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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
6
The Hooghly district temple festival begins with a morning bathing of the deity. Water is poured only when a small bird atop the temple banner appears, signaling the ceremony start. The bird is believed to come from Puri and its presence marks the Bathing’s commencement. it then disappears after the rite.
The article praises iced Salada Tea as the most cooling and most delicious hot weather drink for summer refreshment.
A Broadway lunch spot displays a sign reading Combination Brekfast. The proprietor concedes an A should be present yet says the sign draws many critics but also brings customers, inviting patrons to choose ham, chicken, or cheese.
A brief comparison notes ten cents' worth of Wilson Fly Pads can kill more house flies than three hundred sheets of sticky paper, highlighting cost efficiency and pest control impact.
Local paper seeks reliable correspondents in every county locality to provide wholesome news. The Smith Groves Times offers payment for letters or emails signed with the writer’s name to verify authorship and ensure real news coverage.
A woman aboard a departing Akron train attempted to pay the conductor with a 50 cent purse, repeatedly opening and closing a satchel and purse, exchanging coins, and ultimately dropping the purse back into the satchel as the car pulled away. The event, described by the Akron Herald, centers on the attempt to board without a valid ticket and the handling of money and belongings during the rapid exit.
A historical note discusses aversion to surgical operations and claims many procedures on women in hospitals are unnecessary and could be avoided. The author argues that fear of surgery is common and questions the necessity of numerous operations performed.
Letter from Letitia Blair of Cannifton Ontario states that after five years of illness doctors suggested ulceration or fibroid tumor and surgery. She reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and avoiding operation. It also aided her through menopause.
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. It has helped thousands troubled with displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains and backache. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice. Address Lynn Mass.
A Wellington Kansas News item recalls conductors and a brakeman who refused to eject two tramps from a box car after learning the men were old schoolmates headed for Atchison. The conductors both declined to remove them citing their ties.
A Windsor Ontario advertisement promises free home treatment guidance for lenocorrhoea ulceration womb displacement painful or irregular periods and related female health issues. It claims a 12 cent weekly cost for continued care and offers a free booklet titled Woman's Own Medical Adviser by Mrs M Summers Box H Windsor.
Paris entomologist Paul Cochelet visiting New York en route to Brazil for four months of butterfly hunting. He notes Brazil hosts about 700 butterfly species, explains uphill flight and aimless circling at summits, praises butterfly and moth mimicry, and describes methods to capture specimens including using scent attractants and nets.
The Philadelphia Record notes European use of corncobs for building blocks. Cobs are crushed, molded into bricks, bound with wire, tar-treated for water resistance, then used in construction. The system yields lighter, dry, sturdy houses and illustrates Fripps's claim of greater European economy versus America.
The Karst Mountains near Trieste unveil the largest and most wonderful underground chamber. Discovered and surveyed by G A Pero in 1890, the cave is reached from Onesitta imistria after rugged climbs and descents. Visitors enter a vast stalactite and stalagmite cavern with a 460 foot wide dome and 800 foot length, famed for its extraordinary pale forest of petrified trees.
A western city woman tied to the Sisters of St. John the Baptist spent a month in a backwoods district and asked a rural postmaster about letters for Sister Bernardine. The incredulous postmaster doubted the nun and quipped that a sister has been dead for nearly a century.
A letter from Caterhall Nild to Minard's Liniment Co. describes severe mosquito bites last summer. The writer reports the liniment largely cured irritation after a few applications and claims it also helps keep mosquitoes away.
Aerial observers note nets and rugs on house leads in Regent's Park as golf spreads. In a London house a Lords member converts a billiard room to a putting green. The Royal Botanic Gardens hosts the School of Golf with lessons at 7.15 each morning led by professionals.
Dr. Jackson reports to Governor Hughes that house flies cause about five thousand deaths yearly in New York City from typhoid and other intestinal diseases. Wilson's Fly Pads claim to kill flies and disease germs as well.
A British Australasian report says plans are underway for a midsummer Antarctic Circle pleasure expedition at the end of December next. The voyage would last about a month with five or six days inside the Circle. A guarantee for 40 passengers at 125 each has been offered, but 80 to 100 are needed to make the trip profitable.
A landscape gardener unveils two novelties for a Newport millionaire's grounds a 20 foot diameter floral clock and four revolving 12 by 12 foot beds to be driven electrically. The clock face uses rose and pansy markers and reportedly keeps time within eighteen seconds a day. The revolving beds will operate in a sunken garden at a pace of one revolution per minute.
A light reading excerpt describes Miss Mayme relaxing on vacation with her aunt and Shelley or The Vicar of Wakefield. An elderly relative warns against scandalous doings and threatens to write to her mother.
Butter making competitions take place in the Dairy Building amphitheatre Toronto daily at 10 30 a m and 2 p m from September 3 to 12 inclusive, except the 9th. A Farmers Institute Convention will be held there on that date. Demonstrations in milk testing and farm milk care will run for the two weeks, with Q A invited for farmers and wives.
In a dialogue sequence a Lady Visitor asks Tommy about his namesake and family, but the boy answers with a blunt insult calling his father a donkey. The exchange highlights awkward parental manners and child wit in a domestic setting.
A dealer and a customer spar over canaries with the buyer seeking two birds one that sings classical music and another that performs popular airs in a lighthearted exchange.
A great naturalist retired from business to study and experiment. He pondered aloud about the fate of all the corks, prompting a lab assistant to ask what his mind was turning to. He replied he was wondering what becomes of all the corks.
A Lancet excerpt discusses micro-organisms triggering spontaneous combustion in haystacks granaries and spinning works. It notes oxidation of lampblack coal and peat by soil organisms and suggests microbes may explain coal heating and historic conflagrations with undiscovered origins.
A political candidate declares in a public forum that he obtained money by betting that officials would not secure a lock-in. The crowd reacts with cries and断ed excitement as he continues to admit to criminal behavior.
Advertisement touts SLOCUM'S COM POUND PENNYROYAL TEA with promises of free samples to all women. Claims a powerful harmless vegetable medicine for sickness and related diseases, urging mothers and ladies to use it. Contact Dr. at 179 King Street West in Toronto for purchases.
Population patterns show 871266 girls and 839266 boys reaching age one in Britain and Ireland. The Abyssinian army totals 200000 with 50 modern guns. Berlin mint chimneys yield about 1000. Submarine construction employs fifty vessels for laying and repair.
James Snook of this city had a frightening hunting accident in Occidental Marin county yesterday. He fired two shots at a buck that collapsed then sprang up and charged him knocking him down and trampling him senseless. He recovered to find the deer dead about two hundred yards away and suffered two horn fractures plus other injuries from the beast.
Ad copy touts Wilsons Fly Pads as unmatched by any substitute and claims superior fly killing performance.
A girl suggests presenting an upcoming event as a notification committee to please a father figure who takes an interest in politics. The dialogue hints at social cunning and parental involvement in early relationships.
A man writes a poem titled Lines on Mabel's Face to a woman who reacts with fury tearing up the piece. Philadelphia Presa reports the incident in a succinct notice.
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