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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 28, 1907
Page
2
A garbled, dated clipping references Dr Thomas Eclectic remedies and faint social vignettes. It notes Granny Crane a Salvation Army figure aged 190 and dying at Sheringham, mentions Minard's Liniment and a Scottish celebration, and contains disjointed phrases about trains, a Samaritan, and an Automobile Magazine.
A portrait of New York hotels reveals a staff of clerks cooks detectives engineers and many others serving guests. For four dollars a day a visitor can access a room with bath and meals not included, with higher rates for state suites. The piece also notes Remsen Crawford’s claims about literary plagiarism and Joseph Smith’s role in the Book of Mormon’s origins, detailing the supposed revelation and the mysterious urim and thummim spectacles and plates.
The piece describes cheerfulness as springing from a happy temperament, youthfulness, and resilient character. It praises cheerful people as watch towers of humanity whose hopeful influence uplifts others and shines through daily struggles.
A congressman recounts an old Mississippi negro seeking to mail a letter weighed for a single stamp. The postmaster notes the letter is too heavy and asks for an additional stamp to lightened it. The anecdote highlights rural southern mail practices and attitudes of the era.
The minister recalled preaching to a girls' college graduating class with the students gathered around the pulpit. He described his wife overhearing his aim to be ever progressing and always do more than in the past, reflecting on personal striving and moral improvement.
A fragmented ad style note touts various cures and remedies with bold claims for skin conditions, rheumatism, and sore wounds. It references products like Pinewurmacpiotnes and Buck fam amazed, and mentions a one cent stamp and free box. The text reads as a garbled 1920s patent medicine style pitch with uncertain ingredients and dubious efficacy.
Berlin dispatch reports the first overland mail from Berlin to the Far East since the Japan Russia war began. The line to Vladivostock is set to reach Nagasaki and Shanghai within days, promising a 21 day transit from Berlin to Shanghai. Letters from mothers praise Baby's Own Tablets, claiming relief for fevers and infant ailments and even saving lives.
Fragmentary text shows a married woman and husband concerns, with scattered mentions of Chicago News and Philadelphia Press. Contents are incomplete and lack coherent events or outcomes.
The excerpt discusses animal distress and sympathy as a possible instinctual response, contrasting alarm and empathy with human-like understanding. It also weaves in social habits in Baltimore from October to May, noting holiday behavior, gift markets, and a sequence of seasonal events including balls, bridezilla planning, and money lending patterns leading to spring.
The piece recalls Edwin Booth and his approach to acting. It notes he never fully merged with his roles except once in Bertuccio in The King’s Fook, when he felt he surpassed himself while his daughter Balwina Booth headlined that he acted poorly, and Booth chose to be the man rather than the artist.
In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries monks isolated themselves to reproduce the Bible in illuminated manuscripts. The work was slow, taking by some accounts up to thirty five years or more per manuscript. Guido de Jar was a noted producer, with a 1700 example tied to Sir W. Burrell. A manuscript note claims he began in 1244 and finished in 1204, implying a century span.
A fragment notes that Van Ceulen, a Dutch mathematician, first determined the circumference to diameter ratio with extreme precision. He reportedly found 3.141520 for a unit diameter and achieved accuracy by repeatedly bisecting an arc, a laborious method demanding immense effort.
A fragment notes that Indian angle grain resin of Indian hemp can induce catalepsy in a man. Effects take hours to climax, limbs may be fixed in any position and remain there, gravity not causing movement, body insensible during the catalepsy.
Employ extraordinary fishing nets of spider's web to capture fish up to a pound. They fix bamboos bent into a landing frame in the jun le. Spiders weave their net over the frame. Fishermen watch for passing fish, dip it out, and throw it on dry land.
Fragmentary quips from old periodicals describe a country store scene with a clerk asked for a black hose and a shopper seeking Drussela. The dialogue riffs on department store banter and lace sprouts, reflecting light, satirical retail humor from a bygone era.
A fragmentary note describes nervous exhaustion and sleeplessness and asserts Dr Cause’s Nerve Food restores nerve force naturally. Testimonial from Mrs J Mather of 24 St mentions relief from nerve symptoms. The text warns mental lapse can result from nerve disease.
A testimonial from a Manitoba user says Dr Chase's Nerve Food greatly improved strength and vitality, enabling the writer to work better and feel healthier after years of weakness. The ad urges readers to buy the product, priced at 2 shillings per box, from local dealers in Toronto and Ontario.
Sir William Butler writes on the Channel Tunnel fearfully noting sea power could heat and lift the seabed, potentially exposing a tunnel under the sea to the land surface, while saying the French are not afraid of such prospects.
A fragmented London page blends Secretary Root's travel with Canada into a broader collage of 19th century public notices. It weaves medical cures, patter about herbs and tonics, Roman relics found, and casual anecdotes from Europe and America into a mosaic of period concerns and curiosities.
Letter from JB Livesque of St Joseph Missouri Aug 1900 praising Minard's Liniment for a 13 year old girl thrown from a sleigh. He claims four bottles cured her elbow injury after years of pain and halted swelling. The testimonial asserts she has been well for two years.
A fragment notes that Minard's liniment cures diphtheria with a patriotic quote about effort and knowledge. It includes a Cushman K. Davis reflection praising self-improvement and a Meredity remark on blaming parents and environment.
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