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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
7
A Denver woman uses a phonograph to expose her husband’s drunken behavior and persuade him to reform. The plan backfires as a New York woman adopts it, recording her husband’s own admissions, prompting confrontations and humorous outcomes.
The Isle of Wight hosts a long history of royal visitors from Saxon kings to Queen Victoria. Records chronicle Kings Harold and John using the island for fortifications and rest, while Carisbrooke Castle figures in Charles I’s imprisonment. Prince Henry of Battenburg wed Princess Beatrice at Whippingham Church in 1885, and Princess Ena’s romance with the Spanish king also shines in Osborne’s gardens.
A humorous frontier vignette about David reaching ninety five and facing failing legs. He questions his health and learns the joke that age brings an incurable disease called old age. The old man concludes with a wry line that he is “getting up in years.”
A collage of curiosities notes a language school for parrots in Paris teaching English French German and Italian. It cites 40000 pounds of turkey for a Christmas Atlantic fleet celebration en route to the Pacific.
A criminologist examined 4000 delinquent soldiers and found they averaged better in height weight chest measurement muscular power and general condition than the well behaved. He notes not that criminals are inherently stronger but that criminal families face harsher conditions so only the exceptionally strong endure.
Reports from churches include the Bap tists of Virginia fund raising for relief work, English missions facing deficits, and the Central Congregation guarding large benevolences. Notes cover Mormon and Anglican efforts, missionary societies, and a Seattle church project, with renewed activity by the Actors' Church Alliance and the Bowery Mission in New York.
A rural Letlnot tale recounts a feud ending with a minister clashing with Satan in a black cat form. The devil tormented him by darkness in his study until a bold slip of paper and a boastful line finally drove him away, only for a fatal winter collapse to end the minister’s pursuit.
A meditation on two beings contemplating marriage union and shared destiny. The speaker ponders whether their mixed natures could harm or elevate each other and if two contrasting souls can form a lasting bond beyond present knowledge. The verse ends in uncertainty about future outcomes.
A verse piece laments progress from handmade tunes to machine made discs and rolls. It contrasts the old craft of singing and shaping sound with modern mechanical production and ends with a plea for machines that can listen. The poem uses mythic allusion and playful satire.
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