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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1905
Page
3
A passage from Rev Napier Malcolm's Five Years In the Persian Town discusses widespread falsehoods in Yezd bazaars. He cites a price dispute over meat, a forged seals ring, and a tale of a traveling hat swap showing how honesty is viewed as climate driven across Persian society.
The article describes converting a natural brook into a swimming pool for boys by damming the stream at a gentle bend. It details crafting sand and sod embankments, wooden spillway boxes filled with sand and rocks, and a levered water gate to control flow and pond level.
The American Naturalist describes striped meadow crickets where males lift fore wings and rub them to produce a high pitched shrill to attract females. The female climbs onto the male and consumes semifluid secretions from a small pouch on the thorax, a lure for mating.
The advertisement asserts Eclectric Oil by Dr Thomas heals burns and wounds of any kind and cures coughs colds croup and all respiratory affections. It proclaims a universal mission for every man to perform their function in the world and for all things animate or inanimate.
Germans gather wood violets in spring, place heads in bottles with white wine vinegar, cork, and sun for thirty days. The liquid is strained and used as a remedy with a teaspoonful diluted in water to treat headaches.
An advertisement touts Holloway's Corn Cure as a medicine to remove all kinds of corns and warts for a small price of twenty five cents.
The Abyssinian coral tree seed was once used as a standard for weighing gold and precious stones due to its uniform small size and constant weight.
The conquest of Egypt by the Sara cens deprived Europe of papyrus and led to the destruction of countless ancient works. Writings were scratched out so parchment could be reused, erasing historical records.
D. T. Sample of Sample's Instalment Company in Washington Pennsylvania says chronic catarrh troubled him for years until using Agnew's Catarrhal Powder. He reports almost instant relief after trying the remedy priced 60 cents.
A 1595 English sermon by an unnamed preacher attacks fashionable foreign toys in women’s apparel calling them fantastical and vain. It critiques women's dress and behavior reflecting era religious moralizing and gender norms.
The passage extols Sunlight Soap as superior to others and urges buying the product with directions. It also touches on the peanut’s mysterious spread to the country and notes a Canadian woman Mrs R H Wright of Brockville describes heart distress and relief after Dr Agnew's Cure.
A naval observation notes that black sails are visible longer than white sails in darkness and that darker hulls stand out more than bright ones, with the fishing smack sails appearing at greater distances than a yacht’s snowy spread.
An advertisement urges cucumber and melon eaters to use Dr J D Kelleg's Dysentery Cordial for immediate relief. It claims the cordial prevents attacks of cholera dysentery griping and other summer complaints and serves as a sure cure.
The ad argues setting hens lose weeks of laying and cash, while the Chatham Incubator and Brooder hatch many eggs with higher efficiency. It claims twenty hens worth of output in one incubator cycle, reduces losses, and promises steady brooder performance and better chick survival. The pitch urges switching from natural setting to scheduled hatching and offers a special deal to investigate.
An advertisement style notice invites readers, especially honest men and women, to invest time and effort to start a poultry pool business. It claims no upfront costs and offers assistance with incubators, portions, and a guidebook. Contact points include Chatham, Winnipeg, New Westminster, B C, and Montrovh for more details.
An advertising brief argues farmers can profit by poultry using a Chatham Incubator and Brooder. It promotes setting hens as hatchers, starting small, and expanding to monthly chick crops, claiming steady markets and high prices for broilers when supply is low, urging purchase of the specified equipment.
The article notes that a guinea no longer exists since 1817 yet English doctors and writers still reference it in payments. It explains the guinea once meant a coin of guinea gold, and suggests the only current way to earn a guinea is by stacking a sovereign on top of another unit, highlighting obsolete monetary terms.
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