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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 20, 1912
Page
2
A $1,000 reward is offered for the sense of incurable constipation cured by Dr. Hamilton's Pills. The advertisement claims miraculous relief from headaches stomach disorders and other pains with no side effects. Pills priced at 25 cents per box are promoted as pleasant and effective.
An array of brief sketches recalls eloquent preachers mourning a young lover, a somber funeral, and a sermon about faith’s transplant to the Lord’s garden. Other items touch on a president enjoying the ocean, clerical attitudes toward leisure, and satirical tales of wealth and morality.
An excerpt from Kate Tribbe Sharber’s The Annals of Apu features a Detroit millionaire’s daughter and a toy doll’s house, with notes on social snobbery and a casual joke about an “appendix.” A humorous diary voice touches on ethical expectations and election dodges, ending with a Kentucky tale of Ezekiel Hopkins and a misfired gift.
A standard remedy promoted by Matt Graves is cited as protecting a child from threats described as savages of dobby. The product is claimed to have years of use and enhancement.
A vintage ad touts Catarrhozone for throat irritations catarrh and chest troubles. It claims quick and sure relief with 50e and 1.00 size bottles available from GIT dealers.
A survey of curious clocks from Worsley to Lyons and Beauvais, detailing thirteen striking mechanisms. Notes include the Worsley Hall and Parliament tower legends, Wells Cathedral celestial dials, Coran’s alcohol-driven encoder, Swiss voice clocks, and grand constructions with multiple faces and calendars.
The Duchess of Marlborough was a leading Anglo American social figure in New York before her marriage and later in England. She founded the first workroom girls club in the United States, expanding social work circles, and at Blenheim Castle she created an American style bower and a private menagerie with gazelles, vultures, snakes, chimpanzees, and pelicans, reflecting her artistic influence and charitable activities.
The seventy four year old Lord Brassey will soon sail again in his yacht Sunbeam on a voyage to Canada. The Sunbeam has logged over 300000 nautical miles and many journeys were chronicled by his first wife who died at sea. Brassey notes that rigged vessels offer cruising advantages and help train seamen. He enjoys cricket at his Sussex estate and recalls a humorous umpire anecdote involving a footman who joked about being not at home.
Lord Rosebery fronts a Burns commemorative year with the reopening of Auld Brig of Ayr and previous unveilings of Burns statues and busts in Dumfries, London, Westminster Abbey, Paisley, and Glasgow. His eloquence as orator-in-chief frames two major 1896 speeches on Burns memory.
A collage of aphorisms about money, age, and luck appears in a humorous column. The entries mix wry observations on running costs, dating, gifts, and wealth with scrambled phrases and garbled lines. The tone is light and playful, inviting readers to chuckle at pithy maxims.
If ore he troubled with corns and warts, he will find in Holloway's Corn Cure an eoilification that will entirely relieve suffering.
G A Brown known as Art Brown arrives in Toronto with a carload of twenty harness horses, trotters and pacers. He claims to buy and sell more trotters and pacers yearly than any individual, with notable wins by Roadmaster mares Pansy and Violet and horses like Paymaster and Nettie Ethan. Brown’s bold trading record and high-stake deals, including past big purchases, mark him as a leading world dealer in harness horses.
Paris Ontario resident Thomas Goes reports 18 months of muscular rheumatism with severe back pain. After four bottles of Nerviline his pains vanish and he praises the remedy as the poor man’s best friend, sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles worldwide.
A Canadian dealer, noted as the Champion Speed Merchant of the World, buys two of the fastest pacing mares in Canada and sells one for 3800 dollars. He previously acquired Lady May and Gallagher, racing on the Ottawa River circuit, and later found further value in the gelding Gallagher, who topped the Grand Circuit and fetched 3500 dollars in New York.
An aphoristic reflection on desire and success. It contrasts those who seek surplus with the habit of starting small and the persistence required to rise, noting that some men seem to succeed despite themselves.
It will relieve bronchial inflammation and speedily ease coughs by soothing irritated throats. The product claims to strengthen bronchial passages against subsequent attacks and offers a trial to prove its efficacy.
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