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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
3
The husband John completed unusual work late and went upstairs to bed when his wife half awakened asking for confirmation. She questioned him with force of habit, sensing something amiss as he tiptoed away.
A dated item from St Paul C C March 27 1907 features Dr T A Slocum Limited of Toronto praising Psychine and Oxomulsion as effective remedies for lung stomach and general weakness. Dr Ernest A Allard and others endorse the product with price references and druggist availability. The text also includes satirical dialogue excerpts from London and Chicago Tribune vendors.
An 19th century advertisement for Hall's Catarrh Cure touts a 100 dollar payout for incurable catarrh and notes testimonials. The excerpt also includes a quip about spelling Narragansett and a mention of Newport in a Folksy magazine tone.
Canadian flax cultivation expands in the Mennonite Reserve area of Southern Manitoba near Rosenfeld Gretna Plum Coulee Morris and Emerson with extensive plantings along CPR lines Estevan Moose Jaw Arcola Regina and Regina Prince Albert districts drawing on American settler experience. Heathen world map shows Muslims Catholics Protestants and Jews and heathen counts. a Pills advertisement promotes Parmalee’s Vegetable Pills for digestion.
An advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablets as the cure for childhood ailments such as constipation indigestion diar rhoea colic simple fever worms and teething troubles. A government analyst calls it safe and a Ontario mother Testifies it keeps babies healthy. Sold by mail for 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Brockville Ont.
An 19th century note explains liver disorders stem from poor habits and diet and promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a gentle yet effective remedy. The dialogue includes patient reactions and a humorous aside about a bow-legged character, reflecting the periodical tone.
An advertisement asserts Wolford's Sanitary Lotion cures itch disorders in 30 minutes, including human and animal cases such as mange and prairie scratches, promoting rapid relief.
A Paris news note reports the reconstruction of the famous Notre Dame bridge has started. Separately a London clergyman states ancient Jewish religious music was sung with bagpipe accompaniment.
Venice residents and artists oppose city plans to light the Grand Canal with gas arguing moonlight and nocturnal charm will be destroyed. A petition labeled a fight for Venetian moonlight gathers signatures from artists and lovers of beauty against the municipal proposal.
Edmund Clarence Stedman, famed poet and banker, threw a book at a servant, losing it. A passerby took it, and the rare volume vanished until the poet, browsing a second hand shop, found his own copy for 40 dollars. A card inside revealed the purchase was his. The incident cured him of throwing books at servants.
A librarian explains four thief types roving libraries. The umbrella thief hides books in an unrolled umbrella, the weekly thief conceals a rolled weekly in a cylinder, the installment thief steals pages gradually, and the open thief walks out with a book under their arm. The library reports about two books stolen per hundred.
A Pearsons Weekly piece describes three fatal death threats: a South American spider whose venom scorches blood vessels, the poisonous grain bhat that causes violent mania, and a vine whose tentacles sear flesh before crushing prey. The article notes the agony and inevitability of death in each case.
Colds are the most frequent causes of headache. Laxative Bromo Quinine mentioned. Grambler notes weather patterns with sarcasm at a Circle discussion about paying $1,500,000 yearly for the Weather Bureau and the weather we receive.
An assortment of vintage clippings shows an advertisement for Minard’s Liniment sold nationwide and a fur company in Minneapolis, followed by a quoted dialogue about state violence and a satirical exchange on prices and daily life, reflecting era concerns and humor.
A customer named Theodore Dorais was completely cured after five years of rheumatism through Minard's Liniment. Merchant A Cote of Isidore, Quebec endorses the claim and offers verification from Dorais, the parish priest, or neighbors.
An ambitious woman wrote to Abraham Lincoln seeking a sentiment and autograph. Lincoln replied with practical guidance about including a postage stamp when writing to a stranger, ending with his signature A. LINCOLN.
An anecdote from Baron Martin who, hearing a lawyer Stammers ready to quote Scripture, interrupts with a sharp jab about prophets selling their father’s sixpenny bealfpence. The exchange ends with the judge’s quip about Mr Myer and the prophets in court.
A clergyman warns against selfishness and urges restraint. He recalls a Vermont art student sharing a studio with a Wisconsin journalist. The student buys two chops, the cat eats one, and the Vermonter quips the cat ate the other chop.
A humorous exchange traces a string of trades from a $600 automobile to a secondhand typewriter. The tale ends with the narrator seeking a good dog in exchange for the useless machine, noting the failed hopes of each swap.
In a big athletic club office two men discuss a mural above the clerk's desk. One notes an incorrect running pose where the left leg and arm positions contradict balance, a flaw an athletic insider would spot.
A young writer, urged by friends to publish, prints a book and sells autographed copies to his circle who praise him no more. The venture fails, leaving him with no friends. Success Magazine moralizes on vanity and gullibility.
The Philadelphia Ledger remarks that Solomon could not explain four wonders of nature and would add a fifth now the way of an express company with a prepaid package. The witty note contrasts ancient marvels with modern logistics.
Mr. Comrox gives cautious approval of his European son-in-law noting relief that disputes within the family are conducted in a language he does not understand. The exchange hints at cultural distance easing tensions in a private moment.
The dialogue centers on a mother guiding her daughter Ethel about loving neighbors while noting life in Sats prior times. The exchange hints at social norms and historical context in a family scene without broader event detail.
The narrator praises a friend’s uncanny ability to identify car makes as they pass by yet learns the man cannot distinguish real brands. He reveals he invented names on the fly to satisfy the question, admitting no true expertise and a playful deception.
In this London Answers excerpt, Everhart demonstrates hoop rolling as a lucrative twentieth century livelihood. He creates hoops that trace perfect circles, returns to his hand, and can manage multiple hoops simultaneously between two screens. His refined touch lets him impart varied hoop motions, akin to shaping a billiard ball by touch.
A chummy exchange shows Gladys pressing Jack about Count Busted Brokes intentions. The Count reportedly seeks a kiss, with Jack urging immediate action and gratitude for a favorable outcome as relayed by Puck style dialogue.
In a brief dialogue, Tess notes Mr. Goodart’s generosity and kindness, while Jess comments that Jack Goodart is exceptionally soft hearted and charitable despite the situation.
Advert describes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as the peer for joint and limb pains including rheumatic pains neuralgia and lumbago. It claims fast and lasting relief when rubbed into the skin highlighting its magic property of removing pain from the body.
A tenderfoot travels far to view a sunset praised as beautiful. Arizona Al sharpens the stranger’s tale, saying the sunset is not his, hinting at a playful misunderstanding in a Chicago Record-Herald item.
The ad touts ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT as removing hard and soft lumps blemishes from horses and curing various leg and throat ailments. It claims dramatic results and promises savings of $50 by using a single bottle.
The speaker extols a rural dream of forty acres in hills free of debt a wife seven children five coon dogs a sorrel team and a good shotgun living forty seven miles from a railroad beside a fishable stream. The ideal combines land family and nature as the ultimate happiness.
An old French proverb compares misfortunes and morals to bitters in medicine. It notes each is initially disagreeable but strengthens the stomach and the disposition as the bitters work and adversity tempers character.
The quote notes that those who shout for liberty often grant it least, illustrating a paradox about freedom and restraint. It presents Sam Johnsen as the attributed speaker, reflecting on political or social hypocrisy. The statement calls for prudent, consistent application of liberty rather than verbal fervor.
A quirky Chicago News excerpt contrasts a boy named Willie with a defining question about genius. It notes neighbors doubted his potential yet hints at a deeper portrait of talent and worth.
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A student named Bummel almost drowned after being kept under water by a bailiff who passed by, as reported in Transatlantic Tales. The incident occurred during a swimming session yesterday.
A Tid Bits humor item jokes about a neighbor named John Braggs. The stranger asks about his character and the native answers with a telescope imagination and a humorous claim about exaggeration.
A teacher questions James about a synonym, and he replies with a wry, smart answer. The piece includes a humorous anecdote about a reader seeking Holloway's Corn Cure and a comical exchange with a drug clerk offering two twos and a one.
The rose symbolizes secrecy in Greece and was hung above the table at banquets to signify that what was spoken there should not be repeated.
A historical note asserts that in the last decades India’s plague fatalities equal the total deaths from all wars since Napoleon, highlighting the immense toll of disease against long war history.
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