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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 05, 1910
Page
3
A vintage ad extols Dr Chase's Medicines and Nerve Food with client quotes from Alberta. It argues reduced doctor bills and convenient home remedies, citing Dr Chase's remedies for nerve, catarrh, and breathing issues. The piece lists Elmanson Bates & Co in Toronto as dealers.
A hiccuping courtroom scene shows a lawyer quoting Latin lines to accuse a witness of spinning lies. The dialogue shifts to a mother and her child where affection and numbers blur as a lover recounts an evening.
A Washington Star excerpt shows a manager and playwright debating nerve and homage in theatre. The playwright claims restraint after reading renowned poets, while the manager mocks the boldness of their approach.
A cautious man warns that leaping to conclusions is dangerous and may lead to ridicule. His companion adds a humorous note about jumping at the ferry boat and missing it.
Samuel Martin of Strathroy Ontario suffered twenty years of torturing back pain. After trying many remedies he bought four boxes of Gin Pills. One pill gave rapid relief, two more completed his cure. Each box costs one dollar, six boxes for two dollars fifty. Free sample by writing National Drug & Chem. Co. Dept. (N.U.) Toronto.
Dialog fragments feature Hank Stubbs Hank Miller and a reformer exchange about rusters a chantecler bunnet and a boy asked if his mother’s fur set is paid for by his father The text mixes comic dialects and street talk from the Boston Herald and Chicago Evening Post with a moral sting about cost and responsibility.
A tense exchange features a father confronting his daughter Genevieve about an engagement while noting an unexpectedly small bill for last quarter. The dialogue sketches a domestic scene with underlying tensions over secrecy and finances.
A Chicago American fragment recalls a mother warning her nine year old about a ghost in a dark closet guarding jam. Two hours later the child reports the ghost ate nearly half the jam.
Punch humor sketches a scene with two loafers joking about bribery and corruption surrounding an election. The dialogue lampoons public fear and the idea of a hidden, dominant force behind politics.
Westminster School boys enjoy unique access to Parliament venues and ceremonies. They have reserved seats in the Commons gallery, Sunday terrace privileges at Parliament, and prime spots during coronations and state openers. The Sovereign’s procession and royal salutes are led by the school’s scholars.
Garrett P. Serviss argues in a New York American piece that a Venuslike clouded world would halt timekeeping and travel. Without celestial observations, clocks fail, ships wreck, railroads stop, maps and navigation collapse, and humanity loses a fixed reference for hours and distances.
The piece traces early uses of the thermometer in medicine from 1797 in Edinburgh with the cold douche for typhoid fever to Santorius of Padua who first used a partially open thermometer. It notes Boerhave and De Haen in introducing and popularizing bedside use, with general adoption from 1850 to 1870.
The first artist boasts of selling a masterpiece to Banker Parvenu and receiving a $5,000 check. The second artist denounces the buyer as a miserable skinflint and wishes for a swindle.
The Arabian Nights collection dates to an unknown origin and author, first publicized in Europe late in the 17th century by Galland who collected Eastern manuscripts for Colbert. A marginal note from 1554 on a copy from Syria, and interval evidence, place the work’s composition around the mid 1400s. Von Hammer links some plots to an earlier Thousand Fanciful Stories collection.
The Brooklin Eagle notes uncertainty about how April Fooling began with many theories linking it to ancient pagan festivals in Hindu and Roman traditions. It observes the practice persists across countries under various names, suggesting deep historical roots in early human history.
The world’s coldest inhabited area is Verkhoyansk in Siberia where January lows reach 90 degrees below zero and July highs can reach 56 degrees above zero. The Sahara interior in Africa hosts the hottest temps around 122 degrees. Greytown Nicaragua records the wettest climate with about 260 inches annually, while Port Nolloth South Africa averages less than an inch yearly.
A Houston Post line recalls a woman's tragic fate as she toiled washing to support her lover after he left her. The piece reflects on love and social hardship, illustrating how abandonment and economic strain can devastate a woman's life.
A fragment from Baltimore shows Nell-Harry praised for a masterful proposal style that drew many women, including the speaker, to turn him down, noting it as a curious trait among the group.
A compact literary musing attributed to Owen Meredith examines living with purpose and belief that life’s candid striving shapes a meaningful future for the individual and society. The piece reflects on earnest effort guiding action and consequence.
Manitoba titter over eastern papers confusing Premier Roblin with his son George nicknamed Jake a Winnipeg Telegram reporter and bowler. A Detroit tournament trip story misidentified Roblin as part of the visiting Winnipeg bowlers. the Premier is at Hot Springs for health and cannot attend the Legislature nor bowl.
The state coach used by the King and Queen to St Stephen's for Parliament's opening is hailed as the finest of its kind. Nearly 150 years old, it originally cost $40,000 and rested unused for forty years in the Bucking ham Palace royal mews. After last year's overhaul, builders say its condition will last forever.
The syrup is touted as a sure remedy for coughs and colds with many attestations from users. A bottle promises quick throat relief and easing of pulmonary discomfort, offered at 20 cents at all dealers.
Mamma predicts no quarrel in the marriage saying she and papa never quarrel. Groom responds with reassurance and a playful exchange about being easier to manage than napa was. The light dialogue captures domestic wit as printed in the column.
A physician, C. A. King M.D., certifies personal and professional use of Minard’s Liniment and states it reliably achieves the desired effect when a liniment is needed.
A lawyer, asked by his client the boxer to limit charges, replies that while the client may ask the foreman, it is not how he earns his bread. The remark underscores the lawyer’s insistence on fair and full compensation for services.
Advertisement copy touts a product as the only Bromo Quinine laxative and claims a 25 cent cure for a cold in one day. It references E W Grove signature and includes a quirky moral about learning from a mosquito in a classroom exchange.
A Dallas Texas News snippet recalls a scene in a drug store where a man described as a teamster speaks into a borrowed telephone. The dialogue reveals a chaotic accident involving a vehicle, a wagon, and several injures, with bystanders overhearing the call.
A Pittsburg Dispatch report recounts a brief moment in a restaurant where an older man seated beside a one-armed patron suddenly spots the arm in the sleeve. The short exchange ends with the surprised observer admitting the truth.
A newlywed doctor arrives home after a difficult yet successful operation on a patient. His wife congratulates him and jokingly laments that if she had married him earlier, her first husband might have been saved.
A period piece touts spring blood cleansing with Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic to counteract indoor winter ills. It claims benefits against anaemia nervous debility indigestion rheumatism and other disorders from bad blood. A Nova Scotian testimonial describes boils clearing after twelve boxes. Pills sold by dealers or mail from Brockville Ont.
A brief note in Metropolitan Meguazine urges children to play safely outdoors, warning them to watch for speeding flying machines and avoid risky crossings or close encounters near traffic and air vehicles.
A subscriber storms the editor's office demanding the reporter. The editor, stockholder, asserts the paper is the newspaper itself. A joking response follows as the man claims the paper is to blame. Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil praised for merit, not ads, as a medicine. A joke about a swearing parrot ends the excerpt.
An advertisement proclaims Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as economical cures for eczema rashes scalings and hair loss promising clear skin soft hands and glossy hair. A humorous anecdote follows about Mr and Mrs Country Lots returning home to find relatives waiting and a child commenting about a cherry and a spark plug at the country club.
An old advertisement touts Lifebuoy Soap as refreshing for bath and toilet and claims it cleanses and purifies. A stray court snippet notes a will case with an Irish witness who denies intimate knowledge of the deceased, quipping about being alone with him.
A humorous exchange from the Chicago News describes a boy Johnny with two gifts a diary and a pea shooting pop gun. His diary notes cold and sloppy weather and a line about Gramma. A New York visitor asks about a dog and learns he is an expectorator, while the Boston maid calls the dog a Spitz and the owner scolds through the joke.
A traveler asks if his wait is twenty minutes to wait or to eight. The waiter corrects him saying twenty minutes to eat and notes the train has just left. The exchange captures a humorous miscommunication in a rail line dining car.
A Farm Journal aphorism notes that if people spoke only what they thought, there would be far less talking. It reflects on speech and restraint.
A discharged veteran travels with his wife and three children seeking two full tickets and three halves. The clerk learns the children are triplets aged seven. The father explains their births in Cairo Bombay and Madras. A second note promotes Parmalees Vegetable Pills for sleeplessness restoring digestion and nerve calm.
Two telephonists discuss outfits when a masculine voice interrupts asking for a number. The man quips that he believes he is on a clothes line, prompting a scornful rebuke about the line they think he is on. The humorous exchange appears in the San Francisco Call.
A quotation contrasts the biblical Jonah with the modern “Jonah” who brings misfortune, noting the shift from prophet to omen of loss. The exchange frames a humorous yet pointed view of repeated calamities across eras.
A Chicago American reader quotes Mr. Smithers joking that the poet’s phrase the home of the brave and the land of the free alludes to bachelors and married men. The remark frames a humorous take on patriotic wording.
A Paris dentist’s servant opened a door to a woebegone patient and asked which misery he should announce. The scene evokes the nation’s famed politeness as the narrator remarks on courtesy in awkward moments.
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