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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 21, 1907
Page
7
A brief note recounts a serious case of chronic catarrh gradually overcome by Peruma. The account emphasizes the patient’s monthslong struggle and the treatment’s gradual success, reflecting period medicinal beliefs.
McArthur Tremblay of Mont Pleasant Quebec relates a years long struggle with serious catarrh. After trying local treatments and a specialist, he used Peruna for two weeks and saw rapid improvement. He continued until the disease disappeared within months.
A famed millionaire Rothschild humorously questions an innkeeper about a high omelette price. The innkeeper replies that eggs are cheap, but Rothschilds are scarce in the region, illustrating a sharp exchange over perceived costs. Also included is an old advertisement touting Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a blood treatment and remedy for constipation.
A fragment recalls a couple speaking of fate and a Count notes a man once aimed at academia but was fired and joined Peetsburg’s iron business. It also mentions Colonel Richard Lucy who died at Neston Cheshire and participated in Lord Roberts march to Kandahar.
The Zambez bridge in Africa stands 458 feet high. Niagara suspens ion bridge began in 1552 and finished in 1851, rising 245 feet above water and 82 feet long. Royal Gorge trolley bridge in Colorado soars 2 027 feet above the river. Forth bridge near Edinburgh spans 1 710 feet per cantilever, total length 1 .4 miles. Tubular suspension bridge across Men a strait features two 1 500 foot lines, 100 feet above sea and 11 000 tons. Portland and Seattle steel bridge across the Columbia at Vancouver will be a mile and a half long, using twenty thousand tons of steel. finish next January. Drawbridge length 44 feet.
Entries note an own sister to Sonoma Girl in Indianapolis able to trot 2 10. Glenwood M retired to stud after failing prep for Austria. Bill Squires aims for a ring redemption in three months. Walden Henley strikes out 12 for Rochester after farm move. Fastest trotters listed include Bero Jolly 2 15 4%, Athasham 2 11, Jaguar 2 12. Illinois boxing permits eyed for Chicago next fall with six rounds and date limits.
The piece notes Rev. Mendoza de Sola’s twenty five years serving Montreal’s Spanish and Portuguese synagogue. It highlights Rev. Casper Brunner’s long tenure at Bridgeport’s German Reformed church since 1868. Rev. Joseph A. Johnson in Portland Maine works as a painter while also preaching Sundays. It mentions German translations of Phillips Brooks sermons judged too high by German churchgoers and a English movement for stricter Sabbath supported by Canterbury and Westminster leaders.
The piece extols feeding the mind over the body for earning power. It argues ability ambition and initiative plus honesty yield superior value, while stock gambling or track bets fail without genuine skill or interest. It contrasts diligent study with mere effort and warns against shifting earnings to chance. Cent Per Cent
A practical note on sowing fine seed by mixing with coarse sand or cunnameat to achieve even distribution. This technique helps plants grow with clear spacing and facilitates easier removal if transplanting is needed.
A child asks if God makes peaches and stones inside a peach. The father explains with a humorous analogy that God makes the stone first and places the peach on the outside for convenience. The girl then asks why nuts are inside a wooden shell.
An assortment of old advertisements extols Zam-Buk as a skin remedy and includes testimonials for eczema piles and other ailments. The page also features patent medicine notes, trade offers, and joke snippets from various periodicals.
An ad touts English Spavin Liniment as a remedy for bodily blemishes on horses including blood spavin curbs splints ringbone sweeney stifles sprains and sore swollen throat. It claims it removes hard or soft blemishes and offers a $50 saving with one bottle and warrants it as the most wonderful blemish cure known.
A jeweller jokes about engraving on a ring as a young man asks to inscribe "George, to his dearest Alice." The jeweller warns that if Alice changes her mind the ring cannot be reused and suggests a safer inscription "George to his first and only love" to keep the ring usable for future engagements.
An advertisement touts Parmelee's Vegetable Pills for eye inflammation noting improvements in digestion and rapid relief by affecting nerve centres and blood. It cites numerous letters of recommendation from sufferers who found a cure. The piece also quotes humorous archaic dialogue from the Illustrated Bits.
A humorous dialogue from a 19th century source features Minard’s Liniment claimed to heal burns and Woodson and Bronson discussing invention of a flying machine. The exchange touches on skepticism about flight and predictions of its trajectory.
A Canadian mothers’ testimonial promotes Baby's Own Tablets to ease teething pain and feverish fussiness in infants. The ad notes improved appetite after use and claims six teeth cut with no trouble. Sold by medicine dealers or 25 cents a box from Dr Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
A French civil servant’s wife dies and he seeks provincial funding for her burial but is refused. a deputy notes it would apply if he were the subject. In Chicago, a sculptor at work on a melancholy statue quips he is “cutting a sorry figure” when pressed by a visitor.
A Saskatchewan man advertised for a five dollar bill and a stranger returned it. later the man found the bill in another pocket. The piece touts advertising as valuable and notes South Africa trade upturns due to the Empire's extended tariff. A health ad then promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as cleansing blood and improving skin conditions.
In a Pittsburg Leader vignette, Erelwyn notes Harold’s green romance potential while Myrtle and Evelyn argue over his mood and color. Myrtle claims she rejected him last evening, while Evelyn affirms the sentiment with a playful jab about blue.
A cryptic epitaph about a dentist appears in a gravestone image with the line below jokingly remarking on filling the last cavity. The quote includes the line Below I&apos.m filling my last cavity. by Judge.
A Chicago man named J W Brown endorses Holloway's Corn Cure asserting it cured his corns and he seeks more for friends. The excerpt notes Minard’s ointment is for sale everywhere and ends with a quip about the world honoring the sticker, not the quitter.
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