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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
5
A New Orleans Times-Democrat piece defines a uniformly well gowned woman as one who dresses strictly to suit time, place, and occasion. It emphasizes propriety, intelligent design, and cultivated taste as the core of dress fitness and refined individuality.
A playful toy uses a cork ball and a straw or glass tube to levitate a small ball in a pipe stream. The setup involves a cork stopper, a long hairpin, a bent wire hook, and a funnel to catch the ball as it rises with the breath, creating a suspended effect.
A description of spelling games using letter-based word building such as catastrophe and cate. Also instructions for making a lace edged handkerchief cap by folding a square, forming a cap top, pinning folds, and sewing rosette bows, with potential quilted linings for muslin caps.
A playful guide to hosting a soap bubble party with five cardboard rings hung in a doorway, each seven to nine inches wide, wrapped in bright tissue. Prepare bowls of strong sopasods with a teaspoon of siyceria dissolved, and supply clay pipes as needed for the demonstration.
A short guide explains making a dainty baby cap from a handkerchief. It notes bonnets rumple in carriage and laundering is costly, then describes folding the handkerchief in half and folding the upper corners to form a cap.
The text outlines Britain’s control over Egypt following Anglo French settlement, detailing a virtual vassal status under the Turkish sultan, French veto on expenditures, and Cromer’s decisive role. It notes financial mismanagement under Ismail Pasha, subsequent reforms, and the perceived stabilization of Egypt’s credit and governance under British administration.
The Salvation Army seeks to form a large Anticosti colony to test social and economic theories. It would divide the 4000 square miles into arms for training emigrants and employing waste labor on waste land with waste capital. Hadleigh Farm in England serves as a model for practical work and citizen formation.
Advice on achieving calm presence by total relaxation. The text warns that nervous movement, coughing, and jerking drain energy and accelerate aging, urging readers to cultivate stillness and controlled breathing to maintain beauty and composure.
The passage asserts a universal, perpetual difference between sexes as the core fact of society. It argues men and women are distinct in nature and function, shaping family life, social structures, and institutions. It warns against denying these differences, as doing so would undermine societal structure. From Atlantic, Rev. Lyman Abbott.
Ohio station bulletin reports tests on four manure treatments. Acid phosphate gave largest profitable results as a preservative when topdressed on corn and wheat, with pulverized floats also promising, and stall manure fared better than open yard manure.
An 19th century criticism describes Chinese “baby towers” where poor parents cast alive infant girls through openings in towers to be buried or disposed of. The piece notes recurring horror in large towns and mentions celestial burial practices with relatives stored in jars in the mountains.
The text states Germans lead the reading nation while Russia drops to zero. In the United States 75,000,000 people are served by 23 200 journals, with further unclear notes on Russian topics.
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