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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1922
Page
2
Prominent Canadians urge a proactive immigration policy to attract skilled British settlers to Canada. They warn Australia and New Zealand attract potential migrants and stress relocating current settlers near railways to reduce transport costs and boost farming viability and railway traffic. They call for targeting vacant lands close to rail lines and expanding homestead support to relocate unsuitable holdings.
Remote cottages with sloping walls arose from a superstition that exact squares collapse. Also noted is a claim that Holloway's Corn Remover contains no poisonous ingredient and is safe to use.
A nervous customer in the great emporium asks for a hair shade, stammering over her request while a diplomatic salesman guides her. The scene captures a brief moment of social embarrassment during a shopping excursion.
A Nashville era line praises a wife who marries to reform her spouse, noting the experience as surprisingly dull for the reforming partner. The Albany Journal quotes a sentiment about the limits of moral change within marriage.
An advertisement for Baby's Own Tablets by The Dr. Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ont promotes the product as a mild laxative that keeps the stomach and bowels regular to prevent colds, claiming healthy thriving in babies. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box.
The manager of Jack Dempsey is said to own more suits than any other man in New York. He fills two rooms with them. A reporter found that a head of a great corporation who has contributed scientific discoveries owns only two suits.
The Sundew plant family uses its glandular secretion to dissolve captured insects. This mechanism supports nutrient uptake in nutrient poor environments.
Ray Stannard Baker portrays Lloyd George as charming and volatile at the Paris Peace Conference. He sways between contradictory stances, delivers rapid ideas, and disrupts etiquette with his tea habit and craving for fresh air. A vivid anecdote shows him protesting the conference room air.
An old advertisement urges mothers to give California Fig Syrup to sick or constipated children. It promises quick relief for biliousness feverishness and fussiness and notes the bottle carries printed directions for babies and children of all ages. It warns to request genuine California Fig Syrup to avoid imitations.
Ottawa debate centers on the impact of closing navigation on western wheat shipments. Experts say rail earnings won’t rise despite a 15 million dollar farmers’ saving from lower grain rates, as post-closure shipments become intermittent and rail costs not reduced offset gains. The western crop size is larger than last year, boosting overall rail traffic for the national roads.
The annual report shows a profit of 40553 after repaying the provincial grant. It covers nine months ending August 31, 1922. The association assists financing farm undertakings and has outstanding advances totaling 7528639.
A sanatorium offers patients a daily half hour flight in an airplane as treatment for mental mood. A London church organist is a 12 year old boy with no formal training. Tourists arrive seeking quiet in a once peaceful spot but now crowds alter the scene.
Federal data show Canada wide horse numbers rising to 3,813,000 in 1921 from 8 years earlier, while Ontario alone falls as tractors and belt power replace horses. Prairie provinces surge, with Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta expanding their horse counts.
Record Wheat movement in Western Canada ends October with Winnipeg Grain Exchange receipts totaling 2 824 cars the largest one day total in Dominion history. Wheat quality remains high with under ten percent below grade three northern while most volume is grade one northern.
A 78 foot long fish weighing 15 tons was found washed ashore at Cape May, nearly the size of five full grown elephants. The find drew attention from locals and wildlife officials alike.
Thirty six Southern Alberta farmers have received certificates for transportation privileges under the settler removal scheme. About 150 applications were filed with 100 investigated. many wait for satisfactory arrangements to take up new locations, and some are refused. Removals proceed on straight purchase or lease of improved land as the Dominion homestead plan is not yet in operation. Landowners in the north are reducing holdings and selling or leasing to southern buyers or tenants, with total southern moves not expected to exceed fifty. Useful in Camp Oil: Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil aids in camp for wet feet, muscle pains, wounds, and sprains.
Nina E. Holmes of Detroit won the U S postal service mailhandling championship by distributing 26 610 letters in eight hours demonstrating speed similar to sorting thirteen sets of four cards with aces first.
John H. King of Calgary Alberta reports losing fifty five pounds during a twelve month rheumatism period after overseas service. He credits Tanlac with restoring his health, gaining thirty five pounds in weight after four bottles, and says he feels a hundred percent well. Tanlac is sold by druggists.
Dr. W. G. Miller, Ontario geologist, says traces of radio active ores may be found on the Pelawawa River near Pembroke. He notes radium reports in Haldimand and Hastings counties near Parry Sound and in Butte township, but none offer attractive commercial quantities.
Advertisement warns against using remedies like Extract of Roots sold as Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. Claims it contains no dope or strong ingredients yet flatters digestion and bilious complaints. Promotes genuine bottles priced 50 cents and 1 dollar sold at drug stores.
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