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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
4
Mme Marguerite Schenk of Rue Leibnitz Paris hid 312000 Russian fonds and 750 French notes in a mattress. During spring cleaning her dishonest neighbor seized the fortune, exposing risk in private hoards and the vulnerabilities of hidden savings.
Mme Schenk hauls a mattress to the curb to beat it when a fat bag falls to August Hommet below, containing 750 francs in bank notes and 12 000 in Russian bonds. Hommet’s spree ends when attorney M Hamard captures him. he and his wife confess and are jailed, while Mme Schenk faces relief and prudence.
Melbourne obituary notes the death of Robert Laidlaw aged ninety three once a friend of Sir Walter Scott. He emigrated to Australia at twenty four and began sheep farming near Melbourne. Laidlaw witnessed the city’s rise from a hamlet to a capital and oldest inhabitant at his death.
Advertises Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for skin eruptions and general weakness caused by bad blood. Claims energy returns, appetite improves, and complexion clears after use. Includes testimonial from Adolphe Rollend of St Jerome Quebec recounting recovery after taking ten boxes. Pills offered at 50 cents a box or six for $2.50 from Brockville Ontario makers.
The Ontario Board of Health, via Dr. Chas A Hodgetts, sent guidelines to local boards to ensure milk purity. Rules cover fat content, dairy building safety, cow health, clean feeding and water, and worker hygiene, with emphasis on drainage, air space, and prohibition of sick cows or near-contaminants.
The text outlines thorough milk handling rules including washing and drying hands, separate milk houses, rapid cooling to 55 degrees F within two hours, use of ice, nonabsorbent tanks, and strict cleaning. It forbids preservatives, ensures covered containers, prohibits reuse without sterilization, and requires health-free milk personnel. also notes fumigation for contaminated houses before collecting bottles.
The ad promises Pazo Ointment cures for itching bleeding or prolapsed piles in 6 to 14 days with money back. It repeats the claim and price 500. Then a dialogue joke about Nell and Belle jokes about knowing a man before marriage.
The Japan Times describes a widespread smallpox festival in Tokyo areas. Families set a red cloth shrine with rice and sacred paper, worship for twelve days, then discard offerings. They bathe in red hot water and wear red garments to placate the god of smallpox.
A collage of old advertisement copy extols Babys Own Tablets as safe for infants with government testing, praises Parmelee's Vegetable Pills for gentle intestinal action, touts Ramsay's Paints for home charm, and includes light jokes about healing remedies and daily life from a vintage periodical.
From October to May headaches blamed on colds. Laxative Bromine touted as remedy. Quirky old ads boast skin cures and ointments for eczema ringworm and scald head. Small potent pills claim strong effects with tiny doses. Humorous exchanges and a watchdog joke close the page.
An advertisement extols Dr J. D. Kellogg's Dysentery Cordial as a universal remedy for dysentery diarrhoea cholera and summer complaints. It promises prompt relief for sea sickness and stomach issues and urges mothers to keep a bottle for a child's ailments.
A humorous exchange shows a husband unable to recall his worry as his spouse asks what’s troubling him. The light dialogue highlights domestic wit and mutual concern in a playful moment.
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