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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 13, 1910
Page
3
James Dingwall of Coe Ontario claims chronic constipation and bladder kidney issues were cured by fruit a tives. He reports severe illness, praise for the remedy, and urges readers to try fruit a tives with trial box offers and dealer availability in Ottawa.
A Chicago Tribune quote captures a caller asking for selling reasons and the owner replying with seven reasons: two rooms in the house on the next end and five windows in the house on the left. The exchange underscores the humorous absurdity of listing reasons.
An advertisement extols Dr Morse's Indian Root Pills as a safe herbal laxative for bowel cleansing. It warns against harsh mineral purgatives that irritate the bowels and claims the pills purify the waste matter daily without weakening or griping.
A reader query explained by The Literary Digest clarifies the difference between sanitarium and sanatorium. Sanator ium stems from sanatorius meaning health giving and refers to institutions for treatment and care of invalids, while sanitarium from sanitas relates to preserving health and hygienic conditions. Proper vowel use signals whether the place treats illness or aims to restore health.
A playful dialogue ponders if a ship of hair will fall like mine when you meet their gaze. The other replies with a teasing warning, suggesting such a sight would be a rare fortune.
A fragmentary note describes Shilohs Cure allegedly stopping coughs and healing lungs amid a medical exchange. It hints at a nurse and doctor scene with a surgeon thanking for supplies and a bill addition of two guineas.
An assortment of humorous quotes from period magazines includes a claim about Minard's Liniment easing neuralgia and a private fishing quarrel over trespassing. A fisherman asserts feeding fish, not stealing, while other dialogue hints at marriage rumors and social chatter.
A humorous fragment shows a couple in idle chat while walking. The wife questions the state of a cream and dreams, while the husband teases about waking her from the dream. A promotion for Holloway's Corn Cure appears amid scattered lines.
Mrs R Sanford of Inverary Ontario reports her baby, previously sick with bowel and stomach trouble, improved after using Babe's Own Tablets. She says the tablets address root causes, leaving the child healthy with rosy cheeks, and recommends them to friends with ill children. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail from The Dr Williams' Medicine Co. Ontario.
A dated homely exchange reveals a suitor seeking approval for a marriage plan, while the prospective father-in-law reacts with candid disbelief and a sense of awkward humor. The dialogue captures social tension over an engagement.
An advertisement urges readers to obtain a free 50-cent bottle of Psychine to prove its value. It claims long Cure rates and white blood cell benefits, cites historical notes on phagocytes, and invites mail requests for a druggist-supplied free trial while promising wide distribution of the sample.
A Peterborough reader describes severe headaches and heart pains from indigestion improving after using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. The letter promotes the remedy, claiming digestion improves and heart-related pains lessen, with a price given as 50 cents per box through Edmanson Bates & Co. Toronto.
Daniel T. Davis of Madison County near Bernard Virginia builds a remarkable clock. It keeps seconds minutes and hours and displays day month year and moon phase. A miniature sun appears on the clock face at sunrise and vanishes at sunset, while the moon indicator shows quarter and full moon phases.
An advertisement touts Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as the best remedy to restore the liver to healthy action. It claims the formula uses purely vegetable substances, causes no griping, and suits even the most sensitive stomachs.
A snappy quip from the Baltimore American mocks an heiress deemed unfitting for courtship, noting her figure resembles an hourglass and dismissing concerns about her temperament or habits.
The ad touts Shilohs Cure with claims to stop coughing cure colds heal the throat and lurgs for 25 cents. A separate spoof dialogue shows Edith and Bertha discussing faults and a relationship agreement with playful misreads and a joke about faults.
A faded browsing item compiles quips and consumer notes about medicines and manners. It includes a promotion for Kellogg’s Dysentery Cordial and various humorous vignettes about mistaken identity, punctuation errors, and a joke about motor cars.
A bystander quips about questioning umpire decisions while noting the umpire controls the equipment. The exchange highlights a quirky scene where the official holds all gear in the neighborhood game.
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