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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 06, 1911
Page
7
Charles Frohman praises a young actress claiming she is superb yet slightly conceited. He recalls a rehearsal where her headshake drew laughs and a bold prediction that audiences would imitate her gesture. The exchange ends with his amused confirmation that they did.
The passage describes a bottle of Dr Thomas Ecler tine claiming to cure coughs colds sore throats and sprains with many other benefits. A woman tells two children to stay in their room for an hour and one asks if they may play chess.
A dialogue in which a papyrus with unreadable markings is humorously labeled as a doctor’s prescription from Pharaonic times, highlighting the playful clash between mystery and plausible historical context.
A traveling man recounts asking a hotel proprietor about a leaking roof. The other man says he avoided telling him to escape extra charges for a shower bath. The exchange highlights rough humor in lodging during travel.
Lord Slatey boasts of lineage to Ho met and Miss Crease acknowledges the claim with polite doubt. The exchange hints at social hierarchies and family prestige in a restrained dialogue between two noted figures.
A fragment shows Miss McBluff recounting nine proposals since meeting someone, with Miss Wise replying about perseverance as quoted in a Catholic Standard and Times passage.
Orison Swett Marden argues that personal ideals determine life outcomes and character. He warns that a downward moral compass leads to mediocrity, while steadfast high ideals elevate ambition, behavior, and the quality of life regardless of environment.
The notes quote a manager noting that people employ servants who match their own size to prevent servants from wearing their masters garments. He observes men with large valets for small men and tiny valets for tall men, and similar mismatches occur with women and their maids. He claims size is the first consideration when hiring.
Maude recalls private theatricals last evening that fell flat with the audience. Uncle Henry counters that there is no such thing as laughing in the wrong place in private theatricals.
A young woman studying sociology responds to a colleague about working long hours for little pay with a mix of humor and concern. She jokes it would be great fun but worries her dhapery might be exposed.
An Ontario advertisement claims Gin Pills cure back pain and kidney trouble with a money back guarantee. It offers a free sample and direct mail purchase options from National Drug and Chemical Co. in Toronto, stressing a long standing Canada wide sale through a major wholesaler.
A historical sketch recounts Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim and his brothers Hudson and Hiram Percy Maxim. It notes Hiram’s early life in Maine, his 1873 electric lamp, the automatic gun, the Pom Pom, and his push into aerial machines. Hudson is credited with smokeless powder and related inventions.
A visitor questions if prohibition truly stops liquor with a native replying it blocks some mischief but whiskey still wins. A humorous life moment appears with a cure ad and domestic servant chatter as a manager calls to nearby workers.
Dialogue snippet shows The Bounder pressing for an evening meeting with Major and asking which servant to marry, the cook or the housemaid, in a witty exchange from London Opinion.
A German in a sleeping car could not rest due to neighbors snoring on both sides. After a fierce snort from one traveler, the wakeful German exclaimed Tanks and Von as ett in a puzzled moment.
The text discusses Queen Mary appointing Maids of Honor skilled in domestic arts, music, needlework, painting, and drawing. It notes the era of domesticity among English nobility and the likelihood of vacancies if any maid marries. It also mentions gardening as part of royal interests and the influence of royal examples on ladies-in-waiting.
Hon Adam Beck, Ontario cabinet minister and Hydro power pioneer, once chats with a street family who reveal their son is named Hydro Johnston. Asked for a real name, the father explains Hydros full form andmentors the joke in the Canadian Courier is noted.
A Christian Intelligencer note cites Indian wages: a native switchman earns 7 rupees monthly, a native servant in a private family similar, and a farm hand about 4 rupees. Prices show slight upward movement, yet labor value remains low compared with American work.
An anecdote about Sir Henry Morton Stanley recalls his habit of standing with his back to the wall during receptions in New York. Lady Branley notes the trait stems from Africa and explains Stanley preferred this position to keep others from passing behind him.
The passage explains how poisons are removed from the blood and the liver and kidneys purify the blood. It states these organs work well when helped by the body’s filtering process and likely by some aid or treatment not specified in the excerpt.
The ad claims that blood purification comes from healthy kidneys liver and bowels. It states quick liver action invigorates kidneys and bowels, with benefits in a few hours and ongoing use keeps organs active. Backache headaches and fatigue from poisons disappear with one pill per dose sold 25 cents a box and by Edmonson Bates Co Toronto.
A Victorian sales scene notes a visitor browsing while sales talk masks a game. The feature touts Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills as a carefully studied cleanser with sedatives and laxatives, claiming long standing recognition and growing popularity.
An art photographer visits a farm and proposes a long term study of the landscape. He asks the farmer to keep his hired man at the fence with his present position for days at a time, as part of the project.
Allen Mason of Carleton New Brunswick reports using Baby's Own Tablets for fifteen years for his children and trusts them for all ailments of little ones. Mrs. Mason says the remedy is safe and reliable, sold for 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario. Mrs Comrox comments on stage gossip about Lady Macbeth.
The London Chronicle recounts a Potsman who, to spare walking between two station signals, strapped two signals together with wire and used a hat-mounted counterweight. The contraption enabled him to operate both signals from his seat, until discovered and punished.
The likely duchess in the coronation is the Baroness iton of Leighton Bromswold a girl of eleven. This will be her second coronation appearance after nine years ago she wore a peeress robe and a miniature crown at King Edward VII's crowning in Westminster Abbey. She is the seventeenth holder of the barony tracing back to the 15th century.
A Saskatchewan farmer writes from Indian Head to a Toronto daily, arguing 640 acres can yield substantial profits from 1900 to 1910 with land at $10 an acre, showing capital outlay and annual duties on implements totaling about $35 per year. He asserts the figures illustrate western farmers’ gains and challenges the claim they are ill-used by the Dominion government.
Sir Francis Lovell, former chief medical officer of Mauritius and surgeon-general for Trinidad and Tobago, now dean of the London School of Tropical Medicine, plans a winter tour of West Indian colonies including British Honduras, Bermuda, and Bahamas to advance medical work abroad.
The census noted odd village occupations in Hyderabad and Central Provinces. Enumerators listed idol shrines as occupied houses with the idol granting boons from tenants’ contributions. Other entries named collectors of edible birds nests receivers of stolen goods witches wizards and cow poisoners.
The King’s dog Caesar escaped from Marl borough House gardens a few days ago causing concern. He wore a collar badge reading Caesar I am the King's dog and was soon recognized in Bridge Street Westminster before being returned to his royal mistress.
One in every five people in Great Britain are depositors in the postal savings bank with average deposits around 75 units. The figure highlights broad popular participation in the savings system.
A new recruit in a cavalry regiment visits the riding sergeant and questions the girth strap. The instructor explains that the horses wear bands to curb sudden bursts of laughter from the keen sense of humor among officers, preventing the mounts from bursting their sides.
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