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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
2
Frost and Miss Sterling clash over pride at the lake then clash again when a steam roller and a trap frighten them. Miss Sterling falls and Frost helps her up, the cob proves its gentleness, and Higgins jokes about the horse as Frost and Miss Sterling reconcile with a laugh.
In a reflective interview, Colonel Bunker recalls duels begun over Napoleon comments with Majah Goldwin, a clash with Adjutant General Graham, and a running dispute over horses shot at Manassas. He ends with Hopson’s death and the myth of eleven horses, noting the irony of a soldier’s fate.
This piece recounts the Fair Maid of Perth house once owned by the Glover Incorporation in Curfew-row Perth. It notes the guild’s long trade in gloves and hides, the 1210 burgh charter, the 1787 return of the property to the corporation, and legends of the curfew bell and a bloodied skeleton found during repairs.
The article recalls P. T. Barnum’s fascination with human oddities and the Siamese twins. A rural visitor’s final, simple question underscores Barnum’s view of performers as captivating human stories.
Mr. KR Trimble received a letter from a Holland Town ship resident posted at Mark Gale. The letter included a dollar bill and a note claiming 48 years ago a pound of tobacco bought for ten pence was unpaid. It ends with the postscript Quit tobacco twenty years. Trimble once ran a store about a mile north on the Toronto and Sydenham line in Feesherton.
A suburban couple debates moving to Gotham. After exhausting all arguments, the wife uses a clever ploy noting the two cent morning paper would cost less than a cent to sway Younghusband. They then start packing the dishes.
A humorous exchange from New York Weekly features a wife declaring she sacrificed many suitors for her husband, prompting the husband to demand what he has given up in return as she counters with the line about losing several eligible bachelors.
A humorous Detroit Hee Press item portrays a husband blaming ongoing borrowing of trouble on a wife who says neighbors are always out of everything. The brief exchange captures urban domestic wit in a compact gag.
A chairman asks the somber foreigner his price for a talk on Russia. The Russian quotes fees ranging from 20 to 75 dollars for varying lengths, highlighting the value he places on his time before addressing the audience.
The Czar presented a mosaic map of France to the French nation now housed in the Louvre. The yard and a quarter square piece uses stones for each department with Paris shown by a pigeon blood ruby and major cities by emeralds diamonds opals and turquoise. Smaller towns glow with pearls and other stones.
The claim that milk from silage fed cows is inferior is unfounded. Milk may have a slight odor but is not objectionable and butter from it remains of good quality.
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