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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 12, 1902
Page
3
An 1898 notice touts Minarius Liniment as curing rheumatism after five years of pain. It quotes a customer from St Isidore Quebec and suggests verification from the parish priest and neighbors. The ad appears amid harsh claims about fur trade and animal deaths.
Quito in South America lifts faster than any other city and now stands 80 feet lower than its 1780 height. The Venice Campanile, which fell on July 14, was brick built with stone foundations on timber piles buried beneath the ground.
An OCR fragment discusses minor injuries like backache sprain and headaches and notes St Jacobs Oil as a cure. It also covers Britain’s capital punishment age policy, the British ambassador's salary, and a statistic on UK residents speaking only Cymne or Caetic.
An old advertisement touts deafness remedies asserting recovery via constitutional treatment for inflamed Eustachian tubes, promises $100 reward for cure by Hall's Catarrh Cure, and notes broad health claims. Also cites marriage rates in Hungary and Portugal and mentions a Venice railway bridge with 242 arches.
An advertisement extols Wells Richardson Co Improved Butter Color as the premier additive for butter, promising a true gold tint and higher market price. It urges avoiding imitation colors and notes the product's popularity among buttermakers. The rest of the text diverges into assorted trivia about Nile fish species and fire losses in France and the UK.
The fragment recounts Anaxagoras of Ionia born around 500 B.C. and notes his pioneering work on the sun as a god and his method for distinguishing planets from stars. It mentions early views on celestial motion, bee metaphors, and the claim that the straightest line equals the distance between two points, with remarks on observers’ interpretations of insect eyes and light paths.
A humorous exchange on gender and time ends with a quip about a woman never failing to eat her man. The rival retorts that she reveals all things, prompting the discussion’s punchline.
A sentimental voice recalls childhood joys while Miss Cayenne admits longing for simpler mischief. She says she would sometimes enjoy hanging on the fence and making faces at people she dislikes instead of greeting them politely.
A newspaper ad touts Paine's Celery Compound as a complete cure after eighteen years of agony. It cites Mrs G H Parker of Binens Ontario and Mr Torker who claims long neuralgia suffering ended with the treatment. The ad also notes gymnasium instruction increasing a man's weight by about three pounds per fifty days.
A waiter girl delightfully mirrors customers requests by noting three soup orders as one tomayto soup, one tomanto soup, and one totiato soup. The kitchen delivers precisely what each man asked for, leaving all content until the last course.
A mistress instructs a girl to stone plums for a pudding. The servant, left alone, returns saying she finished. The hostess finds a plate of plum stones. the girl admits she ate the plums, not the stones, claiming to have followed orders.
Three schoolkids discuss social status and ancestry. Eva claims descent from Mary Queen of Scots, Willie echoes the boast, but a third child points out Willie is a boy, ending the argument. The exchange captures playful rivalries and expectations around birth and lineage.
A doctor recalls predicting death in six weeks for a patient and is asked to tell a despondent friend in the adjacent room that there is no hope, highlighting grim expectations and a note of bleak prognosis.
The barometer climbs to a new world high in Irkutsk Siberia indicating unusually steady air pressure.
A testimonial extols Baby's Own Tablets as a safe effective remedy for infant indigestion and illness. Mrs B B Bickford of Glen Sutton lauds relief for a troubled baby and cautions against harsh purgatives and opiate laxatives. The ad notes 20 cents for a full box from De Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario and cites Kouka Central Africa with a world record heat.
The piece explains boxing the compass and how sailors learn to recite all compass points quickly and accurately. It covers methods to magnetize needles, using cork and straw experiments, and notes the historical spread from Chinese use to modern navigation guided by buoys, beacons, and the captain steering by compass in ships. It ends with a stark contrast to a sick man’s life fight.
Changes of the season affect health with a thin blood condition and fatigue. Dr Williams Pink Pills are promoted as a blood making nerve restoring tonic to avert winter ailments. A testimonial from James Adams cites relief from rheumatism nervousness and sleeplessness after using the pills. The text also notes the importance of genuine Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and provides pricing and distributor details. It then abruptly references cave-dwelling blind species and air composition data with unrelated figures.
Canadian holidays noted with a claim that Canada has ninety five holidays yearly when including Sundays. The brief mentions ust holidays of any British colony and asserts Misard's Liniment as best for hair restoration.
A scrambled recount of places and histories from Bodelind Library in Oxford to the city of Delhi. It notes population figures for Liverpool, the number of railway stations in Britain, and assorted foods. It also traces Delhi’s history from 1000 B C to British rule in 1805, mentioning mosques, mosques, and monuments built by Humayan era culture.
An Alabama man recalls his black coachman Zack Taylor who faced intimidation at a voting place. The undertaker's clerk accused him of a past crime and a mob forced him out, leaving Zack fearing violence and possible death. The piece ends with a watermelon ripeness tip noting peppered rind spots.
A cited statistic claims 626 violent deaths per million people in Britain annually. The line references a high rate, but provides no details on data source, time frame, or methodology.
A historical note cites tobacco consumption at 62300,000 points annually and 5300 tons in another figure. The text references a legislative bill on tobacco, with unclear context about its economic impact and the producers involved.
Warriors and scribes note that Normans who conquered England shaved the face and back of the head to signal a covert army of priests to Harold’s spies.
The most wonderful private park in the world belongs to Mr William Whitney. It lies in the Adirondack Mountains and spans 9000 acres with sixty four lakes and ponds and about half a dozen mountains within its area.
A jumble of trivia is presented including Minard's Liniment for rheumatism, women landowners in Britain, English and Welsh land ownership totaling about 33 000 women, ocean steamers boiler and condenser tube lengths, Irish peers without seats, Columbia River salmon catch reaching up to 1 250 000 cases, U S public land uptake of 22 million acres, Lord Lister and his antisalvatic treatment, codfish liver usage, 42 million sleepers on UK railways, Means Sea in the Sandwich Islands, and a sea-to-sky mountain at 13 950 feet high.
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