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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
4
ORONTO is praised as a beautiful world city and home to J. E. Carson at 215 St. Clarens Ave. The ad touts Peruna as a fixture in over a million homes for coughs colds catarrh sore throat indigestion and stomach disturbances. It warns that these ailments can lead to serious disease and a dose or two of Peruna early may avert illness.
The International Limited trains from Montreal daily at 9.00 a.m. reach Toronto 4.30 p.m. Hamilton 5.30 p.m. London 7.48 p.m. Detroit 10.00 p.m. and Chicago 7.42 a.m. next day. It features a solid vestibule coach and through Pullman sleeping cars to Chicago with cafe parlor and library car service.
A collage of ad lines and anecdotes cites Ramsay paints for homes, butterfly resilience, Parmelee's Vegetable Pills and a doctor’s tale of a woman ill with chills. The fragment preserves product pitches and a humorous chat about wealth and social style.
A London revealed view describes how Japanese women's kimono colors shift with age from pale silvers and blues to purples and pinks, then to striped fabrics at twenty seven, narrowing stripes toward thirty, and finally to brown or gray before adopting black in later life. The piece notes Western readers’ discomfort with such a rigid color census.
On an overland train, a husband John says he may drink spirits to soothe his throat from alkali dust. Maria replies that they won’t reach the alkali region for 500 miles, so he need not start today.
A historical note traces spectacles to China and credits Roger Bacon with introducing their use to Europe. It recounts Bacon as an English monk educated at Oxford, a linguist and scientist in optics, who faced monkly persecution, spent years imprisoned, and died in Oxford after a prolific yet controversial career spanning 1214 to 1292.
The main arsenic sources are Saxony silver mines, England tin and pyrites mines, Spain mispickel mines, and Canada's Ontario mispickel which contains gold. Germany now leads in metallic and white arsenic production, England previously did. the United States consumes about half of total production. Orpiment refers to yellow arsenic and uses include pyrotechny shot medicine and fly powders.
Mothers who have used Baby's Own Tablets say they feel safe having this medicine in the house. A government analyst guarantees it contains no poisonous opiate and it's always safe for newborns or children. Mrs Alfred Suddard of Haldimand Ontario praises its use for constipation vomiting and restlessness. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
An exhausted couple quarrels over a broken clothes line and a stubborn furnace in a domestic scene. Hobbson blames his wife for mud on clothes and the fire failing, while she retorts with taunts about his temper as they clash over chores and daily mishaps.
Reverend Edwin Smith recounts Michael Olding’s dramatic turn from near death to robust health after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. Olding, once bedridden with asthma and bronchitis, grew weaker before the pills restored appetite and strength, allowing him to work again at age seventy nine.
In a heated outburst, Hobbson charges the cellar furnace, shouting threats as dust erupts from the vent and fills his face, leaving onlookers stunned and the incident unresolved. Mrs. Hobbson warns him to stop, while the scene ends with his speech choked by dust and anger.
Dr. John M. Clarke concludes the 1663 Canadian earthquake was the severest continental disturbance from terrestrial dislocations. He cites crust movement along the St Lawrence course with paleozoic rocks slipping against crystalline shield rocks from Montwal to Tadousac, extending toward Lake Champlain along the Adirondack contact.
Dr J W Spencer estimates Niagara Falls age at about 39000 years based on current recession rate of 4 2 feet per year and historical changes in water flow noting the four Great Lakes full discharge began later. The initial erosion started slowly with Lake Erie alone. Milkins dialogue ends the clipping with a joke about Windig.
Ferrovim is advertised as a gentle stomach stimulant and tonic for fever recovery and vitality. It claims superiority among tonics and is marketed in drug and general stores. The edition notes a Chinese opium cultivation edict requiring cessation by 1917 with a yearly one tenth reduction and bans on continued use.
From October to May colds are the most frequent headache cause. Laxative Bromo Quinine is noted as removing the cause. The record also mentions John Middleton of Hale as the tallest Englishman, living in James I.'s era, at 9 feet 3 inches, surpassing Murphy by five inches.
An article in Century details typical peak ages for creative and intellectual achievement across professions. Thinkers mature later than workers, with masterworks often produced around midlife. health and optimism could let a man reach success as readily at 30 as at 20.
An advertisement proclaims an officer of health who attacks pain with a legal metaphor. It claims Dr Thomas selectric Oil enforces a sentence of banishment on pain and cites exaggerated health statistics to boost credibility.
The Royal Humane Society of Great Britain awards the Stanhope medal to William H. Parr for a gallant rescue in a shark infested river. Parr helped save a sailor from a swamped boat near the Aberdeen Direct Line steamship Hove in the Inhamhane River while James Moora A B and about thirty natives were on board.
The piece notes a mother threatening a spanking after a child balks at an agreement over a spring suit. It promotes Perfectly Trustworthy as a reliable anti consumptive syrup claimed to clear colds quickly. It also mentions a 19th century discovery linking Malla fever to a microbe in goat milk with widespread goat infection on the island.
Readable lines mention five cent machine packages and reduced prices for rasanines. Also instructions to contact Singer Sewing Machine Co in Toronto for souvenir views. A coroner asks about a shooting witness confirms the victim was shot in the head and denies prior threats.
Shortly after last year’s San Francisco quake a large volcanic island appeared in the Behring Sea named Bogesioff No. It notes two similar islands have previously risen and disappeared in the same area.
An assortment of early 20th century ads tout Pazo Ointment promising cure in 6 to 14 days with money back guarantee for itching and bleeding piles. Other notices promote Wol ford's Sanitary Lotion for itch and mange, Weaver's remedies for skin disease, and Mother Graves Worm Exterminator. Also included is a note on UK agricultural employment decline and a comic Elsie quote about marriage.
A fragment recounts a Sunday School scene with a teacher asking what to do if smitten by an enemy. It mentions Tommy Tufte and Cat and jokes about corn cure, plus a science note claiming the crust is 45 miles thick and the deep temperature near 270 degrees Fahrenheit.
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromoline Quinine tablets promising rapid cold relief with a money back guarantee and a signature on each box. A brief wedding anecdote follows with a groom’s enthusiastic interruption. A travel-evoked parable about time and youth closes the fragment with a comical exchange over a watch, reflecting era humor.
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