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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
6
Jean McLeod learns the Oxford curate is not a bore but a devoted worker enlisting her help with village relief. She grows from pride to participation as the curate quietly wins trust, guiding her to serve others while clashing with her earlier pride and dreams.
A fragment from a Catholic Standard and Times page includes medical ads for Parme lee's Vegetable Pills and a chatty exchange among characters Bessie Bute, Goldie Heamley, and Vera Cutting. The tale notes Jean’s happiness with Mr Waltham the curate and hints at social rivalry and wealth.
A Victorian era health note urges mothers to keep Baby's Own Tablets at home to prevent stomach and bowel troubles in infants. It cites cholera infantum diarrhoea and dysentery as common in summer and claims tablets help both prevention and recovery. Anecdotes include Mrs. George Howell of Sandy Beach Quebec praising relief from colic vomiting and diarrhoea after use. Sold by medicine dealers or mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
Detroit Free Press quotes a man challenging a woman’s social standing by joking she is merely a man’s better half because she carries the pocketbook. The remark underscores gender expectations in everyday conversations.
Oak Lake Manitoba Mr Jas Milne of Oak Lake visited Winnipeg last week and received successful surgical treatment from Dr F W E Burnham.
A brief humorous fragment recalls a man’s blindness remark and a child’s quip in a Louisville scene, highlighting a light moment amid newspaper chatter. The dialogue showcases local color and dated phrasing from the Courier Journal archive.
A Walter Williams essay in the Columbia Herald extols walking as a personal, mood adaptable practice. It notes walking heals sorrow, promotes health, and offers companionship or solitude, urging readers to love nature and the outdoors as a path to the divine.
Ada C. Sweet of Chicago spoke at Lombard during the Civil War era presenting a silk flag to Lombard soldiers. She recounted her first public speech when pushed into the moment by a whispered prompt and a cheering crowd. she faced the crowd, delivered a brave line, and was hoisted on soldiers shoulders as tears and laughter followed.
A medical writer explains gargling steps starting with a patient seated and water swallowed, then protruding the tongue, exhaling with the fluid bubbling in the pharynx, and finally forcing liquid through the throat and nasal passages. The method is taught as a learned skill with relief when done properly.
A town council longed to adjourn for luncheon after a drawn out meeting. The mayor opposed the move, arguing hunger would spur dispatch. An illiterate member exclaimed I ham astonished prompting laughter as a colleague noted the ham in his mouth.
A tourist asks how far to the next town and receives a pedantic reply. The man explains distance is between far and near and depends on perspective, noting it is neither very distant nor very close. The wry dialogue captures rural speech and humor.
A London Chronicle note explains that in small streams trout weighing two pounds or more often become cannibals, feeding only on smaller fish and refusing to rise to bait.
A humorous Paris anecdote recalls Y L Molloy describing a swimming school on an island in the Seine. A fat man in bathing gear endures a dry lesson for fifteen minutes on a stump while masters praise his perseverance though he never enters the water.
An old time distance champion notes a key tactic in a three mile scratch race at the New York Athletic Club games. He observes both leaders run stride for stride until the final stretch when one glances back to secure second, sacrificing the win and losing to the rival who keeps full effort.
In early northwest history the Hudson Bay Company built fortunes by fur trade. A gun bought with beaver pelts was said to grow each year, so the barrel lengthened until the Indian, after paying with peltry, had to borrow a file and trim a foot of metal.
The dialogue features a wife accusing her husband of being a fool since marriage and a remembered remark about how unlikely it is for two people to be alike, hinting at postnuptial reflections on compatibility. The exchange plays on humor and relationship dynamics.
A humorous exchange in Oodys Magazine where a doctor claims to diagnose illnesses from a patient’s eyes but learns the patient’s right eye is a glass eye, highlighting a comical misdiagnosis.
Sidney Curtis in Success recalls President Eliot and Harvard crew history. The origin of Harvard's crimson comes from red handkerchiefs bought before a regatta when crews lacked uniforms, later corrected by dye and a deep red American Beauty rose, illustrating the era's emphasis on sound mind and body in athletics.
A column of quotes cites Wise mothers who favor Mother Graves Worm Exterminator, praising its value. The Montgomery Advertiser warns against rushing love and chasing perfection, while the San Antonio Express jokes about old maids and bachelors' pickiness with a parable of seeking the perfect stick.
A glass of iced Salada Tea is described as most refreshing for the warm weather. The copy likens its cooling effect to a summer breeze.
A patient in a humorous Cleveland Leader cartoon pleads inability to pay rent and offers to trade services. He says he leads a little Coleman band and promises to serenade the dentist every night for a month. The dentist considers the offer.
A Washington Star quip recalls a speaker noting heavy reading of mining literature and replying that he averts prospecting by simply gambling time and money on the notion. The exchange underscores wit about mining and exploration.
A darkly ornate verse describes a locked spare room with a brass bed pine bureau rich plum upholstery and expensive furniture. The speaker warns that even peeking inside is dangerous or costly, likening the space to Bluebeards secret chamber and valuing it as a showy but useless room.
A failing new play thwarted the author as he faced jeers. A woman behind him admitted she had torn a lock of his hair at the start and offered to return it, prompting a curious moment amid the audience.
The advertisement extols Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as the best remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims the pills correct stomach action, restore healthy function, and have long been a standard, highly esteemed remedy.
A Scottish pastor in Edin burgh surprised his congregation by resigning during a Sunday evening service. At 60, in good health, he told a later committee meeting that they should accept his resignation now because in seven years they would not be able to get rid of him.
A collage of quips and brief dialogues from various papers. An arctic explorer asks funds for relief, Hicks and his wife clash over biscuits, a bride worries about love as Henry reassures, and a boy fetches whiskey for a recovering abstainer.
A playful exchange on stage reveals the author’s plan for a five act structure. The lawyer jokes about a lawsuit setting up the hero’s fate in act one.
A famous trial was to exclude newspaper men from reporting. One journalist quipped that omitting facts would help but others noted the need for accuracy in covering such a case. The exchange highlights tension between imagination and factual reporting.
A dialogue snippet shows Hewitt and Jewitt discussing a telephone call mix up. Hewitt asks if the person called could be reached by phone, and Jewitt confirms. The exchange reveals a miscommunication and a reference to a caller named Caled.
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