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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
2
The Toronto Mail reports on advances in medicine as the world’s medical associations meet in Toronto. It notes progress against typhoid fever and diphtheria, mentions appendicitis, rheumatism, and surgical triumphs, and foresees potential breakthroughs and better health outcomes for the future.
The article profiles Peter Colibri the world’s smallest man at 22 inches tall and 1.5 pounds, traveling with Henri Cot a French giant about 25 years old. Cot seeks a bride while Colibri sits high above crowds, and the piece notes their travels from Paris to London and their contrasting statures.
In Walter Dill Scott's Talent the writer discusses how sentence length reveals individual rhythm in prose and poetry. He notes readers often ignore rhythm yet art thrives when thought and form align, producing instant aesthetic approval.
D. M. Carr argues in Home Trade Advocate that while farmers may spend where they wish, residents should support local businesses to boost their community. Money sent away leaves circulation and hinders local development.
A historical note explains snake vertebrae are joined by ball and socket joints allowing mainly side to side motion. It describes propulsion by points of scales acting as ribs, and how snakes climb by balancing and gripping with scale edges rather than wrapping around a support.
Fragmented exchange shows an astronomer and a theatrical manager debating visibility and influence. The manager mocks the astronomer as “everyday idiot,” while a father explains a diplomat as a person who accepts advice yet acts independently.
In a clipped exchange a baron’s crown is described as a velvet cap with genuine bones while the coronet differs from the viscount’s by eight pearls on the upper rim. The viscount’s count is fourteen, pearls arranged in threes, with notes on youth and listing rules.
A simple room experiment compares a reading glass and a mirror to show how refracting and reflecting telescopes form images. By placing a lens or a mirror at correct distances from a wall, or paper, you see inverted window images and evolving distant-object pictures to illustrate focal length and image formation.
A Portsmouth experiment mounted an 110 pound Armstrong gun on a harbor stake during low tide. The gun fired underwater at a wooden oak target and a boiler plate covered hull, piercing both and wrecking the vessel as water flooded in. The test showed submerged guns could damage ships in harbor during war.
A historic storm in Ceylon felled the sacred bo tree, revered by locals as ancient. Fa Hiam the Chinese historian noted the tree's age at 702 years in 414 A.D., planted by King Derinipiatissa in 288 A.D., implying a lifespan exceeding 2,175 years according to the account.
Pemstie notes his plan to rent ten dollars on his unmarried daughter before a second marriage. He hopes she can choose to stay or leave, avoiding forced cohabitation with a stepmother. The move aims at moral happiness and clear boundaries for all involved.
Bancroft spent nearly thirty years on his History of the United States, a work that ends before the nation’s proper history begins. If continued at the same scale, seventy two or eighty volumes would have been needed.
Edward Donen known as Benedict Count Donkin, self styled bishop of Santa Croce, is dead in London. He duped churches from Australia to Milwaukee posing as priest across Catholic and Anglican lines, forging credentials, and running monasteries before arrest, bankruptcy, and a final claim of consecration on his deathbed.
A mother narrates her daughter's recovery from anemia after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She describes severe weakness, headaches, and pale skin then notes color returning and renewed strength after several boxes. She and her daughter also report personal health gains from the pills.
This advertisement extols Dr. Chase's Ointment as a cure for eczema and various skin conditions. It claims relief after a few applications, notes a gradual healing process, and cites testimonials from Mrs Joseph Brickman and Mr John Cumming. It promotes use for babies and lists price as 50 cents per box with purchase through dealers or Edmanson Bates Company Toronto.
A mosaic of notes includes a polite letter excerpt to Lord Belborne and a New York Tribune quote, plus Regina schoolboard scholarship awards for standards V through VI. The page mentions a potential Hamilton strike, lightning destroying four barns in North Oxford, gunpowder explosions near Schora, and various medical and political items from Buenos Aires to Britain, including pensions and Duma arrests.
The passage argues that growth keeps people alive and that aging is more about mindset than years. It cautions that those who stop growing become half dead by fifty due to a negative mental attitude toward life.
A weary speaker laments that no one comes to see him now as before his marriage. He notes he used to call on the listener seven evenings a week, but now he is as bad off as the listener and has nowhere to go.
A fragment states the cataract is old and notes a height of 420 feet for a period with sails measured at 160 feet now. The garbled text provides limited context and names.
Do not wash Gore with soap as it dulls gilt and rubs off. Hot water harms. rinse in cold water retards drying and causes cracks. Use warm or boiled rainwater and dry with a soft cloth immediately after removal from water.
A fragment from the British Journal of Nursing discusses a nurse for night duty and the phrase bottle babies. It questions how bottle babies are nurtured and for what purpose the lano cents are used.
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