Fragmentary note on illness and tool use
Incomplete text fragment mentions sickness and an instrument or tool, with phrases about applying, stamps, and being without something. Details are unclear and no concrete events or identities are present.
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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
3
Incomplete text fragment mentions sickness and an instrument or tool, with phrases about applying, stamps, and being without something. Details are unclear and no concrete events or identities are present.
Miss Margaret Fee and Miss Frankie Wiley of Toronto visited Peterboro friends. Harvest is largely gathered though straw is scarce. Threshers T. Rowan and R. J. Courtney & Son are praised. Local football fans lament Lindsay team’s no-show. Civic Holiday proposed for 26th or 27th with river excursions and a big program to attract visitors. Rev. G Sherwood, formerly of Omemes, preached at Christ Church in Buffalo. Bob Hall crew greeted by local businesspeople and residents. River opens 18 miles to Pigeon Lake for excursions. river scenery wows American visitors.
Mrs Lancelot Nicholson and her daughters Mary Lottie and Annie travel with sister Mrs Myron Jennings and her son Howard of Rochester NY Miss Eva Rice Omemee and Miss Bertha Stinson Peterboro join the group aboard the Monarch for a day trip stopping at Jubilee Gore's Spook Island Harwood and Idyl Wyld Miss Sarah Stinson of Toronto visits Mrs L Nicholson Geo Stinson and Miss Graham Peterboro and Miss Mary Nicholson canoe on the Otonabee River during Civic Holiday while the party records a large fish catch awaiting report.
An ad warns that many rush life causing stomach weakness and lists symptoms such as indigestion, nervousness, and sleepless nights. It promotes Mi ona tablets to strengthen stomach walls, stimulate digestive juices, and cure indigestion with a Leach guarantee refund if unsatisfied.
For sale a rubber tired baby carriage with brake and gold upholstery with parasol in matching color. Also a one burner coal stove with carrying handle. Both nearly new and offered at a bargain. Call the MIRROR Office for full details.
A fragment shows a real estate agent speaking to a caller about buying or selling a lot. The man objects and jokes about offering a cigar, while a line references Cameron or William and the agent’s admonition to the gentleman.
An obituary style note warns of kidney disease and praises Dr Hamilton's Pills as a cure. It cites back pain headaches dizzy spells and languor, claims the remedy is vegetable and safe, and notes sale in 252. boxes by oil dealers.
Proceedings of the Omemee council session with the Reeve James R Boate and six councillors present. Communications include school salary grants, road and drain work, fence removals, and multiple road and bridge accounts expenditures approved and ordered paid.
An 19th century style advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a liver invig orator and stomach tonic. It claims to ease heartburn belching nausea and digestive discomfort using plant extracts and asserts no alcohol or habit forming drugs. Endorsements from medical professors and a free booklet are promised to readers who request details.
The council lists payments for gravel road work, repairs to Cowan's Bridge, road grader upkeep, plank for Cowan's Bridge, and teacher salaries. Notable names include Gabriel Switzer, Donoghue, Dorgan, George McBrien, James Callaghan, George Griffin, Robert H Johnson, Alex Lang Jr, George Elliott, James Nichols, Dennis Scully, and Robert Nurse. The session adjourned to September first at 1 pm.
An old home remedy piece advises testing urine for signs of kidney disease using a glass overnight. It promotes Ferrozone as the cure for kidney bladder liver troubles and claims immediate relief. Also includes local notices about visitors and a hail storm with farm impacts and a Nerviline plaster remedy for muscle pain.
An old camper at Stoneyee’s recounts Doctor Hunter’s Toronto critique of modern summer outings. The group debates genuine nature versus show, with memories of fish tales, a near-drowning incident in Gilchrist’s bay, and a dramatic dam stop log freeing a drowned monster fish. Stoney Lake, Aug 10.
Garden Hill is quiet as visitors depart. Toronto guests include Miss Margaret Wright Mr F Body and Miss A Graham visiting the Wright sisters. Several residents plan trips west on Aug 22 with others at Kirby Port Hope Bailieboro and Millbrook social visits noted.
Fragmentary note argues catarrh is not a blood disease and cannot be cured by stomach medicines. It describes catarrh as a germ trouble from air breathed in, with germs infecting tissue and air cells of breathing organs and multiplying.
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