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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 11, 1907
Page
10
A hazardous letter device uses folded cardboard with mercury slurry and detonator strips to maim or kill when opened. A homemade explosive box hides acid and sugar in a rack carton with chlorate to trigger a violent blast when inverted.
Montreal mother Mrs. K. Watkins reports her son Walter healed after using Zam-Buk on sores that resisted other treatments. She endorses the balm for skin conditions and urges mothers to use it carefully on children. Zam-Buk purportedly treats sores eczema ringworm injuries and more at five boxes for $2.50 from the Zam-Buk Co. Toronto.
A European experiment uses a tar and fine gravel mix for roadbeds. Gravel is beaten in a drum, tar blends in during rotation, then the mixture ferments for weeks, allowing tar to penetrate gravel thoroughly. The material is spread on roads and rolled, claimed to be durable and dustless.
A logger’s life exposes workers to wounds bruises coughs and aches from timber work and river tasks. Dr Thomas Electric Oil is described as healing when applied to injuries or given to the sick, claimed to work wonders in this old time remedy note.
The magistrate asks the prisoner for his occupation. The prisoner replies he employs labor and finds work for city officials. The judge sentences him to six months hard labor.
The piece explains an ancient form of espousal preceding marriage, where the couple pledge jointly before a bishop or presbyter with witnesses. It describes tabulae matrimoniae, the handing over of the ring and gifts, and the ritual term suborrbation, noting variations in later practice and the dowry tokens of spousage.
An ad extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as the best spring tonic to restore blood and vitality. It cites Mrs John McAuley of Douglastown Quebec and warns of imitations, directing readers to buy the genuine product from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont for 50 cents a box, six boxes for 2.50.
Describes bungalow construction with stud walls on brick foundations, exterior finishes including tiles weather boarding creosoted or stained and varnished, rough cast or half timbered work. Interior walls should be plastered.
Pingyang in northern Korea is described as the first literary center of the Peninsular Kingdom. Its chief author is said to be Kishi, an ancestor of Confucius, who gathered writing materials and left China in 1122 B C, emigrating eastward into Korean regions. His name is revered with tablets honoring him across northern Korea.
A study notes that babies born to mothers under twenty have poorer prospects for healthy life than those born to mothers over thirty. The report compares birth outcomes and suggests age as a factor in early life health.
John Ziska, leader of the Hussites, commanded in his testament that his skin be tanned and used to craft a drum. He claimed the drum’s noise would scare off foes and deter enemies.
A Princeton youth sent from a Philadelphia church impressed the committee with dazzling speech but his name was forgotten. The writer sent a note referring to a "moonbeam young man again," hoping the recipient would recognize him. The professor replied affirming recognition, and the candidate was ultimately chosen and called to the parish.
Collect sweet smelling petals and petals from Lowers. Layer muslin soaked in Lucca or Florence oil with petals in a glass vessel. Add fine salt between layers. Seal and place in sun until after fifteen days. Scented oil is then pressed from the mass.
Portrait of C B Record, founder of the Record Foundry and Machine Co., notes his role in expanding stove manufacturing in Canada. Two large plants in Moncton and Montreal served markets from Halifax to Vancouver, with Calorific Admiral furnaces and Penn Esther ranges seen as Canadian standards. Also mentions Palmel's Vegetable Pills as a health aid and a bee proverb about burden.
Swallows that spend the summer in England travel southward to Africa, reaching coastal Sierra Leone for the winter season. The passage outlines their seasonal migration pattern between Europe and Africa.
The New Chum shaft near Bendigo Victoria has reached over 4300 feet with quartz yielded gold at about one ounce per ton. Government tests confirm the unprecedented depth for gold extraction in world history, at a depth near three quarters of a mile.
Advertises Hollo way's Corn Cure as a universal corn and wart remover that works on difficult cases and promises painless relief with thorough natural effectiveness.
Municipal authorities seek a dentist willing to attend the elephant at the Barmen Zoo. The animal suffers from toothache due to sweets, becoming unmanageable during attacks. Local dentists refuse to treat the tusker, with one being chased around the enclosure and a damage bill submitted afterward.
A collage of humorous clippings and quotes including a claim that Minard's Liniment cures diphtheria, a barter about a Servants' Registry Office proprietor, a joke about an auto mobile gag, and a gag about Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator without purgatives. Also a late night apartment joke in Weiner Sal onwitzblatt style.
Large snakes such as the anaconda endure intervals of 20 to 200 days between meals, researchers note. This extended hunger period reflects their slow metabolism and energy conservation strategies in tropical habitats.
A brief anecdote from the Chicago Record Herald describes a claim that Minard’s Liniment cures garget in cows. A blonde boasts of a painted face remark by a jealous brunette, prompting a witty exchange about Raphael’s angels.
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