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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 17, 1914
Page
2
A New Yorker staying in a Southern town reports a humorous interaction in a local hotel. He asks to be called early, and the porter explains the primitive method by pointing to a bedhead button. The exchange highlights wit about then newfangled devices.
A passenger notes repeated delays as trains run late under the new management. He arrives twenty minutes before departure to find the train already gone, prompting concern over efforts to regain schedules at Nasher-Ah station.
Mrs. Prank Exsury of 903 Columbia Avenue Edmonton credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills with saving her from surgery for organic inflammation. After refusing an operation and taking three bottles she reports regained health and urges other women with female troubles to try the remedy.
Beatrice Nebraska resident recalls left side pain after marriage. Three doctors recommended surgery, she declined. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the pain ceased and she reports good health with two young daughters.
A CPR department of natural resources consolidates land, minerals, and timber interests in Western Canada. It sells six million acres to settlers, offers 2000 dollars loans, 1600 dollar livestock advances, and a twenty year ready made farm program. It runs demonstrations, townsite creation, irrigation projects near Calgary and Lethbridge, forestry outreach, nurseries, a Bull River mill, coal mines with eight thousand tons yearly, and a global agency network with about four thousand new hires.
New York Public Schools began with the Free School Society founded in 1805. It relied on public subscription early, and an 1842 legislative act created the board of education. The Free School Society ran schools until 1853 when they were transferred to the board by mutual consent.
A senator and a major stroll the avenue. The senator, older and overweight, asks if a pretty girl smiled at him. The major replies that the first time he met the senator he laughed out loud, hinting at a lighthearted, bantering moment between the two.
A quoted elderly woman is described as mad on the subject of germs she sterilizes or filters everything in the home. The question of harmony with family elicits that even her relations are strained.
Practical guidance on prolonging neatness of cutlery. Instructions cover removing blades by boiling water, attaching handles with resin and silver sand, heating and binding, cleaning rusty knives with bath brick paste and paraffin, drying with a rag for polish, storing wrapped in paper in a dry place, and quarterly rust checks with fresh oil, followed by washing and polishing before use.
A Inverness Nova Scotia resident, Simon E. Jones of Railway Street, testifies that Dr Chase's Ointment is the best treatment for protruding piles after three years of suffering. He followed a local doctor's advice and notes prior efforts failed. The ad promises cures for all forms and invites use of the statement. available in a box from all dealers.
A home craft method explains mixing salt corn starch and water to form a dough. Color and scent can be added, kneaded smooth, rolled into beads or shapes, and dried on pins. The text also abruptly touts Minard's Liniment as a cure for diphtheria.
A playful poem fragment features a boy standing on a burning deck while a crew of honest skippers reacts in surprise. The trick involves wearing asbestos slippers, blending danger with whimsy in a nautical tableau.
An aged man questions a boy about his catch, the boy admits no snigs or fish yet, revealing the playful exchange as they discuss fishing and ignorance of snigs.
Undigested food in the stomach causes gas pains and belching. Parmelee's Vegetable Pils restore stomach action and cure when taken systematically with simple directions included.
A light exchange notes a farmer using a scarecrow dressed in women’s modern garments to deter crows from corn, provoking amused remarks on fashion and practicality. The Boston Transcript captures rural humor with a nod to changing styles and ingenuity.
A clergyman tells a parishioner there is nothing to be thankful for, noting neighbor Hayes has just lost his wife to influenza. The parishioner retorts that such misfortune does not help him, since he is not Hayes.
A Lincoln quote urges doing more when actions aid the cause and less when they harm it. He vows to correct errors when shown and to adopt new views as they prove true, emphasizing practical ethics and continuous improvement.
A garbled OCR fragment shows a salesman accused of prevarication about a color claimed as fast. The text is incomplete and lacks clear entities or a coherent event, leaving the main claim and context unclear.
Officials compare current standards with sealed old measures in the House of Commons wall by the Statue of the Erry. In April 1892 the platinum pound and bronze yard were examined by key figures, weighed with chemical balances, and measured with a micrometer. Both standards are meticulously sealed in multiple cases and placed in a wall tombs-like vault.
A Maurice Switzer quote from Liesl emphasizes that while faith in people is natural, human promises fail as motives shift with changing circumstances. He advocates trusting money, the constant currency, as the dependable safeguard when plans fall apart.
Mountain skies appear unchanging and serene above earthly noise. The author extols violet blue heavens as limitless space and profound silence, contrasting them with wind storms heat and dust below.
The Sea Queen arrived at Buka in the Solomons where natives attacked, killing all sailors except two. The prisoners were bound and prepared for a feast, liquor made them drunk, and the remaining sailors escaped in a small boat after two days at sea and were later rescued and reached Australia.
Pat Yis confesses scarce work, noting he earned five dollars last Sunday. Mr Goodman questions breaking the Sabbath, and Pat apologizes that it was necessary for one of them to break it.
A suburban resident remarks it is fine to wake to leaves whispering outside the window while a city man agrees yet dislikes hearing the grass whispering. The exchange highlights differing urban rural sensibilities about sound and nature.
A brief remark about a man taking a distance education route in engineering and the reply calling him a stationary engineer.
French agriculturists study passive grain cultivation to boost yields. The method lines seed beds, replants sprouts after two months, and hurls soil to touch growth points, using slip transplanting and pruning. An Algerian farmer reports yields of 1800 pounds oats and 1600 wheat per acre over five years, versus 80 oats and 600 wheat nearby.
The house head storms downstairs blaming the family for losing his tennis shirt. His wife mediates as Dorothy secretly uses it for her blouse, noting the shirt’s wide sleeves and turn-down collar become the latest blouse fashion for a garden party. The daughter, Margaret, also needs a shirt.
A Farm and Fireside contributor explains a simple method to check fertility. Place eggs in an incubator or under a hen for seven days, then cool ten minutes. Hold each egg to the cheek. warm eggs indicate fertility, cold eggs show no chick, and slightly warm eggs have weak germ. Longer incubation aids identification of hatchable eggs.
An exchange questions whether voters should elect senators directly or continue legislature selection. One speaker backs popular election, while another notes historically the state legislature chose the best senators, casting doubt on changing the method.
Senator Martine of New Jersey recalls employing a farm hand who muses while feeding the chickens. The man declares the fowls the most useless animals as they are born to be eaten and prove so once dead, prompting a humorous remark from the senator.
A brief exchange reveals satisfaction with a recent drive. One person asks about the journey, the other concedes it was mostly fine, reflecting a modest, content tone.
The French president has quietly elevated his wife Mme Poincare to a position akin to a royal consort in official life. She has been officially received by the German ambassador and is now widely regarded as the first lady of France, admired for beauty grace and tact.
An advertisement extols Kellogg's asthma remedy as distinctly superior to other remedies. It claims wide use from ocean to ocean and a long standing reputation built on numerous testimonials of relief.
A small crown gathered outside an automatic typewriter on display as two women paused to watch the keys move. One woman commented to Jenny that her husband should have such a device in his office rather than a blonde haired machine.
A humorous overheard exchange follows a farmer and spouse arguing about a claim that Minard's Liniment cures garget in cows. The husband complains of overbearing orders while the wife cites order as heaven's first law, framing a domestic scene with a country store flavor.
A teacher asks what suffering for righteousness means and a little girl replies that it means having to come to Sunday school. The quip captures a child’s humorous take on church traditions and parental expectations.
A sharp dialogue unfolds between a mistress and her maid. The maid protests that her references resemble unflattering photographs, offering no true justice to her character or abilities.
A brief exchange about career progress and social mobility within a naval choir, humorously debating whether one can advance from first to second class in the ranks. The dialogue captures aspiration and light banter.
In a practical quip a resident laments the downpour and jokes about needing a sausage machine. The line captures a humorous workaround to the soggy weather while expressing frustration at rain.
A concise note fragment from Printer's Pie humor column questions a parishioner about absence from church services, framed in witty dialogue style.
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