive behavior from simple organisms to plants, noting the sensitive plant’s reflex action and a pond water experiment where rhizopods and a water louse mimic death. It questions sensory mechanisms and argues predators avoid seemingly dead prey to avoid tainted meat and poisons.
English Spavin Liniment promises to remove hard and soft lumps blemishes from horses including blood spavin curb splint ringbone sweeney and sprains. It claims to cure sores swollen throats and coughs and saves a $50 by one bottle purchase. Sold by drag gists.
The text offers maxims urging envy management and self discipline. It advises studying others' good, avoiding blind emulation, valuing silence as capital, and assessing success honestly before rushing into ventures. It warns against delaying debts and rash actions, and counters cynical views with a penitentiary comparison.
Advertisement claims iTcre Mange Prairie Scratches and all contagious Itch on humans or animals are cured in 30 minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion. Describes availability from druggists and assurance of failure avoidance.
A Japanese doctor seldom asks for payment, with a proverb warning that charging poor families is theft. Dr Matsumoto notes physicians freely give time and medicine and may even take money only as a personal gift, while rich patients expect no bill and presents are accepted as fair compensation.
A humorous tale circulates about a man who laughed so hard at a story he temporarily lost his voice. He plans to recount it to his wife, sparking curiosity about the joke itself.
In Sunday school a girl explains she stayed away because her hat was dirty. The teacher says inward matters more than outward, but the girl quips that even the lining was dirty too.
A collage of old time proverbs and remarks on life, money, love, and marriage. Snippets reference common sayings like better to have loved and lost and the pudding proof in the morning, with humorous notes about alimony and divorce.
A London paper says the Mohawk torpedo boat destroyer, built by J. S. White & Co. under Parsong license, is among the world s fastest warships. It reportedly reached 34 4 knots on six tests, with a later slight improvement on a mile course. The vessel uses five turbines producing 14 000 indicated horsepower, with six water tube boilers and a 7 ton liquid fuel supply. It is 270 feet long with a 25 foot beam and a draft of 8 feet displacing 765 tons.
An English paper extols London as a place of vast yet satisfying loneliness. It notes crowds of millions pass by like street furniture, while true solitude remains possible in rooms or houses, likening city life to a desert monk's isolation.
A short reflective line asserts that a humbling fault teaches more than prideful uplift. It contrasts the value of humility with inflated self regard and suggests growth comes from acknowledging error.
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