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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 20, 1914
Page
7
Sam’s friends reason with him at a street corner about going home. He frets that going home will offend a wife versus staying out will upset others. He blames the suffragette movement for the row and contemplates breaking windows if he returns home.
Corns are caused by pressure from tight boots but the simple Holloway's Corn Cure offers an easy remedy. The ad suggests quick relief without long trouble, appealing to readers seeking effective foot care.
He sighs aloud and she answers with tempered patience. The pair discuss prospects of a home, the dialogue hinting at financial constraints and hopeful plans despite uncertainty.
Hiram probes Chaldean records seeking a clue on the weather bureau. He contends the bureau forecast dreath the day prior to the flood, implying forewarning and possible negligence.
A farmer and a city boarder exchange terse remarks about a hired man described as one of the century’s greatest inventors. The farmer claims the man is a petrified genius, while the boarder presses for specifics, prompting the judge to intervene.
A Philadelphia North American note explains that wet coal can produce more heat than dry when burned in tight stoves and air tight furnaces. Soaking large coal chunks in water for thirty minutes or pouring water over a ton of coal can raise heat value, though water also carries heat away in some conditions. The piece cautions about drowning fires with water and highlights the heat stored in burning water as an energy source.
A Sheffield Telegraph note recounts a visitor asking how Sargent can part with his works. Sargent replies that finishing a picture is like a hen laying an egg, urging the visitor to take the artwork away so he can begin a new piece.
Dr Charles P Steinmetz says his disliked thing is work, yet he labors eighteen hours with one hour of real work and seventeen hours of play. He explains that pursuing a chosen niche with passion keeps mind and body engaged and avoids deadening routine, a philosophy praised by his employers in Philadelphia.
Montreal Evening News recalls Lord Wemyss who died at ninety six, noting his view that aging should keep one aware the world stays in infancy of invention. He spans eras from tallow dip to tungsten lamp, witnessing electricity move from lab to daily life.
A Boston Transcript line recounts a girl delighted by the last chapter moment when the fourth segment of a film is shown. The quip captures playful anticipation and cinematic curiosity as viewers reach their seats for the conclusion.
A brief aphorism noting that every outlay has two sides what is spent and what is received. The remark by T. P. s Weekly cautions that a lunch cost may yield vigor or cause indigestion, depending on perspective.
A young Frenchman touring Calderstones Park with an English friend notes the abundance of birds and comments on the potential use of the food. The Englishman replies that the country generally encourages bird life, with some exceptions.
A luncheon speech remarks on naval and army revival and diplomatic etiquette. The speaker claims elegance governs much, recalling a self-made man and a metaphor about a homemade dress to illustrate pride and perception.
A brief opinion piece notes a figure who shaped American drama without ever writing a play, contrasting impact with method. The remark appears in a Pennsylvania Punch Bowl context, reflecting on unconventional contributions to the field.
The dialogue defines peanut politics as a shell game. The exchange uses casual terms to hint at hidden maneuvering or misdirection in political matters without detailing specific events or actors.
A playful note highlights wordcraft as a game, with phrases like He-Possiby and She-Sir suggesting clever coinages. The snippet hints at linguistic humor and personal banter, framed as light verse or a witty aside.
The playgrounds movement expands across American and Canadian cities as a public enterprise. Supervised recreation centers for children prove essential for health and citizenship, while adults also need mind and body recreation in modern cities. Government action, not private initiative, secures facilities when private means fail.
Dr Heaton of London discussed potato juice as a cure for sprains lumbago gout rheumatism and bruises in the London Lancet. He cites many cases where relief came quickly sometimes after the first application and the effused fluid absorbed in days. Juice used as ointment liniment or plaster is pressed boiled and concentrated fivefold with glycerin as a preservative.
The writer compares complex street names from Paris Brussels and a Belgian suburb, highlighting Ongeschildezilvernock nott jestraat meaning “the street of the little unpicked silver nut.” He asks what a car conductor would make of such long names.
A sailor tale recalls an idle Irish lad aboard a man of war who rouses the boatswain with bold wit. When urged to come down from the maintop, he flatly refuses, saying he would not descend even for two dozen knacks with a rope.
Two neighbors joke about sudden wealth. Mr. Jones replies that prosperity means they will have everything coming to them, hinting at a lighthearted exchange about lifestyle changes and social expectations.
A reflective line attributed to Leo Tolstoy emphasizes that everyone bears faults and burdens. It advocates mutual support through consolation guidance and warnings, urging reliance on others to improve collectively.
A terse headline announces a boxer named Notsky who defeats Levinsky in a bout despite fighting six nights a week. The piece notes that a relentless schedule can hinder victory, yet Notsky shows resilience and skill against Levinsky. The article frames the matchup as a test of stamina and technique in a competitive heavyweight scene.
Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills are presented as a nearly century old formula once used by the Indians and preserved by Dr Morse. The ad claims the formula cannot be improved despite attempts by physicians and chemists, and promotes the pills as a household remedy worldwide for constipation and kidney and liver troubles with prompt, effective action.
A grateful patient reports relief from scalp itching cracking and bleeding with Dr Chase's Ointment after three doctors failed. She says hair loss stopped and hair regrew, and grants permission to publish the letter as a recommendation for the treatment. The ad claims no rival cure for itching skin disease.
Chinese breeders in the interior districts near Amoy employ a unique hatching method. They roast unhusked rice to luke warm, spread a three inch layer in a wooden tub, add about 100 eggs, then cover with two inch layers of rice. Each tub holds six rice layers and five egg layers, totaling around 90 eggs. Rice is heated daily, eggs removed briefly, and chicks emerge in twenty to thirty days.
One of the commonest infant complaints is worms and the most effective treatment is Mother Graves worm Exterminator. The brief note promotes the remedy as a top choice for saving infants from parasitic worms.
In Gemira Abyssinia inhabitants are pagans who worship a sky divinity and local earth geni. Slavery exists in fact though not officially recognized. slaves cannot freely change masters, are chained if escaping, beaten for nonperformance, and unpaid. Some are “presented” and called gabare subject, not abria slave, yet distinctions fade in provinces or times of unrest. resisters flee to forests.
German scientist Philip Reis is credited as the true inventor of telephony for 1861 demonstrations of a partially articulate electric telegraph and vibrating membrane transmitting musical sounds and words. Elisha Gray filed a patent shortly after Bell but neither Reis nor Gray gained rich financial reward, per the New York World.
Yale professor H A Newtor calculated orbits of a vanished comet and a meteor stream. The stream’s ellipse matched the comet’s former path around the sun. Nucleus of the comet had disintegrated into particles. Larkin cites meteors from hundreds observed, largest at Portland World’s Fair weighing twenty two tons.
A Dutch inventor Cornelius Drebel built an underwater boat in the early seventeenth century. He made several trips from Westminster to Greenwich, impressing James I who granted him an apartment at Eltham Palace. Contemporary reports claim the craft allowed reading under the water by natural light without candles.
The poet and the editor played tennis with the editor losing. The poet teased that the editor cannot return a serve and challenged him to send a poem to prove otherwise. The witty exchange ends with the editor's challenge.
A fragment notes a stenographist’s speed in dictation, with a playful remark that it took her a whole day to clear a pencil note. The terse line hints at slow drafting and the comic contrast between typing and handwriting.
A playful exchange features a geologist quoted as thinking of a thousand years while a sophomore jokes about lending a geologist ten yesterday. The fragment hints at campus banter and student voice on science.
A man shopping for his wife quips that the stockings seem flimsy and asks if they will be extra well rolled, a line attributed to a judge in the exchange. The remark hints at concerns over quality and presentation in a courtroom or store setting.
Garriett P. Serviss notes in Spoke Review that the sun’s energy is vast yet mostly wasted in space, with Earth intercepting about two billionth and all planets around two hundred twenty five millionth of its output, making the sun appear a prodigal star among stars.
In the reign of Francis II of France a clever monk Regnne Maiius gained early advancement through a sharp retort after defeating the king in a tennis match. The monarch quipped at the monk’s stroke, and Maiius answered that the king’s own fault was not making it an abbot’s stroke. A week later he became abbot of Beaulieu.
The National Geographic Society Bulletin notes the cicada’s seventeen year underground life as it emerges in brief adult weeks. It describes tiny eggs giving rise to a white body creature with mole like legs that digs to twenty feet then surfaces, mates, and vanishes, its wings a whirr like an airplane.
The piece traces the lord high treasurer’s origins to Henry II and explains the guardian role given by Henry. It notes the 1714 move by George I to place the office in commission, the limited number of holders, and the eventual disappearance of the original board, comparing it to the board of trade as a bygone reality.
A Cleveland attorney returning from a first cross ocean Mediterranean trip faced a comic customs encounter in New York. When asked about personal property he quipped that there is no real estate in his trunk, befuddling the official with legal humor.
Maurice Switzer urges focus on one line of work in this Leslie's quote. He argues that persistent, in depth knowledge beats scattered effort, comparing a mind to a steam engine needing a governor to prevent ruin.
A simple oxyhydrogen flame, enclosed in a pell shaped cover, was tested for underwater use by divers. At a depth of 15 feet it burned a hole over one inch wide in an iron plate nearly an inch thick as compressed air expelled water to expose the flame.
A humorous exchange plays out at a London Mall as a husband and wife quarrel over behavior, with the wife urging calm and the husband reacting sharply, depicting a domestic moment in public.
A London cab driver's Daily Mail note recalls a shipboard tale from Quebec about the Empress of Ireland. A cat reportedly fled with two kittens in her mouth as the liner prepared to depart, refusing to return and later surviving the voyage after the ship foundered.
The Hamilton Spectator notes Dr. Graham Bell imagines a future where breakfast in America and dinner in Europe are possible via air travel. The piece muses on untold wonders hidden in time while predicting longer transatlantic voyages for the current generation as aviation advances.
A Caledonia chieftain wins a million pins in a penn y raffle at a bazaar, then, three days later, returns wan and weary to say he has counted them and they are three short. The tale comes from Tit-Bits.
Percival proposed to his beloved amid a dramatic parlor scene last week. He dropped to his knees and declared his love with ardent words and wild eyes. Her cool reply suggested she doubted his sincerity and hinted at fear that his behavior was a routine, practiced gesture.
A Fifth Avenue beggar, who altered his address, was arrested by a stern officer. Records show an apartment with evening wear and jewels, and bank books indicating about $12,600. He claimed seven years of frequent alms acts and admitted sending $10 weekly to a wife abroad, while his nights featured social graces and music.
A fragmentary remark describes a playful exchange about distinguishing someone as Pele Mele. The snippet hints at social dynamics or a caption style rather than a full events report.
An Ontario reader extols Grape Nuts and Postum, claiming seven years use for breakfast. She credits the product with improving sleep and mood, notes her children’ health, and says the food helped reduce doctor bills, calling it economical and nourishing. The letter is presented byCanadian Postum Co. Windsor.
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