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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 30, 1914
Page
6
Mme Viardot cites poor Russian table manners during a Crimea visit in 1886 yet praises the nation’s music as divine. She observes clean persons but crude etiquette, noting finger use at tables and odd uses of bread and cream jugs. The narrator adds Russia has progressed since then.
A sharp tale unfolds as a smart young housewife visits a market to buy geese finding five hung outside the shop. She asks for the three toughest and later chooses the remaining two, with a humorous remark about the keeper. Minard's Liniment Relieves Neuralgia.
A determined man asks for a good revolver and the salesman offers options. The man proposes a nine chamber handgun claiming a need to shoot a neighbor's cat, reflecting a tense exchange that hints at looming conflict and illicit intent.
A Detroit Free Press fragment features a quip about an electric car and traffic disruptions, followed by whimsical lines from a child’s dialogue and a note on Mother Craves Worm Exterminator praised for children. The tone blends humor with household observations, reflecting a period newspaper page.
A humorous vignette contrasts a school prize for dead flies with a child’s pride and a hypochondriac's near deathbed theatrics. A speeding doctor and a frantic passenger spark a comical road race ending with a blunt joke about dying.
Advertising copy promises a one day cure for colds with laxative bromine quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E W Grove figure appears on each box and price is 25 cents.
A famous builder in his New York office muses on how costs and values blur when many men are involved. He jokes that if sunshine had to be paid for they would claim gas provides a brighter light. The remark appears in the New York Times.
An exchange between a student and professor reveals a humorous remark about music as a gift and a scholarly rebuttal. A punchline references charging one dollar an hour for lessons, highlighting a playful scholarly moment.
A fragment recalls a Deal fisherman Danfield who found a bottle with Nova Zemblia news sent to the lord high admiral. Elizabeth I ordered bottles with inclosures forwarded to the admiral and Tanfield appointed uncorker. Trepo s survived centuries.
Mr. Harper improves and allows a nurse an evening off to attend an engagement. Bridget watches the sick room and follows strict orders. The nurse finds Mr. Harper restless on return and asks Bridget about the cause, noting she may have disturbed his sleep powder.
A bride asks where her husband was in 1910 and he admits memory fails. She recalls a newspaper claim that in 1910 one in every 800 Americans was in prison, sparking the humorous exchange.
A fragment from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch quotes lines about risk and loyalty with a character named Jack ready to brave danger for a cause or partner. The brief exchange hints at bravado and persistence in a dramatic context.
A compact note highlights easy lunch options and a generous dish approach, suggesting simple prep suitable for both boys and girls with quick readiness and balanced servings.
Post Toasties are described as a wholesome ready to eat cereal made from white Indian corn, thinly rolled and toasted to a golden brown. The ad notes children love the crisp nourishing food and can eat freely, produced by Canadian Postum Cereal Company Ltd in Windsor Ont.
Remains raised from peaty soil two feet below Marlow river bed include bone two horns and part of antler. Bone and horns belong to extinct prehistoric animal while antler from an animal said to have lived about ten thousand years ago.
Quote exchange where a judge notes that to do a task properly one must do it oneself while Crabshaw argues observing others at work is appealing. The dialogue emphasizes personal effort versus watching others perform.
A German doctor reports that pure cane sugar has extraordinary antiseptic properties for wound treatment. He describes experiments showing sugar solutions prevent putrefaction and microbial contamination, outperforming other antiseptics and serving as a potent preservative for liquids like milk.
A Cincinnati Enquirer snippet shows a Grouch asking about a dash and an Old Forgy recounting his wife giving him away to stop swatting flies. The gag centers on a slow creature failing to cut through a screen door, prompting a punchline.
The article asserts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil gained boundless popularity not through heavy advertising but by its genuine medical merits. It claims broad demand across cities towns and hamlets nationwide due to its good qualities as a remedy.
A small boy offers a holey penny to a younger companion and dares him to buy something. In a store the boy asks for a doughnut and mends the exchange as the clerk notes the penny's hole, while the doughnut also shows a hole.
A group of young women from a Delaware town toured the Washington marine barracks. They asked about taps and life in the barracks, learning that taps signals lights out and is played over fallen soldiers. The officer explained the meaning, sparking further curiosity about military discipline.
Tales from Captain Patton and Captain Craig in the Indian Journal of Medical Research describe a fly that feeds on the incisions of biting insects. These non biting flies occupy feeding sites after the biter has carved a wound. The article suggests potential disease transmission links. A Wisconsin banker recounts starting a bank with tiny initial deposits and quick growth once the window bore the words bank.
A satirical exchange from a Spokane Review piece mocks sensationalist reporting and unidentified women. The dialogue questions naming a source after a story about a woman whose actions troubled others, while a Yonkers Starman jab adds a wry note on weddings and public innocence.
A reflective note on appreciating warmth amid blizzard winds and the persistence of a Venice cafe open day and night for 150 years.
A South Mexico village train robbery leads to a brutal, escalating execution plan. President Diaz orders a young officer to purge the village, doubling down with each return: every fortieth man shot, then every twentieth, then every tenth if attacks resume. No further train robberies occurred.
A trained ostrich disrupted a London hall show by repeatedly trying to escape and climb over the footlights into the orchestra. The professor apologized, saying they must cease engagement until a new orchestra leader is hired because the current one has no "hair on top of his head" for the bird.
In a classroom exchange a student asks the teacher for the highest form of animal life. The boy at the front replies giraffe, prompting a quick, humorous moment in the lesson.
Report notes that of French troops in Northern Africa in 1912 only one in 500 inoculated with antityphoid serum contracted the disease.
An advertisement promotes Catarrhozone as a cure for catarrh in the nose throat and bronchial tubes claiming instant germ kill and rapid relief from throbbing head and throat drops. It touts decades of success in Europe and America and lists a large outfit for $1.00 and a small size for 25 cents Trade wording stresses safety and ease of use.
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