Zam-Buk Balm Praised In Two Powerful Instances
Two powerful instances show Zam-Buk benefiting families across the Dominion. A Manitoba mother cites rapid eczema and irritation healing for her baby during teething. A Ontario man reports fast relief and discoloration removal after a horse mishap. The herbal balm also claims to cure ulcers sores burns and rheumatic pains. Available at druggists for six boxes two dollars fifty. Zam-Buk Co. offers free samples on request.
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L. Taylor
Pine Ridge
Man
Zam-Buk
D. Cumming
Springmount
Ont
Soc
Zam-Buk Co
Bickle's Anti-Consumptive Syrup Praised as Cough Cure
Advertised medicine claims to subdue coughs quickly when taken as directed. Hundreds testify to its merits and the product is offered for 25 cents, inviting others to try the remedy.
Parish rector cites barriers as Canada railway work slips away
In Southwark, a rector says many unemployed parishioners cannot take up Canada railway jobs because they must pay their own fare. In London, thefts hit art collectors with canvases by Gainsborough and Reynolds worth about 80 000 dollars stolen from Charles Wertheimer's house.
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Southwark
Canada
Gainsborough
Reynolds
Charles Wertheimers
London
Pineapple cure tablets advertise miracle relief
The item touts 60 specialists on the case for Tivan Stan’s Pineapple cure tablets. It claims 60 tablets in a box at 35 cents cost provide relief in one day, branding them as specialists. A second note lists figures on naval armament and ore mining, including 132 ships of the Spanish Armada with 3165 cannons and 34 000 seamen and soldiers, ore yields in Australia and California, and UK railway wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T i von Stan
London Citizens Honored as Beresford Praises Sea Power
Lord Charles Beresford, commander in chief of the Mediterranean fleet, visited London and praised local citizens for shaping British sea power. He displayed gifts from donors including a silver shield, a silk ensign, a ship’s bell, a Tower of London silver model, two silver fruit dishes, and a £260 45 1d cheque for naval gunnery prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Charles Beresford
Lord Beresford
John Pound
Tower of London
What would you do if handed a million dollars
The speaker muses on a hypothetical million dollar windfall and admits uncertainty about precise actions. He predicts becoming mean and grouchy, severing ties with old friends, and spending the rest of life attempting to outwit humanity.
Noted Brother Reflects On Faith And Giving
An aged brother tells a congregation that fifteen years ago he gave his heart to the Lord and recalls that as the only cheerful gift he ever received. a deacon whispers about collecting house subscriptions.
Cures for Indigestion Promised by Dr Williams Pills
Mrs. Jobin of Quebec testifies that after six months of severe indigestion with headaches dizziness and heart palpitations, Dr Williams Pink Pills restored her health within a month of use. She credits the pills with making new red blood and relieving general weakness neuralgia rheumatism and related ailments. The pills are sold for 50 cents a box with six boxes for 2 50 from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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T. J. Tobin
King Street
Quebec
L’evenement
Williams
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
A Castle In Ireland And The Coasted Connotations
The London Chronicle notes that Irish country houses oddly preserve the word castle in names. It argues the Celts mock London visiting cards by using the term for modest villas. The essay compares Irish and Scottish customs and the misimpression of fortifications.
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Ireland
Scotland
London
London Chronicle
Notable Quote on Gendered Speech From London Chronicle
The Londes Chronicle reports a fifteenth century sermon by Jean Roulin contrasting man’s silence with woman’s rattling bones. The quotation likens osseous origin to noisy bone clatter, presenting a vivid though dated view of gendered voice.
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Jean Roulin
Londes
Laws of conscience derived from nature, according to Montaigne
The fragment cites Montaigne asserting that the laws of conscience we claim arise from nature are in fact proven to be derived from nature. The terse remark reflects skepticism about moral origins and echoes Renaissance inquiry into innate duties.
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Montaigna
Canada Leads World in Railway Mileage Per Capita
Canada shows one mile of railway per 200 people, tops the world in rail reach. It reports 21,390 miles of steam and electric lines and ranks seventh as a maritime power with 7,000 vessels and 100 lighthouses. In 1905 vessel tonnage reached 76,000,000. shipbuilding totaled 21,865 tons. Also notes imitation claims against Dr Thomas Eelectric Oil, urging trust in the genuine product.
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Canada
United States
Thomas
Wheat Varieties And Botanical Differences
The article notes 322 wheat varieties with distinct botanical differences and many more differing mainly in name.
The Russian Peasants and the Damoy Spirit Beliefs
The Russian peasantry are unusually superstitious. They hold that every house is inhabited by a damovoy, a spirit who signals approval or disapproval of the occupants soon after they move in.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement and Fire Engine Note
An old advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for a catarrh cure with Hall's Catarrh Cure and claims its internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. It includes testimonials about F. J. Cheney & Co and Toledo wholesale druggists. Also notes the first fire engine in the United States was shipped from England to New York in 1731.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Teiloto
F. J. Cheney
WaLvomre
Kawman & Manvis
Whelesale Druggiste
Toledo
O Mall
All Druggicte
Teke Hell
England
New York
Roots and Moisture Flow in Plants
Plants release water from roots to leaves into the air. Sunflower emits about an ounce per hour, while a large oak with 700000 leaves exhaled 700 tons during seven months of leaf cover.
Have you Eczema New's Ointment ad
An old advertisement promotes New's Ointment as a cure for eczema skin eruptions chafing and scalding. It claims to relieve itching bleeding and piles with one application in ten minutes and most cases in three to six nights. Priced at 35 cents.
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Agnew
Newly Found Menander Fragments Unearthed in Egypt
Egypt discovery by M Lefebvre shows a papyrus codex of Menander containing about 1200 lines. Publication promises fresh insight into the style and genius of the famed comic dramatist for modern scholars.
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Menander
Egypt
M. Lefebvre
Egyptian Department of Antiquities
London Athenaeum
Cipher Saved Sir John Tre vanion From Execution
A prisoner in Colchester castle used a crafted cipher built into a condolence note. Every third letter after punctuation revealed the panel at east end of chapel slides. At prayer time the panel moved, enabling Sir John to escape.
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Sir John Trevanion
Colchester
Sir John
Remarkable Wild Bird Trained Like Aerial Performer
Andrew Hume the noted Scotch bird lover trained a wild Scottish bird to perform tricks. It jumped and kept time with a skipping rope, walked a rope, climbed a rope ladder, stood on a carriage, drew cards, rang a bell, and flew to its owner's head on command.
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Canaries
Andrew Hume
Young physician pursues fame with new fashionable remedy
A veteran practitioner praises the young doctor's zeal as he works on a discovery that could bring fame and fortune. The physician seeks to invent a new name to make an old aliment fashionable.
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Pame
Fertene
Love Potions Across Cultures Describe Potent Substances
The piece explains how peasants in lower Austria and Syria use love potions. It notes white arsenic taken in tiny doses can transform a pale girl into a rosy beauty, though the habit risks poisoning. It also describes eastern practices using hashish to fog a man's judgment and induce belief in altered appearances.
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Lower Austria
Syria
The Human Electric Battery and Northward Sleep
French belief holds that humans act like electric batteries with the head as one electrode and the feet as the other. The Academy of Sciences tested a guillotine victim whose severed body, set on a pivot, consistently oriented head toward the north, with the body following to the cardinal point, repeating until movement ceased.
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Academy of Sciences
The Tobacconist's Effigy Sign History
The essay traces tobacco shop signs from Elizabethan times through the Dutch dairymaid in Holland to the Indian sign in Britain and occasional returns to earlier motifs. It notes changing popular emblems like the black boy, the highlander, Sir Walter Raleigh, and regional shifts across Europe.
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England
Elizabeth
Walter Raleigh
Holland
Calves In a Meadow Impresses Kutts
Stipple-Did Kutts admire the paintings. Dobber-That she could feel a great deal of myself in the work. Stippler-Praise? Dobber-I think so. The shown piece is titled Calves In a Meadow.
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Stipple
Real Reform In Marriage Ends Poetic Output
A quip from Chicago News notes Qibbies claim that Rhymer, now married to a rich wife for almost a year, was reformed. Scribbies joke that he has not written a poem since they faced the parson together, implying success of the reform.
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Rhymer
Chicago News
Recruiting for Railway Work Under Lord Strathcons Order
Stockwell and Co London announce recruitment in response to a Strathcona cable calling for 10 000 men for railway construction. Impurities in the Blood notes kidney impairment risks and Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are advertised as kidney regulators and restoratives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockwell and Co
London
Lord Strathcons
Parmelee
British Pole Expedition Plans Departure Next October
A British expedition to the South Pole is set to depart from England in October. The team will travel with equipment that includes a motor car designed for ice travel.
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South Pole
England
Minard’s Liniment Cures Garget in Cows and Mines Progress
Minard's liniment reportedly cures garget in cows. Machinery has been bought to develop coal mines found at Vegreville Alberta. Deposits are believed rich, which could create a local market for the product as Edmonton coal currently serves the town at nine to ten dollars per ton.
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Minard
Vegreville
Alto
Edmonton
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