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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
3
A promotion offers to send a Painting Book set with pre arranged colors to your mother upon providing her name and address. Included is a quarter pound package of Celluloid Starch to try on the next ironing day.
During a wet hosted by the Balkan Prime Minister a guest complained that the Minister of Justice had taken his watch. The Prime Minister vowed to recover it, and later the watch was returned to the owner. The host joked about the minister’s awareness of the recovery.
The article explains the stomach as the center of the nervous system and warns that poor stomach function can cause nervous debility. It promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a fast remedy to restore stomach health, noting many attest to the pills' efficacy.
In a fragmentary quote from the Washington Star two women discuss domestic violence and punishment. Mrs. Potomac Jackson says a husband who beats a wife might be sent to the whipping post, while Mrs. Oliver Grapevine notes a husband who beats his wife could face the post once he leaves the hospital.
Frank J. Cheney swears to Hall's Catarrh Cure offering one hundred dollars for incurable catarrh and notary record dated December 6, 1886. Company promotes internal use, blood and mucous surface action, testimonials offered free, Toledo. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Giles-Windig joke ends fragment.
A Frankin Inn literary gathering in Philadelphia shares a mot from Dr. Weir Mitchell. He and a young editor braved a blustery March morning outside City Hall square as Mitchell quips about tethering a shorn lamb to temper the wind.
An American visiting Berlin is impressed by the city’s window gardens where geraniums and greenery spill from four to five story balconies. Harper's Bazar notes New York’s Municipal Art Society pushes window boxes on public and private dwellings to beautify cities and mask urban grime with floral displays.
A debutante explains and defends cutting flower stems with a knife each morning for a sharper cut. A brunette and others challenge the method while a florist claim notes the knife helps water uptake by avoiding fiber crushing.
Advise on book care taping shabby volumes with tan paper and labeling backs with ink. Tips include removing apple stains with apple peel or lemon juice, lint-free rinsing in clear water, and cleaning cup handles with a small brush. Also warns against placing good furniture near heat sources and handling baking oven moisture.
Dunvegan Castle on Skye preserves Rory More’s horn, a vessel holding more than a bottle and a half of liquor. The Macleod laird must fill it with claret on coming of age and drink without stopping until the dregs to prove manhood, a tradition noted by the Dundee Advertiser.
An advertisement asserts Dr Williams Pink Pills heal from the blood, restoring strength and health nationwide. It features a Quebec City user, Joseph Lacombe, who regains weight, appetite, and stamina after two years of decline and exams, claiming recovery after two boxes and continued use. Pills offered by mail from Brockville Ontario.
An Odessa correspondent notes Russia as the origin of the cigarette and observes widespread smoking in banks and telegraph offices. A British visitor witnesses clerks and staff smoking openly, while tea service is supplied by the establishment and shared among workers.
The Massachusetts General Court granted the first American patent in 1648 to Joseph Jenkes of Lynn for water-powered engines. The fourteen year monopoly barred export and set price moderation. Jenkes, an English blacksmith and machinist, also crafted dies for Pine Tree money and built the country’s first fre engine. His family spread to Rhode Island with several mills.
A collage of overheard lines shows Mrs Cumrox debating another doctor and the idea of flaxseed tea and mustard plasters. Worms threaten children, touted by Mother Graves Worm Exterminator. A gossiping chorus of witty exchanges ends with Holloway's Corn Cure claims and a playful jab about appearances.
A humorous exchange features Minard's Liniment claimed to cure distemper in a letter to a famed detective. Herlock Sholmes and Dector Dotson debate how a reader should address authority as the missive is set aside.
Symptoms of nervous exhaustion include headache sleeplessness memory impairment despondency heart palpitations and dizziness. Treatments cited are electrical massage cold plunges and Dr Chase's Nerve Food with testimonials from Mrs A Ward of Woodstock Ontario and Bates Co of Toronto.
Mark Twain, guest of honor at a New York dinner, spoke on housecleaning troubles. He quipped that spring painting means the painter has taken up the parlor carpet and moved furniture, signaling exterior work on shutters and the back fence.
A reflection on how meaningful work keeps a woman youthful and fulfilled. It emphasizes doing useful tasks, finding a niche, and feeling part of something larger through serving others.
An advertisement extols Beecham's Pills as a remedy for women’s debility, nervousness, headaches, and low mood. It claims to improve health and appearance, urging every woman to use the product and trust its effects.
After Prestonpans a Scottish farmer wrote a witty ballad that offended an English officer who challenged him. The farmer refused, saying he would face the challenger at his own farm if needed and would run away only if unable to fight.
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