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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
3
Senator Brown voiced concerns at a Washington dinner about idle rich young men misusing their rights. He drew a sharp comparison to a maidservant’s struggle and criticized aristocratic behavior while critics questioned what he meant by hang-up aristocrats.
An advertisement touts Vaerrise as the beet tonic for stomach and system, noting sedentary work harms health. It endorses Armeler's Vegetable Pills to regulate stomach and liver and encourage healthy action, recommending keeping a packet on hand.
Dialog from Pittsburg Gazette shows comic banter about medical mishaps and misadventures. Snip the tailor claims he has waited over teen months for service while casual jokes about falls and injuries echo through the page.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure from J Cheney Co Toledo. It cites testimonials about F Cheney, Alding Kinnan Marvin, and claims internal action. Also mentions Hall's Pills for constipation and a child’s remark about Lincoln teeth.
A fragment notes Minard's Liniment used to ease neuralgia during a musicale. The scene mentions Miss Smert addressing a long-haired stranger as they converse about Gounod with the waiter stating he has not eaten.
A Sunday school scene centers on the elder brother in the Prodigal Son tale. The teacher highlights bitterness at the feast and a lack of joy in the prodigal's return. A curious chorus of children pleads for mercy as they interject with a timid request.
A Toronto man Robert Mann describes his infant son born October 13, 1908 suffering a severe skin rash. He details failed remedies before a hospital treatment, then a family claim that Culicura products cured the condition, with letters dated 1911 and 1950 praising the remedy.
The piece traces accidental roots of common items from the Argand lamp chimney to lithography and the bayonet. It notes how everyday objects arose from playful experiments and necessity, linking lamp design, telescope precursors, and a Basque bayonet incident to larger creative leaps.
An organist falls ill on the eve of a festival and a deputy steps in as replacement. While playing the Hallelujah Chorus the wind runs out as the blower is seen packing to leave. The deputy confronts the blower who insists the effort required to blow the organ warrants such behavior.
Canada reports total trade at 0.3805 billion for the past quarter of the current fiscal year, up 9.7 million from the previous April to June period. Imports led the gain totaling about 122.0 million, while exports of domestic products fell by about 3 million with forest product shipments driving much of the decline. June trade reached 68.71 million with imports rising to 43.0 million. Customs revenue for the three months stands at 15.93 million, up 2.36 million.
The June report shows a 16 percent jump in arrivals to Canada with 40,000 new entrants. Ocean port entries totaled 27,974 while 12,035 crossed from the United States.
A lawyer boasts his wife is economical after she buys a suit with a thrifty plan. She told the tailor to proceed despite the price, avoiding two extra trips for consultation. The anecdote from the Cleveland Press underscores small economies that add up.
Remedy for bilious headache recommending Mealie's Vegetable Pills as a speedy relief. Taken as directed they subdue stomach irregularities and through nerves and blood vessels ease head pains. Many suffer biliousness at times, but these pills are presented as a ready remedy.
A kind university professor visits his married nephew and listens to the wife praise her first-born. He asks if the baby can walk and then wonders how far the child has traveled after five months of walking. The tale ends with his quizzical, absent-minded remark.
In St Joseph Missouri at Levis on July 14 1903 Jos Dubes a commercial traveler reports a severe horse kick left his leg black and unable to walk for a fortnight. After using three bottles of Mianard's Liniment he recovered and could resume travel duties.
A fragmented meditation on esprit de corps versus esprit de corn, costs to advance, and the blues of a boozy night. The piece observes class contrast on a dining car and notes a passenger’s window view of the poor, prompting a skeptical sentiment.
A fragment from the Boston Transcript presents Mrs Exe lamenting a husband chained to city work and Mrs Wy joking about him being too much at large. The exchange portrays domestic tensions and social humor of the era.
John H. Raftery, once a Chicago paper star reporter now in Helena, writes a fresh column on the National Encampment parade. He notes veterans in new shoes and offers an updated angle beyond faded battle flags and old stereotypes.
G A Trainer of New Orleans says gambling among Mississippi river boat crews is common and harms operations. He notes that after pay, many deckhands gamble in crews groups, reducing payroll before arrival and leaving some workers unpaid or unwilling to work on return trips.
The tale recalls Senators Isham G. Harris and William B. Bate as Civil War prisoners in Nashville who saved corn, cooked moonshine in a coffee pot, and aged three quarts. A Union guard seized two quarts by force, but the two men reportedly aged and drank the remainder. The piece ends with a quip about marriage and a joke on baby care.
Private John Allen recalls a speech by Thomas H. Carter that he previously released widely and later declined to distribute further. The tale shifts to a Mississippi murder case where a lawyer coerced a plea, with a Black defendant saying he would plead not guilty after promising to plead guilty, highlighting a heeding of advice over honesty.
The engagement of Lord Percy, son of the Duke of Northumberland and A D C to Earl Grey, to Lady Helen Gordon Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond, marks a rare union of two historic ducal families. Percy, now in Canada, is the fourth surviving son of the duke. Lady Helen is the duke’s youngest child by his second wife, and she has long served as her father’s confidante in entertainment at Holyrood Castle.
The article traces the term hiccough and its variants from historic spellings to the modern hiccup. It discusses pronunciation, origins, and the competing forms such as hiccup and singultus, noting the rare use of the latter and the lack of strong etymological basis for some spellings.
The Earl of Yarmouth, known for writing acting and journalism, has a varied past including a Australia tour as Eve Hope and a skirt dance at Hebart Town. He declined $1,500 weekly to pantomime. He recently produced a modern musical comedy he wrote and starred in.
No marriages have occurred at Caldbeck parish church in Cumberland for twelve months, an unprecedented lapse in parish records dating back to the 16th century. The anomaly stands out in local chronicles and raises questions about church activities and registry practices.
Amelia Bingham spoke at the Actors' Church alliance luncheon in New York criticizing critics who attack actors for aging. She contrasted with a quip about Lord Lacland and an heiress, noting the public reminder of age is painful and unnecessary.
Mrs. Chas Levere of Prescott Ontario says Zam-Buk cured her baby's eczema after many doctors failed. She describes severe head and face sores, itching, and fear of ears being eaten by the disease. A series of thirteen boxes led to a complete cure and Zam-Buk is advertised for various skin ailments. Available at druggists for 50 cents a box or post free from Zam-Buk Co. Toronto.
After many days young men on a walking tour, thirsty in the heat, avoid a saloon and head to a dairy. A pretty dairymaid sparks her tale with a coquettish remark about a picture postcard and a letter received three years later from an actor.
The Oil is recommended for explorers and hunters to rub on wet cold feet and legs to prevent muscle pains. It also serves as an effective dressing or lotion for cuts contusions or sprains suffered in the field.
George Ham of the Canadian Pacific Railway meets visiting English journalists in Quebec. A London Times representative wagers Ham a dinner stake over who will be called by first name first. By half past nine, Ham proves the guess wrong as the dignitary calls him Georgie with an arm around his neck.
Stomach and bowel troubles cause most infant ailments. Give an occasional dose of Baby's Own Tablets to keep the stomach and bowels regular. The tablets are a gentle laxative that sweeten the stomach expel worms and may help prevent colds. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
Witty saying compares attempts to reform a difficult spouse to making a decent omelette from a bad egg, highlighting the futility of changing someone’s core traits through marriage. The line underscores frustration with idealized plans versus messy reality.
The Toronto artist Miss Sydney Tully, daughter of architect the late Kivas Tully, left a notable but underrecognized mark on Canadian art. Trained in Europe, she painted with soft color and impressionistic hints, shifting from landscape to figure work, and exhibited with the Canadian Royal Academy and the Paris Salon. She also wrote articles for local periodicals and was grand niece of Agnes Strickland.
An affluent Canadian book collector in British Columbia donated his vast library to the government rather than sell or discard it. The collection enriches western exploration archives and spares private building efforts while securing a lasting public resource for future scholars.
Archdeacon Cody of St. Pauls Anglican Caurea in Toronto is famed for remembering every worker on the church project and greeting masons and laborers daily. At a christening he noticed an absentee and queried, “Where's Master Herbert?” delighting the large family.
Dr. Howard H. Furness owns a pair of genuine Shakespeare gloves once gifted by John Ward to Garrick in 1769. Garrick’s widow then left them to Sarah Siddons, and the lineage continues through Mrs. Biddons to her daughter and finally Mrs. Fannie Kemble.
A comic exchange from a New Jersey village: the keeper estimates Skeeter Swamp as about two whops away, or two whops and a holler, while a Skeeter Swamp resident notes Flytown lies about three chaws to the south unless one chews fast, then three and a half.
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