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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 27, 1909
Page
3
An advertisement promotes Zam-Buk for skin sores pimples and eruptions claiming to purify the blood and open the pores. It touts two treatment methods urgent application of Zam-Buk and soap washing, plus Zam-Buk balm for deeper healing and cites uses for burns eczema and other skin injuries with pricing and postal order details.
The last of the great Victorian men of science Dr Alfred Russel Wallace has turned 87. Once a land surveyor and architect, he traveled and studied nature. He differed from Darwin on timing of evolution theory, noting Darwin conceived it twenty years earlier. He supports phrenology and spiritualism and opposes compulsory vaccination.
Advert says Holloway's Corn Cure can remove corns without pain. It claims quick relief and easy use for troubled feet.
In a Cleveland Leader excerpt Mr Dustin Stax explains his hopeful stance in business. He notes he once discharged a cook who proved absolutely incompetent and faced difficulty giving a strong recommendation due to the poor performance.
A Windsor Ontario appeal offers a free home treatment for uterine and female health issues with instructions and a free book. The ad claims cures for leucorrhoea ulceration displacements pelvic pain and related symptoms at about 12 cents weekly. It directs writing to Mrs M Summers Box H I Windsor with request for the book and adviser.
A testimonial ad cites nervous prostration and partial paralysis and urges use of Dr Chase's Nerve Food. It claims gradual nerve cell rebuilding with daily energy. includes a Toronto dealer note and a patient case of recovery after two doctors failed to help.
An elderly narrator recalls leech harvesting in Norfolk marshes. He describes wading with others, attaching leeches to bodies, and discarding them into baskets. The grueling work, daily pain, and eventual decline of the trade are noted, with reflections on its harshness and the end of the practice.
Rajah Birbar, adviser to Emperor Akbar, once faced a Persian king who threatened his life. Birbar observed that the king's power waned like a full moon while Akbar would rise like a crescent to full glory, earning the emperor praise and rewards.
A clerk explains a simple method to remove shiny spots called clerks' elbow. Soak the spot in cold water for thirty minutes, rub with a teasel to raise a fuzz, then brush to lay the nap flat. The shine disappears on suitable fabrics.
A manufacturer states there is no sand in sandpaper and explains that powdered glass is the key material. He describes grinding glass into several grades, coating paper with hot glue, applying the glass powder, and rolling to finish the surface. He notes glass paper’s superior work compared with sand-based paper.
A playful exchange centers on a wedding guest or bride and her partner Richard. The bride chides with humor about cutting pie with a knife while he jokes that oversights will happen because she forgot to give him something. The light banter captures a domestic, lighthearted tone.
A fragment shows Mrs Boozer asking where he has been while Mr Boozer answers he was setting up with a friend. The Cincinnati Enquirer is cited as the source.
Compact aphorism from the Piuteburg Press notes that friendship rests on reciprocal affection and loyalty, defining true companionship as mutual support and trust between friends.
A sightless Russian artist demonstrated that a blind person can paint a picture using color boxes marked by touch. Miss Winifred Holt noted the feat at the Blind Men's Improvement club gathering in New York. The painting, impressionist in style, sparked discussion about blind artistry and included praise that it matched many New York works. The report also recounted two blind English bay lads who saved drowning people last year, and a brief joke about Minard's Liniment and evading the law.
A mother urges Baby's Own Tablets to keep children healthy and teething easy. The ad cites cures for stomach and bowel troubles and worm destruction, with a Toronto testimonial and mail order price of 25 cents per box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.
The Casual Gossip notes claims that a woman faces constant growling from her husband. The reports describe a tense marriage with insinuations of hostility and control.
A vintage advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as a internal remedy addressing catarrh through blood and mucous surfaces. It markets a two ingredient formula by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and urges testimonials. The notice also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A Chicago Tribune report describes a $1200 sewing machine designed to automate rug stitching. The device, about the size of an opera hat, uses a 38 foot frame with stations like an elevated rail, belt driven by a motor, and aims to replace multiple women rug sewers in shops.
An official announces that future negotiations for debenture purchases will be conducted in the speaker’s own name, not in the name of former Regina representatives with whom they have severed ties.
A Wall Street man, dragged by his spouse to the opera, dozes through a performance until awakened by a soulful chord. He half-jokes about its worth, asking how much it would fetch as the scene unfolds with amused curiosity.
The advertisement promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a cheap trial for dyspepsia indigestion rheumatism and digestive derangements. It asserts the pills are effective where other remedies fail and that many cures can be traced to their use.
The Boston Transcript notes historical barter where cattle functioned as currency. It recalls a time when livestock served as a medium of exchange and a friend’s remark hints at shared thrift or barter humor.
A bystander quotes a woman and a man on a bank and in water as they dispute the meaning of Shiloh's Cure with a remark about tumbling versus skating in a river setting.
Ellen Terry recounts William Terriss and Henry Irving stories from her book. One tale notes Irvings sharp rebuke for Terriss delays, followed by Terriss learning his mother had died that morning, then Terriss weeping and taking a day off. Later Terriss jokes about his mother in the audience, forgetting she was dead.
An account describes driver ants in Cross River natives tales marching in long columns like a black snake. They form four inch wide trails, avoid bites in heat, but bite fiercely when stirred. The narrator and household flee as a regiment overruns beds and rooms, with advice to use fire or hot ashes to expel them.
A suburban doctor laments a $15 hotel dinner chosen by a man instead of his wife. He criticizes lobster bisque, sweetbreads, Virginia ham and pudding Reine Victoria as a poor combination, arguing women should select menus to avoid waste and poor taste.
A farmer in Billville boasts that a young man beat his time with scripture. The youth replies he does not seek worldly gold but stores up treasure in heaven, prompting the farmer to acknowledge his faith.
An old farmer endures years of trains rumbling by his land. At last he abandons his plow and shakes his fist at the passing express, declaring he will tide the train on Saturday. The local sentiment hints at a humorous regional tale from Fair Warning.
In a playful exchange, a teacher and a boy debate how many zones exist. The boy proposes six zones: torrid, temperate north, temperate south, frigid north, frigid south, and ozone, as reported by Chicago News.
An exchange questions if a man is a genius, with one speaker doubting comprehension and another arguing he can convince others of his insight. The dialogue centers on perception, eloquence, and influence.
Guglielmo Ferrero argues that Rome’s grandeur never matched modern metropolises. Even at its peak, the Second Century empire was smaller and poorer than contemporary European or American cities, lacking abundant light, beverages, and luxury items.
A detailed natural history note describes how a bee approaches a flower. It scents honey with antennae, lands on the stamen center, and uses a forty ring proboscis to reach nectar. The honey bag serves as the first stomach and transfers nectar to the hive without digestion.
The East Africa hunting party relies on fresh provisions from their guns. Meat from water duck zebra elephant is tough and largely eaten by native porters who cache elephant meat until gamy. Eland, oryx, impala and gazelles are edible. klipspringer and dik dik prized. Hartbeest yields prime backbone cuts. meals include marrow soup, dikdik cutlets, roast guinea fowl, curried venison, corn flower pudding with tea or coffee.
A Glasgow minister complains of good Sabbath reception and asks which part of his sermon pleased the crowd. The beadle slyly answers that today congregations care less about the heads and more about the tails of sermons, noting his Sabbath talk was notably shorter than usual and thus more pleasing.
In a humorous exchange a veteran suffragette vows government reform including a new naval bureau, while a younger suffragette agrees that bureaus are outdated and proposes a combined wardrobe and chiffoniere as a modern solution.
A brief comic exchange shows Hoax noting a woman’s possessions look cheap to reveal her husband. Joax asks how and Hoax answers by the same simple test.
A cryptic line references gold and restraint with a striking image. the fragment hints at a poem or lyric figure Wingel Onida as a possible author or subject in a historical arts note. The readable text centers on wealth, bondage, and a singular emotional moment.
A testimonial from Frank Trumper of Napanee Ontario claims Gin Pills cured his chronic kidney pain after heavy railroad work. The ad asserts relief from sharp stabbing pains, rheumatism, sciatica, and bladder trouble, offering a money back guarantee and a 6 for 2.50 deal via National Drug & Chemical Co. Limited in Toronto.
A patent remedy claim urges Parmelee's Vegetable Pills to cure rheumatism by regulating the liver and kidneys to reduce uric acid in blood. Users are advised to take as directed and use steadily to see benefits.
Brown questions purpose as Green asks for silence to ease troubles this morning in a brief Chicago News item.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt presents a digressive classroom exchange. The professor explains that Cristoval Colon is Columbus in Spanish and notes that a colon does not mark a full stop. The young man asks why Columbus did not settle here.
Mrs J Oliver of Elgin Ontario testifies she suffered backache fainting spells and swelling ankles before using Dodd s Kidney Pills. She claims twelve boxes cured her and urges other women to use the remedy for healthy kidneys and women s health.
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