Canada Tercentenary celebration overflows with plans
Canada’s great Tercentenary at Quebec draws about $600 000 in subscriptions and near a million more expected. The Standard of Montreal will publish a Tercentenary Number with lavish supplements, sold for 50 cents, expected to be highly valued and in demand worldwide.
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Quebec
Plains of Abraham
Canada
Wolfe
England
United States
Standard of Montreal
National Illustrated Paper of Canada
George Murray Publishing Company
Montreal
Standard
St. James St
Scotland’s Finest Song Bird
A Scotsman praises the blackcap as Scotland’s best warbler noting its incomparable sweet song. He admits he cannot describe it fully and says the bird’s voice is unforgettable once heard, while contrasting it with the bolder lark and lacking English timing.
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Scotland
England
The
Scotsman
Dysentery Corial Offered For Rapid Relief
Attacks of cholera and dysentery come quickly with little warning. Remedial action must be swift to save the patient from suffering and bowel lining damage. Dr J D Kellogg's Dysentery Corial is ready and affordable at any drug store and provides relief before a doctor is summoned.
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J. D. Kellogg
Venice travel quip about water streets and chandeliers
Mrs Malaprop Partington recalls a Venice outing praised as lovely. She jokes that cabs are useless since streets flood, so a chandelier is hired to row guests about in a dongola. The remark appears in the Cleveland Leader.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for All Stages
A promotional notice claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. It states internal use targets blood and mucous surfaces to destroy the disease’s foundation and build constitution. The ad offers a $100 reward for any uncured case and directs readers to send for testimonials.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Clergyman Receives Marriage Notice for Parish House Ceremony
A clergyman was notified that he and Mrs Jemima Arabella Brearly are to perform a wedding at the parish house this coming Saturday afternoon. The message asks for punctuality, noting a cab is hired by the hour.
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Jemima Arabella Brearly
Ladies’ Home Journal
I Know a Lovely Chaperon Chantey
A nostalgic verse from the Chicago Record Herald notes a cherished chaperon whose soft tone and shy glance shape a beloved, day by day affection in the city’s social scene.
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Chicago
Record-Herald
Caution at Bournemouth hotel advertisement warns
The notice states the hotel is fully licensed and located on the East. the fragment signals a dangerous combination tied to Punch. The readable text implies a caution about safety or propriety surrounding the establishment.
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Bournmouth
Holloway's Corn Cure Promises Relief for Painful Feet
The ad claims corns cripple feet and walking is torture, but Holloway's Corn Cure offers relief accessible to all users.
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Holloway
Noonan Casey Death Sparks Vicious Allegations
Judge remarks reveal a claim that the widow swiftly married a man named Merry Widdy two months after Casey Noonan's death. The dialogue implies the widow received Casey's insurance money, with the judge noting her easy handling of the funds.
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Noonan
Casey
Orage Anti-fat Cure Promoted By Orange Diet
An orange based obesity cure prescribes consuming juice from one orange on waking, a second meal of juice from two oranges an hour later, and periodic sips of juice every two hours. A single piece of crusty toast may accompany meals when hungry. No butter or sweets allowed. Dinner permits a hearty meal but avoids greasy foods.
Gold’s Hardness and Practical Uses in Alloys
Gold in pure form is very soft compared with copper, silver, platinum, zinc or iron. To make itUseful for most applications it is alloyed with copper or silver, as pure gold would be practically useless.
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Ayvyer
Ayer Os
Lowell
Mass
Ancient Nile fishers used trained cats in fishing
Ancient Egypt employed cats trained to dive into the Nile and grab fish, which were then collected by fishermen. The practice demonstrates how felines served as tools in early subsistence fishing along the river.
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Nile
The Scotch Idea and Worm Exterminator Ad
A Scottish man seeks urgent marriage news by telegram and is advised to beware a waiting lover. The operator quips about a night-rate lass. The piece ends with an advert for Mother Graves Worm Exterminator, claiming quick relief for children’s worm problems.
Happiness Cannot Be Bought In Prohibition Town
In a Houston Post caption style remark the editor quotes a maxim that happiness cannot be purchased and notes the irony of life in a community enforcing alcohol bans. The piece uses a wry tone to juxtapose prohibition with personal well being.
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Houston Post
Bright Little Ones Make Homes Bright
An advert promotes Baby's Own Tablets as a safe remedy for infant ailments including indigestion constipation diarrhoea teething troubles and colds. It claims government analyst backing and features a testimonial from Mrs J L Janelle of St Syivere Quebec praising the product. The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont sells boxes by mail at 4 ½ cents.
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J. L. Janelle
St. Syivere
Que
Towne Questions Featherbrane Nickname in Rainy Incident
In Philadelphia a debate erupts over Noah Browne known as Cholly with Noah shielding himself from rain. The exchange centers on whether the nickname was inappropriate during a public exchange.
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Towne
Young Featherbrane
Noah
Browne
Philadelphia
Ress
Minard's Invention Promises Morning Alarm Tablets
The inventor Minard explains a future device of specially prepared tablets to replace alarm clocks. He claims the dose will wake a person at a chosen hour by causing ringing in the ears, a notion that astonishes a small crowd before they disperse.
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Alarm Clock Trust
Harper’s Weekly
Dr Chase’s Ointment Promises Cure for Salt Rheum
Testimony from Ludger Duguay of Pidgeon Hill Quebec claims Dr Chase’s Ointment stops itching and heals salt rheum eczema. The ad asserts rapid relief, cleansing of sores, and blood purification through normal healing, priced at 0 cents a box and sold by dealers or Edmanson Bates Co Toronto.
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Ludger Duguay
Pidgeon Hill
Quebec
Chase
Carlotta and Napoleon III Curse Foresaw Empress Curse
General d Almonte recalls the Paris meeting between Empress Carlotta and Napoleon III as she curses the emperor promising flames and blood. The curse, he notes, eerily came true at Sedan and the 1870 Paris revolution, fulfilled to the letter.
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Henrico d’ Almonte
Maximilian of Mexico
Napoleon III
D'Almonte
Maximiltian
Carlotta
Queretaro
Paris
Napoleon
Maximilian
Austria
Montezuma
General d'Almonte
Grand Hotel de Paris
d’Almonte
Sedan
Charles Kiener
Los Angeles Times
Strength of Rings as a Test of Material Toughness
English experiments show ductile metal rings fail by tension with strength nearly twice that of a same cross section bar. Ring strength nearly independent of diameter, slight approach to equality for larger rings. Three inch ring (3/4 inch iron) broke at 19.5 tons, four inch ring at 19.9 tons, six inch ring at 20 tons, bar strength 10.5 tons.
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England
Basket of Eyes Causes Staircase Moral Parable
A suburban passenger chats with a conductor on the back platform about a basket of eggs left on a car. The conductor explains that unclaimed items become his after six weeks, which had just expired. The exchange ends with mutual moralizing on misfortune and ownership.
A Lovers Plaindign and Love Me Love My Dog
A Balliogore American verse piece contrasts two portraits of a beloved woman. The speaker praises her blue eyes and playful mouth while warning of a fiercer rival a brindle bull guarding the beloved makes the bite feared. The refrain echoes the old quip Love me love my dog.
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Balllioore
Foreign visitors confuse Cockroach terms with Root diplomacy
A touring party with limited English met Secretary Root at the State Department. The spokesman bowed and used sign language to say they would not further cockroach on Root's time. Root explained encroach was correct. The visitor replied cockroach as male and henroach as female, and the discussion ended.
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State Department
Root
Secutaire
Washington
Mr. Root
Washington Times
Do you want employment says Plodding Pete
A Washington Star excerpt features Plodding Pete teasing a worker about how to present job prospects using simple language. The line reflects a humorous critique of over formal or embellished speech in work offers.
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Pete
Washington Star
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