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Newspaper
Millbrook And Omemee Mirror
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
4
A marketing note urges mothers to use Baby's Own Tablets to prevent stomach and bowel trouble during hot weather. It claims the remedy prevents diarrhoea or cholera infantum and cites a government analyst guarantee of no opiate. Priced at 25 cents or available by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
Nigerian fishers employ a simple line weighted with a stone and multiple bone V hooks along its length. Snail baited lines attract fish which swallow the bait and trigger the expanding prongs to secure the hook. The thrashing fish draws in its family as others attempt the same snare.
A noisy collage of advertising style pitches promises free home treatments for bed wetting and urine problems, worm relief for children, and various remedies for corns and neuralgia. The piece includes quips about worms, camel moisture, and a rate card for plasters, mixing health claims with humor.
Satisfaction means that which satisfies. Use Salada Tea and you will appreciate this definition. Sold by all grocers in sealed lead packets only.
A Victorian analysis estimates Britain’s four main fleets comprise 38 battleships and 46 cruisers costing about £122 million, with torpedo craft, ammunition, guns, coal, and upkeep driving total wartime costs toward £40–50 million, plus ongoing weekly costs of £2 million.
A. J. Pattison & Co asserts the A G Brown & Co New York failure won’t hurt Canadian investors as Canada operated through Canadian brokers. Mixed market notes include a Wall Street rally, anticipated gains post the presidential election, and advances in Mexican Power and San Paulo stocks. Mining shares show activity with encouraging Larder Lake gold field prospects, while Cobalt rises as a major silver camp. Also includes scattered comments on health elixirs and a humorous quip about money ease.
Susie M Kings of London Ontario describes relief from a severe head cold after using Peruna. She says nasal and head congestion vanished and she could breathe again. Susie believes Peruna lives up to its claims. In Nashville Tennessee Mrs Kouitz reports a life long cough ended after taking Peruna.
In summer many drink from springs in woods and hillsides but Mons. E. A. Martel warns that springs that seem pure may be surface water draining through soil pollution and not filtered by rocks. He notes chalk is not an effective filter for such water.
A promotion by Orange Meat Kingston invites entrants to mail in the most orange meat packaging bottoms by May 31 1909. Top prize yields a life annuity of 52 dollars weekly or 700 dollars cash. other prizes include 100 20 10 5 and 1 dollar awards. Two unrelated dialogue fragments follow about a father and a legal stat
An advertising notice listing A. R. Bickerstaff and C. Stocks offering bonds, mining and oil stocks in Canada and the United States. It invites prompt orders and correspondence from potential clients and provides the address 627 Travers Bank Building, Toronto, Ont.
The London Daily Chronicle cites Dr John Tatham's Registrar General report showing ministers gardeners game keepers farmers or railway engine drivers as offering the best odds of long life during 1900–1902, with general laborers tin miners hawkers and hotel staff at the other end. Doctors, undertakers and tobacconists sit mid-scale in longevity prospects.
A discussion of life expectancy by profession notes medical men die more rapidly at all ages than the general male population while certain occupations like chimney sweeps and actors show higher cancer and related mortality. It also covers women workers and odd occupational classifications, plus notes on remedies and light anecdotes from ads and jokes.
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