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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 13, 1911
Page
3
A patient recalls a long grip illness five years earlier and describes two doctors advising tonsil removal. He avoided surgery and credits Peruna for recovery after using about a dozen bottles, noting his throat improved and he got well.
The Toronto Mail records a Persian prince visiting English tourists in Tabriz. Attired in gold and white, he remains taciturn and disappointed. At dessert he quips that Britons now imitate Persians by leaving their pretty women at home.
A collage of anecdotes and ads features snippets about car mishaps, medical cures, stamp collectors seeking matches, cold remedies, and a quip with a noble lord who misses birds. The items read as fragments from a period newspaper page with varied topics and humorous touches.
An advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as a multi use food medicine. It claims benefits for babies adults and teens including stronger bones red blood and rosy cheeks for the pale girl. It presents the product as a universal remedy for weakness anemia and general fatigue.
Extracted anecdotes trace defiant acts and oddities of past Speakers of the House of Commons from Sir Edward Seymour to Sir John Wenlock. The piece recalls jeers, bold refusals, arrests, and dramatic fates shaping the Speaker’s authority in earlier centuries.
A London Kingsway Theatre first night feature shows slips offering remedies for first night coughs. Laurence Irving claims an organized conspiracy by unemployed actors and critics aimed at wrecking productions. He cites similar outbreaks at Sir Beerbohm Tree shows and warns coughing harms actors more than boos.
The Eddystone light house island is described as the smallest inhabited island, about 30 feet in diameter at low water, with some doubt from distant Thousand Islands about this claim.
The Carlyle birthplace house in Chelsea has been purchased by a London group to restore and furnish it as it was in Carlyle's boyhood, preserving historic rooms to represent the noted writer's early home.
The passage notes poverty arriving while love fled, observers remarking that such outcomes stem from being freshly audacious. It comments on a social mood where trends damage finances and relationships, with a wary tone about novelty and consequence.
A special Regency Act passed last year makes Queen Mary a protge regent if a child of King George V ascends the throne before age eighteen.
A Toronto Zam-Buk promotion features mothers from Montreal and Africa praising the green antiseptic ointment. The piece touts Zam-Buk for stopping pain on burns cuts and sores, soothing irritation, and stimulating healing, urging readers to buy from druggists and stores and to avoid imitations.
A Washington Star quotation features a dealer noting a nerve and an alienist who proposes a commission for distributing his card to buyers of revolvers. The passage includes vintage ad blurbs on earache remedies and domestic anecdotes from the New York Telegram.
An old advertisement touts Shilohs Cure as a quick remedy for coughs and lung threats costing 25 cents. It claims thousands die from consumption from neglected colds and promotes Harlin s Wizard Oil as a chest rub to draw out inflammation.
Farmers are urged to prepare months in advance for grain and livestock exhibits at upcoming mid-summer fairs. Select seed stock, prune inferior plants and animals, and focus on producing top specimens to win prizes and earn community praise. Plan now, not at show time.
An assortment of old ads tout Gin Pills for back pain kidney relief and general health, claiming kidney action and uric acid neutralization. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills promise to regulate digestion and liver function. A humor piece recounts a barometer gag about a patient and beer, reflecting period manners.
Practical guidance on poultry care including body condition, grain diet, incubator purchases, scratch exercise, housing hygiene, separate age pens, lighting a flock without a tom, dry air benefits, mite prevention, feeding for health and surplus, duck laying cautions, occasional health checks, and using kitchen scraps to supplement winter fowl meals.
Mrs H L Boone of Tay Mills touts Baby's Own Tablets as a safe remedy for delicate infants. The ad asserts thousands of mothers endorse the tablets, claiming they strengthen digestion, regulate bowels, refresh breath, and promote health, sold for 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
An 19th century remedy claims milk strippings from cows with very rich milk cure consumption. Take a quart daily split morning and evening, starting with a glass after milking, increasing as tolerated, and keeping it warm to ensure rapid absorption.
Gayboy eyes a charming cashier while paying at a desk. A businesslike young woman points out egg on his chin as she hands over change and directs attention to the next customer, in a Chicago Tribune scene.
Marion Bridge, C B May 30 02 reports MINARD'S LINIMENT as the first and best selling liniment of the year. The note emphasizes consistent use and high demand for this remedy among customers.
An essay warns against withdrawing savings for quick gains and stresses the Canadian Government Annuities Act as protection. It notes moneys paid into the annuities fund cannot be diverted and urges readers to seek further information from the Postmaster or Superintendent of Annuities in Ottawa.
A Philadelphia Record quip contrasts biblical guidance with modern housing needs. Muggine argues for neighborly love while Buggins notes historical housing absence, reflecting urban development tensions in the era.
A satirical quotation from Fliegende Blaetter mocks a household scene about burnt meat and a servant, with a Lady addressing her cook’s intended. The snippet hints at product placement for Minard's liniment as a background joke in a periodical.
Dialogue from Lippincott's Magazine shows Bridget asking for a watch for errands and her mother pointing to the kitchen clock. Bridget admits the kitchen clock is slow. The exchange captures domestic humor and timing tensions in a Victorian voice.
Rev. Chancellor Bulkeley Owen Jones recalls his youthful Rugby days and a famed fight with Tom Brown. He describes brutal practices, boxing clashes, and a rainy Schoolhouse brawl in which he claims victory, plus vivid notes on school life and fellow pupils including Tom Hughes.
A London fur-store manager notes coronation preparations demand about 106000 ermine weasels for royal robes. Cold Siberian trappers yield whiter fur, with recent delicacy prices cited. Ermine robes feature powdered cape fur and seal fur dots, while seals face tougher times than weasels.
A bashful youth asks about fate’s irony and a beauty replies two men should fight over her and the affair not reach the papers. The exchange frames irony as public scandal avoided through discretion.
A dialogue highlights trust and care as a man returns gloves given for him to carry. The exchange ends with a playful note on his reliability and consideration.
A humorous exchange appears in a local column with playful dialogue about the term ultimate consumer. The snippet features a fatherly figure and a youth, ending with a joke about who finally leases the table. The fragment hints at market language used in a lighthearted context.
Fragmentary lines show a conversation about Maud's marriage and remarks by Tidabe, with mis-spellings and incomplete phrases suggesting a gossip or opinion item from a period newspaper. The readable pieces indicate social commentary or a personal note rather than a full report.
Special from St Benedict reports Mrs Annie Vanvorst suffering kidney trouble and heart palpitation found near instant relief after taking one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills. She endorses the remedy and urges others with kidney or heart disease to try it.
An archival note quotes Fliegende Blätter claiming a fatal air omnibus accident involving Dr. Jenks. The account asserts he stepped from a street car as it halted and attempted the same with an airbus, leading to the deadly outcome.
A humorous exchange features a proud motorist claiming six weeks of hard work to learn to drive and a pedestrian replying with a quip about liniment and Tit-Bits.
A Cornell widow quotes a father and son exchange about the price of sending a son to college. The father laments the expense and the son’s return is a concise, pointed reply.
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