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Newspaper
Golden Era
Location
Golden, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 11, 1899
Page
3
In Golden British Columbia a Hyde Park passenger recalls a debate over a French pronunciation and laments pestering know it alls on a downtown tram. The exchange echoes bystanders amused and exasperated as a man deflates another’s certainty with a simple correction.
A garbled dining scene shows a guest requesting extra sauce and a waiter refusing, with fragmented dialogue and unclear setting. The piece reads like a stray OCR snippet with stray phrases and misordered words, lacking coherent details of people or place.
A garbled 19th century Detroit Frew irae fragment shows a speaker urging conformity to advice on work hours. The text mentions a respected scientist claiming the busy life requires more than three hours per day, provoking skepticism about productivity.
A puzzled inquiry recalls youth and memories near a fort or location, mentioning a girl, a nagniniock, and a promise not to proceed, with a discussion among officials about undertaking a task and a vague reference to gold and social sites.
An English party nearing Etna on a Sicily trip hears a cautioned warning of a looming eruption. Capt Charlecote and Col Stracey lead a daring ascent as lava bursts from the crater, a fall of rock and smoke roars, and Davenant and Stracey escape by leaping across a lava torrent to safety.
A Hamilton woman Mrs. Gilber of 105 Rebecca Street reports long struggle with asthma ended after using Clarke's Kola Compound. She describes severe prior symptoms and says one bottle provided dramatic relief enabling daily work. She endorses the remedy and offers to provide fuller details to inquirers.
An Australian physician recounts his cocaine addiction and its brutal mental effects. He describes escalating sensations from euphoria to paranoia, vivid hallucinations, and dissociative episodes ending in delerious fear. He recalls hearing sounds, imagining crawling worms, and violent impulses, culminating in attempts at self harm and a near-madness that required hospital care.
A central detective describes diamond theft slang and the nipping method. The thief uses a small cup shaped tool to lift a diamond from a shirt front, concealing the gem in a cup and taking advantage of distraction to drop it into a receptacle. The piece also notes slang uses in crime and a digression on German language study.
A playful retelling of the Little Miss Muffet tale in verse form. A spider speaks politeness while an ensuing mishap at the tuffet leads to a comic scuffle and a moral about manners and proper speech.
Fragmentary readers notes and snippets record social chatter and small dramas. A shopper praises a jewelers son and a comic mini tale is shared alongside a testimonial about Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for inflammatory rheumatism from Belleville or by a commercial traveller.
Professor Axenfeld of Perugia notes that three-fifths of men of distinction are firstborns while two-fifths are second or later children or youngest in large families. He cites Luther Dante Raphael Leonardo da Vinci Confucius Heine Schopenhauer Goethe Ariosto Moliere Volta Franklin Schubert as examples.
Report discusses use of aluminum horse shoes and bicycle frames to reduce vehicle weight for military use. Mentions adoption by War Ministry and trials with one aluminum shoe on a foot while others are standard. Notes aluminum wears toes rapidly and may be lighter but less durable.
Fragmentary report describes Abyssinian murderers facing capital punishment under local law. Text is unclear about specific people, dates, or places beyond reference to a legal process and death sentence.
An article warns that back injuries including sprains and strains may lead to kidney trouble. It discusses how spinal stress can impact renal function and suggests medical evaluation for persistent back pain.
A reader reports long term relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney pain and backache. After two boxes the back pain subsided. three more completed a cure after 25 years of suffering. The note also extols the product for constipation bile disorder and headache without adverse effects.
The text extols kindness as a sacred virtue beyond mere amiability. It urges cultivating kindness, love, and charity to overcome prejudice, brighten others, and ease life's burdens, citing the enduring value of small, thoughtful acts. It recalls Wordsworth on unnamed acts of kindness shaping a good life.
A medical notice describes sleeplessness as a result of digestive derangement and gloom. It promotes Parmerlee's Vegetable Pill as a remedy that induces sleep and leaves the user waking refreshed and restored to happiness.
Testimonies claim Minard's Liniment cured goitre inflammation and facial neuralgia for patients in Ontario. Byard McMullin of Chatham, Mrs W W Johnson of Walsh, and J H Bailey of Parkadsle report relief from painful conditions using the product.
The piece notes laces nets and evening silks with black velvet ribbons and appliques as artistic in French fashion. It reviews bolero jackets and fichus paired with long lace ends, and observes a shift from heavy sequins to black Chantilly and Venise lace on light fabrics.
In a terse exchange a man pleads fortune lost and ends the engagement. The woman retorts that women do not value possessions merely because they are reduced and to her, the pair part with an umbrella left behind in the barracks.
Fragmented text hints at a theater note with someone named Winard and a brands reference. It mentions a new play and a stunt with tying a van to an automobile and winding it up, then letting it go. The readable content is unclear and incomplete.
A fragmentary column blends maxims on reputation with domestic life and humorous quips about hearing eyes and neighbors. It mentions a parlor discussion on virtue, marriage, and perceptions of character, ending with a word on a worm exterminator product and its 5 cent trial.
A garbled regional dialogue shows Willie-Suay and Vi-No debating new words and usage. Hannah and the mistress quarrel over money and bets while a mother urges thrift for a future day amid mixed terms and mispronunciations.
A Chicago Vine Herald snippet questions a rival’s lasting memory and fate tied to his tillers dying. The ad promotes Bickle's Anti-Consumptive Syrup claiming instant throat and lung relief, ease of phlegm, and curing coughs cold inflammation and chest ailments for both children and adults.
A Cornish humorist Robert Hicks born 1808, famed for memory and wit, figures in a tale with Custard the artist at Bossiney. Hicks, an asylum official, visits Custard as he mishears a cottage resident singing Maud. He improvises a quip about Job Wall and ae Beat, noting the strongest being the weakest in a playful, ironic exchange.
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