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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1910
Page
6
A collage of comic exchanges and anecdotes features a naughty boy, a maid’s honesty, a painter’s question, and cattleman wit. It blends misheard phrases, a lawyer’s prudence, a child's reply about fame, and a farmer’s chalked message on a barn door, all with humorous regional speech and portraits of everyday life.
Promises from a listed company touting Marine Eye Ram as a cure for irritated eyes. The ad alleges relief for redness heaviness and watery discharge and invites readers to write for eye books and treatment details.
A collage of anecdotes surveys school age, exams, a Balzac book swap, and travel journals aboard liners. Jokes unfold about a boy dodging army or school, a bookseller scam, and a minister’s preachings copied word for word by skippers in Aberdeen.
A historic patent medicine copy touts Marine as a remedy for sore eyes and weak vision. It promises soothing eye pain relief and claims benefits for babies eyes and skin conditions like granulation.
Wireless telegraphy enables daily shipboard papers for transatlantic liners. Onboard presses print the latest world events each morning, with papers like the Consolidated Daily Bulletin supplying British election results and more to passengers at breakfast.
A local farmer Mr Charles Diver suffers long standing kidney illness from early life. He recalls relief after using Dodd's Kidney Pills, claiming the pills gave strength and improved his condition, suggesting longer treatment would cure his kidney disease.
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