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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
3
An advertisement touts Dr A W Chase's Nerve Food as the foundation of health and strong blood and nerve function. It includes a testimonial from James W Weaver of Dalhousie Ontario praising relief from heart pains and sleeplessness after using eight boxes.
Excerpts discuss moral pretensions and domestic satire with a New York Press quote on virtue. The Oil of Power touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a versatile pain killer. A brief Punch quip notes a girl’s pictured features and a critical moment, reflecting humor and social commentary of the era.
Warning against mercury in catarrh remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo firms is taken internally and may cause harm. Sold with testimonials from druggists. Price 75 cents per bottle. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Success is the ability to forget failures.
A Chicago man aboard the Southern Railroad asks the porter if the train is safe amid sudden jerks and stops. The porter assures safety while the man jokes about block systems, hay, mule, cow, and alligator obstacles observed along the route.
The article counsels that babies wake to eat and sleep, eggs aid choking relief by swallowing the white, tar soap is discouraged for hair care, camphor can curb facial creases, and dancing should wait until age twelve to develop grace and coordination.
An English officer recalls meeting a tall Russian soldier in a Warsaw cafe during a visit with a prince. The soldier invites a domino game, shares private guard details, and later the emperor Nicholas I is observed leaving Warsaw with crowds buzzing. The tale blends intrigue, disguise, and mutual recognition between strangers.
A legendary prima donna Marie Frausch defies a sore throat and halts an opera. The king orders her to the military hospital, four dragoons escort her, and she learns obedience as two soldiers stand ready behind the scenes.
In a fragment from the Philadelphia Ledger a buyer mocks top floor apartments noting no meal stops on the elevators. The Chicago News quips a death by hydrophobia and a hyperbolic joke about horseradish on bolona.
Mr John Kennedy and his wife traveled to Winnipeg on Thursday for an operation by Dr F W E Burnham the Broadway surgeon. The Yonkers Statesman quotes a quip from waiting show girls and a playful exchange between the couple.
Three packets of Wilson's Fly Pads cost twenty five cents and will kill more flies than twenty five dollars' worth of sticky paper. Miss Lacer asks if she was scared and her friend retorts that the scene couldn't pass her waist, in a brisk Philadelphia rem.
Pontic student and professor exchange a quip about logic and sophistry in a Philadelphia Press style mock dialogue. The joke hinges on debating lines of argument as the distinction between truth and rhetoric.
A Montreal hotel keeper narrates buying a horse deemed incurable for 30 dollars. The animal was cured with one dollar of Minard’s Liniment and later sold for eight dollars, yielding a profit of fifty four dollars for Moise Derosce.
R J Guthrie of the Sydney Mail praises the dairy cow's impact in Australia after drought. He notes butter is world competitive, milk production is year round through cooperative creameries, and beef cattle focus differs by purpose.
Miss Passy-Oh thanks the captain for the first waltz at a charity ball as he downplays the gesture and calls the event a charitable occasion in an early Philadelphia Inquirer-style vignette.
New July regulations require either a Canadian registration or an import certificate for entry of imported animals. Lists of accepted breeds across cattle horses ponies swine and other livestock are maintained by the Canadian National Records in Ottawa with Holstein kept in St George Ontario. Foreign certificates are required with applications and an import certificate is issued through the National Records, with a nominal fee.
Corean innovations predated Europe in movable type printing by 126 years in 1324, and included the mortar and ironclad used effectively in the Japanese Corean war of 1592 98. The passage blends historical claim with humorous quips about meeting and technology.
A well known actor recalls touring the South with his company when he visited a town club where the dispensary system of liquor operates. He asked the attendant for periodicals and was told they had corn liquor salt beer and wine but mostly corn liquor.
Doctor J D Kellogg's Dy sentery Cordial is praised as a standard, highly concentrated remedy for summer complaints including dysentery. The medicine is described as sedative and curative with long popularity and widespread user testimonials. A Washington Star exchange quotes a humorous exchange about music and roots.
The New Orleans Picayune notes for sixteen years the Sala da name marks Geflon Teas as the maximum of utility, purity and flavor. It warns buyers to look for the Sa lada label on every package. A comic aside questions if a daughter plays popular music, with neighbors closing windows during practice.
A clipped note cites fly transmission of diphtheria and promotes Wilsop's Fly Pads as the best fly killers. A humorous church anecdote contrasts zeal in a sermon with a parishioner reacting to a joke about theft and melon stealing, ending with a bee defeating a pigeon.
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