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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 12, 1911
Page
2
Women with any illness are invited to contact Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts. All letters are read and answered by women. The ad promises confidentiality and offers free guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. It also advertises a free 80 page Text Book obtainable by mail.
A report notes a prayer meeting at a preparatory school where a teacher was the only woman present. It mentions a student praying for the male faculty and a blessing for the woman who joined the gathering. The item also references a worm exterminator and a historical note on Massachusetts colonists drinking tea in 1719.
A humorous Chicago Daily News snippet notes Minard’s liniment cures garget in cows while a farmer boasts of money in goats. The exchange features Fddie and Bobbie debating profits from a goat that ate his father’s rock earlier that morning.
A health guide notes kidneys wear out with age and offers Dr Chase's remedies as advice. It emphasizes managing diet and lifestyle to support kidney function in older adults.
The ad promotes Dr A W Chase's Kidney and Liver Pills as a remedy for kidney troubles and Bright's disease risks. It cites aging, heavy meals, and alcohol as causes and includes a testimonial from Richard Preston of Osborne Ontario praising relief from back pain after long term use. Pills cost 25 cents per box, sold by dealers and Edmanson Bates & Co Toronto.
A German professor argues color differences among races arise from diet rather than heredity. He claims vegetables and fruit provide minerals that darken skin, while meat milk and salt whiten or bleach tones, citing examples among Negroes Indians Mongoloids and Caucasians and noting vegetarian diets produce deeper or lighter complexions depending on intake.
Mr Henry Davis Erskine CVO Sergeant-at-Arms of the British House of Commons is to receive several presentations from admirers to mark his golden wedding anniversary. Born January 5 1838 he served in the 30th Regiment and Scots Fusilier Guards 1854–1861 and was Groom of the Robes to Queen Victoria for over thirty years.
An eminent Nonconformist divine lecturing to a church society faced a heckle about snuff use. The elderly critic warned against snuff in front of youths, sparking the wry reply that some nose reddeners are driven by drink or meddling in others’ affairs.
A postal clerk describes precautions for money orders, noting strangers should visit the money order department’s paying teller with a box of correspondence to prove identity and that they expect payment from a specific person. The clerk then recalls the claimant when the order is presented for payment.
English gardeners assay live toads in the market with payments up to 25 cents per toad. Report notes that each destroyed toad could cost a farmer and boy up to 100 dollars in lost value and damaged crops.
A jail scene features two inmates with one predicting a bold cons still in the making. The mathematician tells Bill he could earn thirty four dollars a night by stealing kegs in Iowa, recording a plan while the market report is read.
An 19th century notice touts Dr J D Kellogg's Dysentery Cordial as a remedy for dysentery cholera morbus and inflammatory stomach and intestinal troubles caused by food or water. It claims summer prevalence but warns symptoms may occur any time and promises speedy relief.
A French soldier on active service informed his village mayor that his father had died. He replied with a note thanking the mayor and remarking that his father’s death was a common accident, then signed with a hospital salute and minus one leg.
A historical note describes ancient European punishment where accused carried red hot iron or walked on hot shares. Hands and feet were bound and inspected after three days to judge innocence or guilt, with injury determining culpability.
Dr. Gordon Hewitt cites infantile death rates from intestinal diseases and diarrhoea spread by house flies, claiming harmless flies yearly kill thousands of infants and spread typhoid germs. Wilson's Fly Pads touted as the only remedy to rid homes of these pests.
An Ottawa notice advertises a choice list of Agents' Supplies from Co. Ltd. The firm invites readers to apply and mentions no ontlas required. The company address listed is 223 Alby' Street, Ottawa Ontario.
In a Success Magazine excerpt, Booker T. Washington recalls telling an elderly Black man in Tuskegee that he must come at one o clock to help clean out a hen house. The old man warns about starting such work in daylight, highlighting harsh realities of those days.
The fragment notes Holloway's Corn Cure as relief for corns and warts. It then oddly discusses King George's highly formal, quarterly private accounts, kept by clerks and paid monthly salaries, with the king approving totals and rarely disputing prices.
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