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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 24, 1926
Page
7
A blunt promotional pitch claims Tanlac builds strength for thin and run down bodies with promises of quick health gains. The piece shifts to a serialized fiction scene at a silk counter where Joanna risks dismissal by the mysterious department store owner, the Old Man, after a tense office summons.
In a busy department store Joanna and other salesgirls vie for favor as Mr. Harkness the silk buyer dispenses a daily ritual of “Good Morning.” A tense moment arises when Joanna’s gaze shifts to the stern buyer and she is summoned to Mr Graydon’s office for reprimand.
Mrs Penn recalls suffering displacement after childbirth and being advised surgery. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with improving health during a subsequent pregnancy and recovery. Her family, including sisters in Leamington Ontario, also use and praise the medicine.
Medical authorities claim cancer stems from civilization diets and urge raw fruit and vegetables. A new treatment adds assimilable potassium salts and a potassium rich diet, with doctors reporting encouraging results and letters from practitioners. A free book explains the Cantassium Treatment and is available via Charles Walter in Toronto.
The Canadian Pacific Railway horticultural department and floral committee coordinate widespread seed, tree, shrub, and perennial distribution to stations, bunkhouses, and shops from St. John to Victoria. May shipments include willows lilac spirea honeysuckle and roses while perennials and annual bedding stock provide lasting color with minimal care. The operation relies on cross line cooperation and is nearing completion.
The text notes Switzerland depends on other countries for eggs. It also mentions a proverb about excuses, a tout for Minard's Liniment for throat and dandruff, and a remark on flannels and small boys shrinking from washing.
A fragment surveys questions about why cracking whips makes noise, cold light in organisms, animal markings, blue colors in nature, and salt dissolving in water. It cites Professor Tra Renson asserting water decomposes salts into charged particles while other substances do not act like salt.
E. S. Sloane of Georgetown credits Nerviline with curing two years of backache after trying it at Smith Bros. Drug Store. The advertisement claims Nerviline removes lingering pain and urges others with weak backs to try it. It notes a price of 35 cents at all dealers.
The piece outlines four core rules for advertising ethics: the work must be the best of its kind, meet a real need adequately, be presented in its finest form, and justify the price charged. It frames these principles as essential criteria for Quality advertising.
Sudden March temperature swings strain babies indoors with overheated poorly ventilated rooms. To prevent colds and fevers, use Baby's Own Tablets, a mild laxative from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario, 25 cents a box, available from dealers or by mail.
Alberta mines produced 5,883,394 tons of coal over the past year, an increase of 679,681 tons from the previous year. Domestic coal accounted for 3,156,359 tons, sub-bituminous 581,835, and bituminous 2,145,200.
Hard and soft corns both yield to Holloway's Corn Remover, which is entirely safe to use and certain to satisfy in its action.
A violinist uses a bow while several girls imitate with a different spelling of the word, hinting at playful language or orthographic variety in local notes.
In a reflective note a woman contemplates beauty she admires in others yet refuses to forgive envy as a guiding force. The piece contrasts admiration with resentment, framing envy as a personal burden.
Moral verses urge quick praise and slow scorn and warn that today’s thorny vine may become tomorrow’s rose. A few hardy souls persevere on stony soil while flowers wait for dew. Speak kindly and offer praise when deserved to nurture budding promise.
In Germany the Russian revolution’s odd results appear as many noble refugees run businesses and trades. A grand duchess may be seen in a coffee house with an ex-Imperial guard officer, while the coffee house is run by a former count and his children.
The Manitoba Co operative Poultry Marketing Association met in Brandon with about 75 delegates. They decided to open a co operative poultry station and heard reports on progress of the poultry and egg pools.
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