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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
7
A vintage advertisement touts Dr. Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills as a cure for pains and derangements in the aged, claiming they clear back and limb pain, rheumatism, constipation, and biliousness by energizing the liver and excretory system. It cites James J. Jensen of Olds, Alte., reporting complete relief from back pain attributed to kidney derangements after using the pills.
A collage of notes on superstitious doors in Dutch homes used for weddings or deaths, quack remedies promising throat and lung health, a Pittsburgh Leader quip about frozen feet, a Boston/ Houston excerpt share, a Borneo image ritual, bile cures by Parmelee's Vegetable Pill, and a Harper's Weekly cartoon caption about a professor impaling insects.
G G DUSTAN of Halifax endorses Minard's Liniment Co. as a long trusted remedy used by doctors for rheumatism and sprains. The letter notes its twenty year presence and cites Dr. Pont Sommer of Montreal who dubbed it the great Nova Scotia Liniment. Dated September 21 1908.
A collage of aphorisms and overheard exchanges from competing papers. Uncle Eben rejects Santa Claus as a generous grafter. a scene from Grace-Grady’s party, then a quip about heredity and environment from a lecturer. An angry jab from an elderly man and a book notice about a new Romola edition.
The jeweler explains why watches get dirty from dirty pockets and lint. He advises cleaning the pocket weekly and never laying a watch on stone or marble. Hang it up as if kept in a pocket and wind it every morning.
Measurements by Lieutenant Colonel Partisky along the Transcaspian railway show the Caspian Sea sits eighty three feet below ocean level. If filled to ocean level, the town of Krasno Vadsk on the shore would be submerged, its mean elevation between sixty three and sixty four feet below sea level.
An old advertising collage touts Zam-Buk as a cure for eczema and skin ailments with testimonial snippets from Mrs. Grass and Mrs. Kerr. It notes product availability in Barber shops and druggists at 60 cents and six boxes for two dollars.
A garbled excerpt from the Washington Herald describes a street performance with bagpipes and a child asking why the piper keeps moving. A stray line mentions Minard's Liniment and Dr Thomas Electric Oil as remedies amid noisy prose.
A street scene recalls a scammed old man who lends ten dollars to a stranger. The con man boasts of honesty, a streetcar delay and a faked debt, then flees as the officer gazes. The coroner notes the officer died of heartbreak. A Chicago column adds talk of fashionable scents used to drug women.
A vintage column argues marriage is a woman’s work and duty in every realm from civic to personal ethics. It stresses that women bear a primary share of the world’s tasks and that ignoring this yields the seeds of divorce within a misaligned career for Anne Rogery described with period tone.
A defeated candidate jokes about not being elected while a scoffer notes the old story and the broken promises. The scene appears in the Chicago Record-Herald with fragmented chatter and a stray line about a rash remedy, Wolferd’s Sanitary Lotion, and a tense moment involving a girl and a strap.
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