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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
6
A New York Sun report surveys a recent boat show focusing on motor boats and the obsession with ornate fittings. Critics argue many vessels are overdecorated and impractical for bay water, advocating simpler, durable designs and affordable engines.
Traveler Harvey W Towers reports a bag of Zam Buk found on the voyage proved a rapid healer for chapped hands cuts and burns. He praises Zam Buk as Nature s first aid and preventive against skin diseases noting its use before bed. Sold by druggists at fifty cents a box or three boxes for 13 percent postpaid from the Zam Buk Co Toronto.
A rhymed poem from the Atlanta Constitution contrasts rich and poor, with the Lawd listening to the po' man's plea about fairness. The rich man questions fate while a glory angel nears, but both camps delay departure, noting life as a trial and a test of self denial.
A Halifax reader, G. G. Dunstan, Chartered Accountant, writes that he has used Minard's Liniment for twenty years and cites a Montreal physician calling it the great Nova Scotia Liniment. He praises its effectiveness for rheumatism and sprains. The letter is dated September 21, 1905.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports a government and local plan to bridge gaps in Dalmatia’s road network from Zara to the Montenegrin frontier creating a single coastal highway. The project aims to boost travel tourism and automobilist access with new hotels and attractions as part of Austria’s regional development.
A Toronto public school worker on holiday discovers her father injured by a cutting box. She applies a cloth bandage with calm efficiency until a doctor arrives after a long wait. The story highlights courage, skilled nursing, and the emotional strain of a sixty year old bandage being lost.
Fragmentary notes describe Rowell dying after an airship incident tied to nonpayment. The garbled text suggests accusations or rumors about drinking or a dropped object, but details are unclear and no definitive cause is given.
The article recalls St Bernardino of Siena and the Oratory facade by Agostino ibucci built of pink Perugian marble. It notes the desire to ruin the setting for a hotel, reflecting Italy's shift from preservation to commercial development as the spirit of the day grows more material.
Advertises Shiloh's Cure as safe for all ages and guarantees quick relief from colds and coughs. Claims 34 years of success and offers 25c 50c and $1 price points with a money back guarantee.
A New York lawyer recalls a West rail company case where a section hand was killed by an express. The key witness admits the locomotive whistle blew after the man was struck, prompting questions about whistle purpose and timing for the next on the track.
Nicholas Tschaikovsky, founder of the first voluntary circle in St. Petersburg, was arrested on his Russian border crossing after years in exile and US residence. He had visited England and the United States to aid patriots, now faces death or exile in Siberia, drawing sympathy from liberty supporters.
Minard's Liniment claims to cure diphtheria in a bold medical note. The piece also cites a Shanghai Mercury report warning Chinese editors to obey press laws under threat of arrest for foreign loan and Tibetan negotiation criticism.
A scientist records a spider's 24 hour eating rate and projects if scaled to human size it would consume a rhinoceros at dawn a lamb by breakfast two camels by late morning a sheep by noon and end with a pie of two hundred birds indicating extraordinary appetite.
Harry Fletcher Kenney former superintendent of the Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Railroad Company is reported dying of pneumonia. He had previously helped save President Lincoln by ordering telegraph wires cut to prevent assassination plans and by guarding the locomotive coach with state papers ensuring Lincoln’s safe arrival at the White House.
Claims a single bottle removes hard and soft lumps blemishes bruises and a wide range of horse ailments including blood spavin curbs splints ringbone and sprains. Advertises a $50 savings and markets to drag gists as sellers.
In a Bohemian excerpt, Mr Bungle meets a worried friend Jones who fears brain trouble. Bungle reassures with jokes and misreads the concern as over nothing, while Jones hurries to see a specialist about possible brain issues.
Smokestack cinders from locomotives are used to produce gas at two German railway administration plants. Koenigsberg plant has three generators and three double acting gas engines of 180 hp each. Another plant has two gas generators and two single acting engines of 90 hp each. Both homes reportedly run well with cinder consumption of 1.3 to 2.4 pounds per horsepower depending on load.
A financial break creates tension between a rich uncle Ebenezer and his nephew. The nephew confirms being named after the benefactor as family money and inheritance come into dispute over money needed by the household.
A sharp quip about slaughterhouses circulates as a blunt take on meat production. Critics say the line trivializes animal welfare while supporters view it as dark humor reflecting industry realities.
Report from 1908 describes Hot Pours three miles from Heber City Utah a field of conical cisterns rising from plain. Largest is 50 feet tall 100 feet wide at top and double at base containing vast heated waters. Locals note bedrock sounds along roads fueling cave-in fears.
A late Lord Kelvin tale recalls a Canary Islands meeting with his bride to be. A scientist tested a new signalling system on departure, asking, Will you be my wife, as he vanished with a flash message. the lady’s affirmative became world famous.
A peculiar claim from Wolford's Sanitary Lotiena asserts a cure for contagious itch affecting humans and animals within three minutes, noting it never failed by any druggists. The fragment hints at broad efficacy though details are scant.
The article notes John D. Rockefeller popularizing paper waistcoats in winter for warmth. Merchants flood markets with yellow tissue paper waistcoats worn over the stomach and chest, praised for low cost and novelty, with references to historical use of paper for warmth and experiments in school testing paper strength.
Forty years ago in Lesmabhagow parish a circular eight foot diameter patch remained barren as legend says a witch was burned there. Locals recall nothing grew on the spot while nearby vegetation thrived until the oldest natives fade, warning the tale may die with them.
A brief note on fur care suggests cats raise their whiskers to detect nearby obstacles and improve balance, highlighting a behavioral cue for avoiding scrapes.
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