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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 08, 1901
Page
3
The Hamiota Herald notes thousands attended the Winnipeg Industrial Habilités last year and this year’s edition will feature a richer cast and more elaborate platform entertainment. Promoters pledge no expense spared to present a top tier program and varied entertainment for patrons.
The fragment lists several individuals claiming cures by various liniments including MINARD'S and MINARIUS. References include E K Hydney, CHARLES PLUMMER of Yarmouth, and LEWIS BUTLER from Burin, Newfoundland, with ailments such as grip loss of voice and sciatica rheumatic pain.
An inveterate reader strings together Dickens novels in a single card bookmark tally. The narration names titles such as The Haunted House Oliver Twist Hard Times The Battle of Life The Wreck of the Golden Mary Our Mutual Friend Nicholas Nickleby and many more in a continuous, playful sequence reflecting Dickens’s interconnected works.
An inspection of Sandringham gardens reveals Queen Alexandra’s fondness for pink Armosa roses with 10 000 plants planted in autumn 1809 and a similar previous batch. The border features four feet high rockery, many teas and hybrid Chinas. The garden supplies two bushels of spinach daily and large cauliflowers and broccoli year round. About 24 acres of kitchen garden, including eight acres of potatoes, support the estate.
A proverb notes that many good wives lack singing or dancing talents. The line highlights domestic virtue over artistic skill and reflects traditional expectations of wives.
A reflective line noting that distance enhances perception of scenery while implying a lack of financial interest or security in the viewpoint.
The fragment notes a purchase or cost related to a boot device described as Miestrated on a seat labeled Cocsumpteve. It references a price or cost figure and mentions Well Co. and Tercete.
A Toronto reporter misquotes a guest at the Queen’s Hotel claiming altered remarks about distant interviews. In British Columbia a colored preacher jokes about 12 chicken-thieves including William Sanders. A field hospital scene recalls a trooper longing for the cannon that fires camp-kittles.
Forest Ontario April 22 special report recounts Robert Hall of Arkona. Five years earlier a kick shattered his kidney, doctors predicted death, and he endured blood in urine and paralysis until starting Dodd's Kidney Pills. After five boxes he recovered fully, hailed as living proof of the remedy's power.
The passage outlines China's education system with broad literacy gaps and a dedicated literary class. It notes boarding and day schools, colleges, and provincial exams for a lower degree to enter public service, where only a handful survive admission. It mentions a College of Foreign Knowledge in Pekin and mission schools teaching English and Western sciences, plus government naval and military colleges and torpedo schools at arsenals for modern warfare training.
A census in Great Britain will be conducted by 40,000 enumerators who will leave schedules with households for one week and collect them on a single date. The population is estimated at 41 million and the cost projected at one penny per person, totaling about £171,000.
A fragment notes Seville as the sole place where dancing is tied to religion and mentions a star figure described as a wonderful whistler. The text presents a cultural claim without date or organization context.
A long account praises Alexandra as Princess of Wales and Queen mother, recounting her spontaneous charm and acts of kindness. Stories include a Cambridge gown gesture, aid to a distressed girl with a sewing machine dream, and a Christmas gift of a sewing machine.
Westminster Gazette notes the long lineage of royal seals from George II to Queen Victoria. It records dates of new seals, usage changes after 1707, and the wafer seal adoption reducing wax consumption, plus the Lord Chancellor’s courtesy in sharing half the seal with successors.
The Levant Herald notes extensive boxwood forests near Kos SoVo and Monastir in Turkey used by wood engravers. The Saloni ca market only recently learned of the trade. In March two large boxwood shipments went to Liverpool, and forest owners plan larger scale operations.
Queen Victoria held a Bible class in Buckingham Palace for the children of her married servants. She read the Bible explained the chapter and children’s hymns were sung after the readings, in a private room while staying in London.
The largest extinct animal skeleton, the Triceratops, is assembled for the National Museum exhibit at the Buffalo Pan-American Exhibition. Found in Missouri, it will be among the most curious displays in the government building and is stated to be the only one in the world.
If everyone spoke only about what they truly know the world would fall into a sudden widespread hush. The thought suggests restraint limits chatter and elevates informed discourse.
A dealer notes glue pervades daily life from hats and shoes to furniture and medicine. He cites sixty million pounds used yearly with prices from nine cents to about ninety cents, underscoring glue’s role in packaging, paper, printing, and many crafts.
A 91 year old man who drinks a pint of spirits daily for 60 years is cited as evidence against abstinence. Though hale, his lineage shows severe mental and physical decline: two of three children from the first marriage died in infancy, one epileptic. from the second marriage, eight allocated outcomes include feeble mindedness chorea dissoluteness and wanderer traits.
The advice covers first aid for finger injuries by hot water, fresh air and exercise for youth, summer diet with less fat and sugar, frequent meals with no between-meal snacks, avoid sweets on an empty stomach, eggs as a healthy protein with caution on undercooked forms, shoes without heels to strengthen ankles, and rubbing weak ankles with alcohol.
A returning member recalls a trip with Ball to inspect a bear trap. They encounter a bear. Ball halts a shot, then the bear avoids the trap and departs as Ball jokes that the bear was safe. The narrator forgot to shoot.
In a playful exchange Mrs. Torkins asks Chartey about baby’s intellect. He admits no proof of superiority. She recalls his baby’s imitation of a long list of Chinese names, suggesting the child may have learned them by heart.
The wife of the Boer general, working for Lord Kitchener on peace, is a notable Scotch lady known for superior education and pride in her husband. She sings, acts and paints with notable skill and is popular for vivacity and entertaining abilities among a wide circle of friends.
A Montreal woman recounts years of abdominal pain and multiple surgeries before finding lasting relief with Dr Williams Pink Pills. She and her husband moved to Halifax, endured further hospitalizations, and credits the pills with restoring health and vitality after years of torment. The letters advocate broad use for women suffering similar ailments and promote the pills’ claimed blood and nerve benefits.
Edward Bok in The Ladies' Home Journal argues that Americans overfill homes with useless bric-a-brac. He says clutter harms mood and nerves, and that true taste comes from leaving things out. Simple, tasteful rooms are achieved by restraint rather than accumulation.
An oath from Frank J Cheney, senior partner of F J Cheney & Co, Toledo, and the firm pledges to pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall’s Catarrh Care. The document notes the product takes effect internally, targeting the body’s mucous surfaces.
A German mining engineer says there are fertile gold deposits worth about £7,000,000 in the Rhine bed between Basel and Wisenburg. He notes the challenge lies in extracting the ore. The piece contrasts optimism with the difficulty of mining and references a mob as a chaotic force.
An ex waiter recalls stories from passengers on the CPR dining car. He describes two stylish ladies who drank water from finger bowls garnished with lemon and asked for more lemonade, making him struggle to keep a straight face.
Mr S M Boughner of Langton reports a two year struggle with inward pills ended by Parmelee's Pills. He claims full cure and four years of remission since, saying the remedy treats liver and kidney complaints and related ailments.
A reflective note on how people respond to insults and praise. It contrasts calling someone a sad dog versus a miserable puppy and observes how the ego reacts with flattered pride or sharp defensiveness. The passage highlights human vanity and sensitivity to wording.
An old advertisement extols Minard’s Liniment for neuralgia and Hollo way’s Corn Cure for corns. The text then shifts to aphorisms about beauty and ambition, noting a woman’s vanity and contrasting ambitious types.
An eclectic page presents various health claims and tips including Minard’s liniment, Dr A G Kellowa’s Dysentery Cordial, and Dr Thomas’ Electro Electric oil. It notes rapid relief for pain and feverish complaints and mentions a revived Ohio law penalizing confinement of native song birds with many arrests and many birds freed.
A London Globe excerpt quotes Mrs. Carlyle urging her maid Jessie to lock his cat during meals to protect carpets. She condemns the feline as selfish and immoral, noting the cat’s habit of begging at meals and ruining textile work in Mr. Carlyle’s dining room.
The Yorkshire Post recounts a witty anecdote about Sir Henry Haworth, former MP and author of History of the Angels. During dinner a conversation with a lightly primed hostess leads to a joke about dogs, exposing Haworth’s claimed ignorance of canines despite his scholarly fame.
Fragmentary dialog depicts a child named Tommy after parental discipline. The script-like exchange features a mother figure scolding and a father figure paddling, with Tommy reacting in half speech and exclamations. The piece centers on family interaction and verbal expressions of frustration.
A proverb compares ability without opportunity to a ward unable to secure a husband, illustrating how potential remains unrealized without chance or social openings.
Sir Henri Joly the lieutenant governor of British Columbia with the Natural History Society plans importing large numbers of song birds from England and Eastern Canada. The birds are expected to acclimatize quickly and thrive in the province.
A reader claims Parmelee's Vegetable Pills alleviate bilious headaches caused by stomach upset. The advertisement notes the pills contain a drake and dandelion and endorses their effectiveness for headaches and related symptoms.
The young king of Italy marked his birthday by pardoning about 18 000 inmates held in various regions for offenses deemed already sufficiently punished. The action covers multiple districts and ranks as a sweeping royal clemency aimed at reducing prison populations.
New York City's government cost dominates the 1901 tax budget at 100 million dollars, double Mexico's entire government and about half of the German empire's outlay. The remark highlights bureaucratic expense as a major issue in city governance.
Ad touts the product as superior with claims of good effects on children and urges readers to buy a bottle and try it for themselves.
Harvey Snell of Lowville New York returns home after a decade with other Saints to find his wife with another man. He remarks she is a good woman who won’t remain without a husband long and immediately boards the next train. The piece warns that moral courage can be false when danger is absent.
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