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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
7
The Glenboro Gazette records a quirky exchange where Miss Purling questions Mr Spitkins about meeting sharks in the ocean and recalling a game of cards with a couple of creatures. The whimsical dialogue captures local color and humor.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure promising to cure deafness caused by catarrh with a one hundred dollar reward for any untamed case. The snippet also jokes about a suitor asking to marry a daughter, replying he will gamble on the marriage lottery.
A customer of mine was completely cured of rheumatism after five years of suffering by the judicious use of Minard's Liniment. This fact can be verified by writing to him the parish priest or any of his neighbors. A Cote merchant St Isadore Que May 12 1898.
A collage of era quips: from gender roles and garden work to patent medicine claims. It notes Leeds workers riding the municipal tram for a penny, a dinner pill advertisement for indigestion, a baptism certificate joke, rail workers paid double on Sundays, and an editor’s rueful newsroom mishap.
The Virginia swallowwort attracts bees but harms them with a sticky pollen that traps insects in its flowers. Insects struggle, sometimes dying, while the plant’s flowers yield brown sugar, silky seed hairs for textiles, and potential ropemaking fiber.
Sydney Brooks notes the yearly London habit of launching heated letters to the editor each August on topics like marriage and gender roles. Writers from Clapham to Brixton flood in with earnest, opinionated commentary, revealing an odd facet of English character and intellect.
A humorous illustration of Chinese etiquette shows a guest in best clothes awaiting a bust. Oil from a jar spills on the guest as a rat scurries away, prompting the guest to apologize in deferential terms for the mishap and his contemptible appearance.
A hunter on a two day hunting trip spies a large she bear with two cubs on a ridge. He fires a long shot at the old bear, and she reacts by scratching herself and then smacking the hunter’s exit, then leading the cubs away with a disapproving look.
A young man claims it was once illegal for a husband to kiss his wife on Sunday. Miss Cayenne counters with irony noting modern times would likely view such acts as penance more than crime.
A dialogue reveals permission to stop over at any location using the same ticket, while the complication arises when boarding the next train to resume the journey with the same ticket. The exchange centers on ticket validity and transfer rules during a continued trip.
Kingston Ontario November 30 Special Mrs FE Lake 112 Clarence Street recounts a recovery after an overdose of strychnine prescribed by a physician caused paralysis and illness. She credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with restoring use of her limbs and appetite after years of treatment.
An assortment of notes mentions Miard Liniment as a top hair restorer and Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil sold widely in the Dominion praised for quick pain relief. It also references cigarette use in India, compulsory German in Russian schools, and a moon mountain claim contrasting Everest.
A Victorian style adage links fine feathers to short lived birds and notes a woman’s understanding of love grows when she has a daughter over fifteen years old. The piece reflects social attitudes and moral tone of the era.
A Ontario mother shares how Baby's Own Tablets eased her infant's indigestion and restless nights. She praises the medicine as safe for the youngest infants and recommends it to other mothers. Sold by druggists or direct by mail for 95 cents a box from Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville or Schenectady.
Mrs Celeste Coon of Syracuse New York writes that years of stomach burning and pain stopped after using Parmelee’s Pills for dyspepsia or indigestion. She reports being able to eat anything without distress. The pills are described as safe and non eroding with cathartic use.
The fragment questions whether corns are harder to remove for some than others and suggests Holloway's Corn Cure as a remedy. It contrasts medicine with superstition and notes religion ceasing to go to service may lead to superstition.
The Countess of Airlie and Mrs Wauchope have departed for South Africa to pay respects at the graves of their husbands.
A cautious reflection notes that minor faults accrete, each manageable on its own, until their sum becomes an insurmountable force. The idea warns against tolerating tiny lapses that grow with time into a dominant pattern.
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