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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
4
A list of old fashioned aphorisms on virtue and effort followed by an advertisement for Parmelee's Vegetable Pills claiming to cleanse the system and ease bilious matter. The piece includes a crude racial vignette about a boy named Ephraim Rastus receiving punishment.
The ad proclaims Salada Tea as the final luxury of tea drinking and a mark of world quality. It urges readers to ask their grocer for Salada.
Chief steward reveals 1907 figures: over half a million gallons of beer, 10 000 tons of potatoes, 8.3 million pounds of fresh beef, 216 503 tins of marmalade, and 76 223 bottles of sterilized milk. passengers average five sixths of a gallon of liquor per person while mineral water reaches a full gallon.
In a humorous incident in the British House of Commons last session two senior members swapped coats after washing hands downstairs. One found a pipe in the coat pocket and claimed the other wore his coat. A staid policeman intervened as they began removing coats in the division lobby, urging decorum.
A letter from ISS DELLA STROEBE of Appleton Wisconsin reports rapid improvement after six bottles of Peruna restoring appetite sleep and energy. Another testimonial from Mrs Judge J F Boyer of Evanston Illinois credits Peruna with renewed life strength after years of run down illness.
A public health note warns that infancy danger rises in heat with diarrhoea dysentery and stomach troubles. It recommends keeping Baby's Own Tablets in homes with children and taking prompt doses to prevent or treat stomach and bowel issues. Mrs J Renard of New Glasgow testifies to a cure for severe diarrhoea. Available from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont for 25 cents a box.
The piece extols Canada as a vast, expanding dominion with abundant natural wealth and potential. It portrays Canada as a sizable yet underrated realm within the British Empire, highlighting land, timber, minerals, water power, fisheries, and ports as sources of future strength and influence.
The piece celebrates Canada as a rising nation beyond the United States. It describes Quebec as a historic gateway and a fortress-like city guarding a river draining vast wilderness, asserting Canada’s rapid growth across the border.
The article traces historic bath practices used by notable figures from antiquity to the eighteenth century. It cites a Roman Empress bathing with milk supplied by a hundred asses, Elizabeth I wine baths, Mary Queen of Scots with milk, Madame Tallien with strawberry and raspberry infusions, Josephine with violet milk, and other recipes like rose water honey bouillon and barley juice with egg yolks.
Advertisements promise free home remedies for bed wetting and urinary issues from Mrs. M Summers of Windsor Ontario. The page also promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for rheumatism and Holloway’s Corn Cure, with assorted jokes and a Scottish laird tale about a heavy fish.
The passage argues that absolute sincerity grants personal power and strength. It warns that living a perpetual lie drains energy, distorts character, and obscures one’s view of the world. It urges removing faults promptly to maintain honest self-perception and outer integrity.
A compact meditation on service and humility. It argues that true faith shows in a bowed heart not outward ritual. The piece warns that avoidance of trouble or courts fails against consequences and stresses personal environment and conscience.
A promotional contest offers a life annuity of fifty two dollars per year or a seven hundred dollar cash prize for the top entry. Additional prizes include one hundred dollars, twenty and ten dollar prizes, and many five and one dollar awards for sending in orange meat package bottoms by May 31, 1909.
A fragmented scene depicts Tillie Lake Beevil seeking seclusion after grief. Mrs. Beevil offers shelter on Fitz-Will Lake between Georgian Bay and Manitoulin, signaling a deeper past and a stormy future while noting Tillie’s need for rest and escape.
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