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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
2
A Washington Post quote notes 4 176 000 000 collar buttons produced last year and jokes about the hunt for a misplaced button. A Chicago Daily News gag about a canary and a servant ends with humor over feeding a hungry pet.
An advertisement asserts Dr Williams Pink Pills restore health by building new blood. It cites Mrs Elizabeth Dunham of Welland Ontario, claiming relief from headaches heart palpitations and weakness after using the pills. The piece promotes the medicine as curing illnesses from watery blood and weak nerves and notes availability at pharmacies.
An eastern traveler chronicles Tibetan tea caravans traveling in Tatsienfu west China. Merchants trade in large yak caravans with tea packed in leather cases, while prayer flags, prayer wheels, and a 1000 Buddha scroll illustrate deep religious devotion in the caravanine life.
A tale from Life In Morocco recounts Abdel Hakk once hungry who is given two hard boiled eggs by Widow Zaidah. Later, as a rich man, he avoids a suit engineered by Meludi the lawyer who argues the eggs could hatch into beans. The judge questions his absence. the attorney says he went to sow boiled beans and the case is dismissed with costs to the plaintiff.
A six year old boy named Jim shows politeness in a crowded car. He offers his seat to a lady, but learns from the nurse that a seat large enough for a boy may not suit a lady. Jim asks a stage whispered question about seating in future rides.
A Montreal newspaper author promotes a home mixture using Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyon and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla with water. The guide claims relief from rheumatism and urinary problems and asserts a potential permanent cure by cleansing kidney eliminative tissues.
A limping man pauses against a lamp post and asks for a shoe shine. A street Arab boy gleams boots with brass nails and charges a nickel. The cripple acknowledges the hardship and the boy declines to take more than a nickel.
A note praises Bickle's Anti-Consumption Syrup as agreeable to taste and a relief for irritation of the throat causing hacking coughs. Used as directed it claims to break persistent colds and restore air passages to normal health, advising those uncertain which remedy to use to try the syrup.
A young woman confides she wants a thorough cooking course to become a good wife. The matron approves, and when asked about marriage timing she jokes she has not yet found the man, playfully shrugging off the question.
Winnipeg Board of Trade urges farmers to market grain early this fall citing high prices and money market stringency. Resolution asks railways to boost low grade grain movement before navigation closes and sets minimum weight rules to encourage shipments.
Quick-acting remedy claims to relieve itch, mange, prairie scratches, and contagious skin conditions on humans and animals within half an hour using Wolford's formula.
A lively fairground notice promises diversions including a baby show a strongman a mermaid act and a fat woman act. It touts low admission ten to fifteen cents and a promise of a better show than last year with serpentine noises from the merry go round.
Joseph Beaudoin of Quebec tests Peruna for stomach catarrh and says after four bottles his indigestion is cured. He urges others with dyspepsia to try Peruna and avoid indiscreet eating to restore appetite and digestion.
A Mobile lawyer is surprised when his gardener arrives with a large wheelbarrow asking for encyclopedias to help name a baby. He jokes about the need for big books for the christening case. The scene echoes a Success Magazine style vignette with humorous dialogue and a rural drawl.
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