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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
6
A collection of simple kitchen guides detailing methods and ingredients for baked fish with potato dressings and Spanish tomato sauce, Mexican pepper pulp butter cheese mixtures, luncheon ham layers with milk and eggs, gingerbread, Virginia biscuits, imitation sauerkraut, baked codfish hash, fried salt cod, and codfish chowder with pork and crackers.
A Brooklyn physician A W Perrin M D S testifies he used Peruna for catarrh and bronchial troubles and recovered. He recommends it to his parents and notes he is advising patients to try Peruna, which he says is now available at druggists.
A Philadelphia Press report describes nineteen young ladies and escorts visiting Lafayette Island on the Schuylkill when muskrats swarmed. The animals bit Miss Gertrude Barnett Miss Alice Wirnot and Miss Sara Hilaoa before the party escaped by boat amid frightened groups.
Spanking does not cure bed-wetting and there is a constitutional cause. Mrs M Summers of Box W 8 Windsor Ont offers a free home treatment with full instructions. No money needed. write today. The program also claims to help adults with daytime or nighttime urine difficulties.
Spirit Lake chose by a strong majority to sell or lease its electric plant after a few days of consideration. Town clerk notes it cannot be run successfully under municipal ownership and has never paid. For eight months in 1907 earnings were 3823 while expenses reached 6328, indicating street rates costing over 350 annually with no depreciation or tax allowances.
A quirky dialogue features a night-singing tomcat taunting a professor about inconsistency. The cat mocks poetry lessons while the learned man questions the timing of his discouragement, creating a playful literary exchange.
The Civic League of St. Louis selects six investigators to study municipal plant operations. The report argues actual operating costs exceed estimates, shows how officials skew statistics, and lists items essential for a true cost comparison against contract prices. It warns that many reports hide costs to favor contract lighting.
The Italian consul G. P. Raccelli said he is receiving applications from young Italians in Syracuse and nearby cities to join Italy’s army. He has long recruited in the region, noting about 50 options at Syracuse this week, with some more in the local area. Recruits will be sent to Italy for a three year term.
Mrs A D Trudeau of Arnprior Ontario describes eight years of uterine ailment. After four doctors failed she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and, within five bottles, was completely cured. She urges other women to try the remedy.
For thirty years Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for females, curing thousands troubled with displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache bearing down feeling flatulence indigestion or nervous prostration. Write to Mrs Pinkham for confidential advice.
The barge H. W. Conklin sails from New London with about 30,000 bushels of oyster shells, the largest shipment from the harbor, to cover beds in New Haven for the spawning season. Previous cargoes ranged 10,000 to 23,000 bushels, with shells aiding oyster propagation by forming beds and scum that attaches to hard substrates.
From the Virginia Citizen comes a note on oysters, stating the seaside oyster thrives in shoal water near the ebb while the bay oyster must stay submerged. The same species cannot survive both deep water and exposed dry periods, differing by habitat.
In Harmony near Elmer Dare’s residence unusual disturbances occur nightly for three days with cider barrels rolling doors slamming and windows breaking. Neighbors and a deputy sheriff attempt to solve the mystery amid a bright moon as residents recall a Union ghost story with organ persuasion.
A Rockford merchant urges safer Fourth practices to reduce injuries. He advises parents to provide stable support for fireworks, avoid holding pieces, use a sand bed for candles, never let children pick up lit firecrackers, and skip serpents or chasers due to danger.
An Indian engineer from Tama's Musquakie lineage works on a fast Burlington passenger train. He navigates the same rivers and landscapes his ancestors knew, though he now wears more clothes and speaks a different language. He serves civilization on this modern locomotive.
Birds make nests on moving trains and wagons across England. A sparrow nested in coal aboard a Great Eastern engine, a thrush raised two eggs on a Westinghouse brake pipe, and robins built on a cul livery wagon axle at Saghill. The birds followed the wagon to the Tyne, prompting inquiry.
A letter from C. H. Collaboom of Rossway Digby County N S. expresses that after a fall on a fence he injured his chest and could not breathe. He reports one bottle of Minard's Liniment warmed and applied to the chest cured him completely.
Orlie Hizer of near Lawrie traveled to Guthrie for a wolf bounty. While scouting a gulch he fired at a rabbit, hit a wolf that leapt from bushes, and reloaded to kill the attacking mate. The Guthrie correspondence notes the double encounter.
The New York American reports the common house fly as a major enemy of man and a key disease disseminator. Wilson's Fly Pads are praised for killing more flies than competing products.
Advice warns flies are dangerous and spread microbes. It urges burning exposed food, screening leftovers, and disposing waste. recommends kerosene in drains and burning pyrethrum powder to kill pests in rooms and sick areas.
A Chicago News cartoon caption contrasts quack cures with slavery satire. A wife pressures her husband for a new outfit while the husband refuses, saying he won’t fund fashion that supports slavery. The exchange lampoons fashion’s power and moral cost.
Montclair town council discussed mufflers for crowing roosters and bans on roosters ducks and geese after a petition from residents on Crescent and South Mountain Avenue claimed serious nuisance from 12 am to 6 am. Town Clerk Trippett noted personal bans due to neighbor complaints. A Beverly Massachusetts tip suggested high roosts to curb crowing.
A health claim asserts the common house fly spreads typhoid and that Wilson's Fly Pad is the sole product that kills them all.
In Skien Norway P Anesen a white paper maker says local option laws empower districts to vote on prohibition with absent voters counted. Elections occur every five years and once a community rejects licenses it seldom reverses. Norway also limits liquor sales to bottle purchases to be taken home.
A clipped note asserts rhinoceros blood is highly valued as a universal remedy by Burmese and Chinese peoples. Hunters collect blood after lethal hunts, store it in hollow bamboo for Rangoon markets, and pay a high price per weight in silver.
A glass of Salada Tea is described as a refreshing beverage for warm weather, with cooling on a summer breeze. The note emphasizes its appeal during hot days.
The Washington Star quotes Mr Meekton debating whether his wife likes the last word. He notes she is reluctant to reach it and questions if she does at all.
In a humorous aside a speaker asks Uncle Job about a Missouri meer schaum. The reply identifies it as a corncob pipe and reveals sending 50 cents for one after seeing an advertisement. The exchange captures a quaint bargain hunt moment.
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