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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
2
A coded dialogue shows plotters planning to smuggle a woman named Miss Joan to France. Green warns Thorold not to kill Black Monday, urging restraint and signaling a dangerous, planned getaway involving a train to Déver and a cliffside dogcart toward Dover.
Mrs A B Thompson of Fredericton New Brunswick reports a severe eczema case lasting months with intense itching swelling and disfigurement. After trying various remedies she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for four months and is cured. The note promotes Cuticura products and offers free samples via Potter Drug & Chem Corp. Dept. 44D Boston.
Thoreid recalls Green's warning of a looming Black Monday and treachery as he questions the danger and Green's motive to help Joan. He contemplates tomorrow's possible end to the unfolding unhappy events, while Green's sincerity remains unsettlingly clear.
Edward Thorold waits at a remote Dover cliff junction, fearing failure to obey Green. He spots a dogcart with Joan in a blue serge dress and Green beside her, while a cloaked man stands by. Thorold grips a pistol as suspense tightens around a planned confrontation.
A health advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for rheumatism by improving blood quality. It cites Miss Mary D Kelly of South Dummer Ontario and claims the pills reach the root of the problem and prevent relapses when the blood remains pure. The notice lists price and ordering details.
Marine Eye Remedy offers liquid for red weak watery eyes and granulated lids with soothing relief and no stinging. Aseptic eye salve tubes are sold at 25 cents, with eye books free by mail. The promotion targets general eye care and includes Am Eye Tonic as suitable for all eyes, from the Murine Eye Remedy Company of Chicago.
A farmer blames a traveling agent after his barn burns in a storm despite two lightning rods. The agent quips that the lanterns must have been lit, prompting the farmer to demand lanterns on the rods. The tale ends with the agent urging lanterns to make the rods noticeable.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills with a cure claim and testimonial note. It mentions F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo and a one hundred dollar reward offer for incurable catarrh cases, along with product pricing and supplier endorsements.
A clubman recalls a vivid, brutal description of gout in harsh imagery. The tale likens a foot to a furnace with a gun firing red hot needles along the leg, followed by shocks of corkscrews, leaving the listener sweating and fearful at each discharge. The grotesque allegory ends asking who would ever patronize gout.
A young Brooklyn couple newly married struggle with limited means and inexperience. After a failed delivery on Saturday their larder empties by Sunday and the wife sobs in distress, declaring the home “horrible” before deciding to return to her mother. The husband suggests he will go with her.
A fragment recalls that in 1789 Christianie Murphy was burned at the stake in London for coin clipping. She was bound to a stool and strangled as the stool was removed, the fire consuming her body in about forty eight minutes, burial on the execution site. The passage then shifts to unrelated dialogue about suitors and a father’s control.
A rural crowd hears a quack claim his pills have sold for twenty five years with no complaints. A voice replies that dead men tell no tails, underscoring skepticism about his claims.
The piece explains that picnic means a feast of various dishes chosen by subscribers who draw items from a list and share them in a social meal. It also notes Holloway's Corn Cure and recounts a Midlands Sunday school superintendent praising abstinence and a Senator Cullom joke about a Montana son in the legislature.
The speaker jokes about marriage choices for three daughters. One weds a farmer, another an ultimate consumer, and the third, possibly compensating, becomes engaged to a middleman.
An advertisement touts Zam-Buk as a miraculous skin healer that prevents blood poisoning after a single application. It claims it stops smarting, stimulates healthy tissue, and provides permanent cure, citing a Montreal case and offering a 50c box or a free trial with 40c postage.
A harsh father questions his daughter's ice cream plea by proposing a future gold watch at nineteen. The line reveals a controlling, cold approach. The vignette highlights a troubling parental dynamic and implied coercion.
A man in a restaurant, late in a contemplative phase, waits half an hour for an order. When it arrives he rises from thought and tells the server, You don't look a day older. The scene centers on a curious, quietly observant moment.
Advertisements claim the product strengthens children by driving out intestinal worms. It markets the worm killer as protecting vitality and health for kids.
An old farmer visits a city store and asks to see clocks advertised to run eight days without winding. After the clerk shows eight day clocks, the farmer asks a clever follow up: if they run eight days without winding, how long will they run if you wind ’em.
The text lists endorsements from Mathias Foley of Oil City Dr Joseph Snow of Norway Maine Charles Wharten of Mulgrave Nova Scotia Rev R O Armstrong of Mulgrave NS Pierre Landers of Pekemouche NB Tromas Waston of Shefiell NB all praising Minards Liniment as the best.
Pat joined the navy and was drilled with shipmates on a pier. The order to fall in was given and Pat fell into the water. The crew shouted that it was too deep and Pat splashed, prompting a warning about depth.
A man groaning by the roadside claims a car numbered 1812 knocked him down in a curious incident. A constable administers emetic after the victim admits he ate one item. The sufferer grows abusive when told the reason. He mentions seeing Jinks and a landlord pressing dispossession.
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