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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 25, 1912
Page
3
A photographer from Malek in the Mogaila Province of the Anglo Egyptian Sudan sent pictures showing a herd of female elephants resting in the bush. The belief that African elephants never lie down is disputed as several may be seen sleeping.
Mrs Pierre J Coisens of Petit Rocher Gloucester Co N B reports kidney disease heart trouble and back swelling vanished after using Dodd's Kidney Pills She claims rapid improvement and attributes her renewed health to the remedy amid a promotional newspaper fragment cluster.
The article surveys horsehair preparation for commercial stuffing, detailing sorting by color and length, dyeing, mixing, and twisting into ropes. It notes sources in China, Russia, Britain, and South America, with prices up to five dollars per pound and uses from bedding to upholstery and cavalry plumes. It also touches on tanning, disinfection, and methods to fix curl, plus varied end products and regional exports.
The article notes that water constitutes about 134 pounds of the average man with 109 pounds of water in the body and bones, and that moisture pervades every tissue. It also promotes Partneres's Vegetable Pills as a mild, safe remedy for delicate women with digestive complaints, boasting no violent pains or purges.
A dialog references a Venetian chandelier and European travels with Mrs Eastlake and Mrs Tro Trotter. The scene shifts to a street interaction about bricklaying on a city pavement as a voice from above comments on the work. The fragmentary text includes a medicine ad for PPAZO LINS and a stray remark about a writer named Robert Herik.
A garbled note recounts a rumor about Billare the restaurant keeper and a curious claim about a swan named Crimsonbeak. It mentions a diphtheria cure and a swan living long lives, with stray dialogue about Mrs. Crimsonbeak and a diner in a restaurant.
An Eight ounce bottle offers a fast cough stop using Pinex pine extract with sugar syrup or honey. The ad claims quick relief for obstinate coughs, throat problems, crampy asthma and early lung trouble, asserting wide use in the U S and Canada and easy preparation at home.
An odd collage of dialogues and notices appears with names and phrases. A mock letter extols Minard's Liniment while a use of public figure names and social banter shows domestic tensions and humorous quips about marriage and the wider context.
In Marshal town Ta, the Friends Church faced a salary cut from $1000 to $800 for its pastor. The minister, with a wife and six children, resigned rather than account for ill fees and credit his reduced stipend, declaring the demand rubs in on him.
A collection of late 19th or early 20th century jokes and quips. It features a mother offering ten cents to curb a child’s swearing, a boy offering fifty cents for a new word, a cartoonish specialist doctor on the middle finger, a teacher quip about Hannibal, a lawyer demanding full truth, a jailhouse riddle about oil, and a sick man telling creditors he is at least in a position to pay.
A frazzled shopper argues with a grocer about partial cheese weight while a verbose ad voice touts Parmelee's Vegetable Pills for dyspepsia. The piece braids a domestic quarrel with a medicinal pitch and a casual notice of tipping at a hotel.
In a fragmented dialogue a New York observer notes shifts in U S production and arts inputs. The dialogue mentions growth from one fifth to over a quarter of total output and cites monetary values of eighteen and twenty four million dollars plus sixty two million for coinage and other uses.
This fragmentary clip features a street near miss with a car track scene where a driver turns off and knocks Fat down, a quip about standing in front of traffic, plus miscellaneous lines about illness remedies and humorous exchanges among characters.
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