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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 14, 1908
Page
2
Dr A W Chase Kidney Liver Pills claim to purify the blood by energizing the liver and kidneys. They promise improved digestion and elimination of biliousness constipation rheumatism backaches and related pains at 25 cents a dose. Available from Edmonson Kates & Co Toronto Ont with Dr A W Chase portrait on each box.
The Baltimore American notes a playful exchange about organ stops and their purpose. The father explains stops control the organ to make it go, illustrating a light moment in the paper.
Dr. Thomas Eelectric Oil is praised as a potent liniment with unique power that outshines rivals. Advert suggests wide uses and long-time popularity for both people and animals. A joke about someone jumping in front of a train to avoid a cow is noted.
A garbled page compiles testimonials for Psychine from Dr Slocum’s network and other dubious cures. It riffs on child health, worm remedies, spavins, and a joke from Harper’s Weekly, highlighting fringe medical claims and humor in period advertising.
Minard proposes to a beautiful heiress who rebuffs him with hauteur. He vows to wilt as she quips thou wilt. The exchange ends with a comic wilt. Chicago News notes the wry, theatrical humor of the moment.
Farmers in the Canadian West should sow flax seed between May 15 and June 16. Early sowing is risky as young flax is tender in spring, but May 15 to June 16 yields good results and may extend slightly later. Flax matures quickly and suits northern latitudes with short seasons.
In a humorous exchange from Home Herald a young barrister is thanked for his role in securing a case win. Mr Hardcash claims he won the case, while stating Briefless did not represent him but the opposing man, highlighting comic courtroom banter.
The advertisement touts Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as containing mandrake and dandelion with sedative and purgative effects. It claims they cleanse digestive secretions and offer a healthful aid for dyspepsia and liver and kidney ailments in a concentrated, harmless form.
A humorous exchange features a judge challenging a witness about age, with the witness quipping about counting since childhood. The snippet also references Salada Tea and a salesman defending an inexpensive looking umbrella as high quality.
An advertisement extols Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills as a cure for digestive disorders and indigestion after long study. It claims the pills relieve suffering that other remedies fail and presents a quotation from the Chicago Record-Herald about a cult craze.
A reader letter from Charles Whooten of Port Mulgrave endorses Minard's Liniment Co Limited remedy for sore throat colds and ordinary ailments stating it relieves and cures promptly.
In a brief exchange cited by the Catholic Standard & Times, the father questions the seriousness of a man's intentions while the mother cites his habitual calls on May and letters as evidence.
Contagious itch on humans and animals claimed to be cured in 30 minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion. The notice asserts rapid relief from various skin conditions including prairie scratches and mange.
A riddle states a donkey tied with a six foot rope reaches hay 18 feet away because the rope isn’t attached to anything. The punchline hinges on the rope’s lack of a fixed anchor.
Lord Cromer’s notebook on Egypt lauds General Gordon’s bravery and faith but critiques his shifting judgments and inconsistent conduct. The piece contrasts Gordon’s heroic stand in Khartoum with the government’s view of him as an unreliable agent, while noting his fearless death and steadfast religious conviction.
The London Globe highlights a cinnamon essence influenza remedy of twenty to twenty five drops three times daily in water. The London Standard notes the seriousness of influenza and the lack of new knowledge since the disease’s early reports, recalling seventeenth century references.
The passage recalls Charles II of England as a lively king who loved country dances, often urging more rounds even as courtiers tired. Pepys notes the indiscriminate dancing zeal and the monarch’s tendency to push on, epitomizing courtly merriment.
Quotation from Helen Keller in Century extolling resilience of the blind and the inner will. It asserts that service friendship humor imagination wisdom remain within reach, enabling love and wisdom despite calamity. The passage likens endurance to Sinai lightnings and the journey to the promised land of spiritual treasures.
Austria's imperial post sues jubilee stamps for sixty years of Franz Josef. Eight stamps form a portrait gallery of rulers led by Charles IV on the lowest denomination. Maria Theresa appears on the two heller stamp, with Joseph II Leopold II Franz and Ferdinand on the higher values. Franz Josef appears on the thirty heller stamp from his accession, and the five heller stamp shows a profile taken before his recent coronation.
A Scottish physician recounts a lunatic asylum kitchen incident where seven patients threaten to drop him into boiling water. He feigns joining their plan then locks the door and frees himself. The doctor survives the day but dies soon after, driven mad by the ordeal.
An antiquary in Chicago discovers an engraved wooden block from a case, presenting an original almanac for lunar matters. He explains the block was called almon heed and the term almanac derives from almon-beed, meaning observation of all the moons.
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