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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1898
Page
3
A quirky collection of humorous quips and social sketches features witty lines from various fictional characters. Jests touch on everyday life, inventions, and human foibles with a satirical bent. The piece conveys lighthearted absurdity and theatrical wordplay in a period-portrait voice.
The ad touts cheapest direct route from Basio towl points in Canada and the US with tourist cars to Toronto Montreal and Boston. It promises daily through tourist cars to St Paul and highlights magnificent sleepers and dining cars on all trains. Contact W. F. Carson traveling agent in Nolan BC for details.
The WESI line boasts a rock ballast roadbed and heavy rails, no land grants, noted for courteous staff. It serves meals on the Jacarte plan between Spokane and Bonners Ferry with agents in Spokane. A hospital case in Kansas City reports Leo Solfrind, a brakeman, recovering from skull injury after operation and brain tissue removal.
A scanned page lists a flood of early 20th century ads and notes. It mentions falls of heavy rain in California farming regions, a Republican style legal notice, medical quack cures, and product pitches for nerve restorers and foot powders. The text mixes medical claims with jokes and political snippets.
In the White Horse tavern cases, Inspector Miller and Chief Constable confront counterfeit coins from a rogue landlord. A curate pays a fine to spare a former parishioner, and Dan the drinker returns, prompting sharp taunts about police wit as the crowd mocks the system.
A gang led by Hutton and including Drinking Dan is arrested after a police raid on the White Horse money making den. Inspector Miller, who tracked them to the Westheath assize court past, explains how Dan and Hutton contributed to the long con. The elder Hutton is subdued. Dan’s long prison past ties the case together.
An old man named Bibl haunts the Latin Quarter with a singular face and eccentric costume. He has long served the student body of about 28 000 to 30 000 and controls express and cartage work for artists and lodgings. He operates a wagon corps and agents who handle tasks while he profits from the arrangement.
A 19th century ad-like notice emphasizes menstrual regularity as key to health. It touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills as a cure, citing Miss Mane FP of Junctions Centralia, Pa., who reports recovery after using the products.
A social pity campaign in Os Kalost St leads to 47 indictments by the grand jury and suspension of the county attorney. California's petroleum trade booms with thirty new wells since March. A Chelsea Mass peddlar claims an estate worth 89 million. Burglaries in Paducah trigger curfew laws and vigilance efforts. AMerican Society in London funds a Maine battle memorial. Russia plans vast Siberia cultivation and factory expansion along a new railroad. Massachusetts wheelmen seek free railroad carriage for bicycles.
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