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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 28, 1907
Page
7
An early 20th century style pitch touts SHILOH as a cure for coughs and colds. It claims affordable pricing and a strong Canadian usage history, promising guaranteed relief and urging readers to choose SHILOH for respiratory ailments.
A Philadelphia doctor cautions that crossing legs or sitting with one leg over the other can press nerves and vessels behind the knee elbow wrist groin and armpit. He warns this harmless habit may cause sciatica lameness numbness ascending paralysis cramps varicose veins and appendicitis.
An advertisement extols Baby's Own Tablets as a cure for minor ailments in infants and cites a testimonial from Mrs. Joseph Legree of Caraquet New Brunswick. The piece notes the product sold by druggists at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario and claims contented, thriving babies in homes using the tablets.
Column fragment notes a claim that Minard's Liniment cures diphtheria. The text also contains a mock dialogue about a furnace failing to heat, with a humorous exchange about furnace draw and a reference to a weekly draw of nine-tenths of a salary.
The Lemion Times prints an unsigned Bronte poem from Haworth about Thomas Bewick. It praises his wood engravings from Aesop to Goldsmith and notes Bewick's death in 1888, with memorial lines dated November 27 1892 and biographical notes.
A Willesden magistrate hears a fourteen year marriage dispute in which a wife claims a substitute husband arrived after the birth of the couple’s child. She cites minor changes in dress, skin tone, a missing birthmark, and altered habits as proof. The husband admits a darker complexion but denies substitution.
Two Parisian women, Mme. Duffaut and Mme. Charnier, pass the cabdriver examinations and join the ranks. The Prefect Lepino imposes male attire for safety, including stout pantaloons and boiled leather hats, provoking humor and public curiosity as they begin their rounds amid catcalls, curiosity, and street banter.
In a lecture on Military Formation in Australia Mr Long-Innes urged a frank appraisal of the nation’s defence. He warned the war footing is 40 000 yet arms are shaky and permanent officers numbered only 34. He called for a military college and pensions for retired officers, noting no arms factory exists.
A reader notes curious grave inscriptions: Sarah Pickford buried as a bachelor in 1703 at Presbury churchyard. George Graham buried in Westminster Abbey as a noted instrument maker who invented the deadbeat escape in clocks. a crossways tomb in East Ham marks a woman born cross and dying cross with a final burial request fulfilled.
A superstitious man notes New York offices many downtown and Times building uptown skip the thirteenth floor. He claims it is almost impossible to rent offices on the thirteenth floor due to superstition.
The April Easter number of The Designer features Easter suitable costumes, new spring dress designs, and practical fits gaining popularity. The issue continues Miles Bradford's Economy Farm in a new installment, includes Alexander Hume Ford's My Three Easters in the Far East, and offers an Easter play for children along with other regular departments.
Spring eruptions and skin issues blamed on impurities are claimed to clear with Bileans a plant based remedy. Advertises 50 cent boxes or six for 2 50 with free samples and Toronto origin. Also includes a humorous school anecdote about a boy and arithmetic.
An old notice asserts deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh, promising a $100 reward for cases cured by a supposed remedy and urging readers to request circulars from F. J. UHENEY & LA in Toledo, VA.
In cross examination the plaintiff admits bankruptcy did occur after paying all he owed. The questioner notes prior statements of satisfactory finances and presses on past payment events, prompting the surprised remark about finally reaching the issue.
To those with sedentary occupations Parmelee's Vegetable Pills offer a restorative claimed to be the most efficacious on the market for disorders of the liver and kidneys. The pills are advertised as easily procured and taken, acting expeditiously and cheaply.
A conversation between a millionaire father and his single audience member reveals the father's line of credit to his son. The father cites about 3,000 reasons to support continuing funding for the young inventor.
A hotel near the summit of the Rigi posts a notice that at sunrise a horn will be blown for travelers. The wine list is criticized by Temperance Caterer as offering wines that leave the traveler with little hope.
A health article argues that beauty in both men and women depends on avoiding bad mental states such as anger fear worry and envy. It urges cultivating good nature calmness cheerfulness and trust in oneself as essential to developing beauty.
A Washington Star note suggests making sleeve protectors from boy's handkerchiefs instead of elastic bands. One handkerchief yields a pair. cut and sews quickly to fit the arm with a cuff from the leftover corner. Four handkerchiefs equip a girl for office work, with two kept clean for each week.
Pure cream softens rough skin and baths benefit from bran or starch bags. Drink water with cornmeal to clear complexion. Sugar in soap boosts lather and cleansing. A homemade complexion powder uses oxide, chalk, rice powder, talcum, orris root, carmine tint, and rose perfume.
Elizabeth Asstruther argues in Complete Beauty Book that a gentlewoman preserves age-appropriate dress. She contrasts fashionable women who overstep age with those who retain youthful, yet dignified attire. A true gentlewoman wears the livery of her years with grace and avoids foolish pretense.
A girl learns budgeting by taking over catering at home. A seventeen year old saved between 1.50 and 2.00 dollars weekly from a fixed allowance, covering family meals and earning her commission. The method teaches money value and helps her future as an independent homemaker.
A burglar confronts a watchman saying he must check his deposit, claiming distrust of bankers. The exchange ends with the watchman reacting to the early-stage crime in progress. The vignette appears in Tit Bits.
NEIL FERGUSON reports that MINARD'S LINIMENT has been the top seller for a year at Marion Bridge, C.B. and remains the first choice among the liniments he handles.
In a dialogue from the Weekly Telegraph, Kihder McNabb argues the Duke of Argyle is not popular and lacks friends due to the pride of birth, while Andra Fergusson-Weel notes the duke cannot associate with men of his birth or intellect, placing him in a difficult position.
An ad claims Wolford's Sanitary Lotion cures all forms of contagious itch in 30 minutes for people and animals. Separately, the British government extends its postal contract with Canadian Pacific to include a 70s hour journey from Liverpool to Hong Kong in summer.
A distressed speaker praises a South American remedy after failed treatments and insomnia. The report notes a London discharge of news amid unrelated river conditions, with Thames water rising four feet and a jam near Wonderland above Spring Bank but limited damage expected.
Two valued qualities, pleasant to taste and effective, mark Mother Graves Worm Exterminator. Children like it.
Large herds of antelope are seen on western prairies as protection aids their growth. Alberta lacks teachers with Premier Rutherford stating at least 200 new pedagogues are needed this year.
Three hundred Salvation Army migrants depart Euston for Canada. Rider Haggard addresses the group, declaring that success depends on personal effort and hard work in a land of opportunity.
Unclear observations place the nest of Pallas' cray shrike Lavius major on the edge of known science as researchers await verification. The article notes the nest outside a specified habitat and hints at ongoing study by unnamed scientists.
Fragment discusses the word fle in many languages and Icelandic pful meaning putridity, noting how sound conveys disgust in varied tongues.
The University of Illinois adds relics to the Ste Abraham Lincoln collection including an ox yoke Lincoln made at New Salem Illinois in 1830 when he was twenty one. Lincoln and Clark M Smith viewed it at New Salem during an 1849 auction of farm chattels where Smith won the yoke as a souvenir because Lincoln was a congressman and Smith his brother in law.
The exchange notes that describing attendees as elegantly gowned is debated. The editor challenges calling them dressed, while the reporter sticks to the term indicating attire without overstatement.
A historic advertisement claims Bickles Anti-Consumptive Syrup soothes air passages and reduces coughs and colds. It pledges to calm irritation and eventually eradicate the illness from the system, urging a trial to prove its effectiveness for the farm as a wealth source.
The article discusses uric acid as the pain source in rheumatism and advertises a South American cure that neutralizes the acid with claimed six hour to three day cures. It also includes a reader Q and A about expensive partridges, noting a $25 price for an out of season shot.
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