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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 16, 1920
Page
3
A Macedonian shepherd finds his flock mauled and reports vampires to villagers. Vampire killers, paid about sixty dollars, track and shoot the undead with a musket and holy water, leaving a pool of blood at daybreak. A scoffer in every village mocks the tale, causing tension.
A car of No 1 wheat weighing 131 690 pounds arrived at Moose Jaw interior elevator Saskatchewan containing 2194 bushels. After 0.5 percent dockage the net 2161.50 bushels are worth 4853.69 at Fort William or 4600.76 at Moose Jaw, the largest wheat car ever handled at Moose Jaw and likely Western Canada.
A French paper explains how to identify officers by insignia. It notes the right shoulder and upper arm chevrons, hat bands and colors, and even the possibility of aviators, with humorous caveats about misidentification.
Staff Paymaster Collingwood Hughes describes a meeting with a derelict U-boat in the Atlantic. After rescuing the crew the German commander confirms all aboard, but a hidden tapping reveals four British sailors tied as prisoners. The scene contrasts German ruthlessness with British restraint.
The Turk authorities chose General Townshend to convey a peace note to the British admiralty signaling the Turks willingness to accept an armistice. He and other British prisoners endured a long wait, hopeful for ultimate British victory as Allenby completes the work begun by Townshend and Maude. The surrender marks a shift from Ottoman mis rule to freedom under the Union Jack. Regina Leader.
A Nova Scotia man recounts recovery from la grippe with Dr Williams Pink Pills. He describes initial weakness and digestion issues, then rapid strength return and restored appetite after a few weeks of treatment. Pills available from druggists or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
The Faith, a concrete cargo ship from San Francisco, arrived safely at a Gulf port after carrying 2,000,000 feet of lumber from California to Chile, then loading 4,000 tons of nitrate and passing through the Panama Canal. Agents say the poured vessel endured the voyage without damage and is ready to sail again after unloading and reloading.
A pleasant medicine for children called Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator claims to cleanse worms from the system with no noted side effects. It touts effectiveness for pediatric worm issues and presents as a trusted remedy.
A blooming bride reads aloud from a dry volume titled Happiness in Marriage. She notes the book offers advice to husbands, while she herself studies the guidance aimed at wives, revealing a playful reversal of domestic advice.
An advertisement touts Dr. J. D. Kellace's remedy for asthma urging immediate purchase. It claims a trial will erase doubt and promises a sure relief reel, stating the remedy is sold by dealers everywhere.
London mulberry trees bred for home grown silk faltered as James I aimed to aid Spitalfields weavers. Milton's Mulberry at Christ Church Cambridge survives, but the author planted the black rather than the white mulberry favored by silkworms.
A Scotsman correspondent highlights Rome's pre war model worker housing by Signor Jalmo. The complex includes blocks around a square with gardens and inner green, electric light, steam heat, hot water, strict cleanliness, baths, a nursery school for 3-6 year olds with Montes Soriri method, free medical care, and 2 to 4 room units. Rentals about 2 dollars per room monthly. run as cooperative, but a sound business.
Regina Leader comments that Wilhelm II of Germany and Karl I of Austria begin to doubt their rule as their peoples run their governments. The piece reflects on whose authority remains while monarchies lose divine sanction and real power shifts to others.
When energy flags and business cares weigh you down the ad claims Parmelee's Vegetable Pills regulate a deranged stomach and disordered liver. It promises renewed vigor and urges readers that no one need suffer debility from digestion with an accessible pill at any drug store.
Over the past four war years 474 Victoria Crosses were awarded for valor. The first year 83, second year 78, third year 145, and fourth year 168. Comparisons to the Indian Mutiny Crimean War and South African War show fewer VCs relative to troop totals.
The text extols cheese as the best meat substitute and notes bread and cheese as a prime diet for hard work. It states margarine as a fair butter substitute and highlights Canada’s two main dairy provinces, Quebec and Ontario, with Quebec leading in creamery butter and Ontario in factory cheese. totals include 3,446 creameries and 221,192 dairy farmers with 79,145 in Quebec.
A British machine gun crew cleared a flank but could not mount the weapon due to ground. The sergeant stood exposed, lifted the gun onto his shoulders, and fired for minutes until a direct hit wounded him. Riflemen then seized the point, and the gunner survived to be decorated.
One hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The remedy has been used for thirty five years and is promoted as the most reliable for catarrh. It acts through the blood on mucous surfaces and improves general health after short use. FP J Cheney and Co Toledo Ohio advertise it for 75 cents and say it is sold by all druggists.
Outrage in Switzerland over a three month fortress sentence for the German pilot who on October 8 shot down an unarmed Swiss captive balloon on Swiss soil. The Swiss lieutenant in the balloon was killed.
The piece compares Windsor Castle as a rural royal retreat to Potsdam near Berlin and notes a water route linking London to Potsdam via the Thames and Elbe. It recounts the Royal Louise frigate gift in 1832, its voyage from Woolwich to Potsdam, and its influence on Kaiser Wilhelm II and German sea power ambitions.
Uncle Eben quips that Deman lacks real trouble and is rarely rattled. The Washington Stag notes the witty remark about facing adversity and keeping calm before challenges.
After German forces withdrew quickly from the Belgian north coast from Zee Brugge to Nieuport they left a continuous line of fortifications and many guns. A Belgian resident recalled a German trader in Ostend selling thousands of Belgian flags before the evacuation. Many residents hid their flags.
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