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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 23, 1907
Page
6
Emanuel Lasker, the chess expert, debated a style of play and compared it to a debating society question about cheating a lawyer. After three hours of argument, the decision was that it is not wrong but too difficult to pay for the trouble.
Hemford merchant H W Awalt recounts severe sciatica pain from Baker Settlement It left him unable to work with leg cords drawn tight and painful days and nights Doctors failed to help until Dr Williams Pink Pills restored health and dissolved the pain He credits the pills with increasing vitality and blood quality and notes only genuine pills bear the Dr Williams name on the wrapper Available from medicine dealers or by mail Brockville Ont 50 cents per box six for 2 50
A London Telegraph report states an elderly, respectable man faced a magistrate charged with unbecoming and hilarious conduct. He claimed he did as the Romans do, and the magistrate ordered him to continue and pay seven shillings sixpence. The rest of the excerpt promotes Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills as a digestive aid.
A colloquial exchange features a judge grilling a speaker who boasts of always speaking as he thinks. The reply concedes the boast, noting he does so “only more frequently.” The line highlights a sharp courtroom wit and ironic self-assessment.
The note recalls Maarten Maartens election to the Authors club of New York in 1895 and the Joost van der Poorten-Schwartz moment. It also discusses Parmelee's Vegetable Pills developed after extensive ingredient testing and offered as remedies for dyspepsia and liver and kidney disorders. A Cleveland Plaindealer crime joke features a self styled disarming committee member defending a theft charge.
A humorous exchange features Wilhelm and Johann debating marriage costs and milliner expenses. Wilhelm jokes Johann would have married the milliner to avoid homemaking costs, highlighting the pricey nature of matrimony in a light, staged dialogue from Lustige Blaetter.
Advertises ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT to remove hard and soft lumps from horses and treat blood spavin curbs splints ringbone sweeney and more. Claims saving 50 by one bottle and warrants the most wonderful blemish cure. Quoted line from La caricaturista adds a humorous aside about talking in sleep.
A letter from Minard’s Liniment Co. of Yarmouth Nova Scotia recounts an accident in a lumber yard where a tree fell on a worker, who was treated with the liniment and recovered after three bottles. The note ends with a joke about Rossini from Il Diavolo Rosa.
Upton Sinclair, at a Columbia reunion, opined athletics often harm undergraduates. He recalled a Chicago lodging house keeper who joked that a student who carried a floor back might not be a student at all because he studies too much.
The Manitoba Sunday School association holds a major convention at First Baptist Church Winnipeg on July 2 3 and 4 with expected attendance up to 120 delegates outside speakers include Mrs J Woodbridge Rev W C Meratt and Marshall A Hudson. Also featured are provincial experts and music plus railway single fares. Information from W H Irwin 511 McIntyre block Winnipeg.
An old advertises Dr J D Kellogg s Dysentery Cordial claimed to rapidly cure dysentery diarrhoea cholera sea sickness and summer complaints in children. It promises immediate relief after indiscretions in eating unripe fruit or cucumbers and asserts fear of cholera disappears with a bottle on hand.
In a cautious stance, General Botha and the new ministry show little appetite for heroics on China men. They prefer keeping the Chinamen if it serves Boer interests, linking mine labor to farm viability and warning Britain against Liberal uncertainty.
Readers from Ontario praise Dr Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine for relieving a year old cough after pneumonia and bronchitis. The advertisement claims immediate coughing relief and eventual cure, with nerve tonic Nerve Food recommended for worn nerves. It lists price 60 cents for family size and notes Dr A W Chase's signature on every box.
A Yonkers Staatsman note shows a clerk denying a two cent stamp without a prescription on Sunday while another snippet from the Philadelphia Enquirer depicts a school mistress threatening Johnny Jones with expulsion for lying, underscoring strict rules and consequences.
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