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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
2
The following delicious summer drinks are suitable for use during the hot days. White and yolk of egg, lemon syrup, orange syrup, pineapple syrup, fresh cream, shaved ice. Shake well in a milk shaker, then add plain soda. Stir and serve with straws.
A recipe for a refreshing lemonade uses a half pint of bottled grape juice or homemade sweet grape wine per quart, plus two tablespoonfuls of shredded pineapple. If in season, add crushed strawberries. Stir well, then serve with crushed ice and selver or mineral water.
Make a thin syrup by boiling one and a half pints of water with two cupfuls of sugar. Add grated lemon rind and juice from two lemons. Cool. Just before serving whip lightly in two eggs beaten separately and a small quantity of bicarbonate of soda. Serve while foaming.
A simple home drink combines boiling water with Rico molasses and pulverized ginger stirred well. Cool the mixture and serve over shaved ice, filling each glass one quarter full.
Use Wilson's Fly Pads as directed on each pack to keep the dining room and kitchen free from flies. Get the genuine Wilson's. other fly killers do not compare.
A humorous Washington Star item recounts a visitor and Farmer Corn misinterpreting a note about mosquitoes. The farmer explains his message meant he was visiting Si Simlin and joked that all mosquitoes must be in Simlin's yard.
He leads her to a bench away from a crush and nervously hints at a message. She imagines a proposal and frets about how to respond as he mentions two loose buttons on her dress, then she sweeps past him in a cold gaze.
Mrs John Scott of 489 Grand Trunk Street Montreal describes severe health decline from a female ailment. She says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her backache nervousness headaches and general weakness and restored flesh and well being, recommending it for women's ailments.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for women, claiming to cure displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors and various female complaints. It invites readers to write for advice and gives Lynn Mass as the address.
The article asserts Peruna combines standard catarrh remedies and proven tonics. It argues chronic catarrh is widespread and that Peruna lists its principal active constituents, inviting scrutiny by critics across medical schools.
Fire insurance estimates 40 percent of barn fires from lightning, 10 to 15 percent from carelessness, 8 to 12 percent from overheated flues, with the remainder from other causes including incendiarism. The Weather Bureau 1900 report records 5,527 lightning strokes in 1899 causing damage, 6,256 buildings injured, property value $3,016,520, 563 deaths, 820 injuries, and 4,251 livestock killed. Tall chimneys and moisture-laden barns are more often struck. ice houses attract lightning for the same reason.
The New York American declares the common house fly a major enemy to man and a top disseminator of disease, worse than the mosquito. Wilson's Fly Pads are promoted as killing many times more flies than competing products.
The article cites Ray Stannard Baker claiming many mulattoes pass as white, with examples from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Wall Street. It notes a white actress visiting colored relatives, a prominent New York official revealed as black, and a Vassar and Chicago University graduate case. It discusses individuals misrepresenting race as Mexicans or Armenians to gain white acceptance.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt reports a fat man in town advocating a hot water bag filled with ice water as a cool night pillow solution. He argues a cold water bag can replace a hot feather pillow to ease heat and humidity, suggesting a towel wrap for comfort and foot cooling.
A humorous note lists man's top pleasures as hearing ourselves speak and listening to ourselves, followed by ejaculating, conversing, speaking, and talking, as summarized from The Bohemian.
Mre Genee, the ballerina, says dancing requires love not gloom. She recalls a French prince who danced thrice with a matron, who flattered him then asked about the fourth waltz. He admits he dances to perspire.
A brief note references Minard's Liniment as a cure for diphtheria in the context of an eclectic medical method. The quotation from a Chicago Journal tale depicts a barkeep presenting a bottle and a customer requesting another, highlighting a humorous exchange about beverages.
All druggists grocers and general stores advertise Wilson's Ply Pads for sale, indicating wide availability across retailers.
A Washington Star quote stages Diogenes testing a would be honest man. The lantern will be lent to lure the man to return it, then an umbrella test may follow.
A dialogue fragment shows first girl asking about a brother and the second girl replying with a sharp defense and a rebuke about being unable to attract others. The exchange hints at social expectations and personal boundaries in a confrontational tone.
A meditation on saying farewell to a friend urges pressing the hand firmly and speaking earnest words. It warns that Fate and distance can separate lovers and warns against delaying sentiment to avoid future regret.
An owner details buying a horse with a believed incurable ringbone for 39 dollars. After curing with a dollar’s worth of Minard's Liniment the horse sold for 85 dollars, yielding a profit of 54 dollars on the liniment.
The Cameron Highlanders arrive in Pekin to guard the legation, causing a sensation among residents. The China Times notes natives are learning Scots phrases, using "I dinna ken" and greeting newcomers with "Guid manin" in an Auchtermachty accent. Chinese compradores ponder why soldiers seize cloths like the missis.
An old advertisement claims Gray Hair a Disease Colorator restores gray or faded hair to its original color. It offers confidential advice from druggists and lists Colorator Corporation at 179 King Street West, Toronto.
A humorous verse from the Bohemian Magazine July issue depicts a boy pleading for help in spelling despite a busy mother. The narrator laments difficulty choosing spellings like nay or neigh and nearly wishes to avoid spelling entirely.
An advertisement touts Wilson's Fly Pad as the only product that kills house flies, warning they carry typhoid and that their buzz signals illness.
The London Globe reports a near silent room designed by Zwaardemaker at Utrecht University. Walls eleven inches thick use six layers including trichoplese horsehair felt, porous stone with lead isolation, an air space, wood, cork and sand, and corkstein ground cork to achieve low noise.
An usher questions a guest at a wedding asking if he is related to the couple. He replies no and identifies himself as the defeated candidate, a line highlighted by the Christian Register.
Worth Knowing offers guidance on odor removal with celery on onions and on stain removal using ammonia on iodine stains milk spills on wool fabrics and absorbent cotton. It covers rug corner protection with webbing emery paper nap lifting ivory cleaner and a furniture polish from table oil vinegar.
If you suffer from bleeding itching blind or protruding piles send your address and I will tell you how to cure yourself at home by the new absorption treatment and will also send some of this home treatment free for trial with references from your own locality if requested Immediate relief and permanent care assured Write today to Mrs M Summers Box P 8 Windsor Ont
A Boston Transcript quip argues tipping benefits the waiter and the diner alike. It claims a little generosity prevents the waiter from feeling exploited and jokes about why one should tip to avoid unkind consequences.
A once common belief that all teas are similar fades as Salada Tea gains popularity among thousands of tea lovers sold by grocers nationwide.
In a theatre box party a young woman watches the play with weary scorn. She fixes on a peer in a blue kimono and remarks that the other girl thinks she is the whole custard.
An old tale from Youth's Companion recounts Minard's Liniment curing distemper while a keeper feeds live rabbits to pythons. Several rabbits are swallowed whole as a scholarly onlooker grimly remarks on the grisly scene.
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