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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 22, 1909
Page
6
The Judiciary Committee of the city Council is urged to recommend passage of a theatre scalping ordinance aimed at preventing the sale of theatre tickets on the streets. The measure could prohibit street sales of tickets to entertainments.
If one be troubled with corns and warts, he will find in Holloway's Corn Cure an application that will entirely relieve suffering.
Young Wife proudly shows a new hat to Husband who compliments it and calls it neat and sensible. She boasts milliners doubted it would suit her and plans to return it. The exchange reflects a domestic moment captured in the Chicago Tribune.
A fragment quotes Shiloh's Cure as a cure for coughs and colds. A conversation follows about a young man’s ambition and a prospective son in law denying grand plans, with a remark about being in the insurance business from Fliegende Blaetter.
A playful exchange unfolds with Miss Kitty joking about egg salt and moustaches as a Scottish American narrator notes the banter. The dialogue centers on a humorous miscue and social flirtation.
An advertisement asserts spring illnesses arise from poor indoor air and aged routines and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a universal blood builder. Testimonial from J. K. Johnson of Loch Broom NB credits renewed health to the pills. Sold by druggists or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont at 30 cents per box six for $2.50.
The Indo American Woman's Restoration League campaigns for a law to end child marriage in India by 16, citing census figures showing thousands of girls under 14 married. They seek petitions to Great Britain, arguing reform is needed beyond pity, while avoiding religious interference.
The passage contrasts European crowd reactions to armed force, noting distinct responses in Paris Berlin and other cities. It argues crowds disperse when generals command and describes how sustained urban violence can provoke massacres, even against brave troops, as women and children react amid chaos.
A Berlin scientist proposes using electricity to clear snow cheaper than current methods. A wheeled platform shovels snow into hot metal pockets, where it melts and drains water from hoppers. He suggests placing units near drains or at depots, powered by town electrical mains.
A Scottish piper escapes wolves by playing his pipes in a forest. He uses up his offerings to the wolves, then plays to scare them away. Sandy remarks that he would have given a sprin before supper if he had known the pipes were so loved.
A French woman who lived in Paris through the final decades of the 18th century tells Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff that the terrors of the revolution were greatly exaggerated. She says she never felt compelled to abandon her weekly at home gatherings despite the upheaval.
In Starner Ontario special report, Ernest Colwell testifies that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured back pain and brick dust in urine, claiming the pills clear impurities from the blood and restore circulation to chase away the tired feeling caused by sluggish kidneys during spring.
A New York Tribune remark recounts a clash where Mrs Malaprop confronts Miss Interest about a perceived insult. The exchange centers on manners and social snubs, mentioning Lord de Style and a boast of locomotive attacks as a dig.
There have been many pills put upon the market and pressed upon public attention, but none has endured so long or met with so much favor as Parmelee's Vegetable Pills. Widespread use of them has attested their great value, and they need no further advertisement than this. Having firmly established themselves in public esteem, they now rank without a peer in the list of standard vegetable preparations.
A brief New York Sun line notes that when I sing the robin and cuckoo clock arias men remove their shoes and channels. The quip contrasts song with audience behavior in a concise lyric jab.
Mrs M Summers of Windsor Ontario offers a free home treatment for bed-wetting and urination troubles. The method claims to cure children and adults without punishment and provides full instructions with no money required.
A School Board examiner asked a young girl for the plural of man and then of chisuy. She answered Men and Twins, drawing a sharp reaction from observers in this Scottish American context.
London comedian Arthur Roberts recalls an accidental back pain that sparked his rise. He credits the charted walk and the song If I was Only Long Enough for helping him build a public reputation at the Oxford and widespread London fame.
The smallest Boston structure is the two story wooden building at 112 State Street tucked in a five foot wide alley that runs to Commerce Street. It likely served as a passageway to the original Long wharf linking to the docks where the custom house now stands.
Elizabeth Evans of Richmond England is noted as the sole surviving woman who witnessed the Battle of Alma and endured Crimean War hardships with her husband a Kings Own Lancashire private. Born 1829 Bristol she landed early in Crimea faced hunger and a shambolic hospital life, witnessed mass injuries and fever then returned home to uncertain fate before her husband reappeared and later died in Richmond.
A fragmentary chat includes claims that Shilohs Cure will always cure coughs and colds. Tess rejects men, saying no to six suitors while Jess asks about what was being sold.
A reader backs Minard's Liniment as the best remedy after a foot injury. The testimonial from T G McMullen says the foot was greatly jammed and the liniment cured it by the next day.
Victorian Customs head Mr Smart raided spiritualist Mr Stanford s museum to assess duty on goods claimed to have materialized by a medium The scene drew officials and a report to the Customs Ministry but the Labor Minister chose to bury the controversy The medium claims the items arrived in atomic form from Eastern lands via atmospheric methods
An old Kansas City Times line features a dreamer declaring "IT live" with head in the clouds and a wary reply from a modern maiden about the danger of an airship causing a severe bump.
Senator Sorghum comments on political candor saying constituents should not expect him to reveal all his beliefs while he will not claim to tell them everything he believes. Washington Star report notes the exchange as a measured take on political transparency.
Mrs W Pray of 260 Twelfth St Brooklyn reports two years of catarrh in the throat and head improved after following directions and taking one bottle, now on a second, with continued spring tonic dose. She says her throat and head are cleared at present and remains on a maintenance dose.
An elderly woman with a pale blue umbrella waits ten minutes for service at a stationery counter. A tall floorwalker asks if she wants a clerk, prompting a quip about stationery staff not moving.
Beneficial remedies claimed for indigestion and derangements of the stomach liver and kidneys. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are said to relieve thousands when other specifics fail with numerous testimonials available.
A quoted exchange from Success Magazine features a sly father claiming a croak will yield a five thousand dollar payout. The fragment hints at a fraud or prank underpinning a monetary promise.
Catarrh is described as a constitutional disease requiring internal remedies not local applications. Hall's Catarrh Cure is advertised as an internal treatment that purports to act on blood and mucous surfaces, with testimonials available and Druggists selling it for seven cents, alongside Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Dexterous in debate Cardinal Gibb gently rebuked a social leader who pressed him for private views on the Abruzzi Elkins affair during a Baltimore dinner. The cardinal avoided gossip by stressing the burdens and duties of his position and declining to become a society reporter.
A tipsy instruction notes how to fasten shields to gown waists by sewing small taffeta binding ribbon to each end of the shields and to the arm eyes, then tying. This saves time and effort, especially for wash gowns and warm weather wear.
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