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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 05, 1926
Page
7
Joanna, newly rich in a bold plan, navigates a risky liaison with Brandon as she exits the bank. She questions trust, longs for parental guidance, and weighs where to go next while the banker Aggleston offers cautious aid.
Mrs Eva Wilson of Hamilton Ontario reports severe fatigue back pains and nervous collapse at the Change of Life. After taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she improved dramatically and recommends it along with Liver Pills. She offers to answer letters from other women about the medicines.
Joanna navigates a perilous social circle fueled by money as she and the driver confront a tempting proposal. Brandon watches from the curb while the chauffeur solicits a discreet after ten call and the bag of bank notes reveals the lure.
Major-General Sir Desmond O Cal laghan, an eighty four year old artillery expert, begins a thousand mile Amazon journey to bring back two piraya specimens to London. His round trip will total about 14000 miles. He plans to catch two piraya to place in museums and for his club. The piraya is a small but deadly fish, voracious and capable of eating a person who falls overboard. The fish are easy to catch and perch like in type.
Workmen dig in the St. Olave's graveyard near London Bridge seeking remains of early English king Harold Harefoot who died in 1040. The Tooley Street site holds caskets from centuries past as investigators weigh the likelihood of royal burial beneath.
Mrs Emma C Gibson of Island Pond Vermont writes that eczema started on scalp with a painful rash and blisters after scratching. She says after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment she improved in two to three months and was completely healed. She includes price details and advertising copy for Cuticura products.
English papers credit Lord Birkenhead with the costliest joke in history. Sir Robert Houston, a wealthy shipowner who died on Jersey, left the bulk of his fortune to Birkenhead in his will but probate shows the widow as chief beneficiary. The tale links Birkenhead’s quip about Houston’s beard color to his reduced share.
The University of California library holds about 5000 volumes that once belonged to Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. The collection passed to Don Jose Maria Andrade, was sold in 1869 in Leipzig, and joined the Bancroft Library in 1901. Also note an asthma remedy advertisement claiming conservative, permanent relief.
General J. G. Harbord wrote a $1000 cheque to the United States Radio Corporation. The document was transmitted photographically across the ocean from Marconi headquarters in London using Captain Richard H. Ranger’s system and will be honored if no legal impediments arise.
The 1925 report of the Soldier Settlement Board records 30 846 veterans placed on land under the Soldier Settlement Act and totals of funds advanced and repaid. It shows 105 750 831 dollars advanced and 23 834 104 dollars repaid, with 408 803 dollars advanced to Indian soldier settlement.
Stage coaches drawn by four horses reappear in England to rival motor cars. Regular Brighton to London trips appeal to travellers who favor the traditional conveyance. The Berkeley, famed for winning coach events at Richmond and Olympia, is among the vehicles on the Brighton London route, reviving a horse drawn era.
Dr J D Levine of Washington DC says blue eyes signal good health and that most animals are born blue eyed with age related changes. He notes sailors on outdoor diets and healthy Irish and Scandinavian people tend to have blue eyes, reflecting physical condition.
An advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablets as a safe home remedy for newborns and children. It claims the tablets are free from opiates, regulate stomach and bowels, ease teething, and help with colds and fever, selling for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
A compact column offers moral quips and quotes from Kingsley and MacDonald on duty, humility, and faith. It ends with a wry line about riches and poverty, and a playful aside about a new hat going to a woman’s head. The piece reads like a moral vignette column, weaving proverbs with light humor.
A Harvard University professor argues that humans and apes belong to the same family due to structural similarity. He notes no missing link yet, cites Siwalik Hills fossils as near relatives, and suggests origin between Mongolia and the Himalayas in the early Miocene about two million years ago with erect posture first appearing in the common ancestor.
The advertisement proclaims Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a true and faithful friend to sailors soldiers fishermen lumbermen and outdoor laborers. It claims to ease pain relieve colds dress wounds subdue lumbago and overcome rheumatism and urges keeping it in home medicine cabinets and for travel.
The Salem News argues more Americans have died in automobile accidents than in World War I, listing a death toll of 223,500. It notes 24,000 fatalities last year, up 2.5 percent from 1924, and calls for an auto armistice day to curb the rising toll.
Corns cripple the feet and make walking painful yet Holloway's Corn Remover offers relief. A common household remedy claims to ease discomfort and restore ease of movement for sufferers.
In a dialogue, one man notes the famous statue of liberty, while another remarks on America adopting France's custom to honor its illustrious dead. The exchange highlights cross national commemorations and statues.
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