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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 16, 1907
Page
3
Advertises Bilean Co herbal Essences for digestive disorders. Claims to correct digestion, ease constipation, clear blood of poisons, and restore vigor. Promotes 50 cent boxes or free postage from Toronto with an offer of six boxes for 2.50.
The Splagen tunnel from Coire to Chia venna moves to a forward stage with plans in the Federal Chambers. Proposed line length runs about fifty miles overall and fifteen miles for the tunnel. Construction cost is estimated around five million dollars and is expected to take about eight years. A second project envisions a tunnel through Todi Mountain linked to the Gretna and Loetachberg Railway.
They are a powerful nervine. Dyspepsia causes derangement of the nervous system and nervous debility once engendered is difficult to deal with. There are many testimonials as to the efficacy of Parmelee's VePilla in treating this disorder, showing that they never fail to produce good results. By giving proper tone to the digestive organs, they restore equilibrium to the nerve centres.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note questions the idea that birds could serve as models for airships, contrasting common sense with the notion of avian guidance for aerial craft. The remark underlines the improbability of birds guiding or resembling airship design.
The National Association of Swedish Husbandsmen petitions the Rikek Dag to introduce a bill granting the association a monopoly on maize imports from the Argentine Republic without duties.
British income tax figures show 9,582 corporations 30,129 public companies 57,244 business firms and 456,571 individuals taxed in the United Kingdom for the year before last. Total gross income reported at 2 347 708 940 dollars with 212 subjects over 50 000 and 24 over 250 000. New York Tribune reports the figures.
Charles W. Kohlsaar, special commissioner of the Jamestown Exposition, obtained an audience with Crown Prince Gustave, who acts as regent during King Oscar’s illness.
A Bakersville miner named Hicks recounts frantic efforts to signal rescuers after his shaft entrapment. Food and a phonograph were lowered to him through a pipe while he coped with loneliness by devising tricks like losing his watch. The piece notes public interest and commodification of his ordeal.
A courtroom dispute centering on an injured writer who cannot write for six months and the defence argues the disability saved the plaintiff money on postage, creating a debt in the other direction. The matter proceeds to trial.
A testimonial from Mrs. L. Gagne of Edmundston New Brunswick claims Baby's Own Tablets cure minor infant ailments and bring natural, healthy sleep through the night. The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario sells the tablets 25 cents a box by druggists or mail order.
The Springfield Republican reports a new school program where haircuts for boys are offered in three school buildings. Each site has two stools and a small barber room staffed by students from a local barber college using supplied scissors and tools at the city's expense.
A claimed rheumatic cure from South America promises quick, safe results and a near instant relief. The testimonial cites six weeks bedridden before using four bottles and then being cured.
A professor explains tides with flow lifting the sea and ebb lowering it. A scholar, son of a stockbroker, quips that this is the time to buy. Nos Loisirs.
Claim of a fast cure for itching and mange in humans and animals using Wolford's Sanitary Lotion. The advertisement asserts relief from contagious itch in half an hour.
A noted French writer laments dwindling platinum stocks as deposits run dry, pushing prices up from 100 dollars per kilogram in 1876 to 1200 dollars today. The crude metal costs half as much as the refined form, and growing industrial dependence heightens urgency for viable alloy or combustion substitutes.
The Catholic Standard and Times records a tense scene with Stinjay hosting and Kandor alarmed by the weed. Kandor suggests sending his wife from the room to avoid trouble as tension rises over the cigar.
A Tolstoy son states the famed author suffered influenza last December and had recovered by Christmas time, according to family accounts.
England shows army and navy interest in a new flour preservation method using hydraulic pressure to form bricks. Experiments claim the pressure destroys larval life and mould, with 300 pounds of compressed flour occupying the space of 100 pounds ordinary flour. Also mention of Holloway's Corn Cure offering relief from boot pain.
The Study Club discusses Constantine with a remark about a thousand cooks. Mrs Ultry Mural suggests the emperor lived in a remote suburb or lacked absolute despotic power, reflecting light humor from Puck.
A historic disclaimer style advertisement offers a reward for catarrh cures Hall's Catarrh Cure is sold by druggists and taken internally. Endorsements from Walpine Krowan Manrvix Wholesale Druggists Toledo Ohio state confidence in F J Cheney Co and pledge honesty.
In a Tit Bits excerpt a magistrate asks an old offender Pat why he is back in court. Pat replies two policemen brought him in and confirms both were drunk. The exchange captures a grim, laconic humor of petty crime.
Advert describes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a powerful remedy that expels worms and improves a child's health in a marvelous fashion.
Aunt asks if Tommy made the nephew cry. The nephew says Tommy caused a little crying while mother was away. Tommy counters that he made him laugh nearly all the time. The exchange ends with the nephew laughing until he cried.
The government schooner Pilot was wrecked during a recent cyclone off Cookstown with reports of damage to the vessel and potential crew casualties. Local authorities dispatched rescue teams and opened inquiries into the loss.
The London Hospital notes that patient observation and experimental methods now reproduce cancer in mice and protect healthy mice from cancer, showing a clear step forward though a large gap remains to human cure. Researchers expect eventual victory through lab science and persistent effort in cancer study.
London Chronicle observes spelling choices in American English for edging stones and the word mellay. The piece notes curb versus kerb and the former's dominance, while mellay formerly free fight shows how etiquette can cause misreadings of bold terms like bride and paving-stone.
The advertising manager raged after a page ran a testimonial for a cold cure beside news that the prima donna had a sore throat and could not sing. The clash highlights a misprint turning promotional copy into unintended contrast.
A reflection on work as the best antidote to crabbiness, arguing that engaging in productive activity keeps the mind balanced and protected from moodiness and instability.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote recalls a Virginia judge famed for always winning in a pinch. As a child Benny misread a mouse lesson, then corrected himself saying it was a rat, illustrating early wit and sharp perception.
The witty remark spotlights Sydney Smith at a social gathering when Mrs. Grote enters in a rose turban. He quips grotesque at the sight, then praises both her and her historian husband, calling them a perfect pair of refined figures.
An article notes foreigners struggle to acquire representative works from the English school while praising its prolific hybrids. Includes a Burlington Magazine quote on English art. Also features a light anecdote about Wig and Jimmy’s uncle’s death and a family joke about an expected shipward inheritance in a PrincetonTiger style quip.
G F Worden of St John recalls a severe bout of Quinzy that kept him ill for two weeks and costly, claiming a neck lump faded after using Minard’s Liniment. The report also notes George Katzemayer, ten, lost both legs when attempting to crawl under a train at a St Thomas crossing.
Indigestion is described as a menace to happiness with claims that South American Nervine strengthens digestion, tones nerves, aids circulation, expels impurities, and restores health. The remedy is said to cure hundreds of men who had baffled physicians.
The King allows Oliver Avison of Toronto to wear the fourth class insignia Talkeuk conferred by the emperor of Korea.
Madrid authorities report that Don Jaime son of the Spanish pretender Don Carlos made a surreptitious trip to the Carlos leaders in Barcelona despite precautions.
The Glasgow Herald notes a remark on Canada United States and Germany fiscal relations. It suggests reciprocity as the basis of a settlement once again.
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