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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 31, 1908
Page
2
The famous singer on a ship notices steerage passengers mostly Italians playing and singing for amusement. When she passes they stop and she speaks in Italian asking them not to disrupt her, saying she loves their music. She later joins in an Italian opera selection and the crew cheers with bravos.
A German teacher remarks to Tommy Brown that he is early of late, noting he used to be behind but is now first at last. The quip captures a playful shift in his classroom progress and timing.
An old health note claims beer steadies nerves and improves digestion by aiding the stomach. It asserts moderate use benefits adults especially women, noting beer’s low alcohol content helps digestion and that Ontario brewers produce hygienic beverages from fine barley malt.
Lady Warwick takes pride in her garden and many pets at Warwick Castle. Among them are numerous peacocks with one pure white bird that stays aloof in splendid isolation. The venerable estate worker recalls the bird has perhaps nearly a century of presence at the castle.
A nursery scene shows children embracing bridge as a social pastime. A mother notes her son carries a pack and expects an invitation after he earns five dollars, hinting at future bridge afternoons replacing doll parties.
Prairie Scratches and contagious Itch on humans or animals cured in 30 minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion. It never falls. Sold by druggists.
A fragment depicts a court style quip about proof of marriage using receipts for millinery bills. The exchange implies a joke on acceptable evidence in a marital ceremony. No further context or names are provided.
The State of Florida paid $98,004.08 in pensions to Confederate veterans and widows in October, about $22,000 more than any prior month. Several thousands remain to be paid before quarter's end, per the Jacksonville Times-Union.
An Australian exchange reports a heated parliament scene in which Sir John Forrest and Mr. Maloney exchanged taunts including terms like scoundrel thing and dirty cur. The chairman intervened as Forrest secured four insults to Maloney's three.
A bystander recalls the Duchess of Portland and her daughter as strict vegetarians. The Duchess avoids wine and meat, eating vegetables and skim milk. Breakfast centers on skim milk lettuce and a boiled egg, with lunch limited to skim milk biscuits butter and cheese.
A Bohemian essay from November imagines airships with playful warnings and social satire. It satirizes public panic at sightings and the idea of arming passengers with clothes-pins, while predicting poetic fame for airship verse and listing absurd travel cautions from Kokomo to Boston.
Medical authorities note eight in ten suffer piles. Zam-Buk promises immediate ease for bleeding, protruding, itching or blind piles. Testimonial from Neil Devon of Webbwood Ontario says boxes cured his eight year problem with permanent relief. Also advertised for cuts, burns, ulcers, eczema and rheumatic pains at 50 cents per box, three for $1.25.
The article reports on New York City and state library systems in 1906. It details Manhattan Bronx and Richmond, Brooklyn, and Queens branches with counts of branches, books, and circulations, plus statewide statistics showing city residents access two books each while rural residents access under one. It notes 70 percent of state residents live in cities using 85 percent of books.
In Lupapika a parade of 20 native canoes led by the Barotse chief greeted guests including Lord Selborne and Luan Ika. A tame young hippopotamus presented to Lord Selborne slept most of the ceremony before being mounted and ridden from the courtyard by a Paris Missionary Society member.
English Spavin Liniment removes hard and soft lumps from horses including blood spavin curbs splints ringbone sweeney stifles sprains and throat ailments. One bottle promises to save $50 and is sold by druggists as a remarkable blemish cure.
In a New York street a lamp globe wagon collided with a truck causing many globes to smash. A benevolent stranger collected donations from bystanders for the driver, who finally revealed the donor was his own boss.
A visitor asks a girl to tell her father an old friend named Bill is there. The girl says he isn’t home, noting her father told their mother he avoids the house when bills arrive.
A poem laments a drastic fall in value as the speaker compares distant Wall Street troubles to the collapse of his own ten dollar bill, now worth only thirty cents. It contrasts grand financial shocks with personal loss and dwindling purchasing power.
Modern France is described as a stronghold of the family system. A French dinner scene shows a cheerful, close knit family with warm parental affection and well behaved children. Paris is noted for abundant and varied toys for children as observed by the London Daily Mail.
An irate passenger at a lonely Irish station complains about being marooned for the day. He laments the situation and declares that the engine will be shunted again around eight tonight with a bluff, humorous Irish tone.
A jeweler fitted one pair of sticks with silver handles for a diabolo game. The dress is quaintly plain with elbow sleeves. The act of tossing and catching the spool requires skill and humorists nickname the game to disable and flying cone.
The article cites Phillips Brooks preaching on suffering from Isaiah's valley of weeping. Two responses are offered: endure sorrow hoping for future compensation or transform it into joy by following scripture. It notes Job-like adversity and Jeremy Taylor's example of gratitude amid loss, urging readers to see God's glory in hardship.
Learn dress making at home by mail or take a personal course at school with cash or instalment plans. A monthly arsenal class begins last Tuesday each month. Courses teach cutting fitting and assembling garments for all ages 14 to 40 with a money back or learning guarantee. Beware imitators. this school claims unique Canadian experience. Write for particulars.
A drummer recalls a small Iowa town known for train station thieves who steal suitcases and coats from passing passengers. One man chained his cravenette coat to a seat with a padlock, thwarting a would be thief who realized the mischief too late.
Advert says residents from Chatham Walsh Parkdale and Parkdale claim relief from goitre inflammation and facial neuralgia by Minard's Liniment. Messages name Bayard McMullin Mrs W H Johnson J H Bailey.
A mistress asks a servant about an alarm clock while the servant, Jane, admits waking late used to worry her. The dialogue notes Oklahoma's larger area than Indiana and Ohio combined.
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