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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 07, 1914
Page
8
A welfare worker asserts a boy requires his father for encouragement, inspiration, and guidance. He notes many fathers neglect their obligation to their sons despite providing clothes and schooling. The sentiment contrasts a girl’s need for her mother with apparent apathy toward paternal involvement.
The author staggered home and sobbed that the jury decided his book is not immoral. His wife consoles him suggesting he could adapt it into a play.
A vagrant visits Mr. Titewad seeking help, praising kindness but is dismissed with a curt rebuke as he leaves. Separately a post office notice bans sending coin or banknotes in unregistered letters.
An old advertisement promotes Murine Eye Remedy for red weak or watery eyes. It markets Murine Liquid priced 25 to 50 cents and Murine Eye Salve in aseptic tubes at 25 cents. The copy claims eye care for all eyes and mentions Eye Books free by mail from the Mythic Remedy Co. Chicago.
The Boston Herald argues against laziness, noting no field tolerates the loafer. School, office, shop, store, law, medicine, ministry, or journalism reward energy and steady work. Only the grave is left as a final resting place for the loafer.
A young German seeks navy enlistment but cannot speak English. An officer coaches him on spelling numbers and phrases. When questioned, the German answers with wrong units and, in a clash of expectations, defends his choices with wit, earning the inspector’s remark that he may be a lunatic or fool.
The historic figure Daniel Webster is described facing a brief street encounter with a butcher over an old bill. He quips that suing won’t starve him, while a teller recounts women’s missteps with banks including overdrafts and indecipherable endorsements.
A Washington Star cartoonish caption rehashes the cherry tree episode with the boy George confessing to his father as the stinging moral. The humorous exchange underscores early American legend and family honesty.
A Texas Episcopal missionary recalls a night encounter when a groom answered the marriage vow with a crude retort, declaring he took the bride for cooking and washing rather than for better or worse. Witnesses included the missionary's wife and a guest. The anecdote captures frontier humor from the era.
A child visiting relatives near an orphan asylum asks why so many children reside there. The hostess explains that orphans live there, noting the place is filled with many little girls and boys and that Mr. and Mrs. Orphan are both dead.
A British government committee urges marking celluloid articles as inflammable and tighter public control. It notes a Moore Lane London fire that killed nine girl workers and warns that many items contain celluloid beyond films, requiring careful handling and storage similar to gasoline.
The product claims to erase corns and warts with treatment that leaves no scar. It emphasizes quick results and safe application for foot care.
A Philadelphia Lederer article notes moss is not actually moss like lichen, yet shares hardiness. Moss endures water loss, survives cold and heat, and can revive after long dryness. A German scientist revived moss after eighteen months stored dry, posing a natural puzzle for scientists.
The blind hymn writer Miss Fann Crosby died at age 94 on March 24. She is said to have written about 7,000 hymns, including Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross and Safe in the Arms of Jesus. If faithful, she produced two hymns weekly since she could write.
The dialogue shows Mrs Crabshaw noting hardship before affording a motor car while Cases Crabshaw II recalls opposition to vehicles, reflecting early attitudes toward automobiles and economic constraints.
The article explains nerves have limited energy and misuse through worry or illness can trigger headaches fatigue and nervous symptoms. It promotes Dr Chase's Nerve Food as a cure to restore energy to nerve cells, urging rest and reduced anxiety to regain health and vigor.
A ten year old boy in the dining room reenacts somersaults and banging sounds after forgetting to shake his medicine. He reassures his mother that he is fine, explaining he tried to “stake” himself up with the medicine still inside him, as instructed.
A collection of formal lines showing apology and willingness to help. Expressions include seeking pardon for interruption and offering a personal favor to assist Mr Brown. The speaker notes readiness to grant favors and reflects on stinginess with money.
Hartfield resident Robert Wilson reports great relief from backache and rheumatism after using gin pills. The ad urges sufferers to try pills at 50 cents a box or six for $2.50, with a free sample offer from the National Drug & Chemical Co. of Canada, Limited, Toronto.
A Methodist congregation will build a nine story church center in Los Angeles costing 750000 dollars. The complex will include restaurants a gymnasium 350 bedrooms a roof garden tennis and basketball courts an auditorium for 2500 used also for weeknight lectures concerts and entertainments and public access to billiard rooms social halls and nursery under pastor Dr Selecman who calls it first century Christianity with twentieth century action.
Bourg Louis Quebec reports a local farmer, Mr Robert Pyle, recovering from a year of rheumatic symptoms after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He cites cold wet work as the cause, with cramps, stiffness, dizziness, low spirits, and itchy skin. One box allegedly cured him completely.
The London Standard laments the old practice where the state hired out its navy to trade, arguing Elizabethan policy allowed response to wartime needs and profits. The writer suggests the current government could learn from that model and even jokes about paying full fare to be carried by a Dreadnought to Ostend.
An old advertisement touts Shillones as a family remedy for coughs and colds in a small bottle aimed at long standing use since 1870. The snippet includes a child’s remark about piano lessons and a dentist visit in a comic judge's dialogue.
A clock maker’s estate requires winding up by the executor. The remark questions the fuss about executorship, while noting the task is to settle the clock maker’s affairs. The dialogue hints at duties, responsibility, and the formal process of settling an estate.
A colossal Russian aeroplane near St. Petersburg astonished experts with its vast size and power. The plane spans 88 feet with a 1,400 square foot wing area and weighs 6,600 pounds. It can carry its crew plus ten passengers, has fuel for 26 hours, and an extra load capacity of 1,760 pounds. Four 100 horsepower motors drive four propellers.
Royal plans outline a dowry of £200,000 for Princess Elizabeth and a yearly £8,000 income from her father. The Sigmaringen-Hohenzollern family is noted as wealthy, with a portion of £38,000 estimated as inheritance.
Internal parasites in the stomach and bowels sap vitality and retard growth in children. Untreated, they threaten life. Miller's Worm Powders are advertised as a sure death to worms and calm anxious mothers by removing the infestation.
A compact reflection on choosing positivity and kindness to improve mood and interactions. It notes that pleasant thoughts and gentle words brighten the spirit and the face, likening kindness to music that shapes a better world.
Mrs M LeBlanc of Memramcook West NB praises Baby's Own Tablets for teething colic constipation and indigestion after ten years of use. She says neighbors share the opinion and notes the tablets sell for 26 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
The scene centers on a fat man with a gold watch chain boasting he has two and a half dozen children. The others react with disbelief as he insists the sum is eight, correcting with a quirky calculation that confuses two and a half dozen with eight.
A list of testimonial cures attributes relief from Acute Bronchitis Facial Neuralgia and Chronic Rheumatism to Minard's Liniment. The notes cite locations Bay of Islands Springhill N S Albert Co New Brunswick and individuals including J M Campbell Wm Daniels and Geo Tingley.
A witty scene features a woman sending a telegram while neighbors tease her facial expressions. She aims to convey her thoughts to her husband in exactly ten words, turning a simple message into a sharp social moment.
A man presents a morocco case containing a small diamond ring to his fiancée. She quips that the diamond is tiny and dull, but he insists love makes it shine, she retorts that love is blind yet not stone blind.
A light exchange about aging features a joke on graceful aging and a quip that she has learned to tango tolerably well highlighting humor and a social moment.
Advert says Nerviline is a thin penetrating liniment that cures lumbago back strain and rheumatism by rubbing on the sore muscles and nerves. Claims instant relief, no blistering or staining, with 50 cent family size and 15 cent trial bottle available from any dealer.
The new Albanian flag makes its first appearance in Vienna. The eagle from the Albanian arms does not appear on the flag which features long red and black and red and white vertical stripes with a five pointed star at center.
Dialogue notes a pattern where Dark Stage Mostly Maud-Jack Slowboy has been calling on you for two years Marie remarks that papa runs a continuous performance house.
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