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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1911
Page
6
A tumbling performer in the Barnum and Bailey circus, earning 40 dollars weekly, demands a raise claiming to be the hit of the show. Barnum refuses stating there are a hundred tumblers, and the man quits, stranding the act in Sandusky Ohio after a week on the road.
Inactive living harms digestion and health in general. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills regulate the stomach and liver and restore healthy action. Keep a packet on hand for regular use.
The Cosmopolitan recounts an anecdote shared by Rabbi Joseph Silverman about an Englishman and a Scotsman boasting loudly of royal recognition. A button seller overhears and compares his own boast, noting a brash claim after dining with friends on a street in a bustling city.
A quirky dialogue recalls a misadventure as a child falls from a window and remembers leaving a pipe on the windy sill. The speaker contrasts a humorous reaction with a two year old brother asking to peel a pencil on a beak.
A vintage advertisement claims Dr Chase's Nerve Food rebuilds exhausted nerves by forming rich blood and repairing nerve cells. It warns early symptoms like poor sleep nervous headaches and irritability signal trouble and promotes 50 cents per box or six for $2.50 from Edmanson Pates & Co. Limited Toronto.
The Actors' Church alliance figures in dramatic criticism with Miss Bingham defending critics as harsh yet necessary. She quips about aging and papers, then recounts Lord Leeland’s failed proposal to an elderly heiress, joking about having two grandmothers already. A Los Angeles Times note mentions Watts and Holloway’s Corn Cure.
Harper's Weekly notes the High Wycombe mayoral weighing ritual on Inauguration Day each November. The mayor elect leads a procession, wears historical dress, and is weighed on public scales by the head constable as a record of his belongings is entered in a dedicated book.
Joseph Nubel, a commercial traveler from St Joseph and Levis, writes that after a severe leg injury from a horse kick in May he lay bedridden for a fortnight. Three bottles of Minard's Liniment cured the leg, allowing him to resume travel.
A humorous exchange contrasts darning and knitting as a wife resists mending stockings. A playful voice notes her knitted brows when asked to darn.
Minard's Liniment Cures Dantruff. $20,000 Boulder The annals of the Biocan recount a spring 1492 discovery when two prospectors found a massive rock mass, mistaken for a mine. A speculator bought the chunk for 2,000, clearing 18,000 after tests showed silver and lead ore weighing 195 tons.
A Tennessee Civil War memoir recalls G Harris and W B Bate, prisoners in Nashville’s penitentiary, rationing coffee and distilling moonshine. They reportedly made three quarts, one quarter seized by a Union soldier, who kept two quarts by force. The remaining quart was aged and consumed.
A husband recounts a playful exchange about a wife buying a new suit. He objects to spending without consultation, but she explains the tailor cannot do it for $150 and she chose to proceed. He jokes that the savings on her two trips justified the cost, highlighting small economies.
An ad extols Par melee’s Vegetable Pills as relief from bilious headaches by correcting stomach irregularities and calming nerves and blood vessels. It notes many suffer from biliousness and promotes the pills as a ready remedy. Herman Rieder, New York editor, recalls rising from errand boy to top of the business.
A 19th century advertising snippet promotes Baby's Own Tablets as a gentle laxative to soothe stomach and bowels, claim they regulate digestion and expel worms, cure colds, and prevent various ailments in infants, sold by The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
A Detroit Free Press snippet recalls a polite teacher and a summer girl who spar over swimming instruction with coy back and forth dialogue reflecting light social humor.
A Canadian youth explains party plans to his invalid grandfather, recalling a Simcoe county election with sixteen market fights in one morning. The elder laments modernization and decline in election methods, noting a Robinson against a Bel race and broken ballots as old times.
A Toronto man recounts a child's severe rash from birth to age two and credits Cuticura remedies with complete cure after trials of doctors and hospitals. He states his son has remained symptom free since May 1909 and June 1911 letters confirm no recurrence. The ad notes Cuticura Seep and Ointment as a long marketed skin treatment with free sample offers.
USEAN ISLAND lies near the equator with strong currents and no safe anchorage. The island, with 475 aboriginal inhabitants, exported phosphate in 1908 and supported a trade valued at 314000 pounds with Australia. In 1896 a native community lived there, with later growth bringing railways, electric light, and telephones by 1920.
Court circles discuss establishing a royal residence in Ireland to host two to three weeks yearly. It would be occupied only by royal family members and not by the Dublin Castle leadership. Queen Mary might welcome time with her children at an Irish home, perhaps in August between Cowes and the Balmoral season.
An amusing observation shows a kitten reacting fearfully when stroked after touching a dog. The instinctive canine smell triggers a startled spasm as the kitten tests the unfamiliar scent.
A Rhode Island union soldier and a North Carolina Confederate picket across a river in Virginia trade coffee for tobacco and converse across the water. When asked their regiments the Rhode Island man identifies the 349th Rhode Island and the other replies the 49th North Carolina.
Sikeston Missouri resident Mrs Dema Bethune shares seven years of relief from crippling monthly symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. The testimonial claims improved energy, mobility, and ability to work, with praise for the remedy’s success against female complaints and related pains.
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