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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 26, 1910
Page
3
In Prankville Ontario a woman named Mrs Frank Eaton reports years of back and head pain eased by Fruit a tives juice tablets after trying many remedies. She asserts she is now well and notes a box price of 25 cents or 2.50 for six boxes available from Fruit a tives Limited Ottawa at local dealers.
Mrs Chugweter compares the term autobiography with Mr Congweter noting it as a life story written as one thinks it should be reported by a Chicago Tribune humorist. The quip illustrates language play on the term and its self constructed narration.
A waiter named John responds that he cannot know and adds that when the sun does not shine the scene is miserable and when it does she says it fades the carpet, as reported by Catholic News.
A recently arrived emigrant tells a witty interviewer that America is a home country of sorts. When asked about work, he jokes that he has no luck yet but a friend in Washington is trying to secure him a pension.
A simple cheap medicine praised as an effective regulator of the digestive system. Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are touted as inexpensive, widely available, and suitable for poor men seeking to avoid doctor bills.
A suffragist asserts women deserve men’s wages while a sailor dismissively replies that his wife already takes his pay. The crude exchange captures gender and economic tensions in a sparsely documented historical harbor scene.
Six year old Bobby answers the minister while being tested on spelling in a blunt chatty exchange. The dialog ends with Bobby joking about being further advanced and the minister asking to spell kitten and cat. The clipped Chicago News tone captures a child portrait amid a formal setting.
A vintage ad text touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for an uncured case. It includes endorsements from Alding Kinman Marvin and F J Cheney and notes the product cures by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. The piece also mentions related tonics and a jokey music quip.
A garbled excerpt from a Scottish American page shows dialogue about Minard's and various social snubs. Flossie discusses Miss Simpkins and a young clergyman Sette, with comments on deafness and organ fund duties. The text shifts to drinking abstinence and a political quip about voters and bad deeds.
A teacher instructs pupils to observe and write about his actions. While most report the master entering the room and writing I love a good school. One girl takes the prompt literally and adds that he goes to the platform sits, plays with his watch chain, twirls his moustache and winks at the Indy teacher.
An American boy at Harrow recalls a comic exchange with Headmaster Dr Wood. The headmaster, as honorary colonel, jokes he could have the pupil shot, then hanged if he misses a battalion. The student, smiling, replies he prefers being shot to being hanged.
A vintage advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as the solution to anaemia and fatigue, claiming they rapidly increase blood and vitality. It features a testimonial from Mrs J J Thibodeau of Bathurst Village, detailing improved health after six boxes and noting availability by mail from the Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
In a light kitchen exchange, a new cook presents tapioca pudding described as mediocre by one speaker, prompting a playful rebuttal from another as the Boston Transcript notes a humorous food moment.
Dialogue friendly note Ironically questions about family wealth and a baby given an auto tire to chew on. The fragment features characters Arry Bill Stella Bella and a reference to Harperville Bazar.
A damaged excerpt details home remedies for leg cramps using garters and corn cures, praising Holloway's Corn Cure. It includes a brief comedy about a child’s doctor visit and ends with a courthouse quip about capital punishment and an umpire joke, reflecting light local humor.
A vintage Murine advertisement touts Murine Eye Remedy Co. Toronto offering relief for red weak weary watery eyes. Claims soothing relief and a price of 60 cents at druggists with a free Eye Books offer.
An Irish visitor at a tuberculosis exhibit examines lungs preserved in glass. He spots a labeled "Cured tuberculosis lung" and asks the physician how the patient could still have his lung in a bottle if he was cured, mixing humor with the science.
A fragmentary testimonial noting that a horse badly torn and a horse swollen were cured by Minard's Liniment. Names include Christopher Saunders from Dalhousie, C. B. Edw. Linlief, and Thos. W. Payne of Bathurst, N. B., alongside a praise for Neate.
A dispute over club loyalty and a bribe is revealed as Browd offers a hundred pounds to resign membership. The exchange is quoted in Toronto Saturday Night with advice suggesting patience and caution from peers as the matter unfolds.
An older advertisement proclaims that low mood and melancholy stem from a disordered stomach and torpid liver. It claims Parncee’s Vegetable Pills restore healthy stomach action, bring relief, and have aided thousands, urging wise readers to use them for continued relief.
Advertisement visible in a Faringdon Road butcher shop window seeks a respectable boy for work with beef sausages, as quoted in the London Tribune with a humorous reference to an old schoolyard phrase and the question of what to do with boys.
In Harper's Bazar a playful quip notes that First Baby-Chanteeler believed he caused sunrise while Second Baby-Well asserts he could make a feather rise, reflecting humorous fiction in an 19th century voice. The exchange highlights household curiosities and treatment lore.
An early 20th century advertisement touts Dr Chase s Ointment as superior to internal treatments for eczema. It claims quick relief from itching and stinging, healing sores and wiping out the disease, urging use until complete cure with testimonials from Mrs Link of Halifax and notes on availability in Toronto.
A historical note on the emperor Charlemagne and his failed attempt to hasten legal decisions. He ordered that a delaying judge face lodging at the complainant's expense, hoping quicker rulings would be fairer. Yet hastening decisions often proved unfavorably biased, failing to secure timely justice.
In 1905 Genoa hosted an elaborate banquet for Napoleon with an artificial garden on pontoons towed to sea. After the feast, costly gold and silver plate were flung overboard in imitation of Antony and Cleopatra, but the nets around the floating garden recovered the treasure, making the tribute less costly than it appeared.
In a travel encounter with General Tournon Verdi discussed music. The general praised German opera while Verdi replied that art has no frontiers and he would trade all German works for a single act of Rigoletto. The moment ended with Verdi identifying himself.
A dairy shopgirl left briefly unattended discovered a burglar inside the counter. She intercepted him and dragged him along the street before two constables arrived. The thief was arrested and the till contents were found in his possession.
A gentleman escorts a friend to an opera. The music, grand as it is, seems noisy at drum and cymbal clashes. The friend remains unmoved and replies that he is a boilermaker, so the sound does not affect him.
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