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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 27, 1900
Page
2
Theo awakes in a strange room as Dr Meiv offers care and Dorcas Lane asserts control. Harry Strathmore wrestles with love for Theo and repelled by Violet Kensington, while Violet plots to win him back as Theo’s fate hangs on a riverbank memory.
In Strathmore Hall, Harry Strathmore’s chill toward Violet Kensington grows after the major’s death. A moonlit garden encounter reveals Violet’s hostile stance to Theo, shaking his remaining respect and stirring deep loathing as familiar voices drift to him.
Market listings cover wheat, oats, barley, corn, oilcake, and millfeed with Manitoba origins. Prices include Fort William wheat at 83c, oats 36c per bushel good quality, oats 1.75 per sack oatmeal, hay 6.00 to 6.50, butter 19c per pound, eggs 124c per dozen, and various vegetables, meats, and hides with regional figures.
A humorous Lincoln anecdote recalls two Quakeresses aboard a railroad train discussing the war’s end. One notes Jefferson’s likely success because he is a praying man, while the other adds that Abraham Lincoln is also praying, but the Lord may think him joking.
In a post ceremony exchange Maud and Harold debate who truly won as the bride and groom reflect on the victory. The joke hinges on a playful mixing of winning and being won in love.
A fragment from De trait Free Pro features a flirtatious exchange about kissing. He remarks he kisses any girl he gets a chance to, while she questions which kind.
A Boston interviewer notes Cuban schoolmarms are very fast talkers, suggesting the claim sparked Governor Wood to promptly deny reports that their salaries are to be reduced.
In the late 1800s Oxford Indiana landlord George W. King endured lynching by a mob who believed he murdered Dr. Rowe. King confessed after a brutal hanging and named Rogers and Haggard as accomplices. Rowe later returned, exonerated King, and sued the Horse Thief Detective Company members for damages, eventually settling for 25,000.
A German naturalist shows ants identify colony members by scent. Any ant entering a foreign nest is killed unless it carries its colony odor. Water strips the odor. alcohol 80 degrees also disrupts recognition, while a 24 hour delay allows odor restoration and acceptance.
A deaf woman plaintiff in a minor case at Durham assizes is urged by the judge to settle. The counsel loudly asks what she will take. She smiles and replies that she would take a little warm ale if it is no inconvenience to the lord.
A reminiscence from Sir Algernon West recalls Albert Smith, a friend in youth, and the young set’s balloon voyages with famed aeronaut Green. Smith, waving to a lady spectator at launch, joked that if he descended he would bring her a sky terrier.
A cottager's wife jokes with a visitor about children, answering that the middle child is a lassie while declaring the other two are her own. The brief household query captures a domestic, lighthearted moment.
A humorous exchange on education and training. A father jokes that the Browns’ success comes from a "shingle mili" run by their father, implying a family business or informal schooling as the secret behind the boys’ achievements.
Wornout women suffer in the heat but Dr Chase's Nerve Food is promoted as a blood builder and nerve restorative. A Toronto testimonial describes restored health after four boxes, with claims of increased red blood cells and renewed strength, urging purchase from Edmanson Bates & Co. in Toronto.
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