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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 21, 1907
Page
2
A survey traces common idioms to singular origins. Betty Martin’s blow sparks Eye and Betty Martin while P and Q chalk the tavern balance, and Jack Robinson links to Sheridan. Variants explain kicking the bucket and catching a tartar with tales of bricks and Irish fighters.
Excerpt from Mark Twain’s Auto biography in North American Review discusses the Clemens family legacy. It recalls Jere Clemens a U S senator and a duel involving Governor Wise and John Brown with debate over who was shot. It reflects Twain’s humorous uncertainties and pride in his name.
A London Musical Times table lists composers and their masterworks with the age of composition and their age at death. It shows many works were written between ages thirty and forty, though Bach at forty eight Wagner at fifty Handel at fifty six and Haydn at sixty five are noted cases.
A Turkish sultan eager for gossip sends banker Abraham Beg to learn chatter of Pera. When questioned, Abraham claims funds are at three. The sultan is pleased and hands a bundle of bonds to sell, paying Abdul Aziz after Abraham sells at twelve. The sultan invented that title joke.
Courts of love arose in medieval France during the height of chivalry as an aristocratic pastime. Knights poets and ladies formed the first court in the south of France where decisions on delicate romantic questions were rendered with formal ceremony.
Mrs Schulz complains her husband, who typically stays at the club until after midnight, returned home by nine one night, prompting her planned curtain lecture about his late hours. The exchange highlights domestic humor in a neighborhood.
A festival notice from Westminster Abbey in 1790 directs that no ladies be admitted with hats and asks them to come without feathers or large hoops. The rule reflects era fashion etiquette and crowd control at a Handel festival event.
A witty exchange notes that crying at weddings seems common among the married, while single people often do not. It reflects on the emotional undercurrents of marriage and the perceived tragedy of wedding vows.
In Am brose Bierce's Cynic's Word Book a cynic is defined as a brackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be. The entry notes the Scythians pluck out a cynic's eyes to improve vision.
A fragment from Stray Stories presents a playful exchange where an adult jokes about hiking away babies before they learn to talk and the related risk of revealing curious parental remarks. The snippet showcases humor through wordplay on communication and innocence.
Dr Rudolf Poech of Vienna reports on New Guinea Papua cannibals noting their strength and lack of culture, head hunting, facial decorations that distort features, and a society dominated by dance expressing all emotions. He says they remain in the stone age in an atmosphere thousands of years behind ours.
An advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablets as the best cure for minor infant ailments and claims they help babies sleep soundly at night without drugged sleep. A testimonial from Mre 1. Gagne of Edmundston N B says they stopped fretfulness and restored restful nights. Sold by druggists or mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont 25 cents a box.
Testimonial from G F Worden of St John credits Minard's Liniment with warding off a Quinzy attack after thorough nightly application. Other remarks note Brown's busy life and a teacher in a swimming bath. Parmalee's Vegetable Pills advertised as effective for neural and digestive balance and nerve recovery.
In a light exchange the clerk jokes about licensing fees, saying the true price is visible only after fifteen or twenty years of marriage, reflecting a quip from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Indigestion is described as a menace to happiness and a conqueror, while South American Nervine is praised as a great stomach and nerve remedy that stimulates digestion, tones nerves, aids circulation, drives out impurities, dispels emaciation, and restores vitality. The copy claims many cures and praises its success against baffling cases.
A stout woman struggles to stay upright in a bathhouse at Scarborough as tides rise. A nearby country visitor, angered by the splashing, shouts a loud rebuke for her bathing mishap. The scene ends with the man declaring the spectacle would stop or cause a scene.
An American passenger in the automobile parade along Piccadilly toward Hyde Park notices a grand town house behind a high brick wall, labeled as the Duke of Dea's residence. The guide points out the mansion as a major landholder's property, sparking the unnamed American’s curiosity about who owns it.
Illinois State Journal quotes a proverb on effort and outcomes, suggesting diligence influences luck. The remark frames work as a remedy for hardship and echoes common community wisdom.
A Saskatoon Invermay report touts Zam-Buk as a cure after Mrs J M McCormick claims seven years of facial skin trouble ended within weeks. The advertisement lists eczema itch scalp sores ringworms blotches and more with price details: 50 cents a box and six boxes for two dollars from the Zam-Buk Co Toronto.
Poem extolling love over wealth power and fame. Repeats the line love is enough and urges simple, serene happiness through affection rather than social status or material gain. The speaker questions ambition and praises devotion and the joy of being loved.
Travel Magazine recalls Rimini as a city of famed associations. Caesar crossed the Rubicon here and visitors recall the bridge where his steps ended. St Anthony preached, later preaching to fish by a waterside chapel. Paolo and Francesca are cited as Rimini’s famed tragic couple.
The narrator compares a colossal chasm near Mount Washington to a submerged continent, noting a depth over 6,000 feet from apex to base. The cleft is described as a vast gulf, deep enough to hide Niagara and to toss whole cities like pebbles.
The Malay archipelago hosts a dragonlike reptile with extended ribs forming wings a frog that opens a parachute by spreading its feet and a flying lemur that can spread its body like an umbrella and leap a hundred feet between trees.
The Gold and Silver Gospels is a peculiar book preserved in Upsala library in Sweden. It is printed with metal type on violet vellum with silver letters and gold initials. Questions about when it was printed and the methods used have long intrigued readers but remain unanswered.
The article explains the etymology of dances such as quadrille lancers polka schottish mazourke minuet waltz Roger de Coverley tarantella reel jig and break down. It links names to origins from French Polish German Italian and Atlantic traditions, noting playful historical notes from the London Telegraph.
A London Answers note surveys a Russian wedding custom where a bride fasts until after the ceremony and endures a farewell party the day before. It describes bridesmaids, bridesmen providing sweets, and a Christ image carried in procession, with varied attire and an unlimited number of bridesmaids.
Miss Backbay questions familiarity with paleontology and Mr Carondelet recalls not knowing much. He mentions reading Paley on Evidences of Christianity in youth and finding it heavy reading.
A sensational ad claims Walford’s Sanitary Lotion cures Itch Mange Prairie Scratches and contagious conditions in humans or animals in half an hour. The piece also notes an official denial of talks to sell St Pierre Miquelon to Japan and promotes Mother Graves’ Worm Exterminator as a health aid for children.
In Washington Georgia Gen Robert Toombs, a leading hospitality figure, told a committee seeking to build a hotel that respectable visitors may stay at his house and if they are not welcome he does not want them at all. His remark highlights local social standards and the town’s early identity as the nation’s first with Washington named for the father of his country.
An advertisement reviews overeating as a cause of liver and kidney trouble and promotes Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills as a remedy. It cites headaches bilious attacks and constipation as early signals and includes testimonials from Henry Borgwardt and Mrs K E Husband praising the product. The pills are sold in boxes at two shillings and sixpence.
New Drink Miss Agnes Slack of the International W C T U sails toward Liverpool sharing a temperance anecdote. A boy asks why his father's nose is red and the father blusters about east wind while the mother gently suggests passing the east wind without spilling on the table.
An advertisement promotes a liquid labeled as a kidney cure named South American Kidney Cure. It claims to treat Brights disease diabetes bladder inflammation gravel and other kidney ailments and warns not to neglect signs. The copy asserts the remedy never fails.
The Pengwern laden with saltpetre from Taltal Chile went ashore near the Elbe. Vulkan rushed to assist and passed close by. The crew were drowned. A Cure for Rheumatism. Uric acid in blood vessels causes rheumatic pains linked to liver health. Parmerie's Vegetable Pills said to aid kidneys and blood purification.
Harper’s Weekly notes a mining engineer’s cross examination in Nevada where a clever attorney pressed about ore shapes called kidney lumps. The exchange shows how expert testimony can be shaped to influence a case and underscores the craft of legal questioning.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Public Ledger presents a dialogue about lynching. An Iowa resident and a Southern speaker discuss the rarity of such acts, each suggesting it should not be done. The exchange captures a tense commentary on mob justice.
Latest dispatch from Yasnaia Poliana reports Count Tolsto improving steadily as doctors treat distemper with Minard's Liniment.
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