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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 14, 1911
Page
4
The article notes portions of Mont Gringues in France detaching from foundations and shifting hourly a quarter of a league, carrying meadows and woods and covering roads and bridges. A royal roadway is described as threatened while a hundred feet of wall may topple, with shocks felt for miles.
An old advertisement fragment promotes J. D. Kellogg's Digestive Cordial as the remedy for spring digestive troubles. It uses a comic tale of a teacher and a boy to imply discomfort and then touts Castoria as the safe pediatric remedy.
A Brantford Ontario woman reports relief from heart trouble and fatigue after using Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills. She says after initial effort the pills helped her resume all work, praising the remedy as specific for weak, run down women.
An old advertisement chronicles a user named Nise Hoaaie O Leary from Campbellland Oregon who reports relief from sour stomach and biliousness after using Milburne Laxa Liver Pills. The copy touts the pills as a specific remedy, priced 50 cents per vial or six for a dollar, available through local dealers or mailed from The T Milburn Co Limited.
The text depicts a chaotic wedding rehearsal with a clergyman and youth, amid crowd laughter. It mentions a bride, a command to repeat after the officiant, and a prank that ends with the fly on the bride’s dress becoming awkwardly revealed.
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