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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
6
A banker-narrator laments a scatter of English and Scottish noble homes. A ruined heir faces ruin from gambling and debt as his wife mourns in a once-grand hall. The piece invokes Fenelon urging prayer to overcome vice and restore peace.
The piece argues that pain alerts the brain to injury and remorse signals moral harm. Both serve as protective messages from God until injury becomes so severe that the signal is lost. It warns that continued sin dulls conscience, risking ultimate death, and urges gratitude for remorse as divine entreaty. Source: S. S. Times.
A devotional reflection cites John 14 27 and argues true peace comes only through Christ. It advocates renouncing worldly desires, casting off worry, and pursuing God with faith and obedience to attain enduring inner tranquility.
The essay links early air travel to biblical visions and natural models, arguing that airships owe their lift to curved wings and motive force from spiritual power. It cites Farman's aeroplanes, albatross wings, and the idea that all great discoveries come from nature and divine support.
A sermon-like meditation compares spiritual life to a two stranded cable linking humanity to God. It invokes Paul, divine purpose, and the image of a motor guiding spiritual aeroplanes across life. The speaker urges chosen few to move straight forward under divine guidance.
A poet describes a man’s backbreaking garden work from dawn to night, tending beds of lettuce, onions, bulbs, and herbs while a noisy mob of hens and fowls invades his plot. The affair ends with relief as his family survives, in a Toronto Saturday Night style note.
A playful Tit-Bits exchange invites Mrs Watts to join a literary society. Members chat about Carl y le’s quarrels with his wife, Goethe’s private life, and Poe and Voltaire, promising enlightening investigations to boost culture.
A Washington Herald note riffs on Shakespeare to praise a 1908 spring hat. The quote compares the hat to a well and a barn door in a playful appraisal of its size and style.
The Beech family aged fifty five and sixty complete a historic eleven hundred mile dog train trek from Fort Churchill to Winnipeg through a mostly ice bound wilderness. They endured a twenty three day wait at the Nelson River and scarce provisions before reaching York Factory and finally Winnipeg.
Mrs. John O'Connor told members of the League of Religious Fellowship that superstition persists in modern life. She listed omens still observed in Chicago such as thirteen, Friday starts, walking under ladders, moon over the left shoulder, breaking a looking glass, and touching wood to ward off fate.
Mr. Lambert confronts Mrs. Lambert about finances during a dream sequence. He declares control of household affairs sparking a violent crash as she wakes him, revealing he was dreaming about economy and expense. The scene ends with him nursing a head bump. Source notes it from the Bohemian for April.
A Baltimore editorial urges stopping rice and old shoe tossing at weddings. It cites harrowing incidents as dangerous to life and reports transportation workers complain about the trouble in cars. The piece notes the honeymoon risks and questions the custom’s elegance.
A judge conducts a mercy tempered reading of a prisoner’s former convictions as the courtroom proceedings unfold. The prisoner asks permission to sit down during the process.
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