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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 29, 1907
Page
2
The text explains how resting pulse rates differ by sex and individual, typically 70 to 80 per minute, and how exercise food and substances like alcohol and tobacco affect it. It notes fever and inflammatory disease raise the rate and alter pulse quality, while low mood and cool temperatures slow it. It stresses pulse plus thermometer readings aid disease assessment.
An article explains how Saxon and Latin day names reflect Norse and Roman deities. It notes Sunday's link to the Sun and yellow gems, Moon day to pearls, Tuesday to Mars with rubies, Thursday to Thor with amethysts, Friday to Venus with emeralds, and Saturday to Saturn with diamonds.
The Kennebec river era story recalls Uncle Jim Gilbert a hearty river driver known for his enormous appetite. He would join log drives and repeatedly eat at a Augusta tavern as new crews arrived, shocking the tavern keeper with his continuous meals.
An impoverished girl laments tough luck and recounts a brief reunion after a recent rain. Friends seize her umbrella, take it to a closet, and lock it away, exclaiming with relief at the return of their long lost umbrella.
Melba praises Australian independence while recalling a memorable incident of their “delightful impudence.” She waited long for dinner at a mining town hotel and finally complained to the waiter. A later anecdote notes a lively musical moment inspired by a London impresario.
Mothers report daughters nearing womanhood benefit from Bileans boosting energy and strength. A Toronto mother cites Elsie, 13, improving after one box, with claims of anemia relief, debility cure, and liver kidney support. Available at druggists 50c a box, six for 2.50 from The Bilean Co. Toronto. A final joke notes men can avoid weddings but not their funeral roles.
An advertisement extols Baby's Own Tableta as safe for all ages from newborns to older children and free of opiates. It claims a government analyst backs the claim and cites a Prosser Brook user praise. Sold for 25 cents per box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co and mail order. It also includes market notes on fat money and a bold claim that a South American rheumatic cure wins long term relief.
The London Globe notes the sale of Georges Danton’s belongings after his execution, showing a modest estate: three cows, two pigs, twenty-one pigeon pairs, bacon and ham, an old coach, a stud donkey, and poor furniture. It portrays the butcher of the Terror as not money minded and living with his father in law in Sevres.
The ameer of Afghanistan, who will witness a winter military demonstration with 25 000 troops during a visit to India, married at a young age to seven wives, all daughters of powerful chiefs. Now with four wives the eldest, a fierce shrew, is said to punish rivals and disfigure those who attract him. The ameer is described as broad and stout with clumsy build.
The Figaro reports King Haakon and Queen Maud of Norway creating a novel two album collection of newspaper cuttings split into true and false. The callee Fres myt remarks on imagined national traits, asking which album contains specific pat replies.
In southern England Penhurst Place, Sir Philip Sidney’s birthplace, hosts Edmund Waller who wooed Lady Dorothea Sidney. She spurned his verses for the Earl of Sunderland, and years later she recalled the past. Waller quips that she remains as young and handsome as before.
Chiorine is a greenish yellow gas with a foul odor and partial to high water solubility. It destroys dye colors in fabrics and acts as a strong disinfectant by oxidizing hydrogen compounds and freeing nascent oxygen to oxidize coloring matter.
In a London Tit-Bits note, Mrs Jones enters the drawing room unexpectedly and interrupts a moment between characters. Char lie apologizes claiming a secret, while the old lady rebukes the misread scene as a fault of poor eyesight and confuses Jennie's mouth with her ear.
A Fairville reader hails Minard's Liniment as a superior product used to relieve sore throat and chest. The letter states the writer would not be without it even if the price rose to one dollar per bottle, signaling strong customer satisfaction.
Tests reveal grindstones vary with moisture. Dry stones endure 146 to 186 psi, while soaking overnight reduces strength to 80 to 116 psi before breaking.
In a playful dialogue the thoughtful thinker notes clothing matters, while a friend asks what is meant. The T. T. Exchange quips that women and salads are the talking points, reflecting light social satire.
Chase O Brown of Duluth Minnesota reports twenty years of throat and nasal catarrh and writes that within fifteen minutes after using Dr Agnew's Catarrhal Powder he obtained relief. He says three bottles had almost, if not entirely, cured him. Price 60c.64
A historical note describes ancient Roman epicures using vast gold plate as tableware. It mentions twenty seven hundredweight about one and a half tons as common on their tables, highlighting opulence in dining practices.
The piece warns that cooked foods should be eaten moderately warm not hot as high temperatures injure the digestive mucosa and raise perspiration making skin prone to chills. It notes hot food increases liquid intake and can lead to a repeat bad habit.
An advertisement touts Dr Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine as the prompt treatment and preventive for bronchitis or croup. It claims it can cure chronic bronchitis and prevent relapses, citing a testimonial from Mrs Richmond Withrow of Shubenacadie Nova Scotia and noting the product is sold for 25 cents a bottle with the doctor's portrait on each bottle.
The shah of Persia has agreed to grant popular demands and recognize constitutional government. Much distress in children is caused by worms and Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator offers relief by removing the cause. The New South Wales government will contribute £6 toward passage money for agriculturists or domestic servants moving to the colony with the agent general's approval.
An advertisement claims Wolford's Sanitary Lotion cures itch mange prairie scratches and all contagious forms in 30 minutes for humans and animals. It also notes official figures criticizing the British Aliens Act as ineffective and extravagant.
An old advertisement fragment extols Minard's Liniment as diphtheria cure and Holloway's Corn Cure for corns and warts. It notes Brandon plans a new collegiate institute at an estimated cost of 65,000 dollars, implying the era's commerce and public works.
Joseph Severn proposed a new inscription for John Keats's grave in Rome in 1859. The epitaph honors him as a young English poet who died in Rome and notes his earlier wish that his name be writ in water. Time has reversed that fate as admirers now name him in marble.
An Atlantic City auctioneer recalls a rainy day sale of second hand art books. A set of Audubon's Birds of America, valued at 25 dollars, sold for 500 dollars to a Pittsburg friend who later advised shipping to New York, where the set fetched 1700 dollars.
A brief comic exchange shows a husband lamenting his cook’s departure and a friend noting the wife’s cooking skills. The husband clarifies she is skilled with broils yeasts and stews, not a good cook.
At a Chariton meeting, reports from Canada are praised and a majority of the board favor emigration. The remark accompanies a solitary aphorism about self pity.
Regulators Mandrake and Dandelion are described as powerful for liver and kidneys, restoring healthy function and promoting regular secretions. The ingredients are said to make Parmelee's Vegetable Pills agreeable and salutary, with few pills matching their effectiveness.
At the opening of the Netherlands parliament ministers tendered their resignations to the queen due to the army estimates being rejected.
A timed explosive device was discovered in the chimney of Count Witte's residence, the Russian premier. Authorities report the infernal machine was planted to detonate after the family retired. Minard's Liniment is mentioned in unrelated context.
At a farewell audience with King Edward and Queen Alexandra Ambassador James Bryce formally accepts his post as Britain's envoy to the United States. The ceremony marks the transition in the diplomatic mission ahead of Bryce’s arrival in Washington.
A letter to Dr. T. A. Slocum Ltd promotes Psychine and Oxomulsion as remedies for weak constitution and recurring illnesses. Rev J J Rice of Toronto endorses the products for his family citing improvements to heart and lungs and relief from coughs colds catarrh la grippe pneumonia and stomach troubles. Psychine is described as a tonic affecting stomach blood and weak organs with no substitute.
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