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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 20, 1909
Page
6
A letter recounts how thousands found health and joy with Dr Chase s Nerve Food. It cites Mrs Armat who, after years of poor health post childbirth, improved dramatically with the remedy sold by Edmanson Bates & Co Toronto.
A suffragette voice denounces cowards in ranks and notes daily encounters with brave sisters. A heckler on the last bench flees in panic as a Chicago News snippet recalls the scene. The piece ends with an ad for Mother Graves Worm Exterminator promising relief for children.
A Chicago Tribune quote recalls being struck by lightning twice, noting the first strike in one piece and the second in a different work. The humorous exchange highlights the odds of repeated lightning incidents and the author’s unusual fate.
A fragmentary exchange questions Minard’s motives in politics with sharp quotes about prudence and marriage. The Boston Transcript quotes Henry Peck calling a person a fool and contrasts married life with prior singleness, suggesting a personal dispute intertwined with public talk.
A Windsor Ontario author promotes a free home treatment to stop bed wetting for children and also claims to cure adult urine troubles. The notice invites mothers to write for instructions without sending money. It references a peculiar anecdote about a man requesting a pressed dress suit.
A Department of Marine and Fisheries report paints Sable Island 110 miles east of Nova Scotia as a forsaken outpost with forty-two residents living largely self sufficiently. It notes a dwindling land area from erosion yet reports last year a fair farming season and wild hay for horses, while ponies and cattle roam the sands and sea.
A feature marking the 300th anniversary of the Lake Champlain discovery will build a barge island with real trees rocks grass stockade and Indian wigwams to host about 200 Canadian Indians. They will stage a sham battle reflecting Champlain and Iroquois conflicts and perform the Hiawatha pageant from their legends with landings on winged wooden beaches.
A recent case before Justice Darling defines assault as frightening the victim without actual force. Any physical contact elevates the crime to battery. The menace requires a believable implied ability to carry out the threat, regardless of the victim’s knowledge.
The article explains rosy westward glows after sunset near Bordeaux France result from reflection off thin high clouds. These clouds also prolong twilight, allowing a watch to read until 10 p m on July 1 but only until 9 15 the next night, signaling poor conditions for astronomical observations.
A Montreal JP Mr F Resmussen and another JP Mr C E Sanford endorse Zam-Buk ointment as a complete cure for eczema skin eruptions piles and related ailments. They claim rapid relief after trials and urge others to try it. Advertisements promise price 50c a box or three boxes for 1 25 from Zam-Buk Co Toronto.
Grand Trunk promotes a summer route through Algonquin Park Ontario from Algonquin Park Station to Dorset and Lake of Bays with a stop at the Wawa hotel. The trip features freshwater canoeing on Wolf Crown and Little Island Lakes with speckled trout fishing and abundant wildlife. Free copies are available from A B Duff Winnipeg General Agent Passenger Department Portage Avenue Winnipeg.
The article promotes Parmeles’s Vegetable Pills as a remedy for nervous affections caused by digestive upset. It claims the pills restore normal stomach action, calm the nerves, and correct irregular digestive processes, with thousands testifying to their effectiveness.
Warden Colonel BE Mudd claims there is 2500 in cash hidden in the prison walls with convicts concealing funds in cracks cells shops and even by burning it in the yard. A recent complaint said a convict had 100 hidden under a window sill and another stole it. Searches reveal small sums found. prisoners may keep money only with the prison clerk. An old man was forced to cough up 85 cents in coins during a later search.
A Pittsburg Press excerpt recounts a flirtatious streetcar scene as a woman pays with a ticket and a young conductor, smitten, secretively keeps the fare. A curious male passenger wonders what happened to the discarded ticket.
A brief scene shows a dialogue where one woman protests limits placed on her actions and contemplates returning home, while the other grants temporary permission before a faint exit line. The exchange captures a moment of domestic tension and implied consequence.
A wry proverb contrasts elevation and dosage hinting at the difficulty of rising versus swallowing. The quip assigns gravity to ascent and descent while invoking a tree metaphor about hanging boughs and bearing fruit.
Captain Duquesne states in Hampton's Magazine that Africa holds two rhino species the bicornis with prehensile lip and the simus with square mouth. He notes the simus is called the white rhinoceros due to a blue slaty tinge, but asserts there is no true white rhinoceros.
A bystander overhears two women gossip about a local philanthropist Sir Melville Beachcroft. They note his habit of clean shirts on Sundays and Saturdays, hinting at his drinking and social reformer image amid shared anecdotes from a tenement stair.
Parmelee's Vegetably Pilla claim universal use for all latitudes and seasons. They promise to aid the dyspeptic, endure any climate, and stay fresh and strong without staling unlike many pills on the market.
The fragment references a baby ignored by a distracted mother and notes about attention drawn to bright objects. It also mentions Minard's Liniment and Lumberman's Friend. Dialogue lines reveal stories of matrimony, jealousy, and a humorous circus scene with an elephant and a boy calling it a cow with horns.
A testimonial from Rev Edwin Smith M A and Michael Olding recounts a near fatal illness later reversed by Dr Williams Pink Pills. Olding, once pale and bedridden with asthma and bronchitis, attributes renewed strength and health to the pills after years of decline. Olding, now seventy nine, encourages others to try the remedy.
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