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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 07, 1907
Page
6
A stately Richmond spinster, long a city sight, keeps a flawless mansion with immaculate dining rooms. A visiting niece recalls the house’s perfection and tea party splendor while noting a peculiar sight a fly was washing itself.
A Washington Star excerpt notes sleeplessness as a symptom of digestive derangement and claims Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills induce sleep and leave the subject refreshed. The passage includes a tangential quote about railways and locomotives contrasted with automobiles.
During summer months diarrhoea cholera infantum and stomach troubles threaten infants. Keep Baby's Own Tablets at home for prompt relief and prevention. Mrs J Renard of New Glasgow praises quick cure of a severe diarrhoea in her child. Sold by medicine dealers or mail order for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
A playful dialogue features a waiter and customer trading missing menu items from beefsteak to cutlets and sandwiches. The punchline arrives when the patron is told the only offering is the bailiffs, delivering a dry social quip.
A sportsman vacationing in the Catskills is targeted by a crafty farmer who recognizes him from a New York swindle. The farmer admits the gold brick scam and warns the man to travel to the depot, where the next train to the city departs at seven thirty. The victim walks ten miles to the depot and boards the 11 30 train in a dusty, angry farewell.
Chambers' Journal notes Smol lett's 1765 journey from Nice across the Maritime Alps to Turin using a toboggan sled made of two cod pieces. The descent on a foggy steep slope near Col di Tenda was rapid, guided by local courants, with one guide behind and one ahead. after an hour they reached Simon and waited two hours for mule transport.
Court circles discuss Balmoral’s future as the King favors a change from his Highland home. Balmoral is shut with few servants and plans to convert it into a sanatorium have been dropped. Recently several vans moved furniture and Queen Victoria’s ornaments to Windsor.
In France it is punishable to feed infants under one year solid foods unless a written prescription is signed by a legally qualified medical man.
Excerpted notes reveal a writer journaling payments and expenses. Molly demands $7 daily this week while an article on surviving on one dollar a day is noted. The Monthly Review paid $3 for two sonnets and a gas bill is cited at $6. Jane comments on the coal situation as Molly enters.
Equivocal exchanges erupt as Mrs Chatters vents about Mrs Nex dore and her troubles while Mrs Deeply counters with a calm reply. The fragment captures a domestic quarrel tone and civic newspaper cadence.
The article describes a severe bilious headache more common in women and notes symptoms of stomach bile and prostration. It claims Parmelee's Vegetable Pills act as a speedy alterative, neutralize intruding bile, relieve nerve pressure, and ease the headache. Try them.
John and Willie, twin boys, quarrel with their friend Archie who has red hair. Archie storms off in a huff but the twins yell red head at him. He retorts that he isn’t a twin and people can tell him apart, ending the exchange.
In a playful guide style piece the Chicago News compares quack remedies and humorous claims about cures. It notes how different tellers give varying explanations and hints at the quirks of anecdotal medicine.
A reflection on kleptomania arguing it mainly affects those with wealth over $100,000. The statement frames the condition as a social phenomenon rather than a medical diagnosis, implying a bias about its victims.
Thos Bulman of Kelowna offers ten acre blocks in the Okanagan Valley for home buyers or investors. He has lived in Winnipeg fifteen years, recently bought a large valley tract, intends to reside there, and will plant orchards and manage and care for orchards until they bear fruit.
New Brunswick lumbermen fear only 60 to 75 percent of last season’s cut on the St John River this winter. Wages drop with a expected $30 pay. Tight money markets raise loan costs and a presidential year often harms lumbering. A heavy previous cut leaves the market glutted as the season ends.
An advertisement touts ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT as a universal remedy for horse ailments including blood spavin curbs splints ringbone sweeney stifles sprains and swollen throats with a $50 savings claim and a guarantee of being the most wonderful blemish cure. It also recounts Admiral Dewey praising Civil War bravery and one Connecticut recruit joke about bullets and dodging in a curious aside.
At the National Exhibition the Igorrote Village contrasts modern civilization with Luzon natives. The display includes a marriage trial, a two year old Bontoc Igorrote, and residents at forges performing daily tasks. Central dances and spear-throwing mark tribal ceremonies.
Washington reports from London show Ambassador Reid negotiating with Britain's Foreign Office on Newfoundland fishing rights. The main clash is Premier Sir Robert Bond opposing renewing a clause that allows Newfoundland fishermen to join crews on American boats. If no agreement, a truce would let Americans fish along Newfoundland under last year’s terms.
A fragmentary exchange shows Gerald and Geraldine debating engagement rings with sisters as the context. It hints at expectations and relationship dynamics in a terse, domestic dialogue.
Letters from Mr C B Fizer of Sterling Kentucky and Mrs Geo H Simser of Grant Ontario praise Peruna for kidney trouble relief after months of illness. The ad notes kidneys remove poisons and Peruna offers assistive aid when kidneys cannot bear their burdens.
The importance of proper kitchen design is emphasized with top priority on air flow. Adequate lighting and ease of cleanliness follow as essential goals, all achieved with minimal labor and cost.
Up to year end, the Panama Canal had cost the United States 84,449,000 dollars. The figure reflects cumulative expenditures on the canal project through the latest reporting period.
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