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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1913
Page
7
A composite read of odd terms explained at Cambridge and light vignettes. A visitor asks about terms while a Don explains meanings, a missed wedding telegram arrives, and a furnisher visit ends with a laughing remark about carpets and trains. Contains brief ads for PAZO OINTMENT and Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil.
A humorous dialogue recalls a teacher asking about currency divisions while a pupil jokes about family finances. A second anecdote features a wooden legged brother in Kent hopping. A gentleman in soup is teased for an improper ingredient and a girl named Josephine is thanked for a locket hint.
A famous goalkeeper is approached by a stranger in a North Country town who greets him warmly. The man recalls a recent match when the keeper tipped the ball over the net into the crowd, then threw it back, claiming the keeper should remember him.
A Verner Ontario woman Madame Eugene Perreault says twenty years of nervous fatigue and kidney symptoms vanished after using six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. The feature includes anecdotes and humorous vignettes from local life.
A celebrated journalist's article is printed as a disjointed poem after a compositor misread the prose. The editor seeks justice as the printer explains he mistook the backward and upside down lines for poetic verse.
A hurried bookshop scene features a woman seeking a birthday gift for her mild husband and receiving a small volume titled How to Manage a Talking Machine. The excerpt blends advertisements for Kellogg’s Asthma Remedy with comic exchanges about a baby, a doctor bill, and a lawyer proposing a partnership with Judge Minot.
A playful exchange turns tense as the professor is accused of stealing a suitor. Banjo responds that the same person targets the speaker, signaling mounting romantic conflict in a campus scene.
The Forestry Branch promotes Turtle Mountain Forest Reserve as a summer resort near the Manitoba Saskatchewan line. Reports describe accessible routes from Boissevain and Whitewater, lake fishing, fruit, and bathing facilities with Arbor Island featuring villa lots and boat rentals.
A sharp dressed man buys two stamps and toys with the post office staff. The postmaster fumes as a clerk reveals a barber keeps trying to give prank massages. Jokes about Jane Addams and William White mix with a town gossip mosaic and a poet misidentification.
A house agent touts a larder with brick floor slate shelves a marble fish slab and a ventilator for game while a lady and a New Hampshire justice of the peace debate economy and domestic frugality. The closing line mocks a husband wife exchange about shaving and cutting fat.
A light anecdotal column jokes that some advise hanging watches when not worn while the author admits to not always following that habit. It then pivots to a quip about married women feeling neglected unless allowed to buy their husbands socks and ties.
A marital dispute begins with a wife accusing her husband of lacking affection after marriage. The husband retorts about class and propriety, escalating the quarrel into a sharp exchange that hints at ongoing domestic tension.
A traveler jokes about starting a farm and Gibbs replies with a quip about raising money. A fellow passenger corrects a tie issue, and bystanders tease about an overcoat lamp light. An elderly man dismisses talk of funerals while acknowledging his own imminent need.
Advertisement urges workers to use Dr Chase's Nerve Food to fight run-down conditions and restore energy and strength. Claims it builds new blood and renews nerve cells, easing pains and physical weakness for a healthier body and higher performance.
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