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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 07, 1905
Page
6
A seller touts Dr Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine as a quick, reliable cure for croup bronchitis and whooping cough. A Toronto user testifies it cured his son in one night after a choking episode. The ad emphasizes safety for children, pleasant taste, and household usefulness at 25 cents a bottle.
Glasgow reports the launch of the Empress of Britain at Fairfield Yard as the first of new passenger steamers for the Atlantic fleet. Empress of Britain, 20000 ton vessel, will sail Liverpool Montreal in May. sister Empress of Ireland to follow, launching in January and sailing Liverpool Montreal next year.
An OCR fragment touts Dr Agnew’s Catarrhal Powder as relieving catarrh and colds in minutes. It markets a nasal spray method with a short breath through a bottle and promises painless, delightful tone and permanent cure of catarrh hay fever and related symptoms.
London discusses repopulating farms in England and sending expatriates to Canada or Australia for land work. The piece notes small causes can upset digestion and warns against neglecting gut health, praising Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills. Winnipeg railway workers form a bowling league.
The Canadian Pacific Railway offers discounted trips from Manitoba Alberta and Saskatchewan to Vancouver Victoria and Okanagan Valley. Tickets go on sale December 1 2 and 15 16 and January 5 6 with return validity up to three months.
Mrs. C A Van Luren wife of the county jail governor Napanee Ontario suffered rheumatism and after doctors failed tried South American Rheumatic Cure. Four bottles cured her and she credits the remedy though the claim remains unverified.
Officials announce wheat shipments slated for export from Hali this winter as trade plans outline early logistics and sourcing. The move signals growing grain commerce with potential regional impacts on markets and pricing.
An 19th century health boast claims stomach catarrh stems from germs and requires blood purification. It touts Psycuine as a universal remedy that cleanses the stomach, purifies blood, and destroys germ life, backed by druggist endorsement and widespread cures.
The American signal service reports a long distance wireless link between Nome and St. Michael Alaska as the world’s only regular telegraph integrated wireless system. On August 6, 1994 it completed a year of operation over 107 miles handling several thousand words daily with over a million words sent and 2000 words per hour without error.
Pain is a protest of nature against neglect of bodily health. It enters at the first opportunity and takes up residence, sometimes difficult to eject. Dr Thomas Electric Oil will drive it out quickly. Pain cannot stay where it is used and immediately flees.
Premier Roblin announced a provincial telephone system as a feature of his government's policy. The proposal outlines expanded telephone service and public ownership aims as part of the administration's program.
George Watts, crown timber agent, visited his homestead in Rainy River's Mather township last week and secured a 140 pound dressed buck deer. He also reported a colony of beavers at work building a dam inland in the same township.
In letters from Oxford and Yarmouth Nova Scotia residents, cures are attributed to MINARD'S LINIMENT and by Fred Coulson for a sprain and to Inglesville remedies for "Black Erysipelas." Names include R F Hewson Y AAC and J W Ruggles, with places noted as Oxford N S Yarmouth N S Inglesville.
Fifty Vancouver horses affected with glanders, and many being fine animals, were shot and cremated. A Pleasant Medicine offered as Parmelee's Vegetable Pills, claimed to ease dyspepsia with mild action. A new hockey club called the Winnipegs has formed in the Western metropolis.
Alderman Albert Pay, returning from Winnipeg, says Ontario fruit growers need not fear British Columbia competition as the Western fruit trade grows rapidly. He notes Ontario and BC will need vast shipments to supply the expanding Canadian west and cites 27 trains dispatched on 130 miles of Fort William division as proof.
The Sahara sailed from Port Arthur with 327,600 bushels of western wheat. Chartered by the Northern Elevator Company, she heads for Buffalo to lay up for winter. The William A. Rogers will load at Fort William after December 1 and carry 350,000 to 375,000 bushels to Buffalo as a winter cargo.
The Assiniboine river has not frozen as late as this year since 1886, except for the falls of 1902 and 1904. The year 1904 holds the record with the river not freezing over until November 26.
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