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Newspaper
Cumberland Islander
Location
Cumberland, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1913
Page
7
In a playful exchange a son asks what reason is and a parent defines it as the sense to do right Calibrating a calendar with jokes about baseball starts a light office scene arises Holloway's Corn Cure is praised as safe and effective in the ad copy Eddie and the office boy share a calendar moment
A dialogue explains an oath difference. A politician takes an oath when entering office while he utters one when leaving.
A bridegroom asks if twenty dollars suffices for the minister. The best man suggests twenty five dollars, noting the minister will wed soon and implying higher gratuity is prudent.
In Barrow near Clitheroe a workman’s wife had a son on February 24 and a girl seven weeks later. Doctors say the two children are twins, while insurance rules and Greenwich time raise questions about eligibility for maternity benefits. The case draws interest from medical staff and insurers alike.
Paris reports a planned reorganization of France's colonial army and government aimed at expanding Algiers Tunis and Morocco into stronger bases. German activity in Tunis Algiers and Morocco raises fears of a western conflict as agents stir Arab and Muslim resistance to French rule. A Lavenden play cited as inspiration for wartime sentiment connects German agents to Franco German hostilities.
A fierce duel at Neuilly near Paris pitted M Berthoulat editor of La Liberte against M Ceccaldi a Radical Socialist deputy after controversial game articles. Ceccaldi and Berthoulat traded thrusts with Berthoulat wounding Ceccaldi's shoulder then chest before seconds intervened. Surgeons reported lung penetration but no complications yet.
The Dominion Forest Service leads Canadian forest reserve development with sixteen million acres set by statute and six million more under temporary protection. Inspectors with forestry training supervise western districts while fire patrol divisions cover non reserve forests. Facilities include ranger houses huts and extensive access works 470 miles of trails 10 bridges and 100 miles of telephone lines.
An old home health notice urges keeping Baby's Own Tablets to protect children from ailments. It claims the tablets regulate digestion, ease teething, expel worms, and aid colds and fevers. Sold by dealers and via mail for 26 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
A motor car and a heavily laden wagon meet in a tight lane. The husband tries to back out to let the wagon pass but insists the curve makes it impossible. The wife refuses to move, declaring they were here first, until the carter finally offers to back out.
Narrator declares no escape from an arranged marriage as Teapeck relates the scene and a friend notes consent implied by silence. The letter from Blibbing laments the house’s loneliness without wife and children while a loyal maid keeps vigil. Tribbins remains absent past midnight.
The conversation turns affectionate as the father admits underestimating his son while the daughter jokes about his praise after a telephone call instead of an in person visit.
A compact 1838 London English Bijou Almanac measuring three quarters by five eighths of an inch, housed in a morocco case with a magnifying glass, sold at Sotheby’s for 25 dollars.
At Lime Lake Ontario an 85 year old man, Benj Marsh, reports relief from stomach troubles after using Nerviline. He claims it let him split forty cords of stove wood in three weeks and urges others to try the product. Sold in 50c and 25c sizes by The Catarrhozone Co. in Buffalo New York.
The excerpt collects long jokes and social vignettes about price disputes in a West End tavern a girl’s bouncing walk a spring chicken gag a dress goods quip a caricature of marriage and a postal delivery anecdote showing playful observations of everyday life in a period newspaper.
The article urges preparing for childbirth and credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health and strength in mothers. It promotes professional confidential advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A CPR employee started with garden seeds twenty four years ago to beautify stations and yards. Now the semi annual Flower Day distributes 150000 seed packets to staff from Atlantic to Pacific and even Vancouver Island. Floral culture spurs town beautification and many divisions create prizes and exhibitions. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are pitched as a remedy for dyspepsia after meals.
A courtroom anecdote shows a witness outwitting a stern cross examiner. The attorney presses for fixed directions about living next to the defendant and learns the witness actually occupies a flat with the neighbor above.
A dialogue reveals doubts and playful bravado about marriage and elopement. Ethel and George discuss pressures and promises while a big brother threat is joked about, underscoring romantic tension and social expectations in a domestic scene.
A Norfolk farmer near Holt keeps a young pig with four perfect ears and refuses numerous offers to sell this porcine oddity.
Workmen unearthed remains at three feet six inches depth under Dublin city hall including five human skulls and several bones likely from arms and legs.
The Nelson Room, a 16th century space in the Star Hotel Great Yarmouth, is offered for sale by an Hereford antique dealer firm. The listing notes its historical origins and location in the coastal town.
A portly passenger hails a taxi to the station paying a premium for a fast ride. He discovers the cabby delivered him to the wrong station and his train is gone, leaving him breathless and frustrated.
A poor boy brings a pair of shoes to a shoemaker saying they pinch. The shoemaker asks where they pinch. The boy responds with a humorous pun that the shoes pinch him, not the wearer, and requests stretching.
An epileptic collapsed on a Boston street and was taken to a hospital. A slip pinned to his waistcoat claims the case is a plain fit, not appendicitis, noting that the appendix has already been removed twice.
An employer boasts of advertising for a strong boy and asks if the applicant will sulk. The applicant retorts he has just finished thrashing three other applicants in the passage, implying violent conduct in response to recruitment.
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