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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1926
Page
7
In a crowded party scene Joanna meets Yvonne Courant a socialite famed for marriages and divorces. Kenilworth a calculating suitor flirts as Joanna learns the new circle among hilltop elites and recalls Yvonne’s tabloid history and fashion influence.
In Ottawa and Hamilton reports ailing mothers describe relief from postnatal weakness using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. One Ottawa tester, Mrs Rene Paquin, credits renewed appetite energy and well being to the remedy after third birth. A Hamilton mother Mrs T Markle cites backache headaches and side pains improving after starting the product.
The Wood Buffalo Park area, partly in the Northwest Territories and partly in Alberta, has been extended by 6500 square miles. The park now measures 175 miles north to south and 150 miles east to west, totaling about 17000 square miles. The addition accommodates buffalo herds and preserves hunting permissions for Treaty Indians and others under established permit rules.
Canada’s Alberta provincial election results were delivered by telephone for the first time, with 300 staff across 185000 miles of lines compiling returns in under three hours. Newspapers in Edmonton Calgary and Lethbridge received data as it arrived, via Canadian Press wires, covering 2450 polls and five constituencies fully.
A debutante, Miss Dorothy Knaggs daughter of Lady Knaggs and sponsored by Lady Cadham, reportedly appeared for work at a major department store the morning after her Buckingham Palace debut. Fellow workers knew nothing of her debut, while remarks about a coworker’s head injury and a zoo elephant are noted in the remainder of the passage.
The British Empire Cancer Campaign reports from the Cancer Hospital workers show cancer linked to tars and paraffine heated at high temperatures. They debunk arsenic as the sole cause, refute the virus theory, and note Lumsden’s promising antiserum in rats with no human use yet. Professor Leiper debunks the “cancer houses” theory and clears cockroaches as carriers.
Irving, formerly of Judyville Indiana and head of a 25 store chain, now Edmonton citizen at 7420 106th Street, praises Alberta's north as the finest in North America. He traded Dan Patch for land near Wetaskiwin in 1907 and Judy Patch for more land unseen, visiting Edmonton in 1924. He notes growing fine strawberries in Edmonton. Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil advertised as a remedy for pain.
A compact page of inspirational quotes and excerpts about hope from authors including Job, Keats, Burns, Saint Paul, and MacDonald. The collection frames hope as a guiding, comforting force that strengthens duty and brightens difficult thoughts.
A village scene features a farmer joking about planting mashed potatoes as a steam rolling machine is used on a field. A curate notes Mrs. Briggs is said to have a model husband, who is humorously described as not a working model.
A mention of magul a Mexican tree whose bark yields a thread three times stronger than cotton. Also references Minard's Oiniment touted for all pain with no further details provided.
Stanley Baldwin, the prime minister, faced a deluge of tobacco pipes in his official residence. The vast array, spanning new and old, cheap and expensive, became a mounting issue at No 10 Downing Street as officials wrestled with how to manage the display.
Save the Children urges mothers to keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets at home to prevent summer stomach troubles and diarrhoea in infants. The tablets, guaranteed harmless by a government analyst, aid bowel regulation and stomach health. sold for 25 cents a box by The Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
A portrait of the late President Woodrow Wilson, part of a group of statesmen painted by Sir William Orphen of the Royal Academy, London, sold for $13,000, the highest bid at the auction.
Where ever Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil has been introduced demands rise with repeated orders. The oil is praised for potency across latitudes and sold in portable bottles that resist breakage.
After three weeks of household disruption the society reporter calls the event a quiet home wedding in the Detroit News reflecting a simple ceremony and intimate guest list.
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