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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 06, 1909
Page
3
A postmaster from Filiston Trinity Bay lists a three year lasting cure from Dodd's Kidney Pills for back pains and leg cramps. He says six boxes relieved his sciatic pains and insomnia, claiming permanent cure and recommending using the pills first before other remedies.
A Houston Post quote notes a man who feared life, then recalls a freight train incident. The piece mentions springtime illnesses stressing the body, especially dysentery, and promotes Dr. J. D. Kel’s Dysentery Cordial as a standard remedy sold widely.
A wife recalls Archibald and a poem valued at $50 seen in a mil liner’s window. The poet’s husband asks about the paper the poem appeared in and the wife notes the surprising sale outside a newspaper deal.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case, endorses F. J. Cheney and Co. of Toledo, with assurances from Walding Kinnan Marvin that Cheney is trustworthy. Claims the cure works internally through the blood and mucous surfaces and urges purchase at 75 cents per bottle.
The Italian government faces a land rights clash in resisting subsoil ownership over Florculaneum beneath Portici and Resina. A pending law seeks eminent domain to claim ground and treasure beneath modern homeowners, challenging traditional property theories.
The article outlines Theodore Roosevelt’s planned Africa expedition with a $250 license granting him quotas on many game species. It notes potential trophy values, equipment, and logistics including a 15 000 dollar overland journey, a 100 porter and gun bearer retinue, and entry as a guest of the Uganda king with Entebbe serenades.
The note discusses how rulers like Napoleon and Lincoln trusted dreams as warnings or forecasts. It cites Collins's Armadale to show limited scientific help in interpreting dreams and recounts Lincoln's belief in a prophetic vision guiding him before Antietam Fredericksburg and Gettysburg and the day of his assassination becoming public.
Mrs Diggs asks why men's trousers bag at the knees Diggs jokes that wearing them causes bagging The exchange reflects a light humorous column style from the Houston Post
A brief item from the Kansas City Star notes that not all digging is for gardens. some digging happens at seed and hardware stores as shoppers search for materials.
An officer notice states an official communication from Western authorities. The text outlines procedural details and intended recipients within the department. Further specifics are not provided in the readable portion.
An advertisement praises Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a cure for sore throat croup whooping cough chest pains colic and related ailments with affordable bottle pricing. It notes the product’s universal usefulness and urges keeping it on hand. The piece also mentions Britain’s South African War debt rising from 335 to nearly 797 million sterling.
A speaker recalls being punished by Child-Mamma for an action not done yesterday. Auntie calls it unjust, and Child confirms the punishment was for not completing a task.
Mrs Wm Bell of Falkland British Columbia praises Baby's Own Tablets for children from ages one to eleven, saying it cures stomach and teething troubles. The product is guaranteed safe by government analysts and sold at 25 cents a box by Dr Wilne Medicine Co Brockville or through medicine dealers.
A Danish youth, later known to a Canadian newspaper man, recalls Ibsen visiting his Aalborg home as a boy. The famed playwright reportedly enjoyed long, prosy post dinner tales and grew angry if the family did not laugh.
The corn crop of 1908 totaled 2 606 000 000 bushels with 518 000 000 used for flour starch malt liquor distilled liquor glucose export and seed. That leaves 2 148 000 000 bushels, about 80 7 percent, primarily for feeding.
Mothers explore an umbrella gift game for parties using a silk umbrella decorated with pictures tissue ribbons and sleigh bells. Children form a circle with one in the center holding the umbrella while music plays and gifts are drawn by dangling packages the long swinging prize goes to the center child.
The hostess can prepare croquette based rissole fillings wrapped in pastry for tea. Rissoles use chicken in a white sauce shaped into croquettes, sealed with egg, breaded and fried. Rissolettes layer pastry with currant jelly or marmalade, baked or fried after sealing edges.
Hosts at a card party introduced wire bracelets as score souvenirs. A colored bead was added for each won game, creating gay ornaments. Another hostess used tiny ten cent toys hooked to the bracelet, a fun idea that could suit future gatherings.
The Denver Post reports a marble like material made from blast furnace slag with lime. Slag is crushed and mixed with water, pressed into metal molds, dried, and cured in hot cylinders with air displaced by carbonic acid to form a hard carbonate stone with a high polish.
The pamphlet explains the 24000 acre land grant for Prince Rupert city and port development by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. First townsite subdivision of about 2000 acres will open to the public around May 1. Copies available from A Duff, 260 Portage Ave, Winnipeg.
A college fraternity pin lost by an alumnus was returned years later after a colorfully unlikely trail. An old grad who replaced his pin gained two when the original surfaced. A brother traced the token to a Virginia washerwoman who had found it on a bandanna and recovered it through persuasion.
A hat salesman jokes about an English guest trapped in his room as a coffee seller explains he is a victim of circumstances. The punchline: the guest left shoes outside his door and they were thrown at a cat in the areaway.
A London Academy vignette set at breakfast shows a crowded family scene with a worried mother and irritable father. A small child speaks in a grave tone asking if one of them should die, underscoring tension and autumnal chill.
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