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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
6
An elderly reader proclaims Dodd’s Kidney Pills cured gravel and kidney trouble. He describes improved sleep, reduced headaches and cramps after use, praising the remedy as a wonderful medicine and the Old Folks’ Best Friend.
A traveler recalls a Banffshire hamlet where a local express crawled between six stations. The engine shed its bile and halted near the junction, as the narrator walked forward to ask why. The driver calls it a fine morning while the train seems to have stalled for no clear reason.
A fragment from a lively column shows a voice asking about a spring suit while another responds with a calm compliment. A quarrel over a dead man follows as the cast quips and curses in a rural humorous scene. The piece references Minard's Liniment and a wolves feature reporting large prizes.
A London Globe account describes ex-Lieutenant Ulime, condemned as a traitor and imprisoned on Devil's Island. The piece sketches his cottage like a country gentleman's home with white attire, a well stocked pantry, cattle care, and daily routines.
Mrs. D. McGillivary of Nanton Alberta credits D D D and D D D Soap with curing her two children eczema. She praises the prescription and soap and recommends the remedy to others. Readers are urged to request a free sample via the D D D Laboratory Toronto and to seek it at local druggists.
The East Suffolk Education Committee starts apple nurseries with school gardens to supply healthy young fruit trees to laborers and cottagers at nominal prices. An instructor teaches grafting to children, boosting local orchards. Over 500 trees in one village and 2000 in stock, aiming for 3000 more. Canon Abbay of Framlingham Agricultural Cooperative Society supervises the effort to revive the local fruit industry.
Reverend Edwin Smith attests to the miraculous recovery of Michael Olding from asthma and illness after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. Olding, once bedridden and near death, regained strength and health, now working daily at seventy nine, with neighbors and the writer endorsing the remedy.
Harper's Weekly warns the Dreadnought arms race escalates costs and risks to civilization. England and Germany increase battleship programs, with prices rising from 2 to 10 million dollars per ship and projections of even larger, costlier vessels. The piece notes proposals for electric weaponry and airship advances as potential antidotes, urging common sense before war becomes cheaper than peace.
Minard’s report notes stoats sometimes appear in numbers and hunt in packs, with individuals chasing in line and following closely. Observers also report weasels exhibiting similar pack hunting behavior as recorded by Fur News.
From the Gentlewoman a prompt invites readers to dictate a long tongue twister about a harassed postilion and a potato to test friends spelling skills. The quirky line mocks difficulty, inviting cursory amusement and shared linguistic fun.
A patient loses his right hand after a trolley car crash. A nurse consoles him as he learns to cope with life using his left hand. He mourns the forefinger ring his wife tied to remind him to she wants him to remember to fetch something for her.
A Dalhousie note shows Christopher Saunders claims curing a horse with Minard's Liniment and notes similar uses by St Peter's and Bathurst contacts. The fragments mention a torn by a pitch fork and a bad swelling treated by THOS. W. Payne of Bathurst New Brunswick.
A London Chronicle note discusses authors using initials to conceal names. It cites a theological work on demon iecks in the New Testament attributed to TIBAL PLOSS 120.078, later shown to be Arthur Sykes who held church roles as precentor and prebendary of Alton Borealis in Salisbury.
The Nikolai Railway line from St. Petersburg to Moscow reported 32,834 passengers without valid tickets in 1908. Many used passes irregularly, 716 passes were confiscated, and £1849 recovered by legal action. Seventeen guards and officials were dismissed for collusion.
An amateur angler hooked a cod but lost it. another fish then surfaced with two sinkers and a hook. The veteran sailor claimed ownership under whaling rules, saying the ship’s harpoon name grants rights to the catch, so the amateur owned the cod while the gear should be returned.
A Windsor Ontario letter-writer under the name Mrs Currram promises a free box of a remedy mailed at no cost to discouraged women suffering from pain and medical bills. She claims the box may cure and urges readers to send a stamp sealed note for private treatment.
A Kansas City Times excerpt shows criminal lawyer Moman Pruiett appealing to Blackstone as authority. The judge overrules the demurrer and dismisses further readings, prompting a sarcastic exchange about Blackstone’s relevance.
Mrs M mers of Windsor Ontario offers a free home treatment for bed wetting with full instructions. No money required. The method claims to help children and also cures urinary difficulties in adults.
A man in India leaves England to work on a plantation and waits to send for his family. A bird lands on his spade handle briefly, then flies away. When the next mail arrives, he learns his wife died on the same day and at the exact hour the bird alighted.
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