Inside the Governor-General’s Ottawa Residence
A detailed tour of the Ottawa Governor-General’s residence reveals a bright suite with portraits of royal family members, a private working room, and a richly adorned boudoir. Highlights include Gobeline tapestries, a Queen Victoria miniature, and a collection of paintings, photos, and engravings from Inveraray Castle to Windsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Louise
Duchess of Argyll
Duchess of Sutherland
Bonnie
Scotland
Princess Louise
Elaine
Dore
Tennyson
Prince Albert
Inverary Castle
Glen Shivra
Windsor Castle
Como
Venice
Boudoir
Fauteuils
Duchess of Kent
Lord Lorne
Quebec
Wolfe
St. James Street
Winterhalter
van Goyen
Man-like Ape Malanka Lived in Dresden Biography
The life of Malanka the ape, once in Dresden, is described as a highly instructive ape biography. She learned to unlock her cage, stole a key, hid it, bored holes in her table with a brad-awl, and showed careful restraint when pouring drink. Her death carried a touching, almost human pathos as she embraced the director, kissed him, and died.
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Malanka
Dresden
Foundation of Health Through Vitality and Digestion
The article extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a blood enriching tonic that strengthens digestion and circulates vitality. It claims improved stomach function, increased muscular energy, and relief from debility with reduced nervous symptoms. It also says the remedy eradicates irregular bowels, liver torpidity, rheumatic complaints, and malarial fevers.
Farm and Garden Foods for Stock in Summer
Agricultural note advises using a mix of pasture and dry feed from April to November. Grass alone may not sustain profits due to variable soil moisture and the need for grain to boost milk, fattening, and overall condition. Dairymen should supplement cows with dry corn meal, bran, or shorts to increase milk flow and profits.
Proper manure handling boosts crop yields, farmers urged
Farmers should pulverize and thoroughly mix spring manure with soil using brush and common harrows before plowing. Spreading in winter and breaking lumps increases fertilizer effectiveness, especially on stubble and grass land, potentially doubling manure value and crop results.
Farm Accounts and Profit Misconceptions
The piece argues that farmer profits are misestimated by only counting shop bills and produce sales. It compares farming to a merchant who inventories stock and accounts but omits family living costs, noting farmers with $3,000 in assets funding large families may seek 30 to 50 percent profits to sustain growth.
Alphabet of Proverbs a Grain of Prudence Wisdom
A collection of maxims on virtue prudence and character. Boasters are liars and confession halves amends while denying faults doubles them. Envy harms self and foolish fear doubles danger. Hard work comes from purposeful effort and revenge costs more than bearing wrongs. Modesty diligence uprightness and quiet conscience guide happiness and success. Wise actions create opportunities and good deeds never lose.
Stop wasteful living and trust Hop Bitters remedy
The Chronicle urges readers to cut spending on fashion and high priced doctors and to switch to Hop Bitters as a simple, pure remedy. It promises better health and good times at a trifling cost, warning against quack medicines.
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Chronicle
Cleaning Coat Collars with Benzine and Ammonia Mix
The best cleaners for coat collars and grease spots are pure benzine, strong alcohol, or a mix of alcohol and water of ammonia. Use ample quantities, repeat applications, and rinse thoroughly to dissolve and wash out the grease. A formula combines rock ammonia alcohol camphor and soap with water for scrubbing then rinsing and ironing.
Preserving Flowers and Leaves for Winter Bouquets
Advice on preserving cut blooms and foliage by moisture and sand. Invert glass over slips to root, add charcoal to soil for geraniums, keep scarlet Japonicas in sand, holly berries and other red berries in sand to retain brightness, preserve autumn leaves in sand for months, and arrange dogwood and birch leaves for graceful winter displays.
Bay City Tribune Praises Hop Bitters
The Tribune notes that many patent medicines are overblown yet says Hop Bitters are truly valuable. The writer claims to have used the Bitters in Bay City’s climate and found them reliable and effective, delivering all that is claimed.
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Bay City
Tribune
Bread Making Plain and Quick Yeast Batter Method
A simple recipe combines three cups flour and two cups Indian meal with dissolved yeast in water. Mix with lukewarm water to a stiff batter, let rise overnight, then stir in syrup salt soda and bake on a hot griddle.
Angel Pudding Recipe Prompt with Milk and Lemon
A recipe outlines angel puddings using flour sugar butter milk and eggs. The mixture is baked in small patty pans until browned and served with a dusting of sugar and lemon slices. Eggs should be beaten well before combining with other ingredients.
Famous songstresses use Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup
An assertion claims Miss Kellogg Abbott Oates and other noted singers keep voices clear with Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup priced at 25 cents a bottle.
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Kellogg
Abbott, Oates
Dr. Bull
Fish Cakes From Remnant Fish and Potatoes
Method for making fish cakes from cold leftovers combined with butter and mashed potatoes. Season with pepper salt and cayenne, form into cakes, fry until golden, and garnish with chopped parsley for serving.
Carrs Liver Broker and Apple Trifle Recipes
Cooking notes and recipes describe liver preparation with salt and butter, liver sliced and broiled, and a custard apple trifle with lemon zest and whipped cream. A hair care claim promotes Carboline as a long hair product, and a gelatin dessert BiLaNe MANGE uses isinglass and cinnamon in milk.
Brown’s Bronchial Tradhes and Havana Butter Recipe Notice
Throat diseases and cordials with a note that Brown’s Bronchial Tradhes is often imitated and should be bought from John S. Brown & Sons. Also a Havana Butter recipe using sugar, eggs, lemon rind and juice, cooked slowly for tarts or preserves.
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John S. Brown & Sons
Havana
Ada Ohio Joke Echoes Across Rail Car Conversation
A humorous exchange aboard a train includes a fat passenger asking for Ada's other name and the brakeman replying Ada Ohio. The group ponders wordplay about Bob Ada and Adam Ada while the party continues to a hotel.
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Apa
Morrow
Ohio
Adam Ada
Ad’em
The Mule Elected Financial Secretary at Animal Convention
An invitationless mule attends an animal convention on family government. The president taunts the mule about parenting, and the creature laments never raising anything but men. Despite this, a rising vote makes the mule financial secretary with power to summon persons and papers.
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David Dayvis
Barrister Probes Testatrix Mind in Aged Witness Cross
A well known barrister questions an aged testatrix witness on her mental condition. The witness describes the deceased friend as looking childish and a vacant, puzzled expression when spoken to. Counsel presses for a description but the witness offers a cautious, vague comparison. The exchange highlights the challenge of interpreting the witness’s perception.
VEGETINE Promoted as Blood Purifier Cure
In a morbid blood condition various diseases appear such as salt rheum ring w orm boils carbuncles sores ulcers and pimples. Try VEGETINE as a blood purifier for these afflictions. Its effects are described as wonderful and unmatched.
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Imruns& Bioop
Polite Egyptian village incident stars famed Alexandria athlete
A renowned Alexandrian athlete training for upcoming sports encountered a grey-bearded Arab riding a donkey in a Delta village. The Arab quickly dismounted and asked to borrow the donkey for the remainder of his journey, highlighting local courtesy.
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Egypt
Delta
Alexandria
Howaga
Miscellany of witty quips and light items from a Vermont grocery
A gaggle of short snippets and jokes from a Vermont grocery scene flows into quips on accidents, medicines, a Montreal locomotive crossing ice, clerks and accounts, a child’s math, and humorous one liners. The collage mentions Dr Bull’s Baby Syrup, Dobbins Electric Soap, and social humor about marriage and taxes.
Simmons Liver Regulator Proclaimed Best Medicine
If it cannot be afforded, it would not pay after much labor and capital spent to build up this medicine. Simmons' Liver Regulator is made by educated druggists not adventurers. Its care, precision, and appearance prove it is the best promised medicine in the market, with the motto Purissima et Optima.
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Simmons’ Liver Regulator
J. J. Zeilin & Co
Teach them to be practical and principled daughters
A speaker urges comprehensive family education for girls, emphasizing self sufficiency and moral conduct. It advocates skills like cooking, sewing, budgeting, and housekeeping, plus values such as honesty, restraint, and independence, concluding that educated daughters will marry with confidence and need no further guidance.
Kidney-Wort Cure Promises Relief After Long Illness
A patient claims thirty years of kidney trouble improved by two packages of Kidney-Wort, praising it as a sure cure after seeking various medicines and doctors, then notes an Oregon elderly woman’s experience.
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Oregon
Free Book On The Liver And Its Diseases Issued
A promotional offer provides a free book about the liver its diseases and treatment including topics like jaundice biliousness headaches constipation and malaria. Address Dr Sanford 162 Broadway New York City.
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Sanford
Broadway
New York City
N. Y
A Remedy Offer From Missionary Roots
A notice promises a recipe to cure nervous weakness early decay and other youth related troubles. It claims discovery by a South American missionary and asks readers to send a self addressed envelope to Reverend Joseph T. Inman in New York City Station D for details.
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South America
Joseph T. Inman
New York City
Electro Voltaic Belts Offered on 30 Days Trial
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshall Michigan promises speedy cures with a 30 day trial and invites interested buyers to write without delay to obtain their celebrated Electro Voltaic Belts.
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the Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Butter Improvement Co Hints to Butter-Makers
Market price of butter rises by 3 to 5 cents per pound using Gilt-Edge Butter Maker. Churning production increases 6 to 10 percent while time reduces by half. Prevents strong or rancid butter and yields rich golden color year round. Sold through druggists grocers and general storekeepers. Send stamp for Hints to Butter-Makers to Butter Improvement Co Buffalo NY.
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Butter Improvement Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Dairymaid
Tredemart
BurFato
Dr Jaynes Sanative Pills Promise Liver Relief
A historical advertisement touts Dr Jaynes Sanative Pills as a remedy to restore liver health and alleviate distressing symptoms. The copy emphasizes restoring organ function and general well being through the patent medicine.
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the Foundation of Health
Carr’s Liver Broker
Bob
Adam
Vermont
Montreal
House of Correction
Jack
Maude
Edith
Cragin & Co
Philadelphia
Rao Ola
Wells, Richardson & C0
Proprietors
Arlington, Vt
Sheens
R. & J. Beck
PLEER
Sueab
Fox
Fultonville
Bains
McKace Waters & CO
New York
NTS
Junua Schnorr von Carol
Pres. Chadbure
Weliams
He Doane
Albany
Pos
St. Lonia
Bret Patton
John Peddis
H.W. Thome
Geo. Fu
Chicago
Humvers
Arthur Bott
Johnson
Mai
Johnson &0
Banger
Saponifier
Epectacles
Philadeiputa, Pa
Newport
UH. R. Stevens
Patiick
Evansville
Ind
H. R. Stevens
Duddenhouse Eagle Drug Store
Ferdinand Schnick
Main Street
Chas. M. Duddenhausen
Sheridan
Johnson & CO
Bangor
New World
Mos
National Publishing CO
Scrofula
Bellevue
H.R. Stivens
Henry Wertheimer
Monmouth St
T. F. Trick
R. A. Betts
N. Turro Street
St. Louis, Mo
C. Godward
Alliance, Ohio
Scovil
V.o
H. Campbell & Co
Park Row
Sturdivant
Nassau Card Co
Nassau, N
Temperance Light
Arthur Sullivan
New England Conservatory
Conservatory
Oliver Ditson & Co
Boston
J. E. Ditson, & CO
Chestnut Street
Potts'ts
Buee al Qsoly
Etca
Omer Ube
Éroggista
Greta
Rochester, N.Y
N.Y
Ferguson Mfe’g CO
Burlington
Phararenai
S. M. Pettengill & CO
Philada
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