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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
4
An advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablets as safe and effective for teething pain, colds, and preventing croup. It claims no opiate or narcotic content, with a government analyst backing the claim, and notes availability from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. at 2 cents a box in Canada.
A St. Peters burg newspaper reports a plebiscite where six of fifteen top vote getters are English translations and Uncle Tom's Cabin, Victov's Fables, and Robinson Crusoe are listed as most suitable for children.
The most popular medicinal oil for joint and muscle pains neuralgia rheumatism is Dr Thomas Electric Oil, praised by druggists for its superior healing qualities. It is claimed to be in greater demand than any other oil.
In Ireland motorists face delays as pigs occupy the road and refuse to move. The humorous image of a hog meeting a road hog captures the domestic rural obstacle.
A comic dialogue features a light claim about Shiloh's Cure curing coughs and colds. The slim youth contemplates matrimony and a friend jokes about bearing a heavy responsibility. The punchline involves a suitor’s quip about his future wife weighing 175 pounds.
An old ad touts a single product Bromo Quin ine as a laxa tive used worldwide to cure a cold “On Day” for 26 cents. It notes the signature of E W Grove and emphasizes its universal acceptance.
A humorous note from Success Magazine about a stout lady riding the London Metropolitan Railway who asks for help to exit at the next station. The gentleman agrees and she explains porters push her back into the carriage thinking she is entering, and she has passed four stations while turning around.
Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator claims to clear the stomach and intestines to restore health, easing fretfulness and helping the infant sleep.
A budding East Side suitor offered to fetch water and braved the back yard darkness. He set a bucket down and cranked for minutes but failed. Inspectors found he had miswired the pump by a wash tub and turned a clothes wringer instead.
A badge of discovery describes a dingy market find inked with Rubens onlookers. After cleaning, the canvas reveals a scene with a turbaned potentate, armored attendants, and a hooded priest with a beggar, suggesting a genuine if worn work.
In Ealing England a cable from Univers ities Mission to Central Africa noted that George Frank George architect near Likoma West Africa was alive after two months of presumed death. Confusion began when Bishop Trower in Nyassaland misread a Queensland message as the death notice. The error caused widespread condolence and many obituaries before a second telegram clarified the mistake.
The Royal Society announced medals for several scientists led by the Copley to Alfred Russel Wallace for natural history contributions and work on natural selection. Lorentz receives the Rumford for optical and electrical research. Milne and Head earn Royal Medals for seismology and nervous system studies. Tilden awarded the Davy for terpenes and atomic heats. Weissman and Goldstein receive Darwin and Huygens medals for evolution and electric discharge research.
A Chicago iron works foreman finds a cheerful tramp who once was a college baseball champion. On a cold autumn dawn he offers labor during a labor shortage asking if the man can use a shovel. The tramp replies with a wry boast about frying ham on it.
A fragmented verse recalls the old grey road beside the river and its elms and rapids. It links La Selle and a youth named Tony to memories of exploration and French glory. A distant voice calls to mark time and place for eternity.
Janet Patterson of Kouchibouguac Kent County is nearly 107, born in Kirk Michael Scotland in 1826. She emigrated to Canada in 1833 with husband James Patterson and raised a large family amid hardships. Her health is remarkable for age, though eyesight memory wane. She remains active in Presbyterian faith and recalls her homeland dialect.
The November issue of The Labor Gazette reports steady improvement in trade and industry. Manufacturing grew cautiously, lumbering remained dull, coal mining slowed, and railway construction stayed active with few labor disputes.
A diverting anecdote from Miss Alice Balfour recounts a voyage to South Africa. While loading stores, a passenger stood on a barrel to hold a sack open for potatoes and toppled into a butter-filled cask as butter oozed like oil, leaving him enveloped in a slick of melted butter and needing help to escape.
The Royal College of Surgeons accepts women to the F R C S exam, recalling Elizabeth Blackwell born in Bristol in 1820 who became the first woman to earn a medical degree in 1849. She later achieved the first entry on the Medical Register in England in 1859.
Charles J. R. Bethune of Ottawa has been in Fredericton collecting details for the Dominion Government on the Canada United States boundary dispute. The 1892 agreement covered the Maine New Brunswick border except a small strip on the St Croix river including Mark's Island. The disputed land, a few acres, holds fishing rights importance only.
A 19th century medical blurb extols Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a swift remedy for biliousness and sour stomach, claiming no better medicine exists among pill preparations and promising rapid correction of the disorder.
A noted Scotch Presbyterian minister got wet going to church in the rain and mourned his damp condition to a friend who replied Never mind the wet Doctor, you will be dry enough when you get into the pulpit.
In Hartford a Sunday school class prompted a remark on old-time rulers and their many wives. A young lady in the group quipped there couldn't have been any old maids among them, sparking a lively response to the topic.
Advertisements claim cures for rheumatic gout bronchitis and acute rheumatism by products from MINARD S LINIMENT LT COL C CREWE READ and C S BILLING with locations Halifax Sussex and Markham Ontario cited as sources of the testimonials.
In a village store crowd of loafers gathers around a tale of deceit. One man proclaims the lie he told his wife and a unanimous laugh erupts, interrupted by the remark that he never lied to his wife. The mood shifts to silence as the moment ends.
A column of testimonials describes long standing nervous disorders and heart trouble relieved by Dr A W Chase Nerve Food. Mrs E Vanderburgh of St Catharines reports full recovery after using about six boxes. Mr Wm Branton of Strathroy says twenty four boxes restored his sleep appetite and digestion. Portrait and signature of A W Chase M D appears on every box.
Lord Lyveden, a reforming peer, recounts a nineteenth century statesman visiting his imprisoned son. The father, proud of his rise from a middle class background, laments the son’s fate as a “greatest blackguard in the peerage.” The son calmly replies, suggesting irony about legacy and judgment.
Advert says the pill suits irregular habits and daily worries. It claims to relieve dyspepsia indigestion and liver and kidney troubles by restoring the run down system with a simple vegetable formula suitable for delicate constitutions.
A teacher tests arithmetic with a sharp class. She asks can five go into one. A quick reply from a clever boy: I put five toes into one stocking this morning.
Reed beds span central and southern Sweden along lake shores streams and marshes. The local material is used as laths for plastering replacing traditional wood laths.
A Louisville Courier-Journal item presents a playful exchange between a fiance and fiancée. He says soulful words while she asserts her plan for ears and fashion, with comic dialogue about rubber bands around the head at night to train ears not to stick out.
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