Contradictory Terms and Humorous Anecdotes
A mash of puzzle-like dialogues and jokes amid travel term explanations and old ads. The piece blends a Cambridge term explainer with a travel query, a misfired telegram, and light mischief about money, trains, and everyday misunderstandings. It includes medical and product ad copy and a quirky exchange about a football goalkeeper.
All the Tired Nervous Women and Madame Perreault Story
A Canadian feature centers on Madame Eugene Perreault of Verner Ontario who credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing twenty years of tiredness and nervous symptoms. The piece blends her testimonial with other brief vignettes about Greek class remarks, a joke about a rooster, and assorted local anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame Perreault
Verner
Dodd
Eugene Perreault
Canada
Fragmented Thought It Was Poetry A Reporter’s Misprint
A long and jagged tale unfolds from a journalistic misprint where a poet’s work is mistaken for verse, followed by a bookshop scene where a birthday gift prompt leads to a How to Manage the Talking Machine volume, and brief vignettes of a doctor’s fee, a baby’s swallowed coin, and a courthouse talk about partnership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson
Turtle Mountain Forest Reserve Summer Resort prospects
Article describes the Turtle Mountain Forest Reserve as a summer resort north of the international boundary near Manitoba Saskatchewan, accessible by road or rail and offering lakes rich in fish, fruit, boating, and bathing facilities. It notes maps and information are available from Ottawa Forestry and Turtle Mountain officials, with emphasis on enjoyment and public use under overarching preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O.P.R
C.N.R
Lake Max
Arbor Island
Gordon Wake
William
Oscar
Forestry
Ottawa
Turtle Mountain Forest Reserve
Whitewater
Man
Talked In and Vain House Agent Showcases Larder and Ventilator
A house agent describes a larder with brick floor slate shelves a marble fish slab and a patent ventilator for fresh air while noting south facing sunny eggs may turn into spring chickens. A New Hampshire justice of the peace cites frugal talk about economizing and marital bickering as a social aside.
Family dispute sparks lighthearted quarrel on pick up line
A man and wife exchange sharp asides in a family discussion. The wife scolds I didn’t get much of a man when I married you, and the husband retorts you wouldn’t expect a high man to pick you out. Laughter erupts as the exchange continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank
Manchester
Do Not Talk of Other People’s Funerals
An infirm old man snaps at a youth that asks about attending Dr Masons’s funeral, saying he will struggle to reach his own service and has no capacity to discuss others' deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Elcidi
London
National Drug and Chemical CO. OF Canada, Limited
Dr Chase’s 60 Cents a Box Health Ad in 1900s
An advertisement argues that health dictates work efficiency and success. It warns headaches neuralgia sleeplessness indigestion and low energy reduce performance and urges buying Dr Chase’s product as a remedy, noting the price 60 cents per box or 2 60 for a package.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Chase
Also Mentioned on This Page
George
Helen
Rinard
Tompson
United Kingdom
Thompson
Kent
Tam
Dominion Pride
Linitel
Cohows
Wen, UL
Dolly
Plymouth Rock
Aili
Lord Dufferin
MGN? University
Hector Langevin
John A. Macdonald
Mrs. Homes
Mr. Trotter
Mr. G. Trotter
Senki
Rosa
Mina
W. Mugridge
Judge Minot
Concord
N.H
Toether
Mr. Mugridge
Mugridge
John
Post
Canadian Postum Cereal Company, Lea
Windsor
Oat
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Mbler
Haye
Ima
Ana Waat
Shane Stom
Jane Adams
Chicago Civil Club
William White
Aurilia
Millicent
Rae
Your Town
Organi Brass Band
Eddy
New Hampshire
Upton
Rly Rising Gibbs
Dibbe
Edmonson, Bates
My ‘Yoronto