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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
3
Gates describes tuberculosis efforts by the Board of Indian Commissioners in Washington while noting education in sanitation is needed among Indians. He cites ignorance and compares it to an old farmer in Warsaw.
An 1886 Toledo area notice records an oath by Feaxx J. Currey regarding a loan and a cure claim for Hais’s Catarrh Cure sold by F. J. Cheney & Co. The fragmentary text references a commitment to pay for cured cases and includes unrelated ad copy and a brief fiction-style dialogue about laundry work.
Humorous reader dialogue from Detroit Free Press describes a farmer and his wife Mandy discussing airborne guest antics. The exchange humorously references airship chaps tumbling down the chimney into the dining room as a casual, coincidental visit.
A suburban man asks if callers come, learns a servant girl rang. His wife confirms one visitor today and notes the girl suited the home, though details remain, in a terse exchange captured by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The merchant tells a clerk that more tasks will keep him from complaining about having too much to do. The exchange suggests humor about workload as a remedy.
A passenger with a skull cap credits success to heredity and environment. Another traveler in a sad necktie doubts the firm and questions the duration of the journey, prompting a terse, cryptic exchange aboard.
In 1748 London advertised stage feats promised to summon music from an audience borrowed cane and a man would vanish into a bottle while a dwarf Jumpedo outdid the act. When double prices were demanded for a pint bottle the crowd rioted, wrecked the Hasmarket theater, and burned scenery in the street. The impostor vanished, blamed on a discharged actor or a nobleman.
Napoleon I sought disguise to attend a ball at the Italian embassy but repeated attempts by his valet Constant to alter boots and posture failed. Each time he entered the ballroom, guests recognized him, despite new costumes, and he left in disappointment convinced concealment was impossible.
Little Marion struggles with a math example and proclaims the answer is five and three fourths horses. After a pause, her mother questions the odd result and Marion brightens with a plan to reduce the three fourths horses to colts.
A brief London Fun item shows a guest arriving late from the theater and an absentminded doctor forgetting the visitor. The guest identifies himself as Mr. Trane and asks to be admitted but the doctor chides him about missing a train and tells him to catch the next.
A convalescent defies care and relapses prompting the doctor to remark on discipline. The patient admits the fault, saying they were not well enough. The exchange highlights stubbornness and fragility in recovery.
A home grown philosopher contends that most people do not worship money though he admits the love of money is rarely plain or simple. He argues wealth affects behavior even if people deny material obsession.
Outing Magazine notes that tides drive fish activity with flood tides bringing schools close to shore and baitfish surfacing in flashes of silver. Anglers should position boats during flood and fish bottom-dwellers around docks and wrecks, while low tide or last ebb often yields poorer catches.
A humorous portrait of the livery stable dog noting its contrasting behavior to a powder puff dog. The canine is eager for attention yet rude, digs large holes and lies in sidewalks or streets, and understands a few blunt phrases while avoiding complex talk.
Anna A. Rogers criticizes American youth in Atlantic for lacking reading, music, art, and literature interest. She notes young men are poor conversationalists, mostly monologists, giving lectures rather than dialogue. Women value conversation and polite engagement, while outsiders’ knowledge seems to puncture delusions about our youth.
An uproar in the roughest boys class ends when a secretary asks for a teacher and the reply is silence. The result is comparative peace once the door is opened and the exchange concludes.
A young boy writes a heartfelt note after his grandmother dies requesting angels to give her a harp because she is short winded and cannot blow a trumpet. The London Tit-Bits praises the boy and his considerate family.
Stage manager asks Bangs to cue a loud cry in Scene Three. Father actor notes the child has rehearsed nightly and should perform.
Wigwag-Bjones notes he behaves as part of the household when visiting. Henpeckke adds he fears the mother in law as much as the speaker does.
When death has come it is never our tenderness we repent of but our severity. This reflective line emphasizes how harshness lingers in regret at life’s end, contrasting gentleness with sternness in human conduct.
An advertisement extols Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills for spring health, claiming the liver and kidneys falter in spring causing pains, fatigue, and constipation and promising rapid purification of the blood and renewed energy. The ad lists 25 cents per box and sources Edmanson Bates Co Toronto. A separate Washington Star dialogue mocks travel and domestic service with a light exchange about train schedules and a servant.
The advertisement promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a cure for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims the pills regulate stomach action, restore healthy function, and have long been a standard remedy highly esteemed by users.
A writer visits the editor to check on his latest work, only to learn the editor admits he started it but could not finish it due to the effort. The exchange captures a playful meeting about creative effort and completion.
A short note reports Minard s Liniment curing garget in cows. The piece includes a playful exchange between Mrs Upsome and Mrs Pneuritch about a professor s lecture on flowers and the Orr children in Chicago.
F M Doucet of Weymouth reports a mare bruised and cut by a wire fence healed after using Minard's Liniment. Diluted at first then stronger, three weeks passed and the sores healed with hair regrowth not turning white, following Dr Bell's advice.
Two well known Lebanon wags were ambling homeward at an early hour after being up nearly all night. One jokes about wives missing them. the other quips that hers "throws pretty straight" in reference to poker or cards.
An ad touts Murine eye remedy with claims of soothing red eyes and eye strain and notes it is compounded by experienced physicians. A country paper interview then features a stern matron who refuses to reveal a political party, declaring she is the party she belongs to.
An old note proudly claims Wilson's Fly Pada can kill any number of house flies, stating that one packet can dispatch a bushel of flies and praising its effectiveness for any size infestation.
A humorous domestic exchange centers on George and his wife as he searches for a stepladder hammer and nail cords to hang a rose picture. The couple quibbles over missing tools and responsibilities, ending with a gendered quip about men and women.
A customer with a four figure balance tricked a London bank by asking clerks to cash his £1000 checks without checking the ledger. Clerks at five desks honored the request, total cashing £5,000, exceeding his balance by nearly £4,000. He vanished after a polite note asked him to call at the bank.
A fashion history note explains eighteenth century English women wore large hats. Garrick is credited with ending the trend after a stage appearance featuring vegetables on his head and carrots hanging from the sides, provoking reaction among the audience.
Dr Johnson lists resolutions dated 1760 on his fifty first birthday including to study more and reclaim imagination, rise early, attend church, drink less, keep a journal, oppose laziness, and organize books with notes on war history.
A visiting woman asks about handling visiting cards in America. A man replies bluntly that you bite the card in the middle rather than turning down the end, delivering a terse social quip from the Ladies' Home Journal.
The article warns of tropical pests including scorpions centipedes and tarantulas. It details painful stings bites swelling and potential death from centipede or tarantula attacks and notes outcomes depend on health and constitution. It mentions the setting in a forest and stream journal.
The Eskimo view all beings and inanimate objects as possessing souls. Graves in Labrador consist of upright stones with flat slabs laid across to protect the body and allow spirits to pass in and out, reflecting a belief in continued life and spiritual service after death.
Joe Mitchell Chapple recalls in National Magazine how Washington once employed a special man to open and close doors for officials. He notes the untold dignity of veterans who served this duty and the contrast with doors that swing automatically elsewhere.
A humorous exchange shows a farmer venting about his daughter studying in Europe. He quips that female colleges plant ideas in women, and he and her husband never understood why she chose to go abroad, noting she does not know anyone there.
A dialogue snippet shows Mrs. Peck deriding a man as a mouse while he retorts that if he were a mouse he would raise a ruckus on the table this moment. The exchange highlights household power dynamics and biting wit.
A visitor requests copies of the paper for a week back while a facetious clerk suggests trying a porous plaster. The exchange occurs in the Philadelphia Record.
The ship doctor asks if he can endure seasickness and he admits he has no stomach for the ocean, saying only his hands remain steady as he prepares for his maiden voyage aboard Succesa.
In a folksy exchange Brother Dickey confronts a lay member about the origin of a large dinner. The lay member swears he is too full to speak, acknowledging the moment with humor as they discuss honesty and propriety over the meal.
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