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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
3
A lively exchange touches on parenting and manners with remarks about diet and health. A family debate turns to music and performance as characters discuss famed doctors remedies and a humorous legal quip about marriage.
The ad offers one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F J Cheney & Co as makers, vows their reliability, and promotes internal use of the remedy with price 75 cents per bottle. It also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation and includes testimonials. The surrounding text mentions a courtroom exchange about future appearances and fractions.
A Mississippi courtroom scene portrays a black defendant, Juniper Bradley, facing circumstantial homicide charges. The district attorney dramatizes a hog theft incident with a mock rifle, provoking laughter and a realization of bias as the crowd and judge react to the courtroom drama.
Bobby, son of a Methodist minister, has moved four times by age eight and dislikes the itinerant clergy life. An elderly minister once questioned him about heaven and asked where the blest reside. “I know. It’s the last place we’re going to move to,” he replied.
Article notes Mount Blanc in Nevada’s Death Valley region is a borax mountain owned by Frank M. Smith of Oakland. It stands about 1500 feet high and two miles across, with an estimated 3 billion tons of borax valued above 100 dollars per ton. Writers say it could make Smith the world’s richest man in resources.
A young man fills his first prescription and pays a dollar ten cents. The pharmacist questions the ten cents as good money. The man confirms, and the proprietor shrugs it off saying they still make a nickel.
The liver condition governs blood quality and blemishes on the skin reflect liver trouble. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills act on the liver to purify the blood, producing clear healthy skin with intelligent use. Ladies will value this quality and expect gratifying results.
Fragmentary notes frame suffragist activism as tedious while questioning traditional gender roles. The piece weighs whether biblical figures reinforce male dominance, hinting at broader social reform debates.
Advertises Baby's Own Tablets as curing stomach and bowel troubles from feeble babies to sturdy children. Claims the medicine is absolutely safe with a government analyst's guarantee and includes a testimonial from Mrs. Alfred Suddard of Haldimand Quebec. Sold by druggists or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
A quotation in the Atlanta Georgian suggests housework builds a beautiful figure for women, implying even the Venus of Milo would have earned beauty from washing dishes.
Mrs C D Prince of Nauwigewauk writes that she was very sick with quinsy and felt she would strangle. After using Minard’s Liniment she recovered at once and now never parts with it. Dated October 21.
The Philadelphia Press quotes a playful exchange where a child named Tommy apologizes to a cross father after being told to tell him he is sorry. The brief dialogue showcases household humor and parent child dynamics.
A clipped quotation reveals a character noting keeping Minard’s oil in the house and remarking on a defaulter Weekle-So. The dialogue hints at repeated wins and a polite reply when making a deposit, attributed to Bohemian rhetoric.
A Dominion Experimental Farm bulletin reports Canada needs more flaxseed to supply oil mills. NorthWest provinces show favorable conditions. U S and Argentina supply most imports. Experiments at Brandon and Indian Head favor 80 lbs seed per acre for high yields, with 40 lbs often enough on new break. The best sowing window is late May to early June.
Dr. Fred Bernham, the Winnipeg surgeon, comes home from a six months tour abroad. The stage manager notes he can play drunken parts better than any man, while the business manager adds he is too fond of rehearsing.
A London firm sent a large cheese to a railway station near Birmingham labeled for John Smith to be called for. After two weeks no one claimed it, prompting a letter warning that if the cheese is not called for within two days it will be killed.
For years Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator has ranked as the most effective preparation manufactured and it always maintains its reputation.
Hewitt I painted this picture to keep the wolf from the door. Jewett If you hang it where the wolf can see it I guess you will succeed. Judge.
From October to May colds are the most frequent headache causes. Laxative Brom Quinines removes head pain. Box 25 cents shows E. W. Grove on package.
In a Scottish village a farm laborer Bill Brown loses his wife who on her deathbed warns him not to remarry or she will claw from the grave. Months pass with rumors and fear until a relative asks if he fears the threat. He replies he is unafraid and reveals he had her buried face down to worsen any scratching from the grave.
A trolley collided with a heavily laden milk cart, sending cans rolling into the street. A crowd gathered as bystanders watched the chaotic scene and a stout lady in front of the onlookers glared while a man muttered about the waste.
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