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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1907
Page
6
A recent Austrian election returned four Zionists to parliament who formed a so called Jewish party. They argued their size mirrors Catholic and Protestant groups and compared to Lord Randolph Churchill's smaller party in Britain.
A Philadelphia Record humor piece features a clergyman praising college girls as boons to the race and a tongue in cheek christening anecdote. A newly christened baby is praised for quiet behavior after parents admit they have been practicing christening with a bucket of water for ten days.
The eccentric barrister Lord Brougham defends Queen Caroline boldly during the king’s divorce case. He openly attacks the unnamed persecutor, invoking Milton as he denounces a nameless power. The public sides with the queen as Brougham’s dramatic intervention shapes the trial.
The article traces early American druggists from 17th century Virginia and Massachusetts, noting quack apothecaries, medical roles, and witchcraft fears. It highlights Giles Forman of Boston as an early dedicated pharmacist and William Davies opening the first distinctive drug store in 1648 in Boston.
A Chicago Tribune anecdote recounts a father recalling his intelligent driving horse. After two years missing, the owner confronts a stranger who claims the horse, and the animal performs the exact feats described to prove his identity.
The passage notes a dozen eggs weigh about twenty one and a half ounces. One eighth of this total weight is described as nitrogenous and nutritious matter, a higher proportion than in meat or oysters.
After conquests in Mexico and Peru emeralds flooded the trade and a Spanish nobleman reportedly brought home as much as three bushels of the gems.
The Isle of Mull village Drimtaidhuickhillichattan hosts a tiny hamlet with no more than a dozen residents. Locals and visitors alike may need Gaelic expertise to pronounce its name correctly.
Swinemunde on the Baltic enforces strict Sunday laws with heavy fines for shipmasters who wash or paint ships on Sunday or church holidays. Foreign crews, unaware of the German church calendar, are frequently caught by the town authorities.
A Rhodesia Herald report notes nineteen permits issued for capturing 943 ostriches for domestication and farming. Ostrich farming is described as an emerging industry in the Enkeldoorn district with calls for government aid to provide fencing wire.
The sedan chair name is linked toNapoleon III's fall scene, and experts note that sedan chairs appeared in England by 1581 with James I using one at Buckingham, sparking outcry over men as beasts of burden. Sir H. Duncombe is credited with introducing them to London in 1634.
A stage playwright endures a failed first effort as frost and fizzle. He bows in disappointment while friends offer little consolation. His wife, sensing a ray of hope, notes he avoided delivering a curtain speech and would be grateful for that escape.
An Indiana laborer died recently and his fraternal lodge offered to assist his widow. They asked if he belonged to a church, but the widow replied he never did anything to join a church. The group arranged funeral plans pending church affiliation information.
A jar water with a frog and a tiny stepladder in Germany and Switzerland is said to predict rain when the frog climbs the steps. The piece includes assorted odds and ends from period newspaper humor and ads.
Chicago News quotes Languid Lewis and Hamble Harry trading slang about work being safe and unharmful. The playful exchange reflects casual attitudes toward labor and effort in a city context.
An old ad proclaims ENGLISH SPAVIN-LINIMENT removes bone and flesh blemishes in horses, claiming to cure spavin curba splints ringbone sweeney stifles sprains and more. It touts a $50 saving and quotes a humorous exchange from the Houston Post about broken ribs, illustrating dramatic claims.
In a domestic dialogue, a father explains that life exists in a drop of water and in the kettle’s boil. The son connects this to the singing water, illustrating a simple wonder at microcosm within daily heat and steam.
An advertisement for Dr J D Kellogg announces a cordial claimed to speedily cure dysentery diarrhoea cholera and summer complaints. It touts instant relief from indiscretions in eating unripe fruit and cucumbers and warns cholera can be prevented with a bottle on hand.
Mr Pottsdam asks for legal advice as a man threatens to pull his nose. The lawyer suggests soap to make the nose slip from the aggressor’s grip and humorously charges six and eightpence for the counsels.
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