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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
3
The Scotsman praises the blackcap as Scotland’s finest warbler or song bird. The author notes the blackcap’s rare sweetness and pure quality of song, saying it must be heard to be fully appreciated and that its melody surpasses the lark in boldness and grandeur.
The article urges swift action against cholera and dysentery with Dr Kellogg's Dysentery Cordial. It claims the remedy is inexpensive, widely available, and provides relief even before a doctor is summoned.
Mrs. Malaprop Partington recalls a trip to Venice praising a humorous image of streets flooded and strangers hiring a chandelier to row them in a dongola. The Cleveland Leader quotes the witticism as a lighthearted travel aside.
A 19th century advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease. It asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, offers 100 dollar reward for any case not cured, and lists Toledo company F J Cheney & Co as suppliers with 75 cent pricing. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A clergyman was notified that he and Mrs Jemima Arabella Brearly would marry at the parish house on Saturday afternoon. The message urged promptness since a cab was hired by the hour for the operation of matrimony.
A brief verse from the Chicago Record Herald praises Minard's Liniment used by physicians while expressing a romantic sentiment about a charming chaperon who speaks softly and averts her gaze.
Canada plans a vast Quebec Tercentenary celebration with subscriptions near 600 000 and anticipated totals around one million dollars. The event will feature grand processions, tableaux from Plains of Abraham, and naval displays. The Standard of Montreal will publish a 50 cent Tercentenary Number to bring the pageantry into homes, with orders filling quickly.
A Scottish man seeks instant marriage news by telegraph. After a long day at the office he finally gets a reply. The operator teases him about waiting, and the Scot retorts that the girl who keeps him waiting at night is the one for him.
Homely ad copy promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a quick remedy for children's worm problems. Quips about happiness and a joke about living in a prohibition town appear in the Houston Post.
An old advertisement touts Baby's Own Tablets as a remedy for infant digestion, constipation, diarrhoea, teething, and colds with a safety claim by a mother in St. Sylvere Quebec. It promotes purchasing from The Dr Williams Medicine Co.
The ad for a Bournemouth hotel notes it is fully fine and East off, while a Punch excerpt mocks the claim as dangerous. The piece references Holloway's Corn Cure and ridicules a mourner's behavior after Casey's death, implying theft of insurance money.
A historical note describes a weight loss diet centered on orange juice. The plan specifies waking juice from one orange, a second meal of two orange juices, optional thin crusty toast, no butter, and frequent sips of juice every two hours. It emphasizes avoiding sweets and greasy foods while allowing a hearty dinner.
Gold in pure form is only slightly harder than lead and much softer than copper, silver, platinum, zinc, and iron. Consequently it is alloyed with copper or silver, which are frequently used. Without alloying gold would be practically useless for its common applications.
Ancient Egyptians trained cats to dive into the Nile to catch fish. The felines entered the water and seized fish, then the Oshermen retrieved the catch.
An inventor promises a morning tablet that could set alarms by ringing ears at a chosen hour. He claims five tablets for five o'clock and six for six, asserting the product will disrupt the alarm clock industry as the crowd disperses in Harper's Weekly style.
Testimony from Ludger Duguay of Quebec describes severe salt rheum and eczema improved by Dr Chase's Ointment. The advertisement asserts the ointment stops itching cleanses sores and promotes healing, with a price of 60 cents per box through dealers or Edmanson Bates Co in Toronto.
General Henrico d Almonte recalls the Paris meeting between Empress Carlotta and Napoleon III as she pleaded for help for Maximilian. She cursed the emperor with a hatred that, he notes, was fulfilled at Sedan and the fall of Paris on September 4, 1870.
English experiments determine ring strength in ductile metals like malleable iron. Rings pull into long links before fracture with ultimate strength nearly twice that of a straight bar of the same cross section. Increasing diameter brings strength closer to double a bar. examples include 3 in ring at 19.5 tons, 4 in at 19.9 tons, 6 in at 20 tons, vs a 10.5 ton bar.
A suburban passenger jokes with a conductor about a basket of eggs left on a car. The conductor explains that unclaimed items become his after six weeks, which had just passed. He is told to take the eggs away, prompting reactions of pity and disdain.
A poem contrasts a beloved's soft blue eyes and gentle mouth with a rival mouth full of fangs. The speaker fears kissing the lover to avoid provoking the doglike rival, quoting the line love me love my dog as a test of devotion. The verse blends romance with humor and mock threat.
A party of foreigners touring the country met Secretary Root at the State Department. The exchange was mostly in sign language as their spokesman bowed and joked about cockroaches. Root corrected the term encroach and the visitors laughed over a language mix up.
A Washington Star quip notes Ploddin Pete’s reaction to a job pitch, arguing plain language beats polysyllabic jargon in inviting someone to work. The blithe remark captures a working person’s blunt preference for straightforward speech.
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