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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1913
Page
2
A telegram to Robinson arrives with dramatic tension as he fears bad news but learns the message concerns twins. The scene captures a moment of relief and emotional response to a family development.
A brief exchange reveals Mr Gibbs being urged to pay a small bill with apology and sympathetic tone. The conversation conveys a personal financial request and mutual concern.
A travelogue style piece recalls Chinese revolutions, customs, and quirky scenes. It notes umbrellas as shields, sugar cane snacks, colonial railway incidents, narcissus legends, and stories of foreigners, gunpowder, and quirky interactions.
Ad for a laxative product BromO Quinine featuring B W Grove claiming cure for a cold in one day and grip in two days. The signature pad promises swift relief with a 25 cent price.
A Strathaven area farm north of town uses wires from the old Atlantic cable as fencing. The buried historic line once linked Britain and America, now repurposed to mark the Cairnduff farm boundary and serve as a silent relic of transatlantic telegraphy.
The speaker suggests scheduling a fixed weekly evening for discussing the issue. The idea aims to avoid opportune interruptions and keep ongoing conversations orderly.
An ad extols Baby's Own Tablets as a mild laxative to regulate a baby's stomach and bowels and ward off illness. It notes availability from The Dr Williams Medicine Co in Brockville Ontario and by mail for 26 cents. A separate snippet recalls an animal show in the west featuring The Happy Family a tiger puma and lamb with a remark about the lamb needing renewal.
Tourists in Scotland laugh at an old bagpiper whose dilapidated squeaky pipes draw jeers. One visitor urges repair, prompting a Scots exchange where the piper explains his earnings and asks for quiet as he continues playing.
The Chicago Record-Herald cites William J. Burns on surveillance insight and detection, sharing examples of reading behavior. It also mentions Holloway's Corn Cure, a boy who dislikes large oysters, a preacher's son joke, two starving artists in Philadelphia, a recluse who cooked breakfast for nineteen years, and California leading the West in wine and mineral production.
A Fort Saskatchewan reader claims Nerviline provides rapid relief for cramps, nausea, vomiting, earache, toothache, and rheumatic pains with daily family use. He praises its effectiveness for children and adults, urging readers to buy the 600 size bottle from druggists or The Catarrhozone Co. in Buffalo.
A group of amateur shooters ordered thirty pigeons for a match and learned the dealer would supply more at sixpence per dozen after the birds returned home. In a separate tale, a London employer seeks a sixteen year old stable boy who allegedly slept on the premises.
Montreal resident A Beaudry of 597 Panet Street reports using Gin Pills for about six months and says they saved him from rheumatism last winter. The ad notes a box of six pills for 2 50 and offers a free sample from National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada Limited in Toronto.
A dinner remark recalled by Rear Admiral Philip Andrews describes a man in New Orleans who claimed to answer any question by mental arithmetic. When asked how far off you can hear thunder, the onstage lightning calculator admitted he could not tell, revealing a clever misdirection in the tale.
Henry seeks guidance after a morning insult from a stranger who entered his office. He asks Minard for advice, wondering what he should do if a man told him to go to Jericho and stay there. His wife W says she would not go and offers steady, anchorlike counsel.
Advertises Miller's Worm Powders as preventing worm related illness in children. Claims high child mortality from worms and asserts the powder sustains strength and health for infants against life threatening weakness.
Jackson wrote an article on The Ideal Wife for a ladies paper last month. His wife read the piece over two days trying to find a trait where he deems the ideal matches her. she has found none. Meanwhile, Banker dined in the city.
A broker teases his wife about her counting, she exposes the half crown and reveals half-past two. A merchant complains of a fake collector and aims for swift capture, while a fizzical wreck worries a hurt soda fountain clerk turns up a pun about science and soda.
A heated exchange reveals a threatened financial cut off and a vow to avoid public embarrassment by preserving appearances with a second hand car. The dialogue underscores familial pressure and social expectations.
A man received a Black Hand note threatening to delay his in laws home unless he deposit $1000 in a barrel at the X and Z streets corner at 9 pm Friday. He placed only a note in the barrel, rejecting the ransom proposal.
Uncle Jim cradles Bob after a head bump and promises a kiss will ease the pain. The boy cheerfully invites him to the kitchen noting the cook has a toothache, adding a lighthearted domestic vignette.
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