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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 29, 1910
Page
7
In a Youth's Companion tale a young German boy drives an ice cart to Skyline apartment, angering Norah Daly when he misreads her request and sways the ice into her floor. The scene highlights class tension and comic misunderstanding as the boy boasts strength against Norah's wrath.
Complete in itself it does not require other medicine to work and never fails to do its job. This product is described as self sufficient and consistently effective in eradicating worms.
The first flea prefers a Lynx golf vacation while the second fleas seeks a giraffe's high altitude locale, a whimsical dialogue from a Washington Herald clipping reflecting quirky travel notions.
The Mauretania recently docked at Liverpool with over forty tons of marine growth scraped from its hull. The piece notes iron ships accumulate hull fouling on long voyages, unlike coppered wooden ships, and argues cleanliness matters more at moderate speeds and with self-powered vessels.
The 1911 census schedule records mortality, disability and compensation for the year. It lists each person with personal description, including birth details, race, religion, occupation, and living status. Mortality data covers month of death, disease, place and physician details. Disability and compensation cover injury, sickness, weeks of disability and earnings loss, with employer and insurance compensation entries.
A witty exchange cites a sleepwalker in the family as a comic focus. The Baltimore American notes Mamie walks in her sleep while a perturbed mother denies such a condition. A London Opinion remark questions a courtship scene and an adviser’s reaction to a similar tale.
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In a Houston Post tidbit, a person explains arriving an hour late for supper after meeting Jinx. The exchange shows IT inquiring about Jinx but being told how the meeting affected the lateness. The brief reflects a domestic anecdote with playful dialogue.
Newark Star notes Jim McDermit, a lawyer, has a rich fund of dialect stories. He highlights a Southern town tale featuring a traveling salesman and an old negro fishing at a pond, who reveals there are no fish and that the tale is to prove he has no time to cook for the fire.
A letter from Alberta extols Dr Chase’s Medicines and Receipt Book for reliability and convenience in prairie life. It cites Dr Chase’s Nerve Food, Nerve Powder, and other products as boosting blood, nerves, and respiratory health, with a Toronto distributor listed.
William Leake and others discuss poor quality native lambs, inbreeding, and neglectful propagation. They advocate Western-bred stock, careful ram selection, and silage feeding to improve meat quality, efficiency, and market appeal for lambs and hogs alike.
The article argues silage improves ewe nutrition and lamb survival, noting western breeders profit from lambs fed on grass and feedlots. It warns native U S stocks show little improvement, with finish quality deteriorating and speculative markets. Michigan sends large sums west while selling native lambs cheaper, suggesting selective breeding and trimming could boost feeder market competition.
The piece argues that open air exercise benefits digestion but sedentary workers suffer. It promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills to regulate the stomach and liver and restore healthy action, advising readers to keep a packet on hand.
A physician arrives at a house to tend a parent described as a decrepit negro. The patient asks about cost and offers ten cents for cough medicine, while the doctor states two dollars a visit including time and advice. The exchange highlights harsh language and class bias of the era.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for an uncured catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure 75 cents a bottle. It includes endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin and notes testimonials and internal use. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and a garden worker joke from the Chicago Record-Herald.
A fragmentary tale contrasts a claimed overtime hour with a mill boss and workers. Bill asserts one hour of overtime for helping with carpet shakes, while the master questions the timing and the men reveal a dish duty excuse. The dialogue highlights humor and suspicion in a workers’ scene.
A Brooklvrn man with long experience advises Shop Notes Quarterly on standing in a moving car. He says sway causes awkward positions when carrying parcels and strap-hanging is impracticable. He recommends feet seven to eight inches apart with one slightly behind the other and toes out for balance.
About a year ago the British Admiralty began experimenting with a specially bred dog for watchman use at land stations. Tests prove satisfactory and a supply has been ordered from a well known English breeder. The animal is a cross between retriever, Airedale and collie with superb scent and hearing.
A teacher asks a new pupil for his last name and learns the boy, Tommy Tompkins, refuses to reveal a conventional surname. He explains his name was Tompkins at birth and his aunt delayed giving a different name for a month, prompting a humorous record of identity confusion.
An old advertisement promotes Murine as a remedy for red weak weary watery eyes. It claims soothing effects and mentions a price of 450 cents across four druggists. Readers are urged to write for Eye Books from Marine Eye Remedy Co. in Toronto.
A Coast Artillery officer meets a private who asks to borrow a car. The private explains pay day was the day before, but he only got $16.4 and spent $8 on a date and $7 on drinks. When asked where the rest went, he replies, I must have fooled that away.
Commercial traveller Jos Dubes of St Joseph Levis writes July 14 1903 praising Minard's Liniment Co Limited. He suffered a severe leg injury after a horse kick, was bedridden for a fortnight, and after using three bottles claims full cure and recovery to travel.
A lively exchange sees Mrs. Rasper respond to a visitor about a baby at their house. The visitor notes similarities to the father while a quip about weather and cheerfulness follows, highlighting playful family banter.
An analysis by the dairy and cold storage commissioner argues cold storage stabilizes food supply and prices. It details apples as a case, noting year round availability, better producer returns, and less price volatility, with wider use reducing seasonal scarcity and waste.
A historical notice warns that summer heat threatens infant health and urges mothers to keep babies’ bowels regular with Baby's Own Tablets. It cites Mrs. D. Devlin of St Sylvester East Que endorsing the medicine and notes the tablets cost five cents per box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The text lists figures on human anatomy and physiology. It cites average teeth 32, circulating blood 29 pounds, adult weight 150 pounds six ounces, brain weight 34 pounds for men and 2 pounds 1? ounces for women, heart blood flow 540 pounds per hour, English height 5 feet, French 5 feet 4 inches, Belgian 5 feet 6 inches, heartbeat about ten pounds of blood per beat with four beats per breath, lungs contain 175 million cells covering large surface, infant pulse 120, man 80, age sixty 60, female pulse faster than male.
The Washington Star reports Maud recalls Harola's proposal and her plan to test papa's patience with jokes. Maymie chides, while Maud admits affection remains limited and she enjoys playful tricks.
A torn prescription piece leads a pharmacist to charge 10 cents for ammonia and 40 cents for water to total 40 cents, arguing the water with the doctor’s name underwrites the prescription and no prescriptions are filled under a cent. A judge’s library note records the unusual transaction and questions.
A Sunday evening sermon lulls a husband to sleep and a sharp nudge from his wife barely rouses him. He wakes in a daze, proclaims Let me alone Get in sv light the fre yourself it's your turn.
A discussion of Blau gas praised for its non explosiveness and non-poisonous nature. It is stored in steel bottles and usable where other gases fail, including car heating welding and metal cutting. It is cheaper to produce than acetylene and has lower explosion risk. A separate note on illness prevention describes Dr J D Kellogg's Dysentery Cordial as an affordable quick relief for cholera and dysentery.
A New York politician, noted for his attendance at an orphanage entertainment, reported a troubling experience during the event. He remarked on the selection of the boys’ hand as particularly distressing, telling a friend that the scene might explain why some are orphans.
The advert claims Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills open and regulate the bowels and purify the blood. It says they help relieve constipation and break up colds by cleansing the system and curing biliousness indigestion sick headaches and rheumatism.
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