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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
6
The piece, citing Revue Scientifique Paris, argues that church odor or environment cannot explain sleepiness. It asserts the true cause is self hypnosis by focused gaze on the preacher or pulpit, with sleep signaling an effort to listen, praising conscientious attendance.
Spanking does not cure children of bedwetting and a Windsor Ontario sender offers a free home treatment with full instructions. Mrs M Summers invites mothers to write for the method without money and notes the treatment also helps adults with urine difficulties by night.
Mr Backwoods cabled to escort Miss Bumpkin to a weekly prayer meeting. Silence and awkwardness dominate the journey until near the meeting house. On the return he asks if she likes stewed rabbit and later asks about gravy mice.
A fragmented ad notes headaches mainly from colds during October to May. It claims Laxative Romo Quinine removes the cause and lists E. W. Grove on the box priced at 25 cents.
A promoter of the new mental therapeutics cult offers formins to treat three nervous disorders. For insomnia he urges relaxation and thought control. for hysteria he claims a dormant mind force to mobilize. for melancholia he advises variety to banish routine.
Russia shifts to large tea imports from Britain driving up prices. The Salada Tea Co raises Brown Label tea from 5d to 6d per pound to maintain quality as demand increases.
A chatty scene features Mrs Briaey promising a birthday gift to George and Mrs Oldenwell criticizing cigars for wives. Mrs Bridey defends her choice praising a cigar box named Beat Ever as the best option.
A Western man visited Mr. Brown's studio claiming a childhood group portrait once sold long ago. He said he kept it in a box and wished to buy it back as a reminder of his boyhood struggles. The artist could not locate the painting for the buyer.
An American invents an X-ray device with a rotary system enabling over 100 oysters to be radiographed in 15 seconds, speeding the Ceylon pearl fishery by filtering out nonpearls and saving vast labor time once considered impractical.
The French Government studies an automatic balloon to traverse the Sahara from Gabes to the Niger River 1400 miles. A 2400 foot steel guide rope governs motion and ballast is released when close to the ground. If successful, four aeronauts may attempt the crossing.
A book store on Eighth avenue displayed a large pile of Bibles offered at unprecedented low prices with a bold sign claiming Satan trembles when Bibles are sold so cheaply. The note praises advertising craft and compares it to literary brilliance.
A Montreal doctor notes that calm, well behaved children stem from health. He asserts no healthy child is ill tempered while a sick child is not good natured. He argues bad temper signals a physical ailment and will be widely accepted someday.
Ontario Agricultural College offers cooperative vegetable trials under the Experimental Union. Seeds and instructions are mailed free to applicants who report results at season’s end. Applications are processed in order until seed supply runs out. address H. L. Hutt at Guelph, Ontario.
A Washington Star column recalls a rural tale where a professor warns an old man about a daytime sun eclipse and chickens going to roost at noon. The old man questions the miracle, and the professor cites a year as the basis for his prediction. The anecdote highlights superstition and curiosity in a neighborhood.
A customer, Theodore Dorais, claims five years of rheumatic pain ended by Minard's Liniment. Verification can be sought from Dorais, his parish priest, or neighbors. notice signed by A. Cote, merchant, St. Isadore, Que., dated 12 May.
A hotel clerk warns that guests without baggage must pay in advance. Uncle Jes Struckitt confirms payment with a $1,000 bill, and the clerk grows visibly nervous as the exchange proceeds.
In a dubious claim the ad touts Wolford's Sanitary Lotion as curing all forms of contagion in humans and animals within 36 minutes, marketed by a purported druggist.
Borus, an author, notes surprise at how his latest farce was received and recalls a critic urging him to write another play before retiring, though the editor Naggus says the message was to continue briefly then quit.
An animal store proprietor tells his clerk to handle any live animal inquiries while he works. A man visits with his son and asks to see a Moe monkey, prompting the clerk to call down to the stall and direct the customer to come forward.
Noah opens a window in the ark surveys the wild waters and admits he has no idea where he is yet notes the scene resembles Gage Park. He decides not to seek aid from Mrs Hetty Green and to wait for the waters to recede in a patient, resigned mood.
Leo Corrigan suffered from severe eczema since childhood with relentless itching and pain. His parents spent vast sums on doctors and medicines, with little relief, as he endured months in hospital and long bed rest.
Deutsche Rundschau notes Hongkong as an ideal colony with Germans prominent and rapid German colonization. The port handles 17 000 ships yearly totaling about 4.25 million tons, plus vast Chinese boat traffic. Global trade in the free port nears one billion marks yearly, led by Britain, then China and Germany.
An old ad touts English Spavin Liniment as removing hard and soft lumps and blemishes from horses and addressing blood spavin curbs splints ringbone sweeney stifles sprains and throat injuries with a claim of saving $50 per bottle and warranted as the most wonderful blemish cure known sold by druggists.
A simple method describes placing a barrel on end and inserting the faucet. Bore the hole and plug with a cork, then position the barrel. Press the faucet onto the cork, drive in, and twist to seal tightly.
A compact aphorism about unrealized aims and the paradox of striving. It suggests that even sincere efforts may fall short, implying systemic limits or unaddressed obstacles rather than moral failure.
The 1908 issue cites a Berlin Pittsch arguing that a strict vegetarian diet does not fit European races. It notes milk grain butter and cheese improve nutrition, blood liquidity and arterial elasticity, while asserting such a diet is impossible for white races due to long-standing digestive adaptations.
A train trip with Congressman Champ Clark aboard to Kansas City includes a humorous exchange with an elderly passenger fretting over lost papers and declaring himself a fool. Elsewhere a quarrelsome passenger asks for a bet while a joke about counterfeiters and lumber output in Washington state is noted, and a note that Andrew Carnegie offered a cast of a giant extinct reptile to the Kaiser is mentioned.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat note warns that butterfly fakes are common as collecting grows. A blue powder dust on wings misleads buyers, until dye rubs off leaving brown wings and stained fingers, exposing the counterfeit insects as ten cent impostors.
An apartment-house girl recalls the furnace failure last night and questions who the young man was seen dining in the cold parlor for two hours. The chain responds that she misread the situation and insists she never noticed it.
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