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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
4
A wry contrast contrasts an optimist who sees spilled milk as harmless with a pessimist who suspects the spill contains mostly water, hinting at differing worldviews without tragedy or despair.
The page mixes an advertising contest promising seven hundred dollars for Orange Meat Company’s bottom packaging submissions with assorted quips and medical patent pitches. It touts Dysentery Cordial and Ferrovim tonics, a dog and baby quarrel, and a Joan of Arc misunderstanding in a humor panel.
An auction brief notes savings from a product named Sa Jada sold only in sealed lead jackets and not by peddlers or in bulk.
A survey of wartime taxes from Pitt era shows hair powder duties and the guinea pig house tax, dog taxes, paper and advertisement duties, window and toll taxes, income tax, and tolls on watches clocks and domestic goods, detailing repeal, exemptions, and public backlash.
A publication urges mothers to guard babies against summer illnesses like cholera infantum and stomach troubles using Baby's Own Tablets. It cites a Quebec mother claiming rapid relief for colic and diarrhoea and notes the product costs 25 cents a box, sold by dealers or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co.
The Windsor Magazine argues the mariner's compass is heavily challenged on modern steamships. Steel hulls, conflicting magnetism, and onboard dynamos create conditions far from ideal, forcing operators to rely on protective devices to keep the needle aligned with the earth's magnetic pole.
The text discusses biliousness as a dulling ailment and promotes Parmalee's Vegetable Pills to regulate the liver. It also features a mocked romance scene where a partner questions marrying for money, insisting affection stands apart from inheritance.
Visitors to Quebec’s tercentenary find a grand Tented City near Martello Tower offering hotel style meals in three large dining tents seating 1500, with 25c and 50c options, five lavatory tents, and sleeping tents of three sizes. The site offers views of the St Lawrence, Old Quebec, and Champlain. W A H Wiggs heads the project.
Excitement in Serra Daire southern Portugal over an extensive underground Moorish complex with living quarters stables and storehouses. Skeletons and hundreds of ancient weapons including daggers swords and studded scimitars found. Large quantities of gold and silver coins uncovered as workers toil day and night.
A St Louis reader and Dr A W Perrin of Brooklyn endorse Peruna. The Missouri patient cites rapid relief from bronchial catarrh after use, while Dr Perrin reports personal use and wider patient recommendation. Druggists in the region now stock Peruna.
Off Nova Scotia Sable Island hosts troops of wild horses believed to derive from a 16th century Spanish wreck or later introduction. Once about 600 strong twenty five years ago, the herd now numbers around 200. The island comprises loose sand ridges enclosing a shallow lake with grass patches and water pools.
An old advertisement promotes Holloway's Corn Cure claiming it cures various corns. The text then shifts to a playful language lesson exchange about proper grammar and a feel good resignation to life’s troubles.
A 1908 note from Tokio neighbors to Mr John Bexington protests his geese keeping, listing loud and unquiet noises and the harm to children. The letter pleads to remove or relocate the birds, ending with a harsh neighborly wish. Despite the appeal, the geese remain, with occasional uneasy fates befalling some.
An invitation to women in poor health to request a free trial and booklet for a home treatment with postpaid delivery in plain wrappers. The ad promises prompt replies and cites reliable references to persuade skeptics about digestive health remedies. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are marketed as non nauseating and suitable for all ages during any season.
The piece notes a Tibet plot yielding 15000 dollars from a small cultivated acre. It cites English examples using intensive French methods producing 25 dollars per acre in gross returns, claiming a record for England and hinting at a seedsman’s farm between London and Oxford as a near winter example.
A long passage compares yields per acre across crops from Samoa to Tibet, noting Moselle vineyard values and a sacred tree in Tibet. It then urges quick relief for the little folks with Mother Graves Worm Exterminator and Weaver's Cerate for burns. The tone shifts to moral cautions about fame and actions vs words.
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