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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 05, 1911
Page
3
Situations vacant advertisement seeks men and women to represent locally. Two dollars per day salary plus commission. No experience necessary. Wrote J L Nichols Co Limited Toronto.
A playful dialogue shows Rivers correcting a judge of cigars while Sam Brooks nods. Minard's liniment and a vacuum cleaner are sold as part of casual chatter. Maud notes rheumatism forcing a cleaner, and a daughter recalls her mother preferring help over sweeping chores.
A disjointed clipping of 19th century humor and ads includes mise en scene at sea with Mise Maude Adam on the Mauretania and a widow and child quizzing a handsome man. It shifts to health cure claims for Parmelees Weetable Pills and then to joke snippets and an ad for Hal’s Catarrh Cure with testimonials and notices.
In a peculiar case Tweedledum faced a magistrate for obstructing traffic by gathering a crowd on Duch water street on the 20th instant. He claimed a Christmas tie in his garden caused mischief as people thought he planned a comic show.
A bashful man confesses trouble talking to women and recalls an encounter with a woman he tried to compliment. His joke backfired as she grew chilly, corrected him, and walked away, prompting him to ask how to phrase such remarks properly.
A garbled excerpt from a local Presbyterian context notes concern over deaths by water versus rail accidents. The wording suggests a discussion of fatal incidents and public safety without clear names, dates, or places.
A Saskatchewan clipping urges kidney health in children linking Edith Harris’s survival from severe dropsy to Dodd's Kidney Pills. It claims doctors once predicted death, but a healthy, schooling child results, advocating daily use at home and warning of neglect.
A mixed page feature notes a misprinted robbery item in a morning paper with suspicions about a typographical error. It also includes an advertisement for Bickles Anti Consumptive Syrup claiming cough and cold relief and lung health benefits. The text references Baron Fueash debates and a quip about the Chicago Fire.
A short quarrel erupts over poultry and family help as Willis boasted about raising 500 chickens on a net lot while Gillis teases about his wife tending a different flock of relatives in a flat.
A historical ad claims Dr Williams Pink Pills cure locomotor ataxia once deemed incurable. It cites Mrs Sarah Buller of Antler Sask and Mr A E Steele praising recovery after years of deterioration and notes pills improve blood health. It lists other conditions treated and provides purchase details from The Dr Williams Medicine Co.
London figure Pather aughan, described by Hesterian as a safe ally to the comfortable classes, faces queries in America about women’s suffrage. He says granting women votes would pose no difficulty, but adds that suffragettes would want all votes too, framing the debate with a wry remark.
A Newfoundland lighthouse keeper's wife credits Zam-Buk with curing years of eczema and related skin ailments after trying multiple doctors. She praises its quick relief and broad claims, noting it also treats ulcers, burns, ringworm, and other skin injuries. PMID: none.
A reader from St. Joseph writes that his 13 year old daughter was thrown from a sleigh and elbow stiff for three years. Four bottles of Minard's Liniment cured her completely and she has had no trouble for two years. The letter is dated August 18, 1906.
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