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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 24, 1906
Page
7
A respected figure from Bands Ontario testifies that long standing kidney trouble and fever plagued him for over a year. After trying several doctors he used Dodd's Kidney Pills and reports complete relief and restoration of vigor, attributing his recovery to the pills.
A German resident Hans Jo in Fant Ern Venus Ireland mourns his wife two weeks then remarries. His friends stage a loud serenade revealing the custom and his reaction from the window. Lippincott notes Norway fertilizer from atmospheric nitrogen aids plants.
Minard's Liniment is praised while Sir Halph Payne-Galway is hailed as Europe's best archer. Six Yorkshire proprietors announce Parmelees Vegetable Pills as a successful medicine backed by public endorsement and a claim to fulfill all promised benefits. Great Britain leads in fast railway runs with more traffic than Britain’s rivals.
Handsome illustrated post includes full description of rheumatism and paralysis with home cure instructions. Claims to be world’s most successful treatment endorsed by medical men and ministry. Provides author W H Veno and preface by University of Wurtzburg graduate. Sunlight Soap advertisement notes.
Boston clergyman Rev. Edward A. Horton recounted at a banquet a humorous anecdote from Faneuil Hall. A woman encounters an aged stall of fowl and asks prices, only to be told profits. She mishears and calls them patriarches, prompting laughter.
The Washington Star quotes a girl asking Ed for his favorite play and a youth with long hair responds that he enjoys seeing a man steal second base as well as anything.
The measure would create a Court of Criminal Appeal with at least three High Court judges. It grants broad rights to appeal on all points, replacing current technical limits and allowing review of most indictable criminal convictions. Appeals must be filed within ten days, with possible public or private hearings and access to legal aid if needed. The act excludes Scotland and Ireland.
London editors reveal that Hill Brothers of Old Bond Street made John Burns’ court suit. W Kines notes Burns preferred the Bond Street firm as a Cabinet minister and honorary customer, dating back to his first Parliament days as a page boy. The sequence links Burns from page to MP to cabinet, with Hill’s repeatedly shaping his uniforms.
War correspondent A G Hales recounts a story of a coxcomb mistaken for Bernard Shaw in a Turkish bath. Shaw and the real Shaw were present, the attendant offended the impostor, who left generous tips, and the tale ends with a quip about matching feet and perceived intellect.
Sir Walter Parratt, famed master of the King’s music, once stayed with friends at Tenbury. To amuse the group he sat with his back to a chessboard and played Chopin and Mendelssohn from memory while directing two opponents. He won in about forty minutes.
If British ships were manned by national seamen universally, 40,000 unemployed could find a living. The remark appears in Syren and Sipping, noting the potential employment impact of manning policy.
An inspector of schools delivers a severe moral talk to a class of girls. He warns that pain to parents is wrong, but a girl, Nelly Ward, replies with a grim joke about her father avoiding boot cleaning by injuring himself. The exchange astonishes the inspector.
A Harvard dean helped a revelrous undergraduate avoid expulsion, placing him on probation. Years later the student’s father, grateful for the dean’s kindness, presented two bottles of old Irish whiskey kept as trophies in a drawer near the dean’s desk. The anecdote reflects on notions of fitness and propriety.
An article discusses St. Vitus dance in schoolchildren and touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as the cure for nervous weakness and related symptoms. It cites Flossie Dean of Crowland Ontario whose illness improved after nine boxes of the pills and promotes Pills as boosting blood and vitality.
In the Annals des Sciences Psychologiques reports strange events after Norway separated from Sweden. On November eighteenth soldiers at the Akerhus Casino heard a crack and a portrait of King Oscar fell, damaging its crown. Days later a marble bust of King Oscar shattered at a private reception. Christie’s sale in London realized about £16,629 funds from modern pictures, including Leighton's Winding the Skein.
A young Englishwoman proposes Shakespeare readings to working girls. One student admits she has not read Hamlet and mocks the teacher while claiming to have seen many books pass through her hands. In another vignette a civil service exam tests a candidate’s history knowledge with Panic Wars and Hannibal references.
A railway project aims to extend through the Mocha coffee region to Sannaa, the largest city in Southern Arabia, signaling a major transport link to the area.
Albert Edwards recalls daily searches by drunken soldiers in the city, with stops at Iberian Gate and Leonietskaia. A sleigh was halted, a pipe mistaken for a revolver, and soldiers guarded the officer as the user stood, hands up, fearing shots more than quips.
A mayor recalls a meeting where a woman questions men’s reliance on women and a whispered joke about “In paradise mum” rises from the crowd. An ad touts Holloway’s Corn Cure claiming its cures. A Keir Hardie anecdote recalls a Commons library incident where a policeman asks if he is working on the roof, then learns he is on the floor.
The Alpine Club of Canada formed in Winnipeg plans a July trek from Field to Yoho Valley to summit Youo Pass. About 100 members will camp in four areas with Swiss guides, cooks, and transport chiefs organizing wagons pack ponies and excursions. Camp life features daily climbs and side trips with a modest fee regime. Mrs Parker of Winnipeg is club secretary.
Evangelists Crossley and Hunter plan revival meetings. Bickle's Anti-Consumptive Syrup touted as a standard cure for coughs lung inflammation and throat ailments with broad testimonials and endorsement by medicine vendors. Silk is described as an item from Mediterranean shellfish called pinna.
An ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a proven remedy with a $1000 reward for failure. It claims internal action against a constitutional disease and promises testimonials. Separately a report notes explosives found on arrested anarchists in Lorraine charged with plotting against Emperor William.
A letter from Yarmouth Nova Scotia reports a lumber worker crushed by a falling tree. After using Minard's Liniment with three votties, the man’s pain subsided and he fully recovered, returning to work, as claimed by the writer Sauveur Duval of Elgin Road L’Islet County Quebec.
A father questions a suitor on wealth and virtue. The suitor vows confidence, saying he is devout yet unscrupulous. The father blanks judgment, then tells the couple to marry and be happy.
London reports the 2000 year old Inca miner mummy will be sold at Stevens auction rooms Covent Garden. The perfectly preserved body shows green copper oxide staining with a small head wound. Stone hammers and a rug were found nearby. only one other such mummy is known, previously bought by New York’s Central Park Museum for 5000 dollars.
Two well dressed elderly ladies visited a prominent bank. One sought to cash a cheque and invoked a friend to identify her. The cashier asked for identity. the claimant claimed the other woman would identify her, then cracked a pun about Lil introducing the judge.
Paris ophthalmologists send a congratulatory letter to Duke Theodore of Bavaria after his 5000th successful eye operation.
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