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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
3
A serialized dramatic vignette from the Chicago Times-Herald portrays a moody heroine facing marriage pressure and a violent confrontation, interwoven with a sensational cliffhanger. The piece blends melodrama with a moralizing warning about sirenlike temptations and heartbreak, concluding with an advertisement for Bickle's Anti-Consumptive Syrup.
Two Rivers resident Robert Ross reports fifteen years of back trouble cured after using three bottles of Minard's Liniment. He offers the endorsement for public use. The Squire jokes with an old servant Pat about mistaken death.
A chaotic scene at an opera in Montreal features Mozart conducting after a D sharp misprint causes audience uproar and a performer’s expulsion. The audience demands a reprise, Mozart is installed as conductor, and the performance ends with triumph and applause. The piece also recounts Burns memorial fundraising and a lazily funny tale of a man in Lafayette Square.
A humorous essay fragment notes how the Smiths appear everywhere from Italy to Mexico with many variants. It mocks fashionable taste and packs a brief snapshot of public opinion on snowflakes and omnipotent press culture.
In a San Francisco park the brutal Colonel Toledano has a ferocious dog named Polifemo and a gentle mute boy Andresito. The boys fear the colonel but the dog Miley shows loyal affection. After escalating thefts, a confrontation ends with relief as the colonel forgives the boy and gifts him the dog, revealing a softer side behind menace.
Advertises Dr Chase's Ointment for itching and irritated skin. Claims instant relief and thorough cure for chafing eczema salt rheum and hives. Includes testimonial letters from Brockville Amberley and Toronto praising quick relief and cure. States price 60 cents a box and availability through local dealers.
A Halifax era apocryphal tale describes Dr Williams Pink Pills curing a Thorold boy of a years long heart trouble and debility after failed doctors. It praises the medicine and urges readers to buy pills from Brockville or post. Additional notes promote Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills and Quinine Wine as sleep aids and tonics, with general health advice and testimonials.
The New Tea from Ceylon and India is rapidly growing in favor with Japan tea drinkers. The SALADA Tea Company introduces it in their sealed lead packers, claiming it rivals Japan tea in taste and healthfulness and predicts it will displace Japan Tea, as SALADA Black Tea did with other blacks.
A Manchester bank was targeted by a customer who opened an account with a few hundred pounds. After weeks he drew two small checks and, with an accomplice, used a busy day to present at opposite ends of the counter. Each cashier cashed a check and the ledger clerk, mishearing, approved both. The thieves were never caught.
A vintage advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for proof of value and claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures by acting on the blood and moods. It touts Hall's Family Pills as best, sold by druggists with testimonials available.
Bishop Mallalieu at the Wisconsin gathering urged attendees to avoid publications like David Harem describing it as full of rum profanity and tobacco. The address touched on health risks, cures with Dr Homins electric oil and other patent remedies alongside notes on cream of tartar as a wine byproduct.
Emery consists of fine mineral particles produced by heating to a high temperature then rapidly cooling in water and crushing the resulting material.
An aged catalog note advertises Minard’s Lintment with a short set of aphorisms. It claims wisdom in concealing talent and likens timely life choices to insurance. A quip about a boarding school shapes a moral image of education.
The piece muses on misersions of affection and the strain of relationships. It contemplates how wealth, sympathy, and social pressure shape responses to betrayal. Subtexts hint at broken ideals, shifting loyalties, and the fragility of trust within families and lovers.
The son and daughter of Jos Cowen of Newcastle, England, will operate their father’s newspaper. Miss Cowen will have full business and editorial control of the Weekly Chronicle in Newcastle.
A Sanse text recounts Lord Salisbury waking at 230 in the morning to read Monte Cristo, then being surprised by the Prince of Wales at Sandringham, who rises early to read the sumie te. George W. Curtis muses on dwelling on abstruse topics and a pension minister jokes about paying rent.
An old Winnipeg notice describes medical testimonials for a tonic and galvanic electric treatment. It cites Mrs. FB Cook and Mr. WG Fllworthy among others, claiming relief from rheumatism indigestion and various ailments after five weeks of use. The document mentions a Winnipeg address and emphasizes perceived benefits of the product.
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