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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 10, 1910
Page
2
A reader notes a home remedy claiming to break a cold in twenty four hours. The ad prescribes mixing glycerine, pine compound, and whisky in a bottle and taking teaspoonful every four hours, offered as a cure from any drug store.
An archaic passage recounts Wellington’s ironic, concise reply to a proposed £70 000 bribe for information about districts in India. The envoy thought he held the secret, but Wellington’s dry quip 'And so can I' exposed the bid as futile, illustrating his famed preventively shrewd stance.
An advertisement claims deafness results from a blocked Eustachian tube and catarrh, promising a cure with Hall's Catarrh Cure and offering $100 for incurable cases. It urges readers to request free circulars from F. J. Cheney Co. Toledo and mentions a laxative product.
An old time advertisement promotes Marne Eye Remedies for sore eyes and irritated eyelids. It claims relief, strengthen eyes, soothe discomfort, and is pitched as a special case treatment for babies and general eye issues.
Maud calls him a universal genius and a musician in one. Mabel agrees, noting he is in effect a lawyer by training and a musician by talent. The joke rests on his dual expertise, with lawyers calling him a musician and musicians calling him a lawyer.
The Rev H J Ingiis reports a Denver Christmas dinner where several youths overate. One lad pressed a third piece of pie and claimed he could manage it, another ate so much he could not walk and asked to be carried, a third refused extra food despite discomfort.
A Detroit Free Press fragment quotes a speaker noting unfamiliarity with new weigh t and a lack of borrowing occasion. The speaker mentions six telephone lines and questions about hidden coverage or costs. The snippet reflects puzzlement over new resources.
A Kingston incident links a stocking dye injury to blood poisoning after Mrs. A Arreon ignored a cut. The wound worsened until a doctor treated it with Zam-Buk, which the patient credits for preventing a severe outcome and suggests early use could have prevented the poisoning.
A New York Sun item recalls Martha’s quick moral reply about psalms after Miss Y accused her of talking with a suitor. The page also advertises Parmelee's Vegetable Pills praised for mild stomach relief and tastier formula. A Boston Transcript quip about windmills and a Comic Cuts gag follow.
An old newspaper snippet highlights Minard's Liniment claimed to cure colds and Lifebuoy Soap praised as refreshing for bath and toilet use. It also touts Lifebuoy as cleansing and purifying for underclothing, with quips about autos and wives.
The fragment reflects Stephen Phillips’s meditation on isolation amid urban and global vastness. A speaker dwells at Charing Cross, lamenting absence and desolation as crowds surge around, contrasting human loneliness with boundless landscapes and sea of sand.
A blue book on 1908 births deaths and marriages in Great Britain highlights English and Welsh marriage ages with brides as young as 19 and many over 70 marrying. divorce trends show rising remarrying. Cancer mortality in England and Wales reaches a high, with Scotland and Ireland comparatively better, while who remarries after divorce increases. The report notes lower death rates from phthisis in 1908 vs 1907.
A Nova Scotia woman, Mrs Boniface Richard of Chezzetcook, reports six years of diabetes and rheumatism cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills. She states two boxes ended her suffering, credits the pills for removing uric acid and restoring kidney function, and advises others to use them for kidney related ailments. The piece references diabetes, kidney disease, and rheumatism and notes a general claim of cure.
The New York Times notes Harrington Putnam, successor to Judge Gaynor, for his logical mind. At a Red Lodge dinner near Denning, he offered a pointed remark on non marrying widows, suggesting three possible motives for a widow who refuses remarriage.
Mr Allan J McDonald of Rice Point Prince Edward Island lay paralysed from the waist down for eleven months. After using Williams Pink Pills he regained strength, walked with a cane and was soon able to do farm work again. Testimonials from a minister corroborate recovery and the ad urges trials for sick people.
The piece catalogs various historic epithets for Britain's House of Lords. It notes how figures from Pitt to Disraeli used vivid descriptions, from hospital of incurables to tapestry, reflecting the chamber’s political drama and perceived lifeless grandeur.
A fragment notes Ainard's liniment as a remedy for garget in cows. It then shifts to a moral aside about avoiding counterfeits in virtue and ends with a paternal quip about a boy named Bobby claiming a better school standing at fourteenth, said to be closer to the stove.
James Dingwall of Williamstown Ontario writes that chronic constipation and later bladder and kidney trouble were cured by Fruit-a-tives after doctors gave up. He, aged over eighty, recommends the remedy and notes a box price and trial option from Fruitatives Limited Ottawa.
A railway official rebukes a porter and astonished travellers for throwing trunks on a concrete platform. The scene captures startled passengers pinching themselves to confirm the odd disturbance and the risk to the platform.
Pazo Ointment promises to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles in six to fourteen days or refund. The ad cites a 50 cent price and includes a quoted humor line about Eskimos and candles.
An Ontario contact advertises free at home treatment for bed-wetting in children and urine difficulties in adults. It urges mothers not to blame the child and promises full instructions without payment. Also includes a humorous Puck cartoon caption about a missing word contest.
Dora seeks Bertiea Jack who has reappeared after a rift. Bertiea answers with a playful remark about remarriage as the two scrap a comic misunderstanding in Comic Cuts.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment claim to preserve purify and beautify skin scalp hair and hands while preventing inflammation irritation and pores clogging. They promote clear skin soft hands clean scalp and glossy hair for those seeking wholesome complexion care.
Alfred von Hammerstein, a German pioneer, operates borings near Fort McMurray and Athabasca Landing while consulting with Ottawa officials and the Geological Survey. He survives a dangerous Athabasca River rapids incident and predicts Athabasca will become a leading global oil field, with rich gold prospects around Peace River. He plans to return to Edmonton to reach McMurray before winter.
Albert Hickman and Stanford Munsie of Pictou Nova Scotia designed the 20 foot Viper II with a 30 horsepower engine that reaches about 26 miles per hour. They note hulls of this type show no hull defects at high speed and could exceed 30 mph with proper power.
An old ad promotes a laxative branded Bromo Quinine with a claim to cure a cold. It mentions the signature of E W Grove and markets the product as used worldwide. The price listed is 25e.
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt recalls Winston Churchill in London during a campaign. A young Cabinet Minister with mixed American and ducal lineage declines to see many American correspondents over tariff questions. He finally meets one, who claims to be the entire group of forty seven.
The London Spectator recalls post Waterloo times with grim satire about honors and taxes. A reform era mob stormed Downing Street near the foreign office shouting Liberty or death while a sentry warned with a deadly reply.
The article notes William Henson in 1842 as early inventor of an aero plane design. Henson, an engineer with offices in New City Chambers Bishopsgate London, created a monoplane like craft with supporting planes forming a single deck, contrasting with later biplane and multiplane forms.
A Kansas City Journal quote accuses a female participant of an unfair edge in a sack race, claiming she trained wearing tube gowns. The remark suggests a breach of decorum in a light community event.
In the latest British elections Mr A J Balfour secured the highest majority in the House of Commons at 11 340 votes while Mr L Jones of Appleby recorded the smallest margin among the winners.
A typical Galician house in Yorkton Saskatchewan is built of squared poplar logs with clay and straw plaster on walls ceiling and floor. The roof uses thatch of marsh grass held by grease ropes. All fittings are home made except the glass in the windows.
The fragmentary text cites school talk on synonyms cute and sneaky, with a quip about differences in actions. It mentions Mrs Jones' child and a mother, then shifts to a citable ad for Holloway's Corn Cure, and a scene with Miss Verner and a tense moment between George and a woman, all from the Catholic Standard.
Regularity of the bowels is essential for health. Without daily elimination waste decays and poisons the body causing biliousness and headaches. Dr Morse Indian Root Pills are entirely vegetable and regulate bowels without weakening or griping. Use.
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