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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
15
An ad promotes Dr. Chase's Nerve Food as a cure for anaemia and pale complexions common among women and girls. It claims to strengthen blood, nerves, and digestion, citing Lena Hiebert's testimonial of recovery after fourteen boxes. Availability listed at 50 cents per box, six for $2.50.
A boy visits a dentist, asks for his extracted tooth, plans to stuff it with sugar and watch it ache. The dentist records the odd intent in a humorous note from Lip pincott's.
The advertisement declares Eclectric Oil has a mission to heal burns and wounds and to cure colds croup and respiratory ailments for every person on earth. It emphasizes Dr Thomas as the proponent of these claims and frames the oil as a universal remedy.
The Kentuck y colonel recalls Jack Chinn as the most even tempered man ever, Madd all the time, as told by Ole man Hutchins in Harrodsburg. The Argonaut preserves a regional aside about temper and reputation.
An old advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It promises $1000 to any case it fails to cure and lists Cheney & Co as makers in Toledo with local druggists selling the remedy and recommending Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
In a Pittsburg lead, neighbors discuss friendship with the Joneses. Wigs says they keep up little contact, while Digs notes rare meetings but annual Christmas gifts spark light rivalry.
Cyrus and Mandy recall telling youngsters there was a real Santa Claus and admit they doubted it themselves. Cyrus claims he saw the old man walking around in a store window in New York, a detail highlighted in the Pittsburg Leader.
A foolish man enters an iron works and asks for work. A prank leads the boss to assign him an old grind stone. The man labors at the useless task, then demands pay but is refused. After anger and persistence he vows to turn the wheel back agean for revenge.
Advertisin g copy promises Parmelee's Vegetable Pills strengthen the stomach and cleanse the blood by regulating the liver and kidneys. The pills are described as stimulating without introducing injurious substances, unlike typical purgatives.
Marion admits to breaking a brick by pounding it with her father's watch after reporting misdeeds promptly to her mother. The exchange, cited from Youth's Companion, highlights prompt confession as a remedy for mishap.
Tess-So Mrs Roxley abandons divorce plans after learning three other girls court suitor if he were free. Jess reports rival interest in him as story unfolds in local social circles.
An advertisement touts English Spavin Liniment as removing hard and soft lumps blemishes from horses. Claims include cure for blood spavin curbs splints ringbone sweeney stifles sprains sore throat and coughs. Offers $50 savings per bottle and promises the most wonderful blemish cure known.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes Miss Bunson and her mother are prominent temperance workers. A columnist questions why she ended her engagement to Smartleigh and cites a poem in which her laugh is described as a draft of rare wine.
A playful scene unfolds where a college girl uses math to test a boyfriend's love. She explains that they are radii of a circle and thus equal to an unknown X, then argues love must be in the same ratio. He concedes, prompting a cheeky twist as X becomes X'tasv!-Exchange.
An essay on social charm and popularity in a girl. Self consciousness is a barrier to success while a frank, happy demeanor creates a magnetic appeal. Straying attention dulls social interaction and makes dances tedious for others.
George G. Morton a machinist on Russell Street suffered fractured ribs after laughing heartily at a joke played on a coworker from a window. A medical man was called and treated him after the incident in Bermuda Royal Gazette.
The account explains that when Columbus reached South America near the Orinoco River delta the Spaniards saw a water village built on piles and named it Venezuela meaning Little Venice, recalling Venice.
Persian apples and peaches were known in Europe before the Christian era, reflecting ancient fruit trade and cultivation practices that spread across civilizations.
Comic quip from the Houston Post about a child needing a comb before school. The reply reveals no comb, no hair, and no parental hair care resources, illustrating a humorous exchange about grooming and health.
Simple testimonials from well known people testify to the merits of Minard's Liniment as the best household remedy. The notice promotes Minard's Liniment Co Limited and urges readers to consider the product.
An eyewitness testified that the quarryman struck his mate with a pick multiple times in a violent assault. The witness described the blows and indicated the attack could have killed the man if repeated with equal force.
An elderly man waiting for a car complains of painful corns and a helper with mouse-colored whiskers offers a remedy to cure them within two days. The exchange ends with the elderly man dismissing the offer and walking away.
Mrs Wiggs explains she broke only one dish today and Mr Wiggs remarks it is better. The exchange ends with a brief judgment about the mishap being caused by the last dish.
Mild but thorough action on bodily secretions makes these pills a valuable tonic. They stimulate lagging organs to healthful action and restore vigor. Dosing is graduated and can be discontinued without return of prior ailments.
A doctor warns the gravely ill man to fetch another physician. The dying patient, revealed as the lawyer who cross examined the medic as an expert witness, asks about his fate. The doctor refuses to assist a killer, declaring he would be hanged if he tried to cure him.
Mrs E F Fonger of 34 Myrtle St St Thomas Ont credits Zam-Buk with healing a failed corn removal wound that risked amputation. After applying Zam-Buk for two months the flesh fully healed and pain ceased. Zam-Buk offered topical relief for cuts burns ulcers and skin ailments at 5 cents a box or three boxes for $1.25.
Dr R T Williams in a London police court described seven stages of drunkenness irritable mellow pugnacious affectionate lachrymose followed by collapse and death. Magnan earlier outlined five stages with increasing excitement confusion incoherence coma and death.
Santos-Dumont wagers he will build a hydroplane capable of sixty miles per hour within eight months. The concept of a gliding craft or hydroplane dates back to 1831 when Karpen created a flat bottom river craft to draw minimal water, propelled by a small engine driving a rear fishlike fin apparatus.
The affable Captain Dugge of the Hamburg American liner Prince Oscar recalls a Philadelphian passenger who, while severely seasick, asked his wife Jenny to take his will from the Com mercial Trust Company's care and buried him on the other side, lest he endure the voyage again.
Advertisements claim instant relief from cold symptoms and throat distress. The syrup allegedly protects the lungs from attack and is recommended for those with throat or chest weakness, especially during sudden weather changes.
A short dialogue from the Chicago Daily News notes a de moralizer and a moralizer debating presence. The exchange suggests it is better to be absent when needed than to be present when not wanted.
A young artist showed a picture to his wife who praised it as lovely. She cautioned that the sheep resembled clouds too much, noting they looked like donuds while conceding the work's charm. Harper's Weekly.
A Philadelphia Press remark recounts a scene where a girl vows never to visit that photographer again. She accuses him of hostility and the insult of not offering to display one of her photos in his showcase.
The exchange imagines an explorer choosing transport by car to reach a distant pole. The reporter questions the plan while the explorer asserts the machine will drive toward the pole if within a thousand miles, highlighting a humorous chase motif.
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