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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
5
A bustling summer sale advertises drastic price cuts across clothing and grocery lines. Mens Worsted and Serge suits down to 9 dollars, tweed suits at 5, ladies skirts and waists offered at reduced rates, plus cheap hats, belts, and shoes. Also groceries like rice, pineapple, pickled onions, tea, lemons, oranges, bananas, jelly, and sugar sold at notable discounts.
Terms indicate highest price paid for produce and note “Cash or Trade” with a line about being successors to W. Noble. The fragment suggests an auction or bidding context with emphasis on payment method and succession claim. No dates or participants clearly identified.
The article discusses Col Henry C Demming and Prof William Hallock proposing a drastic scheme to extract steam by blasting deep wells in Pennsylvania. They envision heated water rising as steam to power industry, with explosive charges cracking vents and a column of hot water and steam reaching the surface, potentially surpassing existing power sources.
Colorado researchers report that wild sagebrush across the Rocky Mountain region can yield high quality rubber. Several companies form to develop the new industry, with special machinery built for production creating an additional manufacturing sector in the state.
An expert warns Chile faces national peril as nitrate of soda makes up about three fourths of exports. With current consumption, supply would run out in twenty years, risking the nation's existence unless an unexpected solution emerges.
In Poland a theater performance was interrupted as the audience sneezed en masse when a woman expelled from society allegedly released peppery powder onto the stage area. The curtain fell quickly after the commotion.
A humorous meditation on aging among women noting that age is defined by friends memories not birth dates. It argues that society fixes a woman’s age through past remarks and social scrutiny, while men’s marriages to younger partners are treated differently. The piece lampoons certainty about aging.
Free tests are mailed to catarrh sufferers with no cost or obligation. Dr Shoop combines oils into a white cream like petrolatum for nose and throat relief, with Restorative for internal use if needed. Send for sample and book to Racine Wisconsin. sold by druggists nationwide.
A critical look at beauty culture and fashion shifts in society. It questions whether modern women have become more or less ornamental, noting the persistence of makeup, hairdressers, and dressmakers alongside newer methods and devices.
A courtroom exchange shows a weather bureau employee testifying with the judge approving the witness’s exemption. The dialogue captures a brief moment of judicial procedure and witness qualification.
A terse courtroom exchange centers on a convict who argues he wrote poetry to survive while denying reading motivation, prompting the judge to challenge the claim. The fragment captures tension between creator and circumstance in a stark literary vignette.
A historical piece discusses correcting protruding ears in children with early aids such as night caps. It extols gentle growth and parental intervention to shape ears during youth and suggests improvements as children mature. It reflects era ideas on beauty and physical shaping.
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