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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
6
A dull looking man in a restaurant confides a planned suicide over love and money. The narrator helps him with humor and a quarter, only to reveal the man’s quixotic, businesslike exit plan and unlikely ascent in a future oil business.
Vision on home life stresses love over material gifts. A calm, patient presence is the true foundation of happiness at home. Irritations must be brushed aside to prevent destroying family peace and joy.
The text urges men to balance wealth and social status with affection and self control. It warns that money, education, and power are useless without bringing happiness to family. It calls for husbands to reduce labor and money in favor of good will, patience, and love to preserve peace in the family.
A historical study explains dead water as a boundary layer effect between fresh and salt water. Experiments in a two-layer tank show waves form at the interface and create resistance, halting a vessel abruptly when crossing the boundary.
Friends note aging writer William T. Stead in contrast with Andrew Carnegie who, though friends, dominates conversations. A recent visit to President Roosevelt prompted Stead to remark about Carnegie and the papers, concluding with a quip that he would not let anyone else talk. The idle remark ends with a non sequitur about an animal store and a wrench.
The article surveys diverse telephones applications from rural news services and school lessons to recording target hits and guiding operatic dragons. It notes medical, religious, and family uses, plus maritime signaling, submarine communication, and fire brigade gear, illustrating a wide impact on daily work and leisure.
A purported medical notice promotes a tonic named PSYCHINE by Rev. 4.4. Rive and Waller Avents Turn advising readers to use it for weak stomachs blood and organs recovering strength. The missive mentions coughs catarrh la grippe pneumonia and consumption as targets for the preparation.
A fireman enters a water company standpipe carrying air tubes and wires to maintain telephonic communications and electric lighting. The crew uses a raft as a platform inside the pipe and a telephone links the pipe to the pump room to adjust water levels, saving time and avoiding staging costs.
A Toronto Zam-Buk promotion highlights Mr. Francis Penoit of St. Anne's (Man) claiming two years of eccema cured after using Zam-Buk. The ad touts the salve as herbal, antiseptic, and free of animal fats, with prices of six boxes for $2.50 and availability from Zam-Buk Co.
The Minneapolis Journal notes cultural contrasts in politeness and dress. It cites habits such as saluting with a hat, walking side by side while avoiding close contact, and differing greetings like east-south versus southeast. The piece comments on gendered clothing and customs involving gifts and funerary practices.
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