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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 12, 1907
Page
7
A brief note from Enid about a newly married couple, one a Varsity girl, who joke about love. The husband offers to give up his job to keep harmony, showing a tender domestic moment. Also mentioned is a worm exterminator claim by Mother Graves.
Wigge Tillie Topnotes says she feels saddest when she sings and the audience also grows sadder. The Philadelphia Record notes wage issues and public reaction to her performances.
A reputedly absent minded professor arranged to escort his wife to the theater. He delays while she criticizes his tie. She finds him undressed and getting into bed, habit overpowering him as he removed his tie. This vignette from London Tit-Bits humorously portrays a domestic delay.
The article explains dangerous counterfeit methods for gold and silver coins, including sweating plugging and filling. It lists metals used, weight and size discrepancies, edge reeding, and plating wear, and stresses testing by weight diameter and thickness against genuine coins to identify fakes. It notes common counterfeited denominations and the risk of platinum and alloy composites.
A collage of quotes from Washington Herald Chicago Daily News and Fliegende Blaetter. References to changing drawings, half-tones for books, a child’s taunt about a big dog, a thin parson, and a joke about a dowry. Ends with a Shakespearean nod and a Medic ine Life theme.
The ad claims Walford's Sanitary Lotion cures mange and every form of contagious itch in humans or animals within half an hour. Other fragments jest about a man explaining a ball game and a wife, with a quip on a woman changing a man's life and how she takes change.
A Westminster Gazette note recalls Deptford and the lord mayoral barge being broken up for firewood. It cites Alderman Wood in 1816 as first to travel by water from Westminster Hall and a jailed sugar baker later suing for “moral and intellectual damages” after being deprived of flogging. This tale mocks old capital labor relations.
New York subway adds several fire exits opening into ventilating shafts for passenger escape without reaching stations. Signs read Exit, five feet by one foot, blue enamel with white letters, shaded electric lights overhead. A door near the sign opens to air chambers beside the tracks with an iron ladder to the pit top.
The report notes high feed prices and reduced export prospects for Ontario in 1907. Wheat and oats yields vary, corn losses offset by hay gains, peas and Warley crops rise, barley replaces fall wheat, signaling a broad feed shortage and higher costs for butter cheese bacon and beef.
James Ruddick told the Manchester Produce Association that Canadian butter and cheese shipments suffer from lack of reliable cold storage in Manchester. He noted Australian and New Zealand meat storage success and urged similar facilities for Canadian goods. Canadian authorities and officials discussed attitudes and policy on storage and supply.
The article notes strong evidence of a beef monopoly via railway rebates on eastern car loads in Manitoba. It cites large dealers squeezing out small ones and raising prices, with the railway commission likely to address rebates to level rates like other freight practices. It references Alberta actions against the amber combine and a Grand Trunk appeal over a 2 cent Montreal Toronto passenger rate, with possible Supreme Court and imperial final adjudication.
A Scott town minister on a visit meets a lunatic who craves a fellow clergy member. The lunatic laments worn-out sermons while the minister apologizes, then jokes about preaching to a large but not bright audience. Other items note Minard’s Liniment and light humor about music and geography.
A collection of light snippets and snippets from gossip columns. Jests about news delivery to a grieving wife. A tourist wall inscription at Thebes discussed by H A Hall. Advertisements praise Kellogg’s Dysentery Cordial. Humorous exchanges about servants and cookery. Relationships teased with playful lines about marriages and beard growth.
A recognized regulator among physicians advises Parmelee's Vegetable Pills to restore digestive organs to normal action. The pills are praised as a pleasant medicine with notable virtue for correcting stomachic irregularities and enabling proper performance of bodily duties.
A judge remarks on Johnsons fortune amid talk of recent financial losses. He notes his wife’s vanity and belief she remains young and beautiful, suggesting she does not require civility toward plain women except in public.
An advertisement touts English Spavin Liniment as removing all lumps blemishes and swelling in horses including blood spavin curbs splints ringbone sweeney and stifles It claims cures for sprains sore throats coughs and more and promises a $50 saving with one bottle as the most wonderful blemish cure ever known.
The Catholic Standard and Times notes that a politician’s failure stems from imitating elite circles rather than serving ordinary citizens. The dialogue contrasts copying the “swell people” with the impact on “plain people,” underscoring a critique of elitist behavior in public life.
A letter from Dr Jos. Aug. Sirois of St Isidore P Q dated August 18 1904 endorses Minard’s Liniment Co Limited Gentlemen. He reports frequent personal use and prescribed use for patients with most gratifying results calling it the best all round liniment extant.
A brief Punch gag where a gentleman lodger complains about bacon being stale despite the shepman’s claim of recent curing. Mrs Napper defends it as fresh, prompting the humorous relapse remark.
In a period comic dialogue a benevolent old gentleman and a salty sailor discuss the dangers of life at sea while implying the curative role of Minard's Liniment for burns and injuries. The humor hinges on a port arrival and the sailor's shrug at peril.
A Washington Herald piece notes a speaker declares devotion to Bosh phrase and contrasts it with prior accustomed style. The quotation marks reveal a public temperament and literary or stylistic debate. No further context is provided.
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