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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 07, 1909
Page
3
A plain looking woman calls on a friend while a child blurts out the remark about homeliness. The mother teaches politeness and reframes the joke to praise beauty. The ad promotes Holloway's Corn Cure as a speedy relief for corns.
A playful exchange hints at admiration for a tall broad-shouldered, brainy suitor. The dialogue reflects a lighthearted, romantic tease within a Columbia setting.
An old newspaper fragment advertises a reward for a cure of catarrh and a statement about F J Cheney from Toledo. The text also mentions personal attestations and a family product for constipation. The legible items include names like Marvin and Kettie and a reference to Crucetets Texas.
A witty exchange on invention yields a playful jab about staying out for dinner. A bumptious philosopher boasts ideas while a friend suggests a homeward escape, ending with a punctured sigh and light humor.
A Windsor Ontario advertisement claims to cure leucorrhea ulcers uterine and ovarian conditions and related female health issues through a home treatment plan. It offers a free book titled Woman's Own Medical Adviser and a continuing at home program costing about 12 cents weekly, directed by Mrs. M Summers Box H 77.
A brief theatrical clash unfolds with Miss Homeleigh questioning Mr Freshleigh and him replying that she cannot know his method. The exchange reads as a playful sharp back and forth capturing social wit.
The article reports experiments by Greton Bonner in Paris on bee navigation. Bees return to the hive without sight or odor, suggesting a specialized directive sense possibly in the cerebroid ganglion. Bonner's demonstrations with syrup at different spots and marked bees indicate distinct directional behavior.
In Wigglesquack Centre fifteen years after Eben Crabshaw’s proposed plush coat for his wife Sarah Jane, locals recall Jared Minthorn’s store rivalries and persistent taunts. Eben plans mail order, Sarah Jane defends the coat’s extinction status, and Harvey Stackpole hints at payoff before Sarah Jane delivers the final, firm denial.
A girl asks a streetcar conductor for the time. He shows a watch and says it lacks three seconds of 2 48. She is overwhelmed by the precise measurement and later checks a large clock downtown to study the hands.
A young man kisses a woman who screams for a mouse. She lies about a mouse sighting to the stern upstairs watcher. The young man claims another kiss. the scream repeats as the elder man arrives with a cat, trap, and can to observe.
Mrs. Tackpoint rejects woman suffrage saying it would cause embarrassment. She argues a wife voting for her husband in an election would bring comment and trouble her conscience. The exchange highlights social tensions over female political participation.
Scientists urge mariners to record any large meteors seen at sea or on inland waters. Notable incidents include the Cambrian off latitude 42N near Boston, the Eclipse crushed in the Pacific, and a lake collision where a meteor burned through smokestack and mast during a midnight blast of light.
A garden note describes a remarkable bamboo in Arcadia Florida about seventy feet tall with a fifty foot spread and twelve foot ground diameter. The eight year old clump is the common India bamboo naturalized in Jamaica and likely brought from the West Indies. It grows rapidly in the rainy season reaching full height in six weeks, but cannot tolerate low temperatures, having suffered cold damage in Arcadia.
In St. Petersburg during the czar Alexander III monument ceremony, thieves slipped past over a thousand police and carted away 4,000 yards of carpet from the car. Investigations later revealed the workers were impostors, making off with the loot. The incident drew wide laughter aside from police officials.
The Japanese government will convert the Russian barracks at Port Arthur into a high industrial school named koko gakudo. Official Gazette notes the faculty ranks and that the institution falls under the governor general of Kwantung authority.
North China Daily News reports officials plan graduated opium prohibition penalties. Beginning this year officials who smoke opium face strangulation. In the sixth year the punishment extends to gentry and then to common people.
A testimonial from Mrs. Oscar Vancott of St. Antoine Sask praises Dr Chase's Ointment as a permanent cure for eczema and skin ailments seen in children. The letter recounts a baby’s severe eczema, salves failing, then relief after using the product, and urges others to learn its value. The ad also lists uses and price 60 cents a box.
A faded mention touts Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a child medicine. A casual remark notes Scott-Is Jones marriage uncertainty and a wider sentiment that he never blames his wife for anything.
There is no ailment so harassing as dyspepsia caused by stomach and liver issues. The text claims Parmelee's Vegetable Pills offer ready relief, noting years of effective use and contrasting with other advertised remedies.
A Yonkers Statesman snippet notes a woman once served as a war correspondent and later as secretary of a women’s club. The brief exchange frames her professional arc and civic role.
An old promotional ad touts Murine Eye Remedy Co. Toronto products with claims of soothing eye troubles. It urges readers to buy at druggists for 50c a bottle and to write for eye books.
Mrs Hen completes her nesting, takes a walk, returns to an empty nest and clucks in frustration. The rooster asks what troubles her, and she notes she can never find things where she lays them.
U S Government scientists say the common house fly is the principal means of distributing typhoid fever diphtheria and smallpox. Wilson Fly Pads kill the flies and the germs too.
A humorous dialogue shows a young doctor boasting about patient recoveries while the elder criticizes his social habits at the club. The exchange highlights generational attitudes toward work and leisure in a light vein.
An odd fragment from the Boston Transcript appears to report an advertisement for Minard's Liniment and includes a quoted conversational aside about a marriage proposal asking what was said last night. The snippet mentions distinct phrases and a casual dialogue with no clear news event.
Hot weather endangers infants with diarrhoea dysentery cholera infantum and stomach troubles. Baby’s Own Tablets are recommended for home use to prevent or cure summer illnesses in children. Claimants cite a severe cholera infantum attack cured by the product. Sold by Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The article weighs the value of costly bed furnishings, arguing that a high quality mattress and box spring protect health and justify expense. It compares fillings from South American horsehair to cotton felt and excelsior, notes weights for hair mattresses, prices from 2.50 to 15, and warns against imperial edges and fancy ticks. It also covers pillows from live geese feathers to duck feather alternatives and price differences.
A London News item notes how antique guidebooks for England used gallows as landmarks. Directions to York Durham Wells Wells reference gallows and mills, with bodies left on the posts as deterrents for highwaymen, lending a macabre color to early travel lore.
A bee colony demonstrates the capabilities of the weaker sex with a model hive of cleanliness and order. Drones are fed during winter but extermination is not a choice. the queen’s death follows a brood-rearing life. Bees’ eyes and hearing extend beyond human senses, while workers persevere amid criticism from restless drones.
The London Chronicle discusses Robert May's Accomplisht Cook from 1685 and cites a recipe for a ship of confectionery with guns loaded with powder and a castle of pies holding live frogs and birds. The spectacle ends with egg shell waters tossed by ladies and humorous effects of flying birds and skipping frogs.
At Athens ancient performances began at dawn and ran all day while work ceased and arrests were banned. Thousands gathered before sunrise outside the theater as crowds pressed for seats. Spectators brought food and authors showered fiery wine on the poor to curry public favor.
The article recounts Mrs. Taft's extensive travels with President Taft, from the Pacific to the Trans Siberian route, Admiral journeys on the Minnesota, and many world locales. It notes her mileage surpasses all prior presidential wives and frames her as a key peace envoy accompanying her husband.
Reports from Noumea describe sea serpents in New Caledonia with small heads and long bodies three to four feet in length. Natives handle them fearlessly though their jaws carry tiny poison glands. European traveler M Kermogant witnessed a rat killed in four minutes after a serpent bit it with tongue grasped by pincers in an experiment.
Towne asks Browne if he received payment for services. Browne confirms a check was sent, but for only ten dollars instead of the one hundred written. Browne fears the recipient did decipher the amount.
A dialogue quoted by the Louisville Courier-Journal about a man claiming to be part of an unemployed army. He refuses a week of work, then suggests pretending he is on furlough. The snippet captures tension between work scarcity and duty.
A musical director scolds a haughty soprano for singing off key. The soprano defends her voice and critiques the orchestra’s occasional failure to harmonize. Exchange mirrors backstage tension over performance discrepancies.
The instruction emphasizes posture with a straight back by drawing the abdomen in and expanding the chest. Focus on core engagement and chest expansion to align the spine and support upright stance. Maintain breathing steady as you stand tall.
A brief note quotes a conversation about being high with a warning of dizziness. The line is attributed to the Atlanta Constitution and includes dialect dialogue.
A clipped quote from the Chicago Tribune asserts ownership is limited by what one can bear in heart. The remark emphasizes personal capacity over possession.
Cleveland resident Lewis K. Jordan recalls a recent East Side fire where lace curtains caught, causing panic before the imported cook arrived with water. She explains she had hot water ready but needed time to discard her hat and fetch cold water, prompting questions about her speed.
The passage touts Parmelee's Vegeta be Pills as the leading liver remedy. It attributes liver health benefits to the pills and promotes them as a superior corrective with no rivals.
The bride pleads her papa will buy her dresses for the prom while the groom frets about their future needs and meals. The exchange reveals financial worry and looming hardship for the couple.
Minard's Liniment features in a domestic scene as two neighbors hear a conflict at a cottage. They burst in to find Mrs Grogan pinning her husband to the floor with him beneath her, and she coolly denies trouble while on his head.
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