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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
3
The article notes Japan aims to increase stature via diet, exercise, and home adaptations. Army surgeons push gymnastics and higher seating, discourage back carrying babies, and advocate for desks and chairs to combat bandy legs. Early results show measurable gains in soldiers.
Portland schoolchildren planted 3000 rose bushes on Washingtons Birthday to honor suffrage efforts as Oregon women push to celebrate the constitutional amendment. In Palo Alto four women join a new charter committee representing major local groups while men represent others. Manhattan Trade School for Girls reports millinery work declining to training for assistants due to irregular hours and scarce jobs. Cornell University builds a model rural school house with a workroom to illustrate durable, homelike facilities for 25 pupils. Miss Mabel Sturtevant has been admitted to the bar in Jefferson City Missouri, noted for her strong student record.
A compact collection of maxims on faith duty and character. It urges friendship faith and self restraint while warning that ostentatious piety hides flaws and that living for others elevates the soul. It favors forward reverence over regret and warns against neglecting true practice.
A mother endorses Baby's Own Tablets for minor child ailments including indigestion colic constipation diarrhoea teething troubles and colds. The ad claims government verification that the tablets contain no opiate or narcotic and notes a testimonial from Mrs Wm F Gay of St Elenoers P E. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse University argues for a labor union based on mutual benefit to labor and management. He urges skilled work, fair pay, and club rooms promoting thrift, temperance, home improvement, and education. He proposes a union that elevates craftsmanship and productivity.
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood builder to banish pimples and eruptions and restore health. A testimonial from Henry Baker of Chipman N S says the pills purified his blood and cured his skin and fatigue. Sold by medical dealers or by mail from Brockville Ontario.
In a Chicago Tribune tale, C W T unveils Glasspy's Footpad Discourager a concealed device turning ordinary citizens into armed deterrents. A masked holdup man learns the device's power as a demonstration on a dark city street ending with the thief subdued by hidden mechanisms.
London England reports a butterfly drought this summer with chrysalides eaten by a small parasite. Admirals marbled whites and other rare varieties are scarce as cabbage whites blue meadow browns and heaths remain common. Purple emperor and silver fritillaries fail to appear in notable haunts across parks and countryside.
An advertisement claims a one day cure for a cold using Quinine tablets and laxative components. It promises a full refund if the remedy fails and notes B. W. Grove’s signature on each box.
W J Garnett, third secretary of the British Legation at Pekin, describes how locals struggle to name places in Shantung and Mangse. Tourists seeking directions face miscommunications as villagers guess paths and deny knowledge, revealing widespread unfamiliarity with neighboring towns.
A Chicago man, reading about the Southern Flyer, imagines a trolley ride and asks the porter how fast the train goes. The porter replies about eighteen miles per hour and jokes that the name comes from the risk the engine may fly off the track, as noted by the Chicago News.
A humorously blunt exchange contrasts a child's question about paying for water with a parent's reminder that gas bills exist. The brief quip highlights everyday costs and the unseen expenses behind basic utilities.
In a Washington Star dialogue Dustin Stax quips that fines add to his earnings as clashes with the courts continue. A wag jokes about ladders, contrasting luck with legal trouble in lighthearted exchange.
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