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Newspaper
Nanaimo Courier
Location
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 02, 1889
Page
3
A collage of humorous tidbits from a 19th century page includes skits on tramp life in the Carolinas, breezy anecdotes about family life and manners, and light dialogues about trains, insomnia cures, and polite society. The items mix puns, social scenes, and brief sketches, preserving a dated, magazine-like flavor.
A collage of humorous vignettes and fables with morals, featuring The Fish and The Fisher, The Peasant and Misadvisers, and The Boy and The Rat. Includes ribald anecdotes on doctors, politics, and city life, plus cartoonish dialogues about luck, advice, and virtue in a late 19th century American newspaper style.
An 1888 advertisement proclaims The Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York as the largest company in the world. It highlights $820,000,000 paid to policy holders and a large general solicitor role, noting the head office for British Columbia in Victoria at Bastion Street.
An 1880 advertisement extols Dr J ColIs Browne's Chlorodyne as a universal remedy for coughs consumption bronchitis asthma diarrhoea dysentery neuralgia rheumatism and more. It includes praise from Symes Co London claims of efficacy in cholera and pregnancy vomiting and warns against piracy while noting sales and a steamer schedule for Nanaimo Comox and Victoria.
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