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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 27, 1908
Page
10
Elspeth begins work as Mr. McGowan’s secretary for Kenneth Kenrith, a writer, and forms a tentative connection with him. A visit from Lady Lambart disrupts the routine, revealing tensions over class and ambition as Elspeth contemplates her place among rich patrons, while Lady Ardcliffe probes status and love.
A fragment shows Lady Ardcliffe and Mrs. Ardcliffe discussing whether Mr. Kear or Mr. Trowbridge, two prominent literary fortunes, are staying at the hotel. The scene mentions Mr. McGowan becoming secretary to handle a flood of letters. The gossip continues.
General Gallifet, aide to Napoleon III, spies a carp in the imperial pond at St. Cloud. He hooks the fish and brings it into the room causing chaos as water and glass spill. The emperor discovers the scene, but smiles and leaves Gallifet to ponder fisherman's luck.
A traveler recalls a southern town scene where a sheriff plans to sell an elderly woman's furniture on a mortgage. An old colored man explains the mortgage totaling 507 dollars, with 25 separate loans of two dollars each.
The Malay peninsula yields a famed mangosteen said to surpass the mango in flavor. High among sturdy stems lie 10 to 12 foot clusters of purple fruit, with a delicate bloom and alluring scent, worth a voyage to Malacca for those who relish delicacies.
Paper milk cans spread across England for hygienic reuse not needed. They are lighter easing handling by workers and reduce noise from milk carts aiding insomniacs nearby.
Ex-senator Cornelius Cole recounts in memoirs how the first pony express rider reached Sacramento California before the transcontinental railroad survey. Citizens crowded streets as a blooded horse rider arrived and a swift race broke out to meet the rider and revive the city.
A Tasmanian debtor failed to meet obligations and offered tin mine shares to creditors. A shoemaker accepted the shares for a $3 debt. Five years later the Mount Birschoff tin mine prospered and a French syndicate cornered the metal, making the shoemaker wealthy from the original shoe sale.
A university professor, famed more for girth than philosophy, overhears his children debating absolute. They ask if a man can be absolutely good or absolutely bad, answered with no. A final question about being absolutely fat triggers the father to die of laughter.
A doctor recalls a wife who asked for help as her husband criticized meals. The doctor advised a simple diet of toast and tea, leading to improved mood and renewed appreciation for the wife’s cooking. The husband stayed home and praised her meals, even more than his mother did. Boston Record cites the tale.
A playful quote from a Washington writer notes that policemen should have more comfortable uniforms, with one citizen suggesting pajamas and mosquito blankets. The remark comes from a town criticized for its police.
The 6th Royal Fusiliers completed a historic march as the City of London Militia joined the Regular Forces at Bovington Camp. The unit traces back to 886 with King Alfred and has served in Civil War, Cromwellian, and Elizabethan eras, now numbering 656 soldiers in the Royal Fusiliers line.
An Australian chemist describes a method to preserve eggs by desiccation. Shell-free eggs are dried at 130 degrees in evacuated, moisture-collecting containers, yielding a water-poor powder that remains stable for an indefinite period. Reconstitution with water recreates a mass indistinguishable from fresh beaten eggs.
During St George's Church restoration in Fordington Dorchester England workers found a Purbeck marble slab 2 ft 11 in by 2 ft 4 1/2 in and 6 in thick with worn Latin text. The inscription collected by the vicar Rev Richard Grosvenor Bartlet invokes Gaius Aristobulus possibly a Roman citizen aged 50 with family names and claims he died in A D 99. Authorities at the British Museum and Romanists have not confirmed the translation or meaning.
Caroline Ticknor in Harper’s Weekly portrays John Greenleaf Whittier as a reserved Quaker poet whose gentleness masked a resolute temper. The bio notes his relish for humor and storytelling and his stubborn, sometimes vindictive, streak alongside political ambitions and reform efforts.
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