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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
8
A garbled excerpt appears to summarize contract advertising terms and rates. It references train or rail, Glenford, ads, contracts, monthly terms, advance payment, and office deadlines. Names and places are unclear. text shows standard notice language about advertising sales, insertion rules, and payment timing.
A first person account describes a deadly encounter with a tiger like beast in a dense swamp. The hunter tracks through thick vegetation, mistiming shots as the animal mauls, twists, and finally flees near a shelter prompting a desperate reload and renewed chase.
The text notes silkworm farming is climate limited and only profitable in certain regions. Spain Italy and Japan are key suppliers of silkworm gut for fishing tackle. Murcia in Spain is a major production area where peasants and merchants oversee processing. Gut production is separate from silk manufacture.
A legal anecdote uses the phrase nine days wonder linked to Lady Jane Grey. It notes she was proclaimed queen after Edward VI’s death and relinquished the crown after nine days, shaping the popular expression.
The city of Southampton is humiliated as Theodore Hook stages a grand hoax claiming a Spanish ambassador and a fake ambassadorship visit. The mayor and townspeople remained cold while the Spanish envoy arrived early and found no real embassy, triggering a pompous demonstration and swift dismissal of involved naval officers.
Pearsons Weekly recounts Frank C. Bostock's Paris Hippodrome stunt with Wallace the African lion. Inside a 16 by 16 foot cage the lion attacked, Bostock opened the arena, fought the beast with a chair and whip, and after ten minutes Wallace cowered.
A discussion from Lawrence Hodges to the New York Tribune describes a central sun concept in the cosmos. It argues Alcyone in the Pleiades cluster as the gravity center guiding stellar motions and the giant body around which all matter orbits, with implications for the solar system’s path through space.
The fragment recalls a housekeeper planning a dinner for her husband and friends with apple pie and cheese, while a neighbor suggests lighter options. A London note questions biblical feasts and a surgeon advises nurturing merriment to lift moods. Gladys defends a young author amid parental concerns.
A misprinted blurb from a Lan Cen journal recounts a public meeting where a speaker asks a citizen if he has helped the community. The reply: I’ve just done thirty days, reflecting a weary traveler’s response.
A brief quip about a car features a witty response by Houston Peat. The remark notes the vehicle has not improved punctuality, underscoring a theme of humor about progress and personal timing.
Article explains rheumatism and allied pains stem from kidney weakness and uric acid buildup. It claims kidneys fail to filter poisons, causing conditions like lumbago and neuralgia, and promotes Nyal’s Stone Root Compound and Nyal’s Rheumatic Cure to restore kidney function and banish rheumatism.
An advertisement touts Quaker Oats as a pure clean food that builds strength for a long day. It extols a Quaker Oats eating family as healthy and urges farming households to feed workers with porridge made from Quaker Oats, sugar and cream or milk, claiming a week’s breakfast costs about 10 cents.
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