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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 03, 1911
Page
3
In a quip from Human Life, Mrs Malaprop and a gentleman discuss a beautiful young lady poet. The gentleman notes her Maivete as most conspicuous, while Mrs Malaprop wonders what caused her to have such a tight one.
Tippins, a Canadian postmaster, credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with ending three years of back pain after trying many doctors and spending hundreds. He says two boxes let him rise from bed, ten boxes cured him completely, contrasting his experience with the other doctors.
A playful exchange shows one speaker stifling yawns to hide boredom while the other tries to be gallant. The dialogue hints at social pretense and a moment of awkward humor amid chilly weather.
The pure black fox pelt remains the market’s top fur, with one medium flawless skin selling for 2300 dollars in Prince Edward Island. Pelts vary by color and quality from 300 to 500 dollars, and fox breeding has grown into a promising twenty-year industry.
An advertisement touts Dr J D Kelloggs Dysentery Cordial as a remedy for dysentery cholera morbus and inflammatory stomach and intestinal complaints from food or water changes. It notes higher summer incidence but can strike any time and promises speedy relief. A stray caption follows showing a photograph with two French poodles and a dialogue line about recognition.
The University of Berlin has nearly 8,000 students, Munich about 7,000, Leipzig 4,600, Bonn 4,000, Heidelberg 2,409. In the empire’s principal universities about 55,000 students are enrolled.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials from Walting Kinnan Marvin and others. Includes price per bottle and a note urging readers to ask druggists for the remedy along with Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Ends with a humorous exchange from the Washington Star.
A Toronto Mail account recalls a ministerial visit where Mrs. Williams trains her young son Willie to answer questions. The boy refuses to name only his age, blurts five years old, and when asked where bad boys go, he responds with the expletive phrase. The scene ends with the doctor startled by the blunt answer.
A dressmaker questions her servant about posting a letter. Mary explains she used a penny to post the letter while no one watched, claiming she did not need the stamp. The innocent maid's remark highlights a small domestic moral moment.
A testimonial from Mrs. Paul Gannon of Star City Sask describes long lasting relief from severe indigestion after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. The ad claims the pills restore stomach function by nourishing blood and nerves, with sale details for Brockville Ontario.
A Western Ontario school story shows a young girl answering addition tasks with a clever misdirection. When asked for two plus one she invokes shoe polish, amusing the class and teacher.
A mother nicknames her newborn daughter Rachel and proposes the name Eugene with a playful twist. The father, after a moment’s thought, jokingly suggests Yousheenie and questions the benefit of such a choice.
Light exchange snippets note physicians using Minard's liniment. A humorous dialogue about daily condensed milk consumption shows a domestic quip about a quart daily, milkman delivering into a pint-size can. A playful wedding mischief ends with a joke about lifelong love as capital punishment.
A robber breaks a leg entering a Cairo house and seeks redress. The cadi orders the owner, carpenter, mason, girl in a blue gown, and dyer summoned for fault finding. Each passes blame until the dyer is blamed and the crowd demands action. The tale ends with the cadi refusing to hang anyone and pondering true justice.
The account recalls Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, receiving a guinea as a child. His grandmother confiscated the coin to buy Milton’s poetry, predicting he would value it later. Hughes later noted he never fully reconciled with Milton due to that early lesson.
The market value of black cats is rising as fur from dusky skins is sought for ladies garments. Attractive prices in the London fur market lure cat thieves moving along the south coast seeking felines for skins and cloaks hats muffs capes and other dress items.
The Caps Colony Argus warns of a locust invasion seen as a dark winged cloud. Locusts swarm over homes and wells, affecting animal flesh and egg quality. Fowls fatten on locusts but taste taints meat. pigs and horses show adverse reactions to polluted grass and locusts.
A Surrey Staghounds meet near Crowhurst sent a stag along a rail line to Upper Warlingham station where the exhausted animal reached the waiting room before collapsing. Officials closed doors to keep back the followers as the stag was captured and sent to a stable once deemed fit for removal.
A fragment quotes a character denying involvement in a scheme while claiming distance from it. The line contrasts being in the cupola with the bottom dropping out and falling into the cellar, reflecting a metaphor about a failed venture.
The liver governs blood quality and impurities from a troubled liver show as blemishes. Parmelee Vegetable Pills act on the liver to improve the blood, promising a clear, healthy complexion. Lea will appreciate this prime quality medicine and its gratifying effects.
Fragments from a Chicago page show a quizzical exchange where a suitor and suitoress discuss love and commitment. The garbled text hints at a romantic bargain and a stray line about tying a shoe, reflecting a playful or clipped society item.
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