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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 10, 1925
Page
2
The article urges early Christmas shopping and mailing to ease the peak season for postal workers and store clerks. It notes card and gift influx creates congestion, delays parcels past Christmas, and suggests thoughtful planning, early inscription, careful packing, and clear handling instructions to improve service and reduce stress for staff.
A Massachusetts farmer in 1790 kept his family fed and his farm running on seven dollars. He produced all essentials on the homestead while the rest of the household faced debt from instalment men who took the range.
A humorous exchange shows Walter offering a third egg as a spare for trouble while a rescuer and a distressed maid, a school teacher, debate the proper phrasing Hold on tightly in the moment.
A French engineer M. de Monge revealed a light winged aeroplane with no fuselage and front mounted controls. Two nine horsepower engines power the craft at up to one hundred miles per hour, with fuel for about 3009 miles. The British government tests another all metal craft with mast and sail capable of turning into a small yacht on water, designed by German engineer Rohrbach.
A 15 cent package promises simple use to tint or dye fabrics. Directions cover wool silk linen cotton and blends for garments including lingerie dresses coats and draperies. Buy Diamond Dyes and tell your druggist the material to color.
In Saskatoon at the Western Colonization Company office, Danish farmers paid for a land section twelve miles from the city. Agent Alex Fespersen, a former Danish immigrant, received two thousand dollars in one thousand dollar bills from the purchasers.
Marion B. Shaw holds all speed violation records and risks jail for further offenses and for referring to policemen as hick cops. Her husband could face jail under Judge Tal ley in New York after a 1923 incident where she was fined $25 for calling a policeman a lick cop.
Mrs I M Parks of Consecon Ontario says she suffered heart and nerve trouble causing extreme breathlessness and nerves so frayed she could hardly do housework. She felt every sound as a shock and feared being alone.
An old advertisement touts a heart and nerve remedy used for 32 years from The T. Milburn Co. Toronto while a worm-control product named Mother is promoted as a simple remedy. The text also includes light social banter about cake cleverness and a remark on an Egyptian obelisk weighing 1,168 tons.
When a child shows early cold symptoms like sneezing red eyes or runny nose prompt relief is advised. Baby's Own Tablets claim quick action without opiates or taste, with a testimonial from Mrs Joseph Cadieux of Holyoke Michigan praising their ease of use and effectiveness for colds and constipation. Sold by druggists or 25 cents per box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
Hon P C Larkin the Canadian high commissioner in London and Mrs Larkin hosted a dinner at Lancaster Gate. Guests included US Ambassador to Great Britain Alan L. Houghton and Mrs Houghton Rudyard Kipling and Mrs Kipling Speaker J H Whitley and Mrs Whitley Irish Free State High Commissioner J MacNeill and Mrs MacNeill Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain and Mrs Chamberlain.
A reflecting proverb notes that one sided view leads to universal assumptions. It contrasts human traits with using a cookbook and consulting a physician as examples of human ingenuity and complicates the notion of common practice.
Plans by Professor Albert A. Michelson of the University of Chicago to test light speed more precisely next summer in California. He aims to refine measurements to within five miles per second using improved mechanical devices and larger mirrors for farther stations, noting an approximate velocity of 186 300 miles per second and the potential for ultra precise distance estimation.
Scientists describe a new device called the radium clock as a potential perpetual motion concept though not a timepiece. They claim atomic energy powers it, while the article notes practical limits of perpetual motion and mentions Holloway's Corn Remover as safe for use without danger.
A mistaken delivery left radium worth fifty thousand dollars at a Brooklyn home when a driver misread a hospital parcel as radio parts. Mrs. Felman took the box thinking it contained radio components, while Dr. Chester Duryea’s radium hospital near her residence caused the confusion. The mix-up arose from the radio radium word similarity and was resolved after the driver explained the delivery.
Reports to the Marine and Fisheries department indicate a good sockeye run this year in Stuart Lake at the Fraser River headwaters, first since 1909. Officials credit the 1913 Hell's Gate rock slide for altering river access and shaping the fish run over the past 16 years.
British bluejackets escorting the Prince of Wales home from South America aboard the Repulse staged a string of quarter deck comedies. In one performance the Prince himself appeared and played the role of a woman with notable success.
A quirky local item notes love leaving through a dining room window and suggests using Minard's Liniment for hoarseness. The brief blends domestic whimsy with a product plug, reflecting era voice and small community notes.
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