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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
7
A historical advertisement extols Dr Chase's Ointment as a cure for infant eczema with claims of rapid soothing and healing. It cites testimonials from families in Canada noting relief of facial and body eczema in children and recommends purchase at 60 cents per box.
Bolton argues for literal animal identifications in scripture. He identifies the unicorn as the European bison, the behemoth as the hippopotamus, the eagle as the griffon vulture, and the leviathan as the crocodile. The apes are bonnet monkeys, fowls are bats, and the cockatrice a yellow striped snake.
A clipped stage line recalls Fred Smithers reacting to a woman’s prior refusal. The speaker muses on his sorrow and asks where he has seen the woman before, a moment captured in the Pick Me Up setting.
An advertisement offers a hundred dollar reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. J J Cheney & Co Toledo are praised by locals for honesty. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and includes a humorous Stamford anecdote about General Rugger and a rank cheese incident.
Franz Joseph Gall, a Viennese physician, first proposed phrenology in 1796 and it gained status as a science in 1806.
A brief line from the Houston Post features a light exchange about comfort, noting one speaker questions shoe comfort while the other admits uncertainty about their own feet.
Taitu, widow of Menelik, emperor of Abyssinia, is described as dignified and courteous. The elderly queen leads a sedentary life yet appears in public on a gorgeously caparisoned mule, surrounded by court ladies. Only those formally presented may gaze directly, while a palace kitchen garden serves as her hobby and guards hide when her red umbrella appears.
An advertisement touts Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a remedy for dystepsia and low mood. It claims the pills are easy to take, among the best vegetable medicines, and offers a trial to prove their efficacy.
The British troops at Aldershot kept coffee hot for night service by boiling it in the evening and burying camp kettles with tight lids a few feet underground. Dawn pits revealed coffee still boiling and ready to serve to soldiers in trenches.
Advertises ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT as removing all lumps blemishes and arthritis from horses including blood spavin curbs splints ringbone sweeney stifles sprains sore throats and coughs with a $50 saving on one bottle and a claim of being the most wonderful blemish cure known.
The data show 562 436 miles of railway lines worldwide now open. America leads with 235 781 miles followed by Europe at 193 133 miles in the regional comparison.
An advertisement touts Holloway's Corn Cure as a universal remedy for corns and warts priced at twenty five cents. The copy stresses quick relief and affordability for daily readers.
The article recalls Henrik Ibsen's belief in male usefulness yet reveals his habit of sewing buttons himself when loose. John Paulsen notes a maxim that no woman could write a cookbook and no woman sew a button well. Ibsen bragged yet his wife secretly resewed his buttons, though he never tied off the thread.
In a European capital an American princess, famed father beside her, faces testimony and invitation norms. The young woman, admired for beauty and intellect, asks if she can shine on her own rather than as a father's appendage, while he enjoys any social position her presence affords.
Dialogue depicts a mistress asking about a crash and a maid recounting a spill. The maid says she saved the tray, noting a domestic mishap captured in black and white imagery.
An advertisement promotes Dr J D Kellogg's Dysentery cordial as a ready method for avoiding cholera dysentery and griping from cucumbers and melons. It claims immediate relief and cures for summer complaints, suggesting indulgence with the medicine on hand.
A New York Tribune item recalls a rural philosopher asked about tainted money. He pauses, then defines tainted money as money “they mean mostly by tainted money that ’tain’t theirn,” highlighting a folk view on legitimacy and ownership.
This fragment hints at a future where airships make women strive to soar above neighbors, reflecting societal aspirations and aviation imagination of the era. The line suggests empowerment through travel and status linked to air travel.
Moise Derosce, a hotel keeper from St. Phillippe Quebec, recounts buying a horse with a supposed incurable ringbone for 30 dollars, curing it with a dollar’s worth of Minard’s Liniment, and selling the animal for 85 dollars, yielding a 54 dollar liniment profit.
A carpenter ignores a pompous dean inspecting repairs at an English cathedral. The dean asserts his title, and the worker quips back that the job looks good and warns him not to lose it, a moment captured by London Tit-Bits.
The Vatican completed a thorough cleaning and repainting involving 5,700 workers over six months. Daily bread consumption for wall wallpaper cleaning reached 1,000 loaves.
Some trees show different lightning susceptibility with oaks and elms more often struck and damaged, while ash is rarely hit and beech reportedly never struck. The observation notes differences in damage patterns among common timber trees.
A premature burial tale from China reports a man in Liangyang who, believed dead from typhus, was found alive in his coffin after a horse trod soil open. He allegedly ate rice soup and wine before his release, later confined in a temple to prove his living status. The second note discusses the Cecelian waltz and contrasts it with faster modern dances.
A historical note recalls William H. Seward’s claim that Alaska would prove America’s greatest achievement. Once met with opposition and mockery as “Seward's Folly,” the 1867 purchase has been reassessed as a strategic asset, with Alaska’s importance now widely recognized.
Distributions were made from three local charities in Holborn. The Isaac Duckett gift, dating to 1620, funds aid for id-servants who served one master seven years now five. 31 of 57 applicants received $20 each. Lady Hattan's and Mrs Palmer's charities paid aged widows over 60 with ten years’ residency. 28 widows received money from Lady Hattan and 24 old ladies got $25 each as the first half of a $50 pension.
Mrs Spenders tells John she has many topics to discuss while he quips he often hears about things she hasn t got. The exchange appears as a brief humorous dialogue cited by the Philadelphia Press.
In a village inn at 3 a m the host enters the bedroom of an occupant and asks if they have slept while noting two more tourists have just arrived. The brief exchange focuses on accommodating late arrivals.
They wake torpid energies and restore digestive faculties by regulating the body's internal mechanisms. The advertisement claims the pills bring the system back to full operation after neglect.
A playful exchange at Henley regatta features an athletic girl remarking an hour in a boat before breakfast builds appetite and strength. The male friend quips that he rows not, but steers, prompting amused comment from bystander.
A humorous note from the Houston Post recalls a diner asking for “the worst” dish. The reply says the worst was taken away by a dog, leaving the rest of the meal ruined by burnt steak and spilled soup.
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