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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1910
Page
6
Ottawa resident Mr. Mathias Dery reports years of dyspepsia relief after using Fruit-a-tives juice tablets. The ad claims the product sweetens the stomach, cleans digestion, and regulates bowels and kidneys with prices 60c a box or 6 for $2.56. It promotes its use through dealer sales and direct from Ottawa.
Warns against mercury containing catarrh ointments and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free and effective. Includes testimonial offer and price. Also notes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and a farmer joke about hog troughs.
A fragment from a Boston tran script notes a quirky claim about Minard's Liniment curing diphtheria. It also includes garbled dialogue about an old man and a joke about gunpowder barrels and a constant love. The text is unfinished and scattered.
A University of Missouri bulletin reports swine feeding trials by E B Forbes. Corn alone yields poor gains. combining corn with protein sources like linseed oilmeal or tankage improves growth. Hog results varied with rations. barley in Western Canada also produces good pork.
Ontario farmers find shipping sheep and lambs to the United States and Western Canada profitable. Western Canada could increase exports eastward given cheap sheep production. Taxed by duty per head, Ontario flocks still show profitable margins with wool and lamb yields outlined, advising Western farms to hold 26 to 50 head minimum for profit.
The piece argues farming is a business like other trades, needing updated methods and machinery. It stresses that every dollar invested should earn a return and every acre must produce saleable value, comparing farms to mercantile houses and banks in pursuing efficiency.
In 1909 Texas cattle fell from about eight million to five million head, a drop of just over three million. The piece notes meat consumption remains strong and prices may rise, urging readers with few cattle to acquire some as a potential money maker.
A Massachusetts farmer endorses sending sons to college after noting a son attending an Eastern Agricultural college learned spray techniques for the home orchard, earning over $1,000 in a season. The piece urges Western Canada to embrace new ideas and implies college training boosts farming, profits, and livestock quality.
Guests waited half an hour for the bride in a Berkshire church. Messengers were sent to the livery stable to locate her carriage. The liveryman admitted fault and apologized but resisted delaying the service, saying it would already be over.
Captain F R Desjardin endorses Minard's Liniment as indispensable aboard ships and for household ailments. he would not voyage without it even at a dollar per bottle. The testimonial cites a voyage on the Schr. September Andre from Kamouraska.
A humorous exchange contrasts self praised lifelong learning with a quip about one’s mental state. Chubbs reacts in mock astonishment to Chambers claims of constant self improvement from youth onward.
In a clipped exchange from Lipincott’s and the Kansas City Journal a boy sent to college is defended as gaining independence though home influence lingers. A floor walker answers a bride’s question about returning wedding gifts, joking about exchanging china for a pan.
Chicago Record Herald notes a suitor named Wilfrid challenges Er Bryonia to furnish a well stocked pantry and the latest gas ranges and cooking utensils for a prospective bride. The playful exchange hints at domestic expectations and social customs of the era.
A brief item notes an umbrella thief suspected of targeting weather gear for use on rainy days. Local police urge residents to secure personal items and report suspicious activity promptly.
A Bow Street case describes a man accused of disorderly conduct in Leicester Square on Tuesday. A constable said the disturbance began after a quarrel with a cabman and the witness took him into custody. The prisoner denied drinking, while a doctor noted heavy tobacco chewing mimicking alcohol effects.
Advertises Parmelee Vegetable Pills as tasteless and agreeable even to the fastidious. Claims to ease nausea common with ordinary pills and highlights their bien tonical quality as stomach medicine.
The passage presents a fragmentary dialogue in a periodical tone where a husband and wife discuss illness and kindness. A poet scolds a child nearby as the ill wife responds and clarifies the scene, hinting at domestic tensions and social observation from a historical newspaper style.
A Chicago man arrives in a Western oil town during the boom and meets an old friend in a restaurant. The friend, six months ahead, urges him to seek opportunity and predicts little competition as he plans to make an honest dollar.
Reader letters lauding Mother Graves Worm Exterminator for easing child suffering and restoring health. An advertiser reports a letter from a musical family offering room and board with music, describing their performances and desire for a lodger.
An advertisement claims kidneys cannot be treated without awakening the liver and bowels. It argues kidney disease ties to liver congestion, touting Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills as prompt and certain, with a testimonial from John O'Neal of Annapolis County. It urges readers to buy pills at 2½ cents per box and to write for recipes.
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