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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
6
Letter from Mrs. Thos Shiels of Stoughton Sask lauds Dr Chase medicines for constipation biliousness and kidney issues. She notes buying by mail due to 22 mile distance and praises Kidney Liver Pills Nerve Food and Ointment as cures with prices 25 59 and 60 cents per box.
A large candy dealer warns absinth confections are arriving in Europe and likely to appear soon in Philadelphia. He notes four bonbons could make a strong absinth drink, risking a customer’s health before awareness grows. Authorities and temperance activists are expected to pursue the issue.
A wise man answers a trap question about a held bird with the line It is as you please. The tale implies every person controls their own fate, choosing life or death by their actions.
A Pearson's Weekly discussion details how oceanic tsunamis form only when earthquakes occur beneath the seabed, recounting massive past events. It lists Lisbon 1755, 1883 straits of Sunday wave, 1891 Niphon islands, 1868 Arequipa and surrounding towns, Port Royal Jamaica, and Catania Sicily, noting deaths and property losses.
A humorous exchange in which a long winded bore laments unpopularity and fails to learn the reason, with the punch line that the cause is right under his nose as noted by the Philadelphia Press.
A man rushed into Reading terminal, chased stairs to the train shed as gates closed. He collapsed against a fence, sighing. A persistent onlooker teased him, asking if he missed the train, noting the gates shut. He blames slow feet, not a faulty watch.
In a casual chat the barber recalls his brother’s sudden insanity and a violent act against a patron. He explains between cuts that mental illness runs in the family.
In a fleeting city encounter a woman recalls a lost friend and reveals a sorrowful tale. She tells of marriage a baby girl and the baby’s death after three months, sharing a locket with husband and child and the quiet finality of loss.
An ad declares Dr Leonhardt’s Hem-Roid cures all forms of piles by internal action. It claims piles stem from lower bowel congestion and guarantees success with a money back offer. Sold for $1 through dealers or The Wilson Fyle Co Niagara Falls Ontario.
Report notes absence of coal deposits in multiple western towns affecting energy supply. Officials survey sites and awaiting geological findings to determine next steps for regional power planning and potential imports. Local residents express concern over heating and business operations during winter.
When a medicine becomes popular imitators spread to gain from the original. Imitations of Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil are numerous but never successful. Those who know the genuine demand the real product.
The CPR liners will begin winter service from St John New Brunswick and will call at Halifax to carry mails. The service aims to maintain mail delivery between the two ports during the cold season.
$100 reward offered by F. J. Cheney & Co for any case Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. The ad asserts catarrh is constitutional and that internal treatment cures both blood and mucous surfaces, promising strength and constitution building as proof of effectiveness. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Gugenheimers, a major mining company, have invested about twenty million dollars in properties along Bonanza creek in Yukon and are developing them on a large scale.
Brewer Maine man C G Archer reports long catarrh with eye and nose discharge. After four months using Dr Agnew's Catarrhal Powder he claims attacks ceased and relief comes in ten minutes. Product price listed as 50 cents.
A giant old bachelor praises a lady with compliments then apologizes for implied insult. The lady accepts the gesture and responds with grace as the exchange concludes.
A brief, fragmentary exchange unfolds as a visitor questions appearance while a mother silences the girl, asserting dignity and propriety in a domestic moment. The scene centers on a child asking about likeness to her mother and the mother's protective rebuke.
Advert reads a solemn guarantee that Baby's Own Tablets contain no opiates found in soothing medicines. They claim to cure indigestion colic constipation diarrhoea fevers cold symptoms teething discomfort and worms. Sold by dealers or mailed from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario at 25 cents a box.
John 8 Miller, likely chief defender for the Standard Oil side in the government case, advocates Congress create a body akin to the Interstate Commerce Commission to exercise control over corporations.
An advertisement touts Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator as beneficial for children. It urges readers to purchase a bottle and try the product.
In January, 115 Ontario municipalities will hold local option votes, shaping regional governance. Officials urge turnout as communities decide on municipal measures affecting services and budgets.
Walter Wellman arrives in New York claiming Peary expedition proof that reaching the pole requires balloon travel.
J Laviolette told police that two masked Hindoos sandbagged his wife on Wednesday night when she refused to give them money, a case tied to residents' fears over outsiders.
A delegation of Samaritans led by Isaac son of Amran, the second high priest at Nablus, the Sherhem of the Bible, visits London attempting to sell a 1050 AD Pentateuch manuscript.
Reports indicate peasants in several interior Russian provinces are enduring severe famine conditions with scarce food supplies and growing hardship. Relief efforts are unclear as authorities face logistical challenges.
Brockville Ontario couple credits Psychine for curing consumption and lung ailments after six bottles. The husband cites a doctor saying no cure, yet the wife improved rapidly and became well, highlighting the product as a universal remedy for la grippe cough bronchitis catarrh and pneumonia.
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