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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 14, 1907
Page
3
A sensational claim follows Mrs. Cora B. Miller and her remedy marketed to women. She reports rapid growth from a small capital to a large business employing clerks and stenographers and promises free samples and a book by mail to interested women.
A Cleveland dealer notes public sentiment on preparing for war with Japan while a reader reports the Winfield Scott Light Guards have unanimously disbanded Saturday night. The exchange highlights home front attitudes and military unit changes.
Mrs John Shortill of Georgetown Ont credits Baby's Own Tablets with saving her three month old daughter's life. After prolonged indigestion and constipation the child's condition improved rapidly after starting the remedy. The mother says the child thrived and they keep a box at home, with the medicine advertised to contain no opiate. Sold by dealers or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
Augustus Thomas discusses first nights and anxiety before performances. He cites wishing for Charles Reade's confidence after drafting his novel’s stage adaptation Never Too Late to Mend, noting Reade’s margin note about a somber moment in the Somence.
In lighthearted Straw Stories humor Minard's Liniment is praised while a suitor frets about his fiancée testing a diamond engagement ring. The exchange notes a winter wedding plan and the partner's cautious confidence.
A Baltimore American quip notes a husband keeps costs in suspense by ordering blanks for his wife to fill, a tongue in cheek take on managing expensive tastes.
A historical survey highlights Sir Robert Peel and Sir Titus Salt as builders of state and industry, Cobbetts reform spirit, Dr Tait’s church expansion, Lord Melbourne’s governance and Queen Victoria’s reign, William Charles Macready’s stage influence, Sir George White’s military career, Charles Lever’s storytelling charm and broader cultural impact.
The article chronicles Andrew Jacksons schooling from ages seven to ten and beyond. It notes he studied at a Geld school run by Mr Branch, then at a select school taught by Rev Dr Daerid Hoamphreys near Waxhaw, with later attendance at Queen College or seminary in Charlotte for a couple of terms. By ten he could read well enough to read the Declaration of Independence aloud to neighbors, an honor he recalled proudly in later years. The account relies on Thomas E. Watsons Jeffersonian Magazine as a source.
A weary mother with a baby boards a street car and sits beside two men deep in talk. The baby cries loudly prompting one man to suggest moving, but the mother wittily asserts the child can still see them from any seat.
In the Dresden Museum a large Dutch drinking cup sits under a heavy glass cover isolated as it allegedly has consumption that can spread to other glass objects. The Berlin paper notes remedies exist for glass deterioration but have not been applied to this vessel to study the disease’s progress.
The article estimates the planet's oceans at 145 million square miles with an average depth of 12 000 feet containing about 6 270 000 000 000 000 tons of water. It notes rivers flow to cover 36 cubic miles daily and 8500 years would be needed to refill if all oceans dried and evaporation ceased.
Quote from John Ruskin praising books as an eternal court inviting all readers to converse with kings and queens. It asserts that readers enter a limitless society, gaining fellowship and rank, and can never be cast out except by their own fault.
A humorous scene unfolds as a new maid apologizes for delays with a confident Irish smile. She claims to have misplaced the pudding and hunted through the house, only to reveal it in the oven as dinner arrives late but served.
The London World notes that a new hat or frock can lift a mood and restore a woman’s spirits. It warns that denying herself such purchases may lead to restless or even disastrous feelings.
A blunt man recalls walking the street to polish his shoes and a sarcastic companion questions whether he started at the wrong end. This quirky exchange appears in a Baltimore American style aside.
A Milwaukee era exchange notes a father guiding his son in the family business and the son teaching the father in return. The brief item highlights mentorship across generations within a shop setting, reflecting a playful exchange about success and mutual learning.
A man faces heightened scrutiny in the peak of unexpected good luck as fortunes turn and eyes focus on his actions and decisions during prosperity.
The article features Mr. R C Biarton of the Fe'ratios Army and Temple Toronto praising Zam Buk as a remedy for eczema and skin eruptions. He details dramatic improvements after applying Zam-Buk to facial sores, then extols its broader uses and availability at 50 cents a box, with bulk pricing and a trial offer.
A Chicago Chronicle joke recalls a Paint Rock grave digger who asks for steady work. The minister replies that steady work would bury the town in a week, illustrating the tasteless boast of busy professionals.
An early 20th century ad claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It attributes deafness to inflammation of the Eustachian tube caused by catarrh and promises a $100 reward for any case of deafness from catarrh not cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. It promotes the product and offers circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, VA, with a 75 cent price and mentions Halls Family Pills for constipation.
A juvenile exchange in Chums notes a schoolmaster testing a pupil. Asked what earth consists the boy answers land and water. When asked what land and water make he quickly replies mad, a playful ending to a geography lesson.
A Philadelphia Ledger quotation shows a worker debating wage sufficiency and steady work. The dialogue questions if higher wages exist and reveals a desire for rest after earning enough to take a vacation.
In a Crimea era court martial the army faces a hangman shortage. A volunteer steps forward but madness or deceit stalls the execution as officers test courage. The rescue attempt ends with the volunteer forced into duty and punished for fear of failing.
A psychologist argues that starting work defeats paralysis, noting that difficult tasks rarely grow easier without action. Daily gratuitous exercise of effort trains the will to govern life and destiny, curing laxness and preventing a slipping into mental paralysis.
The article tracks early nail origins from animal teeth and bronze pins to wooden tent pegs used in biblical times. It notes bronze and iron nails in Swiss lake dwellings and France, and traces nail making from blacksmiths to the first cut nails by Jeremiah Wilkinson in 1775 Rhode Island. It ends with Perkins 1705 patented nail machine producing 200000 nails daily.
A method describes suspending a ripe acorn just above water in a glass. Over months it will burst, grow a root, and send a straight stem with green leaves. Once the plant appears, water should be changed frequently to aid growth and observation.
An insurance agent cites a 99 percent premium on a 100000 policy as impractical. Historic cases show overdue ships often insured for 80 to 90 percent. notable examples include the Bulgaria Croft in 1899 at 90 percent and the Adelaide Mary with a policy of percent after lifeboats were saved.
A humorous Punch dialogue shows a visitor warned against river bathing due to alligators, while boatmen claim none at the river mouth. The boatman explains the alligator fears the shark, underscoring comic misperceptions and colonial humor.
The London Ladies Field comments that English men and women are inherently airy and half the nation’s bad manners stem from shyness. It notes Englishmen share self conscious shyness tied to immense conceit, framing social behavior as a national trait.
A domestic quarrel ended with Mrs. Flareup hurling a flatiron at her husband after he sat on her new bon net. The husband retorts he could not do such a thing because he has no new bon net.
Brown recalls proposing to his wife who, instead of saying it is sudden, responded with an original remark about the timing. The exchange highlights her witty, unconventional reaction to the marriage proposal.
An amusing column notes Urar Nicholas as a skilled whist player with a long card career and mentions Russians as top card players with heavy yearly expenditures. The piece shifts to a health ad praising Sartacles's Vegetable Pills as a remedy for dyspepsia and cloudiness of the mind.
A blotched report states a herd of about 4000 wild buffalo in North Alberta faces protection legislation. The measure aims to shield the buffalo from Indigenous peoples by restricting access and use of the herd.
An advertisement touts a remedy by Dr Agnews promising relief of Organic or Sympathetic heart disease within three minutes. It claims to alleviate palpitation breathlessness smothering spells and left side pain with a single dose and urges readers to try the peerless cure.
A College Settlement worker scolds East Side children for soiled faces and asks them to wash. Tommy Tuff jokes about “the angel” who gave a nickel to wash. The quote highlights rough urban living and charity in a neighborhood.
A fragment notes a baby crying during teething and a pun about early parenthood. The text references a Boston Tran script with fragmented dialogue about a parent and child.
A Baltimore American fragment reports a sensational claim that Minacci’s Liniment cures diphtheria. The text mixes dialogue about a tied steak and a cook’s possible punishment, suggesting a clipped news snippet or humor column.
A vivid boast that Dr Thomas Eclectric Ohl can banish pain by exerting the law of health. The copy frames medicine as a guardian of peace that confronts illness and declares resistance futile as health prevails.
A girl waits in a tent market then tells a proprietor she wants many items including a diamond ring a sealskin sacque a foreign nobleman a pug dog and a box at the opera but all she truly desires is a dime’s worth of bologna sausage.
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