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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 15, 1909
Page
6
Indigestion is best treated by restoring blood health. The article praises Dr Williams Pink Pills as the sole cure, arguing strong red blood enables digestion and absorption. A testimonial from Mrs Alfred Gallant claims improved appetite, weight, and strength after ten boxes, with pills available by mail.
A humorous Tit-Bits excerpt describes a boy praising Minard's Liniment while a suburban butcher jokes about bones and beef. The exchange highlights playful banter about meat and curiosities in a busy shop setting.
The article describes the Queen's private apartments at Buckingham Palace and her London routine. It contrasts with Victoria, notes nine rooms on the first floor facing the gardens, and explains privacy due to royal duties. It covers tea customs and social rules at five o'clock teas with the King and Prince of Wales visiting.
A noted explorer recounts a method to relieve thirst by making poultices from stagnant mud. While crossing arid stretches with no drinkable water, the party stored mud one day and bound it to their skin, finding relief and suggesting the technique for others in similar peril.
A Gray's Inn rooks colony faced a deadly plot as crows were fed arsenic in pigeon eggs and later fizzled the rooks with strychnine. After both crows died and a period of absence, all rooks mysteriously returned the next day, as if warned by a telegram.
A lawyer rode a hansom cab and paid only the legal fare. The driver, after receiving the coin, bid him to step in again saying he could have driven further for the same tip. The exchange shows courteous service with a firm nudge for courtesy.
A correspondent reports baffling sightings of a large airship over East Anglia from the Wash to the Thames. Residents, including Ipswich observer J A Smith, describe a swift nocturnal craft with a bright searchlight, stirring fear and curiosity about a floating base off the coast and the fenlands as a probable lair.
The article explains how flatfish like turbot and plaice swim on their side as they mature. It notes the skull bones deform and the eye migrates to the upper side, while the ventral fins degenerate and new unpaired fins enable swift movement in a horizontal posture.
In 1789 the lady and lord gamble away fortunes in the evening hours. Diamonds, plate, and farms are sacrificed as workmen return to loom and lathe. Rich amusements include rat hunting cock-fighting and badger baiting. Prize fighting is seen as essential to Englishmen's courage.
A robin pair built a nest in a meter cover at Market Drayton Electric Light Works. Nearby examples include a night-nursery bookshelf at Chiselhurst with nurse and child, a nest on a collery wagon axle at Seghill, a scarecrow breast pocket at Ashbourne, a village forge patient, and a crow skeleton site at Ticehurst.
A girl gives her fiancé a cheap fountain pen for Christmas. He recalls the gift and asks if she will make him a suit of overalls to match it, prompting a whimsical exchange about practicality and gifts.
Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Dysentery Cordial is advertised to relieve acute summer stomach and intestinal distress. The remedy is said to act immediately on the stomach and intestines to ease irritation and pain, with a trial expected to prove its efficacy.
A mock dialogue warns that house flies spread typhoid fever diphtheria and smallpox. It promotes Wilson's Fly Pads as a solution, contrasting a woman's club trip with a New York diary remark about gowns. The ad-like line ends with a claim of nine pads.
A Cleveland Leader excerpt notes a director stating that his wife will stay home for a rest this summer, indicating she cannot attend a planned summer retreat or outing. The brief remark frames the decision as necessity rather than preference.
A brief snippet notes Petra to Hollaway's Corn Cure used as directed in a patient case. It mentions a doctor advising to throw up everything and take a sea voyage as part of treatment.
In a Washington Star quip, Sirius Barker proposes a quirky remedy involving a chafing dish. He suggests punching a hole in the bottom, painting it green, and planting flowers to demonstrate a novel use.
In a Sheffield school a pupil defined bachelor as a very happy man, explaining she knew this from her father who told her so. The teacher sought deeper understanding from the child about the term.
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