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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1910
Page
6
A man recalls how his wife used a counterfeit sovereign to pay for an umbrella. After a morning missing the coin, police identified his wife at the station. She claimed she had given it to the milkman, quoting a humorous exchange from Tit-Bits.
The ad argues regular habits fail many, citing indigestion liver and kidney troubles from irregular life. It promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a simple corrective safe for delicate constitutions and suitable for most people.
A chemistry exam prompts a blunt student reply. The professor asks if the student can say anything about prussic acid. The student answers that it is a deadly poison, noting one drop on the tongue could kill a dog.
An advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward and claims a catarrh cure by CHENEY & CO of Toledo Ohio. It asserts the remedy cures by acting on the blood and system and promises failure to cure yields money back. The notice urges readers to read about the law of sentiment and mentions sale by druggists and Hai's Family Pills for constipation.
A man under remand for house breaking asks how long the case will last. A young lawyer replies it will take about three weeks to prepare, but warns the defendant may face five years in the process.
Mrs Gobsa Golde complains of a misfitting dress and traveling costume. She laments overpaid dressmaker and contemplates another trip abroad as a solution. The dialogue shows Mrs Gobsa and Gobsa Golle debating options.
A compact collage of quotes notes humorous lines from newspapers. The Buffalo Express cites a joke about a man arguing with a streetcar conductor over a transfer. The Detroit Free Press comments on women in doubt preferring the more expensive article.
A conversation in Life magazine excerpt shows Mrs Holmes and others debating formality, mortgage size, and attitudes toward books and wealth. The detective’s wife claims familiarity with similar types, highlighting social pretensions and literary esteem in a domestic quarrel.
A Washington broker William B Bibbs placed a large searchlight atop a water tower near Leesburg Virginia and once at night amused himself by sweeping the beam along the road. A Virginian driver saw the light and exclaimed in awe claiming the automobile had sped by unseen.
A Cleveland mother sends a note to a teacher joking that Johonie’s right ear has been pulled longer than the left. She asks that the left ear be pulled for balance, signing as the boy’s concerned mother.
A Washington Star quote shows a conservative reader asking why modern children are stingy and inconsiderate. Miss Cayenne replies that many families neglect teaching by example, saying youth fail to set a good example for their elders.
The Westminster Gazette cites Beresford recounting a Canada visit story about a newly elected politician driving with the Prince of Wales in St. John’s Wood. A drunken spectator bows and proclaims to the Prince, “Charlie, I do declare you’ve got Wyles with you this mornin’.” The Prince notes the many political friends made.
The Chicago Health Department bulletin explains cold weather alone does not cause pneumonia. Indoor air quality matters as poor ventilation from closed windows fuels illness. Breathe pure air, keep windows open day and night, and avoid polluted indoor air, especially while sleeping.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote recalls a stern admiral who erupts over a mishandled signal. Facing a ship miscue, he demands the message be sent explicit but the signaler notes there are not enough flags to convey it.
The article claims Dr Thomas Electrics Oil is the most popular remedy for pains joints muscles and nerves including neuralgia and rheumatism due to superior healing properties. It asserts high demand and greater effectiveness than other oils.
A Detroit Free Press quote recalls a highly independent janitor who declines doing a favor even with Christmas approaching, illustrating stubborn self reliance. The remark frames him as unusually autonomous.
A New Richmond Quebec barber, Chas N Cyr, describes a yearlong fight with rheumatism backache and kidney disease. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing his ailments and restoring health enabling him to work without pain. The article touts kidney pills as a universal cure for related pains.
A club waiter relays a caller who refuses to identify herself yet claims her husband will return home early tonight. Members rise in unison as the interruption disrupts the gathering.
A wary guide outlines the rule that two deer may be taken per hunter and one guide may accompany. The note stresses compliance with local law and safety.
A minister recounts a preacher’s heated retort about bishops living in luxury. The witty clergyman replies that the Apostle Paul would say things in the church are decidedly looking up, noting the contrast between austerity and opulence.
Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator is advertised to clear worms from the stomach and intestines and restore healthfulness, claiming to ease fretfulness and improve infant sleep.
A witty exchange where a patient mislabels his illness as rheumatism due to a spelling error. The doctor questions the diagnosis while the patient insists no one in the house could spell rheumatism. The humor rests on a simple linguistic mix up between mumps and rheumatism.
A man left Montreal October 23 at 1 p.m. aiming to walk 2396 miles to Vancouver along CPR tracks in CATSPAW RUBBER HEELS. He passed Port Arthur by December at 991 miles. Contest offers 113 prizes for nearest guess. Entries free, mailed prizes, postal card guesses to Dept. C Walpole Rubber Co. Montreal.
John complains after sending a photo to the local exhibition. It wins first prize in its class for cattle but is awarded the best picture of sheep, causing surprise and mockery.
A humorous court scene shows Mrs. Newlywed accusing Mr. Newlywed of infidelity after discovering a memorandum about buying ribbons for his typewriter. The judge presides as Mrs. Newlywed weeps and the couple trades misunderstandings, with Minard's liniment oddly referenced to cure garget in cows.
The excerpt extols the morning as a prime of fresh air and invigoration. It suggests walking at dawn to be guided by nature, fostering a lighter heart and stronger resolve for the day ahead.
Adelina Patti marked her fiftieth anniversary as a singer debuting at the New York Academy of Music on November 24 1859 as Lucia. The article traces early earnings from under one dollar weekly to top nightly sums and a total career earnings estimated at about four million dollars reflecting her rise from youth to a famed operatic star.
Will Owen the artist shares a humorous golf story set at Deal on the ladies links. He recalls hiding two small caddies as Jacobs asks a boy if many people play there, with the reply that only ladies and old gentlemen come. The tale is presented as his best golf story and then a self mockery of the author of Many Cargoes.
In two western provinces the electorate shows strong support for railway construction. Voters care less about cost for now and favor lines and the leaders who pledge to build them are elected to Legislatures to ensure funding and construction.
The Hudson Bay Motor and Access Association builds a motor line from Jack Fish on the CPR to Hudson Bay. Six portable houses on wheels, including a kitchen and sleeping quarters, will support crews along the route. The project aims to ease transport to Long Lake and surrounding lakes and celebrate Hudson’s tercentenary in 1910–11. Charles Thompson Harvey, C.E., leads the project.
A Muskoka backwoods tale recounts a Toronto beer offer and a cottage keg hoisted to the barn roof. The wife, finding the stash, fired a hole in the keg and drained the beer into a pail, leaving her husband astonished by the evidence.
A visitor recalls Sir Evelyn Wood at Sandringham who, though deaf, admired music and began scales at twenty four before giving up. He started as a sailor, moved to the Bar, then joined the army, with a quip that the church was the only field he never tried.
A North of Scotland woman tried a diary reading to raise money for foreign missions. After traveling in Austria Germany and Holland during the summer she kept a journal and invited friends at home to hear it read aloud charging sixpence per person for Bussiva.
This account from the New York Tribune describes Filipino women's daily work from childhood to old age. It notes rice pounding with wooden mallets, carrying water jars on the head, field work, and running market stalls. Marriage brings many children and constant labor, yet old age brings quiet dignity.
The description details a walnut bed for Queen Elizabeth with cloth of silver celure tester valance and curtains of costly tapestry, gold lace, and ostrich feather plumes. The headpiece uses crimson satin and Bruges edging, while the counterpoint features orange satin with cloths of gold and silver. Similar opulent beds were common for centuries.
A Boston Herald quote describes graft as ordinary business within households. A young matron recalls her maid and cook being approached to betray her, with $20 paid to the maid and the cook earning about double her wages. The conversation labels the act as plain graft rather than bribery.
Edward Everett Hale recalls a joke by Eugene Field during Hale's Chicago visit. Field hosted a luncheon in Hale's honor with prominent guests. The table bore whisky and champagne bottles labeled as such, but all were found to contain water when opened.
A Chicago judge scolded a man in the courtroom who kept his feet on the table. The bailiff escorted him out after the man asked through a note, What size boots do you wear. The feet were withdrawn immediately.
A short notice promotes a home made vapor remedy to treat coughs bronchitis and colds. It prescribes a mix of cherry bark pine syrup and other ingredients with directions to take twenty drops every half hour for four hours then doses daily for different ages. The tone mirrors early 20th century public health advice.
A Chicago pub tale feature describes a hypochondriac patron who laments hands and feet while friends mockingly advise. The piece promotes Armeelees Vegetable Pills as a cure for bilious ailments with claims of speedy relief and broad efficacy.
Jenks enters Binks' shop with a sample case and asks whether a cowhide could fit in a boot shop. Binks replies promptly that a calfskin would be suitable instead and clarifies the distinction.
A vintage advertisement extols Baby's Own Tablets as safe for babies, claiming quick relief from stomach and bowel troubles, worms, colds, fevers, teething pain, and claims a Saskatchewan doctor endorses the product. It notes the tablets cost 20 cents a box and are sold by medicine vendors or by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.
In Bensonhurst and Yorkville a terse exchange surfaces regarding living space. A brief remark notes insufficient room for complaints, reflecting a narrow living area issue captured in a brief Smart Set item.
An editorial urges cautious handling of bread from oven to mouth and promotes wrapped bread for purity. It notes Canadian adoption of Eddy Company bread wrappers by bakeries in Hull Ottawa Montreal and Toronto as a sanitary safeguard against impurities from water or handling.
In a brief ledger-like notice from New York Journal, a mild church scare is reported with the preacher addressing infernal regions, indicating no real panic. The exchange captures a light, humorous moment tied to a Sunday service.
A Louisville Courier-Journal remark caricatures a public figure as extravagant. The quote notes that he treats his funds as if the government’s, highlighting concerns over financial judgment and stewardship.
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