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Newspaper
Revelstoke Herald
Location
Ravelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 17, 1903
Page
7
A lecture discusses mankind origin and destiny from God, unity of God, and the universal worship shared across nations. It argues for God manifest in Christ Jesus, the one divine incarnation and savior, and envisions a future universal church empowered by divine presence transforming humanity and society.
A collection of anecdotes recounted by a secretary of a fire insurance company about an aged woman who trusted in the Lord for her affairs, a child actor Anne who resists baptism, Henry Irving in Faust rehearsals losing his temper, Senator Blackburn's travel mischief, editor Charles Dudley Warner and crude copy, and a North Missouri editor who discovers a subscriber faked death to stop his paper.
A brief praise of Sunlight Soap noting its wide usefulness in cleaning tasks. It claims the soap makes the home bright and clean with very few cleansing operations that cannot benefit from its use. The tone is promotional and general about domestic cleaning.
Dr A S Alexander warns owners that overfeeding work horses harms digestion. He urges smaller, easily digested meals focused on oats rather than corn, with rest before feeding and limited noon hay to prevent gas and diarrhea amid summer workloads.
The fruit division in Ottawa warns shippers using old fruit marks such as XXX XA and X to enclose the two lower marks XX and X in a circle, oval, or diamond. This aims to prevent dealers from falsely raising grades by adding an X and harming the original packer’s reputation.
The dairy division in Ottawa reports three new Japanese customers for butter from Government creameries in the west following the Canadian exhibit at Osaka Exposition. Export volume to Japan is more than triple this year compared with the same period last year.
Sanders Spencer notes in The Journal of the Board of Agriculture that maize shortages in 1901 were eased by mixing wheat for pig feed. The practice improved meat quality and reduced transport losses, signaling a shift in American hog farming toward fatter pigs and bacon suitable for English markets.
A collage of jokes from Philadelphia Record to Indianapolis News. Cartoons and snippets cover manners, legal jests, oddities, and social curiosities, featuring lines about Maud at the beach, toasting misfires, dogs and licenses, wills, and a Pullman train light-off anecdote.
English musician Sir Frederick Bridge recalls a provincial church organist who, after marriage, left a gap in voluntary music. On his return the organist surprised the congregation by starting with Handel's Waltz for Angels to the Skies, provoking intense amusement.
A naval authority discusses the advisability of building cruisers and the role of speed in battle. He notes that faster ships can force engagements and enable fleets to pursue and overwhelm weaker opponents, while other flag officers question the necessity of high speed if protection and powder suffice.
A wife, shopping with her husband in a department store, admires a dress and accuses him of neglecting her. He protests it is not his fault as she realizes she has walked off with the wrong man’s arm. The moment reveals the couple’s tangle and a comic misconnection.
A narrator recalls a balloon voyage as calm and surreal, a wicker basket drift above earth with cool air and stillness. A distant voice asks for impressions while gas dynamics and hearing quirks define the experience, and photography becomes simple by pointing the lens outward for the fleeting scene.
The London Telegraph portrays La Frette as an exceptionally quiet old fashioned village just 30 minutes from Paris. Residents endure long morning shopping walks to Cormeilles for bread and butcher goods, while local thrifty peasants marry for modest sums and live simply amid nearby forests and parks.
Kentucky Agricultural College notes advise consistent milking times to minimize yield variation. Some cows show small losses when milkers change. others unaffected. Feeding at milking time can reduce output, while missing a milking may dry up cows and risk udder injury.
An advertisement touts Dr Von Stan's Pineapple Tablets as a natural remedy for dyspepsia including wind sour stomach belching nausea and loss of appetite with a testimonial by Sanderland of Welland Ontario. It also markets a South American Rheumatic Cure claiming rapid relief from rheumatic aches by neutralizing blood acids.
The traveling salesman reports straw hats moving into next season with early removals as September begins. In the South the straw hat season opens March 1 at some points earlier, wholesale deliveries start in January and finish by mid February. The active straw hat manufacturing season runs from September to mid April.
An advertisement touts Dr Agnew's Catarrhal Powder as a quick permanent cure for catarrh and related nose and throat ailments including hay fever and influenza. A clergyman from Springer, York County Pa, endorses it after two years of use. Also promoted are Agnews Liver Pills as a vegetable remedy to regulate the liver and purify the body.
William's table manners are mocked as badly spoiled by his sister and neighbors. He grips his fork as if fearing it will escape, uses it like a bay fork, and proclaims with a neighbor that there is nobody else present to eat like hogs.
An advertisement claims an acid poison causes rheumatic pain and that The South American Rheumatic Cure purifies the blood, dissolves foreign substances, and provides instant relief. It cites C M Mayheer of Thomasville Ontario as cured after three bottles, and also promotes South American Kidney Cure to purify kidneys and restore health.
The article argues Canada’s separation from the United Kingdom could precede broader imperial disintegration. It urges imperial consolidation through free trade, wheat production boosts, and industrial cooperation, warning against reviving old mercantile systems while stressing Britain’s policy must adapt to new economic realities.
The Pacific Electric Railway tested wind brakes on Long Beach Division cars from Los Angeles to the coast. A cow-catcher style shield cut wind resistance, cutting required power at sixty miles per hour from 120 hp to about 60 hp, and at fifty miles per hour showed clear advantage. Consulting engineer R B Sinsson says results are highly satisfactory and windbreaks will soon be adopted on long distance cars.
New York Chief William Devery declares his bid for mayor with a plan to uproot Tammany influence. He predicts a dramatic campaign, promises house cleaning at Tammany Hall, and warns of legal action and poll-watchers to prevent vote tampering. He asserts he will win the primaries and lead a major political shake-up.
A famous Sheffield firm houses the world’s most valuable pocket knife, large enough for a giant. It holds seventy five blades that close like a normal knife, each blade elaborately engraved with scenes of Sheffield, York, Windsor Castle, Arundel Castle, and other local views. The hafts feature ivory carvings of a steeple and a boar hunt, with estimated value unattained before the finish.
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