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Newspaper
Fort Macleod Gazette
Location
Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
7
A miscellany of humorous quips and home remedies from the Macleod Gazette page. Includes jokes about marriages and doctors, tips on varnish and shoe care, remedies for dandruff and vomiting, a advertised tonic for summer ailments, and a testimonial about Minard's Liniment curing a elbow injury.
A fragment references a cultivated reader of notary life domesticated in all families, and mentions associations with Pericles and Titian through Willmott, suggesting a scholarly or literary context from an era of classical affiliations.
An OCR fragment presents jumbled dialogue and ad like lines mentioning a worm exterminator, a corn cure, and casual banter among characters Stella Plaine Miss Pat Diddle and Mr Baldy. The text hints at a serialized or stage snippet with several quoted exchanges and references to debts and romance.
An advertisement argues rheumatism stems from blood illness, not cold exposure, and claims outward liniments fail while Dr Williams Pink Pills restore red blood. A Quebec user reports long relief after seven or eight boxes, urging others to try the remedy. Pills praised as a general tonic for anemia neuralgia kidney trouble and other ills from weak blood or nerves. Sold by dealers or direct mail from Brockville Ontario at 50 cents a box, six for $2.50.
An advertisement extols Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a tonic for delicate constitutions and a stimulant that excites body secretions. It mocks scientific medicine while praising the product's supposed health benefits and uses.
The verse extols Viamede with vivid imagery of silvery waterways and evening shadows. It celebrates nature’s harmony where earth and heaven intertwine, describing light, colors, and landscapes, and ends noting the author from Stony Lake in 1902.
Readers urged to purify blood and revive circulation with Paine's Celery Compound amid summer illness risks. Testimonial from T F Mitchell of New Hamburg credits the remedy with lifting a decade of leg trouble in his mother and restoring her strength. The notice cites medical endorsement and a personal anecdote.
A Plain Dealer from Ridgetown Ontario prints a valiant defense of farmers against urban mockery. It portrays rural life as steady work, noting the farmer’s wage comes from the land, not a paycheck, with two banks rooted in God and a season’s toil powering the household. The piece ends by calling urban envy the true rubes.
Wallace Broad, B A, Canadian, has been chosen as European Adviser to the Chinese Minister of Mines. Born in St John New Brunswick he graduated in honors from the University of New Brunswick then studied engineering at McGill. He worked with the Geological Survey of Canada before gaining mining experience in Rhodesia West Africa. He has just left for China.
A brief quotation emphasizes memory as the essential force underpinning all intellectual activity, arguing that without memory no other mental operations can occur. The statement anchors memory as foundational to cognition and learning.
Color stands out as a key point in well made butter. Wells Richardson & Co.'s Improved Butter Color adds a natural golden tint that does not fade or turn bricky, remains harmless, and keeps butter appealing through autumn and winter. Doctors and dealers recommend it. ask your druggist for this color. The piece ends with a stray line about temperature and fashion.
The article promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional treatment that cures catarrh, promising a $100 reward if it fails. It notes the medicine is taken internally, builds up the constitution, and includes testimonials list and Toledo address. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and quotes Sir P Sidney and Chamfort with moral maxims.
A brief, period voice item notes Hinari's Liniment addressing distemper woes. A quoted exchange follows with Stuffer dismissing a social insult by planning to swallow the slight after a dinner invitation.
A fragment commentary traces temptation themes with biblical figures Eve and Adam, likening deceptive marketing to selling rancid butter while enticing purchase with a prize. It promotes Sunlight Soap Octagon Bar as a superior product that protects clothes and hands, contrasting it with inferior goods.
Tinted woodwork, especially pale green and cream with pink, are popular in current colonial bedroom decor. Other favored options include a dull cream or nearly white silver gray. Caution advised to avoid crude color tones.
A brief remark notes that few savages have ever been known to stamminer, presenting an unusual linguistic observation without broader context. The line hints at a cultural or language puzzle, framed as a tidbit in a period newspaper style.
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