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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
2
Neil and Easton pursue a red headed man and Rivington through a dim park, evading a crashing taxi and a beleaguered cabman. They finally overtake a belated hansom whose roof trap door opens as the driver signals to pull up near the railings.
A Toronto mother details her daughter’s severe skin condition from birth. After trying many remedies, Cuticura Soap and Ointment provided immediate relief and cleared the skin over four weeks. The ad promotes Cuticura products and offers free samples and a Skin Book.
Neil and the Major confront Rivington and Coombes after a taxi crash blocks the escape. A private detective and two accomplices square off with a knocked out driver watching as the four men fight fiercely, with police involvement looming.
The text describes Rivington as large and athletic and fighting for his life, portraying him as a formidable adversary. The fragment ends with To be Continued, suggesting more details to come.
War is bound by international rules to protect civilians and noncombatants. Warnings must precede bombardment, churches and hospitals are spared, chaplains doctors and nurses are protected, and wounded enemies must be treated. Looting, mutilation, and poisoning are forbidden. explosive bullets are banned. proper burial and identification follow.
A new minister visits Fosdick and a child named Anne resists kissing him. Anne slips away as her mother adorns herself for greetings. The mother encourages the child to kiss the minister, and the child repeats her defiance, saying her mother will kiss him instead.
A father asks a sage for guidance on his son’s future. The boy is left with a book, an apple, a knife and money to choose. He ends up seated on the book, with knife and money in hand, eating the apple, proving he is a natural born lawyer.
A German report notes alcohol in conjunction with the Welshach mantle is now used for automobile headlights. The finding highlights a new material approach affecting vehicle lighting in Germany.
A note states cucumbers came to England more than four hundred years ago via Dutch traders. It also mentions Persians and Russians consuming cucumbers as fruit.
A short reflective line noting how love can disappear as quickly as it arrives, comparing the ease of falling in and out of affection. The sentiment suggests fragility of romance and casual shifts in feeling.
A filler line notes the main issue with low cost cigars is the wrapper quality. The observation highlights how rough wrapping deteriorates burn and draw, harming overall satisfaction for budget smokers.
A compact note reflects on lofty ideals being as hard to control as airplanes, conveying a metaphor about discipline and ambition without specifics or names.
A mathematics teacher notes improved concentration after shifting to Grape Nuts for noon meals. He reports reduced heaviness and dullness, with lasting better focus in afternoon work. His wife also gains relief from stomach issues and fewer headaches. They endorse the product’s benefits and reference the Road to Wellville booklet.
In a humorous exchange a businessman boasts about a job ad offering indoor work at five thousand dollars a year and notes that an ad placed last week drew eighteen thousand replies. A seedy figure asks about rates for a job ad and is told the paper charges fifty cents a line, citing the vast readership.
A country gentleman famed for horses offers a doctor a ride on an unbroken mount. The horse bolts, splits the trap, and both men are thrown to the road. The doctor complains at the reckless invitation as no bones are broken.
A playful exchange scenes the critic praising the heroine described as wonderful. The author grins in response while the critic insists her hissed sentence proves she is remarkable.
A period appliance ad claims mothers can detect child worm trouble and act promptly with Mother Graves Worm Exterminator, advertised as the best remedy for intestinal worms and quick relief.
A father forces his son into farming, the son refuses and hangs himself. He leaves a note condemning farming as senseless labor where sowing leads to sowing and reaping leads to replanting, with nothing ever changing.
A mother insists her daughter has exceptional eat while teachers disagree on her gift. The music teacher says painting, and the art teacher says music, leaving the origin of the talent unclear.
An advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablet as a safe medicine for infants and children with claims it is free from opiates or harmful drugs. It says the tablets cure constipation indigestion colic and fevers and aid teething, sold for 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
A man asks a barber to pretend he is shaving, hoping his girlfriend believes he has begun shaving after receiving a razor as a birthday gift. He expresses this wish aloud in a humorous, puzzling exchange.
The advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It states the remedy is taken internally and strengthens the patient while destroying the disease’s foundation. It offers a hundred dollar reward for any case it fails to cure and provides a address for F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
A judge questions a witness about understanding the process while the witness explains a lawyer prepared notes to study. The exchange underscores the need for clarity and preparation in testimony as the legal proceeding unfolds.
The guide notes the Egyptian pyramids required hundreds of years to complete, and a wealthy contractor quips that it was a government job. The exchange highlights views on large state projects and public works in ancient times.
Frenchmen savor regu in Carrote on menus and in elegant homes. Dr Metchnikoff claims carrots are highly beneficial and contain a sugar that supposedly kills a harmful germ blocking long life. The piece notes carrots’ reputation for improving complexion with steady consumption.
A Stage Manager suggests actors imagine cleaning a silk shirtwaist rather than venturing outdoors when delivering the ill fated sleepwalking line about the damned spot. The exchange compares theatrical technique to domestic tasks in a tongue in cheek rehearsal moment.
A speaker laments art decadence while praising the Italian school and ancient Greeks. He cites Zeuxis painting grapes so lifelike that birds pecked them, and a friend who paints a dog so natural a muzzle is needed to prevent biting.
The ministry of marine in Athens reports Lieutenant Bakopoulos spotted ruins on the sea bottom east of Lemnos at Pharos Bank. The site lies 5 to 25 meters deep and suggests a town about three miles in circumference. Authorities will authorize scientific research on site.
Madeline warns Harold to avoid the house tonight saying their father has a punctured tire cracked cylinder and a bent steering wheel and may take vengeance on him. Harold questions the warning as tension rises in the family dispute.
A narrator recalls buying a western felt hat in Montana and learning to cope with gusts in town. He loses his hat when the wind stops, and a local man advises not to chase it because another hat will arrive soon.
About a year into their journey four Toston University students began with a tuning fork and sang around the world. They now appear in London as the University Quartet or the Four Singing Evangelists. Each member can preach, teach a class, or blend voices in four part hymns. They perform a program that mixes chant with two secular acts including humorous songs and pick solos.
In England I met a nobleman who argued for abolishing the Lords saying it is a nuisance to attend. Brotter-Did nodded, Trotter-Yes, noting the irritant of parliamentary attendance.
Aviator Mr Grahame-White plans a June or July crossing of the Atlantic in about thirty hours. He is building a four engine biplane with independent 250 horsepower pairs to sustain high speed. The route coast to coast is about 2900 miles requiring roughly 100 miles per hour nonstop.
Corns cripple walking but Holloway's Corn Cures offer relief in the chaos. Readers can access this remedy touted to ease pain and restore mobility for sufferers.
The 1701 Tyne flood that inundated Newcastle is recalled as the great flood. In court Adam Thompson answers his address as Paradise and quips he has lived there since the flood. Paradise lies about a mile and a half west of Newcastle.
The text asks about an ideal of happiness and mentions a garden seed that should look like the pictures on the seed packets. No clear event or person beyond casual prompts.
A man with a history visits through a rear door as he is told that no book agents are allowed and the visitor departs after a brief exchange.
A suburban reverend officiating a middle aged couple's wedding faced an unusual hitch. When asked to join hands the couple revealed they had lost their hands and only hooks remained. The clergyman adapted, directing them to join hooks as the ceremony continued with a metallic click from the hooks joining.
A Ottawa discussion argues Canada spends about 10 million dollars annually on military equipment but nothing on typhoid fever control. A proposal calls for university chairs of sanitary engineering and stricter sanitary regulations to cut typhoid mortality significantly.
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