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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 25, 1907
Page
2
Advice on nervous exhaustion and nerve health promoting Dr Chase's Nerve Food. Claims aid for partial paralysis, ataxia, and exhaustion. Testimonial from Mary Leitch of Coulson Simcoe County. Product priced 50 cents a box, six for $2.50, available at dealers and Edmanson Bates & Co Toronto.
Frank Clark of this city raises a bull terrier named Mitch who performs many feats. Mitch opens doors lowers shades and follows orders without command. He drinks whiskey with his master and roams with Elks lodge pride while joining in alley games and protecting a Groening girl at Harvey's lake.
A Caribbean colony previously noted for pest problems and high mortality is now described as healthier due to irrigation sanitation and modern measures. The article extols Parmelees Vegetable Pills as mild soothing relief for dyspepsia promising a gentler option than harsh tonics or disagreeable remedies.
The article notes that Indians who took 24 from Governor Peter Minuit for Manhattan Island in 1626 would have earned enormous compound interest. If invested at prevailing rates, their heirs would now hold about 12 billion dollars, illustrating the value of time and money.
A promotional verse extols Dr Thomas Electric Oil as unmatched for rheumatism and back pain. The piece portrays the oil as delivering instant relief from painful touches, promising improved life with its use.
The Washington Star notes that money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind and that wealth can tempt people to buy cars. A man with an anxious look illustrates the tension between wealth and contentment.
George Murray a youth aged nineteen at Windsor sues Kate Pinkham aged seventeen for engagement presents valued at forty four dollars.
Mrs Laurent Cyr of Little Cascapedia N B reports using Baby's Own Tablets for colic teething troubles and indigestion with very good results. The product claims to contain no opiate or harmful drug and is sold for 25 cents a box by Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario or medicine dealers.
Sponges are found occasionally on English coasts with several sorts. They are often found on the lower timbers of old piers.
The article notes that rhinoceros horns were used as drinking cups by royalty in medieval times to detect poison. The theory held that poisons would bubble in the horn, revealing adulteration via chemical reaction.
A claim states Wolford's Sanitary Lotion quickly cures itch, mange, prairie scratches, and contagious skin ailments on humans and animals within half an hour.
Henry Hudgon, a widely traveled author and science writer, lives in a railway carriage on a cliff above the Severn near Bridgnorth. He adopts a nature inspired life, builds coracles sent to Norway, and has invented wooden socks that intrigue British military authorities.
Testimonials from Mrs A Livingstone Mahone Bay John Mader Bridgewater and Joshua A Wynacht claim Minard's Liniment cured bronchitis asthma rheumatism and a severely sprained leg in multiple Nova Scotia towns.
The passage traces the word chum to a pair of schoolroom mates over two centuries ago. To shorten the awkward roommate term they spoke of each other as chnm, later evolving into chum as a boon companion.
A method to create a segment by sawing straight on one edge and curved on the other. For a 48 inch long segment and 4 inch width at the center, compute a radius of 74 inches using half length squared plus width squared, then adjust by a division with twice the width.
A ration for winter egg production has shown long standing effectiveness at Canadian experimental farms. The mash mixes shorts, ground oats, cornmeal, meat meal in equal parts with boiling water to form a crumbly feed.
A mix of advice praising stable care for horses, a 19th century large drug advertisement offering One Hundred Dollars Reward for catarrh cure via Halis Catarrh Cure, testimonials for F J Cheney Co and Hall's Catarrh Cure, plus Brantford’s $5 000 pledge to Bell memorial and Parmlee's Vegetable Pills touting liver and kidney benefits.
A new playVotes for Women by Elizabeth Robins draws thunderous applause at Court Theatre London The work centers on a suffragist wronged by a rising politician who resigns his cabinet seat to back suffrage The Trafalgar Square rally scene is praised as realistic and influential by critics while opinions vary on its artistic value
In the lamp tidbit, boiling the burner and wick with washing soda cleans and restores brightness. In Roscommon, Farrell, once known as Whaer and linked to the Fenian Brotherhood, reappears after 26 years as a wealthy man, with his wife and children still denying knowledge of him.
Reginald of Durham in a chronicle dated before 1105 claims a young English nobleman was cured of leprosy at Durham Cathedral shrine of St Cuthbert. He states a woman, three years an inmate of a hospital at Dadele near Darlington, was miraculously healed at the shrine of St Godric in Finchdale in the sight of Sheriff Ralph Haget and parish priest Normian of Hailtune.
A girl asks a visitor to look into a mirror and confirms he sees himself. She recalls her mother’s warning that if someone pees into a looking glass the mirror will smash into tiny pieces. The exchange hints at superstition and a frightened reaction.
East Lancashire faces a remarkable house famine as cotton trade booms. Builders and owners profit quickly while 200 mill workers cannot marry due to lack of dwellings. Dwellings fetch landlord prices, with tenants forced to quit and seek lodgings as eight of twenty houses in a street empty.
An odd fragmented excerpt shows a curious exchange about a hothouse cucumber and spring. The text hints at a playful, unsure speaker asking for their best effort amid unclear dialogue and a rustic setting.
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