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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
May 31, 1888
Page
4
The Qu Appelle area reports on council activity over a $460 town well grant and appliance use, church and synod meetings, and local moves. It notes baseball games, a Women’s Christian temperance event, farm plowing near Balgonie, and flax sowing for Ireland.
The Qu Appelle Cricket Club held a home match to celebrate a teen birthday. A close game ended with a 4 run win for the visiting former rivals, as the club lines up for a rematch against the Qu Appelle Valley Club from Fort Qu Appelle next at 11 o clock.
The report recalls early balloon trials from Paris ten miles from the city to a New York attempt, noting experiments by brothers Pears and Captain Ronarhapd, with balloons of cigar shape, rudders and steering gear. It cites Oct and Sept 1804 to 1885 dates, details crew, weight about 320 kilos, and mixed success.
Seinte Douranh seeks grand favors from Amy and the First Lady while Our friend Melanie is described as dreadfully extravagant. The note hints at social ambitions and wit in a domestic vignette.
The ruins of Heliopolis near Motarijeh lie about five miles from Cairo and are linked to the biblical site of Joseph's marriage to Potiphar's daughter. An ancient obelisk marks the city, once among Egypt’s most notable. a companion obelisk is described as over twelve hundred years older. The text notes the pyramids and mentions the Virgin's tree nearby in a fragmentary account.
An old period column discusses dwarf legends and fossils, noting tiny skeletal remains found in Tennessee, cites Roman and Egyptian practices with dwarfs, and mentions royal dwarf pages in Mantua and Norman nobles. The piece mixes folklore with scattered historical anecdotes from various eras.
Elevated railways bring iron dust eye injuries. Hospitals report hundreds treated for lodged metal particles. Magnets collected dust from stations and gutters, exposing widespread airborne grit around the elevated lines.
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