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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 22, 1909
Page
7
Mr J Massey of Montreal testifies to Peruna relief for years of head catarrh and stomach indigestion. He notes quick improvements after trial and claims Peruna targets the root cause, catarrh, with widespread recognition as a remedy.
An excerpt recalls Royal Marines joining with a sergeant remarking it is half soldiering and half yachting. The tone hints at a culture blending naval duty with leisure craft culture aboard ships.
Remedy for bilious headache promotes speedy relief by regulating stomach irregularities and influencing nerves and blood vessels. Taken as directed they reduce head pains and discomfort from biliousness, with many familiar to its evils finding relief.
A collage of old ad language includes Hall's Catarrh Cure promises a $100 reward for incurable catarrh and testimonials from F J Cheney Co. Toledo. A Detroit Free Press quip about a baby’s unbreakable bank adds a humor beat. The snippet evokes period advertising and gossip tone.
A critical editorial passage condemns preference for blue eyed or white infants in adoption, arguing discrimination against brown black or gray eyed children. It notes many adopters cite blue eyes as proof of virtue and reliability, while others fear unequal treatment of non blue eyed youngsters.
When Sir William Gilbert was twenty seven known as a promising writer his retired naval surgeon father wrote a semi metaphysical semi medical book Shirley Hall Asylum his first book Edith A Brown, preparing a biography asks if the son spurred the father Watts will render the prettiest hands upsightly Holloway's Corn Cure used to clear expressions painlessly.
Johnnie confidently claims Adam's punishment for eating the forbidden fruit was to marry Eve. The exchange frames a humorous, botched theological retort in a classroom setting.
A driver failed to heed warnings to slow down, causing a crash split into many parts. Occupants escaped with injuries and heartbreak as emergency crews arrived.
A Detrait Tribune blurb recalls a farmer facing a human frog in a museum. The farmer asks how the contortionist discovered his talent. The performer whispers that the secret began with an attempt to dress in a Pullman sleeper berth.
A Chesterton remark from London News lauds Shiloh’s Cure curing coughs and colds while lampooning Mr Pugh and Dickins. It extols the life and laughter of authentic English people, citing Battersea Park Saturday nights as emblematic.
Dialogue fragment shows a quarrel where a widow questions relationships and Johnny accuses her of seeking a new husband rather than a new father for her child. The excerpt centers on a domestic confrontation and infers family stakes without additional context.
A humorous exchange from Harper's Bazaar about a domestic mishap. Louise laments running short of hair bleach while Neleen arrives that evening. Julia reassures and suggests a seating adjustment.
In Wooton near Dorking a nearly twenty year old quaint contest continues under wind swept conditions around a church tomb. Prayer boys recite prayers and commandments and copy verses from Corinthians while judges test knowledge of the New Testament. A wind screen tent and schoolroom readings help combat the cold. The forty shillings prize remains a cherished village reward.
The piece notes various fish and shellfish that produce sounds when disturbed or in calm conditions. It describes the red gurnard’s grunt, a Scotch coast fish that hoots, a rare but notable backthroat hooter, and in Ceylon a mussel that sings with a flute like tone during low water.
Twenty four natives were pulled alive from the Wit watersrand gold mine after eight days entombed due to flooded shafts. They are reported well despite no food. Wives of Prout Dr Perkins and Matthews joined the rescue party below. Air pressure is credited with saving lives as ongoing efforts aim to reach any remaining survivors.
Lord John Russell shifts seats at dinner to avoid fire behind him. He explains this to the Duchess of St Albans rather than the Duchess of Inverness, prompting his wife to question the omission.
A report recalls Madame Albani visiting a dying Norfolk man to sing The Last Rose of Summer at his bedside, a gesture echoed by Madame Calve who recently sang to a gravely ill admirer who wished to hear her voice once more.
A Milton tercentenary service at Fulham Congregational Church featured a blind reader, a blind quartet, a blind organist, and a blind pianist. The address titled John Milton, the Blind Poet highlighted the commemorative gathering and its unique participants.
Miss Elsie J. Allen of St Croix, New Brunswick, reports kidney trouble and weakness cured after seven boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. She says her back pain disappeared and she can work year round, asserting most women in Canada could benefit from the remedy.
A Bohemian Magazine March issue recounts a hunter pursuing a black bear in the woods, shooting the animal five times before it dropped. The hunter notes the bear remained a difficult kill even after life appeared to be gone.
Mrs. F. Porter of Valleyfield Quebec says she never needs a doctor for her child since using Baby's Own Tablets. A tablet calms feverish or restless babies and aids teething. The tablets claim to cure colic indigestion constipation diarrhoea destroy worms break up colds and ease teething. Suitable for children of all ages. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
A wry exchange from the Boston Transcript is quoted in which a speaker notes she married her first husband for money and her second for love. The response reveals neither union brought happiness, as the first husband loved her while the second sought money.
A wit in the Chicago Record-Herald questions why old writers were clearer, joking that modern tools like fountain pens and typewriters hinder creativity by malfunctioning and distracting them.
A Baltimore American quotation recalls Mrs Gadder using insinuation to attack others. The dialogue notes she is quick with a daiminuendo against somebody, though no direct accusation is stated.
A PathFinder analysis debunks a London circulated tale linking Sir John Mil lais to a 13 guest dinner with Matthew Arnold and a Miss G. The investigation shows Arnold died in 1888 and the Quetta sank in 1890, disproving the superstition though belief lingers.
The article recalls mobbing incidents around Paderewski in London and Boston including a dentist’s molar auctioned by a widow. It notes his rise from a Warsaw student to earning $2,500 for twenty minutes and $150,000 from his first American tour, leaving him $7,500 richer after a New York recital.
An unnamed ancient scientist asserts no earth region is exempt from earthquakes and New York faces the same risk as Charleston in 1886. He notes vertical quakes as the most destructive among terrestrial disturbances, citing Fort San Calos Chile 1837 and the Calabria 1783 events as examples of buildings lifted skyward and destroyed in explosive patterns.
The Indo American Woman's Restoration League campaigns to raise a U K law protecting girls in India from child marriages until age sixteen. It notes census figures for 1891 1901 showing high rates of young female marriages and seeks British backed legal change without religious interference.
The text argues crowds yield to generals and soldiers outperform agitators. It cites a Berlin incident where shouting orders from a balcony dispersed a mob threatening landlords. It notes crowds cannot resist a modern regiment and warns of massacres when women and children scream during attacks.
A Berlin scientist proposes using electricity to clear snow more cheaply. The device features a wheeled platform where snow is shoveled, then falls into hot metal pockets and melts into water. Water exits via hoppers, with heaters powered from town mains or depots for drainage-ready runoff.
The story notes that caviar fans like it intensely and cites Otto von Bismarck as its most famous devotee. It recounts his anger at Borck for withholding a kingly thank you after sending forty pounds of caviar to King William, overheard by a servant who found a barrel and spoon in Borck's room.
A Scottish piper in a forest shares supper with wolves to defend himself. He plays his pipes to scare them away, and the wolves flee in fear. Sandy remarks he would have given the pipes a spring earlier if he had known they pleased the beasts.
A minister is impressed by an anti smoking address and jokes about burning the remaining cigars after admitting a gift of one hundred. A fellow minister vows to rescue the ninety nine. The piece then cites Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a marvellous remedy with six ingredients and ends with a noir Chicago Tribune style quip about political economy.
A claim from Shiloh’s Cure states it will always cure coughs and colds, presenting a bold assurance about its medicinal effectiveness. The statement emphasizes universal efficacy without detailing ingredients or evidence.
A Kansas City Times quote questions whether a man who stood lost in thought for twenty minutes in a driving rain is a true poet or an idiot. The exchange highlights contrasting views on creativity under weather.
Dr Johnson once befriended poet Samuel Boyse on Grub Street. Boyse, unable to go abroad, wore a pawned cloak and starved while writing. Johnson funded clothes, but two days later Boyse lay in bed again eating a stew bought with borrowed suit money.
A Paris letter in The London Globe cites a Frenchman explaining the bank check’s origin. Dense fogs in London encouraged thieves and inspired tradesmen to create a system that reduces the need to carry cash and limits indiscreet pocketbook exposure.
Cattle shipped from the West in 1908 exceed 100000 head. Local prairie herds show steady improvement with about 2,972 440 cattle and 737 000 horses and D7 00 sheep.
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