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Newspaper
Golden Era
Location
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 31, 1900
Page
3
An excerpt from Cham bers' Journal analyzes the vast money spent on shooting in Scotland. It estimates roughly 4000 shootings with keeper and gillie staffing, detailing wages, forest staff, ponies, and horses. The piece notes annual costs near £150,000 from 405 shoots and highlights regional scales of expenditure across deer forests and grouse grounds.
A letter from Glamis Ontario states partial arm use due to a strain was relieved after using Minard's Liniment. The writer reports full restoration of function and gratitude to Richards & Co for supplying the remedy.
The notice mentions Ian D. Bankey possibly visiting Fogland in September and references a reopening of the Metropolitan Tabernace in London. It notes honorary degrees, church figures, and a mix of biographical and local church details with historical connections. It also advertises Bickles Anti-Consumptive Syrup as a remedy for coughs and bronchial issues.
Reports from southern France describe successful methods to prune forcat fren by growing juicy cacti in open spaces between sections. In England a tall single-stemmed beech stands in Lord Brownlow's park at Ashbridge, near Buckinglinwehite, with a queen beech reaching about 150 feet. A fad in horticulture is inserting strawberry plants in holes bored in barrels then filled with earth to encourage dense foliage, blossoms, and fruit. The coughing wheezing of bronchitis and asthma sufferers is reportedly alleviated by Dr Thomas Electric Oil, claimed as a safe, speedy remedy for bronchial and other ailments.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe the oldest newspaper in the world, the Pekin or Metropolitan Reporter lineage, dating from the year VI of the Christian era and published since 1461 AD. The entry mentions translations of important documents, coverage of Chinese government ordinances, science, theology, education, and global affairs, with references to ships, education, and royal honors.
Details the Allied entry into Pekin on Aug 22 with flags planted on the outer wall. American and British forces, plus Japanese and Rosalian troops, faced heavy Chinese resistance. casualties numbered in the thousands within the legation and city. Emaciated residents had only three days of rations as fighting persisted into the day.
A Pretoria dispatch says De Wet retreated from the Pyramid hills about fifteen miles north of Pretoria before a strong British force. Other notices include Lions and orders on colonial officers, missing and wounded soldiers, and updates from Cape Town to London about Canadian troops and the Strathcona Horse.
Two prisoners Henderson and Taylor escaped from Portage to Prairie jail while working in the garden. They headed south into bush country as Thompson and Prant pursue with a horse and rig. Taylor is tall and dark. Henderson stout and fair, both young. In Chicago thirty planing mills will form a 4 4 million capital combination this week. Fire at Zion Church Winnipeg damages about 1000 with organ possibly ruined. two thousand feet of hose used and two brigades fought the blaze. In Guelph, Edward Hewer loses a foot attempting to board a moving train.
News in brief from Braddock to Constantinople lists fires fatal accidents political moves and legal actions. Highlights include a $50,000 property fire in Hamilton, a new Baptist call in Mount Forest, a typhoid death in London, a labor act enforcement in Hamilton, a farmer's suicide in Ontario, Bresci's trial delay request, a windstorm in Sheboygan, a mail collection test in New York, a plumber strike in Chicago, a wife and children murder capture in Arlington, census figures for St Paul and Minneapolis, and Armenian massacre investigations in Constantinople with leadership changes.
A bridge at the Paris exposition over Boulevard La Tour Maubourg fell injuring 80 people, five seriously, as crowds moved between show sections. In Toronto, Liverpool Andy Hughes, a famed sailor, allegedly drowned at Jervis Street while intoxicated. A Lehigh Valley mine in Mahony ity, Pa, trapped three men and 86 mules in a burning slope No. 8 since last night. also Sydney A Greens, manager of General Advertising and Publishing, drowned off an island after cramps during a swim.
A Winnipeg firm Alloway and Champion at 862 Main Street is quoted regarding the Montreal Stock Exchange. The brief note records their contact and location as part of a market mention.
Manitoba prices cover wheat, flour, oats, barley, corn, flaxseed, hay, butter and cheese, eggs and vegetables, plus dressed meats and poultry. Notable items include No 1 hard wheat at Fort William, flour at $9.20 per sack, oats at $28.50 ton, butter around 18 to 19 cents per pound, and potatoes selling 55 to 60 cents per bushel while onions run 80 cents per pound.
A brief exchange shows a Convict admitting being driven to the scene by force and a Curious Old Lady pressing for truth. The man confirms his transportation in a Black Marl a as usual, revealing a patterned pattern of coercion.
A terse dialogue fragment features Mr Sevkrox and a speaker discussing happiness without money. The text references an oldest German cont minva near Worms Enighind and coal beginnings in the fourteenth century, noting a historical backdrop.
A collection of aphorisms and reflections on joy, virtue, and human merit. Quotes from Bilot Prior Gay Brown Charron Goethe Virgil Lavater and Lavater touch on happiness will to spread joy and the measure of a person by actions.
A Cassier’s Magazine excerpt discusses Monitor and Merrimac era ventilation failures, noting air loss, gas buildup, and a disease named ironclad fever. Blowers and cylinder systems were tried to keep crews alive, with later ships adopting improved methods.
In Hyde Park a young matron with a high nervous temperament suffers insomnia after drinking even a small amount of alcohol before bed. A party ends with a mint julep mix that contains whisky to flavor the water. She drinks about half, yet remains awake until six in the morning. She later overhears her son boasting that she could not come to breakfast because she drank too much whisky.
Ethel says her mother is down town and shopping. She denies time for errands, stating she only plans to run down and get a few needed items.
The Winnipeg Free Press promotes a premium picture titled The Capture of Commandant Botha by the Canadian Mounted Rifles from the South African War. The plate is a popular, copyrighted image offered at an affordable price with a yearly subscription incentive.
An inventor asserts a method to extract motive power from sunlight. Historical notes recount a comet’s closest Earth approach in 1770 at about 1.4 million miles, thunder audible up to 25 miles, and lightning damaging up to 2000 degrees in a carbon filament lamp experiment.
A fragment from a 19th century periodical recalls moral settlement themes with a North American Review excerpt on retribution and a mock anecdote about a wealthy American fined by the Pope Leo XII. The tale contrasts religious virtue with worldly gifts and ends with a jest about a snuffbox and future marble table.
No, Twill not marry you, Miss Northside replies to Mr. Manchester saying you seek my coin. The young man protests he loves more than money and admits he would leave notes as a pastime, amid a fragmented exchange about affection and finances.
Fragmentary OCR text notes a courtier and empress discussing fondness for children and age restrictions. The dialogue references a chimeric or fictional setting with a choked phrase about an empress and an emperor, implying a satirical or whimsical scene.
Fragmentary dialogue describes a humorous dispute over a cat and a tub of water. The overheard snippet mentions a sale of Minard’s Liniment and a comically grim tale about drowning a cat with a brick tied around its neck. The hazardous joke and odd imagery appear in a chaotic seaside or street scene.
An OCR fragment touts a generator called the Ontario Acetylene Gas Generator. It claims reliability and durability, with automated operation and no attention required while running. The ad mentions The North-West Acetylene Gas Company at 312 Princes St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, with unspecified agents.
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