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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 09, 1911
Page
3
A Winnipeg weekly notes a child and sister watching cement work on a new house with stones being thrown nearby. It also promotes Kellogg’s Dysentery Cordial as the best remedy for spring and summer digestive issues.
A Washington Star exchange quotes constituents debating an elected official. One asks if the man grasps the office’s importance, the other concedes he does. The critic notes the first act was to demand a larger salary.
Warns against mercury containing catarrh ointments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo as a safe internal remedy. Cites purported testimonials and emphasizes purchasing from reputable physicians. Perceived historical ad style with dated pharmaceutical claims.
A dialogue from Everybody's Weekly contrasts The Reformer and The Unconverted One. The reformer urges fewer crowded slums larger villages more pleasure for Pie people and less drink while the other questions how to gain pleasure with less beer.
The hostess recalls a winter morning exchange with Sandy Macpherson and a venerable Scot. He notes the water was very hot but criticizes that nothing was placed in the bed, prompting a humorous remark about the missing item.
St Vitus dance mainly affects youths and causes facial and limb twitching, with severe cases impairing walking speech and balance. The remedy, Dr Williams Pink Pills, is claimed to enrich the blood and strengthen nerves, restoring health as shown by a testimonial from Mrs. Chas Phipps of Pelee Island Ontario about her daughter Edith.
A collection of short items and quips includes Representative Gardner on immigration and a comic exchange about an innkeeper, plus an assortment of jokes about worms medicines and farming. Also notes a moral about conversation from anné Sage.
Mary A Cook of Mannheim Ontario claims fourteen years of rheumatism vanished after taking Dodd’s Kidney Pills. She says she avoided doctors and was cured in one box as the kidneys started functioning properly to expel uric acid from the blood.
Dear Sirs I can recommend your Minard's Liniment for rheumatism and sprains as I have used it with excellent results T B Lavers St John approves the medicine in a testimonial letter suitable for a historical ad notice.
Miss Mary Garden praised a new tenor at a Newark supper before her departure for Europe. She quipped that some tenors must shut their eyes to sing, explaining in jest that his voice rises so high it makes him dizzy, drawing laughter from the gathering.
Information Highboy Marguerite asks what should be done when hair falls out. It advises that the fallen hair should be swept up promptly.
A quip from the Chicago Tribune contrasts Tyte Physio’s rumored wealth with his apparent appetite for more. The remark frames him as rich but insatiable, illustrating contemporary attitudes toward fortune and desire.
In The Suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst recounts Miss Dunlop's hunger strike after being treated as a political offender. She refused prison rations, accepting only what she called her determination until Friday when she was released, inspiring fourteen others to follow.
Post master General reports stamps soon to be sold in coils or rolls rather than sheets. Coils of 500 or 1008 stamps can be supplied with or without perforations, rolled on pasteboard cores, a shift aimed at easing use by businesses and post offices.
A Boeston Transcript entry notes a quip about marrying a one-eyed man sparked by a road and umbrella remark. The brief line shows humorous banter and a casual exchange. It reflects colloquial speech and local phrasing in the period.
The Canadian Pacific Railway plans to complete a double track between Winnipeg and Brandon by December adding 135 miles of new alignment. Grading from Portage la Prairie to Brandon is 75 percent done, with progress across Saskatchewan segments MU between Moose Jaw Caron and Moose Jaw Pasqua at about 85 percent grading.
An old time newspaper item markets Shilohs Cure Wickly for coughs and throat healing at 25 cents. The piece reads like a dated catalog with absurd food and chemical references including typhoid oysters and arsenic tainted dishes.
Australian naturalists describe jungle fowl nests as massive mounds averaging about fifteen feet high and one hundred fifty feet in circumference. They are hidden in sheltered spots and woven with leaves grass and twigs. Bush turkey nests are similarly built, but pyramidal in shape and sometimes so large that several men must move them.
Day salary and up sale commission offered to local representatives of either sex. Promises quick earnings with no experience required, flexible spare time, rapid advancement, elaborate outfit provided, postage twenty cents. Nichols Limited Publishers, Toronto.
Johnny Joyce, a full-blood Shoshone, visited a Reno physician to have protruding square ears reduced. He said a tribe maiden refused him due to his ears. The operation was successful, Joyce paid for the work, and planned to return home to his fiancée.
P F Willis of Dallas led Texas delegates to the Associated Advertising Clubs convention in Boston condemning dishonest advertising. He cited the tale of Gus Blake a trolley conductor who was paid before realizing a customer’s nickel was for the next company, illustrating that dishonest advertisers are exposed in the end.
A tender plea to kiss tears fades as she explains the crying is hay fever. He vows care and continues the treatment while she reassures him nothing else can stop the tears, maintaining quiet emotional tension in the scene.
Andrew Carnegie, in an after-dinner address, urges using brains to find work. He recalls a western piano tuner who makes good money by tightening barbed wire fences in a sparsely populated region. The line appears in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
An old advertisement extols Zam-Buk as a cure for piles with swelling, inflammation, and pain. It includes testimonies praising relief and complete cures after use and notes Zam-Buk also treats skin injuries eczema ulcers varicose veins and burns. Price 50c per box plus soap and post free options.
The poem by George Klingle urges patience with loved ones on life’s path. It emphasizes compassion for their small faults, the fleeting nature of time together, and the way changing light alters perception. The speaker asks for understanding and restraint, cherishing imperfect moments rather than grave faulting.
Speech by Hon. Frank Buchanan of Illinois in the House on March 23. He defends his right to address the floor as a new member and explains he did not choose this path, noting two prior unsuccessful attempts amid laughter.
A curious slip during the King's Welsh visit saw a dummy address presented by Montgomeryshire County Council. An ornate expression of welcome was meant for Their Majesties, but the clerk’s misrouted luggage caused a swap with secured parchment in an appropriate case and ribbon.
The article describes Hindoo workers in native Indian towns who perform tasks with their feet. A butcher cuts meat between his toes, a shoemaker turns the last with his feet, and a carpenter and wood turner use their great toes to hold and guide objects. The feet’ flexibility is highlighted as a key reason for this practice, noting the large separation of the first two toes.
In a Washington cloak room tale, Joseph F. Johnson of Alabama accuses Delaware Senator DuPont of shooting him at Cedar Creek. Johnson cites DuPont’s Civil War biography as proof, noting DuPont commanded many Union regiments.
Fragmentary biblical text fragment references children and the kingdom of profits. No clear event, person, or place identified.
A tiny newspaper vendor sits on a Ward step, his grim face and small frame attracting attention from a canvasser and friend. The child-like guess of age contrasts with the veteran’s worn appearance as they debate his age and dirtied condition.
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