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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
6
Alfred Nobel, famed for his prizes, led a life of peculiar quirks and global mobility. He disliked England and avoided membership in the Royal Society, and his wealth funded a Paris and San Remo residence while he built a high explosive factory and held 129 England patents.
An electrical instrument recently invented to avoid pain in tooth extraction has drawn attention. It uses adjustable prongs and fabric buttons connected to a battery. The buttons touch the face and cover nerve endings from teeth to the brain, and a circuit activates the moment the instrument contacts the tooth.
Advertises English Spavin Liniment removing bumps blemishes and ailments in horses with claims of curing blood spavin ringbone sweeney and sprains. Promises $50 savings per bottle and asserts warrant as the most wonderful blemish cure. Sold by pharmacists in general stores.
The Ethiopian decree from Emperor Menelik signals the creation of a cabinet modeled on European lines. It lists officials including Asibu and Gabra Selassi, with others named in the London Standard. The proclamation frames the move as a step toward modernization under the lion of Judah.
West end hatters debate increasing top hat height by a sixteenth to a quarter inch. They note current depths around six inches, six and a quarter for large sizes, and the trend toward bell shapes, with limited likelihood of returning to earlier deeper forms.
An old critic praised a friend's preaching style. The critic noted a Beanerges flare and crowd-pleasing delivery. In a conversation with Dauvit, the speaker asks what feature attracted him most. Dauvit replies with a quip about the preacher’s faltering cadence.
Mr. Joseph Lalibertie of 34 Artillerie street Quebec nearly loses hand and arm from a cut turning to blood poisoning. After using Zam-Buk, inflammation drains, wound heals in a week, and he praises the remedy. Zam-Buk cures many skin and bodily afflictions and is sold by druggists or Zam-Buk Co Toronto. Se a box, 6 boxes $2.50.
Howard Carroll of Denver shared a humorous tale about travel time between Denver and Pueblo during a speech praising Denver's Democratic National Convention effort. A miner quips that time is variable with seasons, illustrating the city's victory over Chicago and Louisville.
The note describes a solitary producer of Roman candles living in a tiny isolated hut. He earns high wages despite extreme loneliness, using explosives in making candle shaped projectiles, with a paper barrel and a dangerous process emphasized.
A wry remark notes women dislike both those who talk about her and those who ignore her. The statement on versatility suggests it often means many things done poorly rather than one thing done well.
A Halifax area notice reports Leander McKenzie J.P. endorsing Psychine and Oxomulsion after observing three Shelburne County men Albert Townsend Hazen Hipson and John McKay cured from presumed consumption. The letter claims the remedy cures colds bronchitis grippe chills sweats wasting diseases and consumption and lists prices 50c and 1.00 per bottle.
A historical comparison traces immigration surges from 1847 and 1850 to 1854 1856 with Irish famine and continental unrest driving peaks. It notes fears of an alien influx, the rise of the Know Nothing party, and the post Civil War decline of nativism, per Leslie's Weekly.
The New York World argues the value of honey output exceeds beets and fisheries, totaling 45 million dollars for bees, with raw cane sugar at 28 million and beet factories a distant third. It urges Massachusetts to recognize bees as codfish are in state halls.
A Windsor Ontario notice offers a free to mothers home treatment for bed wetting claiming it cures children and also adults with urine difficulties. The message urges writing to Mrs M Summers Box W 8 Windsor without sending money and stresses not blaming the child.
An exchange from the Tales humorously introduces a man described as the most prolific writer of absolute nonsense in Paris. The conversation reveals the man is not a journalist but an etenographer to the Chamber of Deputies.
In a brief exchange cited by the Catholic Standard Times, Mrs. Pepeey criticizes Miss Grouch's housekeeping as the slovenliest she has seen while Miss Goodley defends her by noting a large family of growing boys. The retort, cleanliness is next to impossible, mirrors the moralizing tone of the periodical.
An Italian engineer from Tuscany studies sustained steam temperatures from saffons rising 30 to 90 feet, 250–280 F, to harness it for a small engine and dynamo. He aims to drive a turbine with steam from three large saffons, totaling about four thousand horsepower, possibly creating a new energy unit in the near future.
A fragment from a verse asks who truly causes men's trouble not the maid of beauty but the lively maid with a merry eye. The line hints at social roles and gender mystique as it circulated in a historical print.
A public notice presents testimonials from well known Americans endorsing Minard's Liniment and its status as a premier household remedy. The notice states the Minard's Liniment Co Limited as the source.
A Cleveland man returns to a deserted house finds a note about his wife eloping with a billsticker. She writes I have gone away with William. He posts a personals notice for Viola to send back the dog and keep the change.
Maud remarks on the gardener's teeth with humor as she recalls him holding a full drink in his mouth during an awkward incident. Mamma reassures that Scots and others share similar tooth size and capacity. The tale unfolds with light family banter about bravado and restraint.
Asbestos shingles, made of asbestos fibre and cement, absorb about five per cent of heat from sunlight. The text discusses health concerns and recommended removal or replacement due to asbestos exposure risks.
At the University of Chicago the women’s dormitories foster practical jokes with humor about wealth and business magnates. A new jest compares J Pierpont Morgan to Pharaoh’s daughter noting a “little prophet in the rushes” as the punchline.
An advertisement asserts Wolford's Sanitary Lotion cures mange prairie scratches and every form of contagious itch on humans or animals in three minutes, claiming universal effectiveness and selling through druggists.
A dialogue from the Cleveland Plain Dealer describes a medical scene aboard a ship. The interne notes an incision on the outer integument while the surgeon commander orders cautious treatment with sterilized cotton and plaster and a later report if symptoms persist.
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