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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 30, 1928
Page
11
Helmi returns to the city and visits Liu in hospital where the child Lili improves after a fever. She plans summer with the Corbetts and contemplates a future near the Englishman while Jack Doran plots another escape from captivity after years in German camps.
A wartime report portrays Vehenfoor or Cellelager Six as a bleak peat bog camp with ropy mud. Prisoners exit doors to their knees in muck, bunked in crowded rooms with stoves burning peat and greasy blankets. Jack Doran sits in a wet January night, reflecting on his three imprisonments.
The University of Manitoba in Winnipeg lists faculties offering degrees across arts science engineering medicine agriculture home economics and law. Programs include BA MA BSc MSc MBChB MD CM LL B and law school affiliated studies with admissions details via registrar J Spence.
A college youth asks what time to report for his first job and is told he may come any time before eight. The office manager sets a flexible start, emphasizing the need to remember the date and not overlook duties.
Mitchell Ontario woman recounts relief after three bottles of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound eased leg pains headaches and fatigue following twin birth. She credits regained strength sleep and weight with the remedy and endorses it for others.
Dr. Max Ludin of the Roentgen Institute at Basle outlines a X Ray contrast method to locate brain tumors. Air in brain cavities shows white patches when tumors block air. a special oil in the medulla creates a black strip to reveal tumor edges. He plans an even lighter oil to determine the lower tumor edge for precise surgery.
Commander Richard Byrd plans to use eighty selected huskies for the South Pole trip with the Larsen expedition ship. Dr. David Buckingham will choose the dogs in Northern Canada, with twenty already training in New Hampshire. One hundred dogs will be shipped from San Pedro, California around October 1, and five top dogs may accompany the plane for emergencies.
A humorous note on cultural differences in heat tolerance. It describes a Britisher staying fully dressed in a hotel room and enjoying hot tea while others shed coats and sleeves. An Aston guest endures severe heat in a heavy tweed suit without visible distress.
An Aberdonian saw whisky in a shop window priced at a half penny. He asked for the bottle and offered a half penny after a price card had fallen. The proprietor claimed the price was 12s 6d, but a policeman ruled the half penny price valid. The man obtained the whisky and half penny, and remarked that returning the empty bottle for tuppence would top the carry-on.
The article notes that about 500 men and women vanish each year in Paris and remain unaccounted for. It questions the logic behind the mystery of their disappearance and offers no clear answers.
The Saskatchewan Dental Society publishes guidance from the Canadian Dental Hygiene Council on oral care standards and hygiene practices. It outlines recommended practices for dental hygiene professionals and public health considerations.
The article explains that a full set of thirty two teeth may be incomplete due to factors such as early extractions, non eruption, or disease. It lists causes including abscessed temporary teeth, premature deciduous tooth removal, high fever from childhood illnesses, prolonged retention of temporary teeth, and impaction or missing formation of the third molar and other permanent successors.
Cholera infantum is a fatal childhood ailment that strikes in summer. Baby's Own Tablets are advertised to regulate bowels and soothe the stomach, guaranteed safe with no opiates or narcotics, sold at 25 cents a box by the Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont or by mail.
London typist Mercedes Gleitz who crossed the Straits of Gibraltar last year halted her bid to swim the Irish Channel from Donaghadee to Portpatrick due to treacherous currents. A separate ad touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a pain remedy. The Prince Albert penitentiary in Saskatchewan reportedly produced 236 cords of cord wood.
The piece reflects on Arctic and Antarctic perils, noting the Nobile expedition's suffering and deaths as a warning against extreme ventures. It compares airship reliability to the old balloon era and suggests such expeditions provoke public revulsion and caution.
A devotional urging peace through submission to God and adherence to His will. The text cites 1 Corinthians and emphasizes resigning forbidden joys, restraining desires, and trusting in divine guidance for true calm amidst worldly doubt.
A conductor urges a passenger to stay, offering a chair car seat and dinner, while the passenger resists. A teacher questions the class about scattered people on earth, and the chorus delivers the punchline pedestrians. The remark ends with a reflection that some men lack respect for gray hair until they have it.
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