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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
2
An 88 London Street, Toronto letter extols Peychrne for stomach and digestive relief after seven years of indigestion and countless remedies. The writer claims rapid cure for throat lung and stomach troubles, calling it the work of a great specialist and notes availability at 1.40 pounds via Dr. T. A. Stecom Limited in Toronto.
Alfred Russell Wallace argues against Lowell's view that Mars hosts life and that its canals were built by Martians. He highlights water scarcity, vast open canals, evapotranspiration losses, and Mars’ prohibitive temperatures as evidence against inhabited planets.
In colonial Philadelphia settlers dug riverbank caves with sod walls and tree roofed chambers until houses could be built. Elizabeth Hardy and her husband worked slowly, scarce food looming until their cat Kitty returned with a rabbit, providing a noontime meal for the weary pair.
Advertisement-like note from Hawkshaw New Brunswick dated Sept 1 1905 endorses Minard's Liniment as an unequaled cure for croup credited to Chas Fe Sharp.
A Maine politician Anson P. Morill faces a humorous campaign moment about belief in hell. The piece also notes a sharp tea price rise, citing Salada Brown and Green Label rates due to Russia’s demand and rubber planting reducing tea supplies.
A collection of curious facts spans hurricanes speed, coal employment in 1905, a Gateshead rat mass, English language usage, Mahe church coral, global living sources, Atlantic ship fires, a nugget in a skull, French women’s college, Australia rabbit fence, Exeter school breakfasts, Salvation Army emigrants, bird wing strength, 1907 potato crop fall, London police uniforms to Africa, oxen cavalry in East Africa, Kimberley diamonds output, Yale Peabody skull exhibit.
A London Ontario man reports Zam-Buk healed his friends severe burns after failed skin grafts. He used Zam-Buk on his own grafted leg and says new skin grew. The product claims to build new tissue for eczema sores cuts burns boils and skin diseases. Available from Zam-Buk Co Toronto at 50 cents a box.
Leather is a mass of tiny fibres that need pliability. If in good condition they stretch, but dry leather breaks under strain. A home mixture of one part beef tallow and two parts neatsfoot oil, heated and applied warm, can double shoe life.
A famed captain recalls a German passenger who vanished at sea. The sailor cried Man overboard prompting the captain to demand the meaning. The response claimed Graf Hermann von Finkinstein Duke of Swabia and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire is overboard.
In Vienna Austria 356 men and 108 women killed themselves in 1907 up from 1906 figures of 15 and 110. Attempts reached 441 men and 298 women. Insanity love and poverty were named as main causes of self destruction among these people.
The Welland in St Catharines Ontario provides modern rest facilities with St Catharines well water, massage and electricity therapies under medical supervision. Sun parlors roof promenade library music room and a family hotel atmosphere aid recovery at affordable prices. For information contact The Welland St Catharines Ontario.
Pastor Goodman delivered a stirring missionary sermon in which the collection totaled 27 cents. He urged the congregation with a blunt quip about extracting blood from a turnip before leading the long meter doxology and dismissal.
Cold infections are the most common headache cause during the period from October to May. The remedy referenced is Laxative Bromo Quinine to address the underlying cause. The product labeling includes K. W. Grove on the box.
A collage of quoted quips and jokes from various papers. Notable lines include a joke about daughters and husbands, a remark on loans enabling conversation, a quip about debts and credit, and a Syrus saying about shadows. Also cited are lines about a dog's fate, quinine in face powder, and a travel joke about an automobile tour.
Zadkiel says Venus conjoined with Saturn favors the fair sex, especially in Portugal, while Raphael warns Uranus on the eastern Europe meridian menaces ruling powers with officials in danger of oil or assassination. Chicago Record Herald.
The passage asserts that blindness cannot erase essential human powers and values. It emphasizes service friendship humor imagination wisdom and the will to choose goodness and love. It frames resilience as a spiritual journey toward light Sinai wilderness and a Promised Land of inner life.
Mining engineers now test hoisting ropes by passing them through a coil of copper wire with alternating current. The device records changes in rope thickness and warns when wear or broken strands are detected, reducing safety risks.
A legal notice states Kirkman sues the city as next friend of Jared Yipsley. The phrase means Kirkman acts on behalf of Yipsley in the suit, alleging a claim or interest but without Yipsley filing directly. The text dismisses any deeper meaning in this specific case.
Advice urges brisk but careful wheeling on straight roads for infants. Downhill carriage wheeling could harm a baby’s brain, reflecting cautious guidance on outdoor child care.
An English proposal suggests naming the kilowatt hour after Lord Kelvin, forming kelvin two syllables. The idea, praised by American engineers, emphasizes ease of use and brevity. Considerations focus on international acceptance and potential objections before final adoption.
A member of the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase Clubs in Washington DC married the daughter of a well known Federal official. Friends note the husband appears shorter post marriage, while the wife quips he has settled down. The remark comes from a humorous Harper's Weekly style exchange.
Claims to remove spavin and blemishes from horses including blood spavin curbs splints ringbone sweeney stifles sprains and throat issues. Advertises saving 50 cents per bottle and sale through druggists with warranty of being the most wonderful blemish cure known.
The Guanabara naval despatch boat for Brazil is built entirely of bronze due to corrosive Brazilian waters. Bronze hull and bronze propeller shafting resist deterioration, though costlier, result in a lighter vessel than steel or wood.
A Prairie remedy claims Wolford's Sanitary Lotion cures every form of itch on humans or animals within 30 minutes. The product is sold by a druggist.
The observed messenger pigeon rises 200 to 700 feet as it tracks local conditions. It circles around the release spot before homing, returning to a central position above the origin. Once direction is fixed it darts home, with speed 1,500 to 1,600 yards per minute when aided by a tailwind.
The Boulevard de l Hopital market for horses closes after Rosa Bonheur era. A new Rue Brandon market opens with stables for 800 horses and an abattoir for injured animals. About 5,000 horses are slaughtered in Paris yearly, prompting the private firm to transfer ownership to the city after 70 years.
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