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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1922
Page
7
Audacious thieves entered the top floor office of the bureau at night through a skylight and fled by leaping to the adjoining roof, taking a number of unclaimed umbrellas and an overcoat. Nearby a 2,200 acre fox farm has been started near Wrangell Alaska.
Mrs Jesse Ersen of Route 1 Jasper Minnesota writes she used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for pains in back and stomach and after recovery she can work without help from her daughter. She says it helped many friends and grants permission to publish her testimonial. The product has served nearly fifty years.
A treaty between France and Mary was signed at the Foreign Office. The Swiss Government plans a bureau to import cereals from America. Southampton’s new docking facility for future transatlantic lines will finish soon. The Italian steamer Monte Grappa was abandoned after trouble far from Halifax. two officers were injured. Germany invites foreign finance officials to discuss stabilizing the mark. China’s President and New Zealand’s Premier named Honorary Presidents of the Pan Pacific Union at Honolulu. The Pan Pacific Commercial Congress met in session. Saskatchewan set 1923 auto license fees on a wheelbase basis with a $15 minimum. The Duke of Devonshire urged Britain to aid Canada with brains, capital and labor amid expected regional growth. Banque Fançaise de Mexique, Mexico’s largest French bank, closed recently amid crowding and police protection. Thomas Gosslyn, an Irish patient in Ontario Hospital Brockville, to be deported after prior insanity treatment in South Africa. A City Troop No. 14 Boy Scouts thank donors for relief funds aiding Northern Ontario fires.
Experiments in western British Columbia Ontario St Lawrence valley and the Maritime Provinces show flax fibre quality matching top Irish Belgian grades. Spinning tests indicate Canadian fibre can produce the finest linen damasks.
The article explains blood color reflects oxygen content, linking bright red blood to health and pure air. It cites pale anemia as improved by Dr Williams' Pink Pills, with a testimonial from Charles A Stayner of Glenholme Nova Scotia, and notes pills cost 50 cents per box, six boxes for $2.50 via The Dr Williams' Medicine Co.
At a Swiss rifle meeting experts found steel jacketed bullets swerved by telegraph wire. Four parallel cables at forty yards caused 6000 volt current to magnetize bullets and push them off target, accounting for a 24 yard deviation at 260 yards. Similar tests on an artillery range showed 14 degree deflection.
A London despatch notes over one hundred Cornish miners depart for Plymouth and then to Northern Ontario to work at the Flellinger Gold Mine where a large fellow-countryman colony is already established. The report links science history with broader market interests and mentions Asthma relief advertising in the same column.
A flying physician operates in Palmyra Syria locating and visiting Be Douin patients aboard an airplane. He uses Minard's Liniment For Coids Etc as part of his care. The mobile doctor travels among nomadic tribes delivering medical aid and remedies.
Dr John Spence a 50 year old Edinburgh radiologist suffered severe burns from X ray work and had his right forearm amputated after continuing research despite dermatitis. He worked at Leith and Craigleith Hospitals and was among Scotland's early X ray researchers. Trustees awarded him a medallion and an annuity of 130 pounds.
A Halifax reader recalls a humorous exchange about fitting a shock absorber. The salesman offers to install one, but the buyer quips to ship it to his wife as a prank about a limousine. The letter then praises Minard's Liniment as an effective remedy after an explosion.
An advertisement extols Dr. Thomas Eve Electric Oil as a universal cure for sore throat and inflamed ailments. It claims effectiveness for both external use on skin and internal ingestion, noting widespread trial and approval across the nation. The copy emphasizes rapid absorption and broad healing claims.
A historical note describes King Edgar in the tenth century declaring a half Saturday holiday. Work was to end at noon on Saturdays and not resume until Monday, shaping early weekend rest for workers.
An old circular promotes Halls Catarrh Medicine a liquid taken internally to treat catarrh by acting through the blood on mucous surfaces. It asserts inflamed tissues are reduced and Nature aided to restore normal conditions and invites readers to request free circulars from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. The text ends with an unrelated note about a husband preferring fishing to his wife accompanying.
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a pleasant laxative for adults and children to relieve constipation with one or two tablets. It also notes candellila wax from a Mexican weed as a main ingredient in shoe polishes for brown and tan shoes.
An advertisement urges rupture sufferers to abandon trusses and try the PLAPAO method. It promotes a self treatment that adheres to the body with no straps, claiming it prevents the hernial opening from worsening and can be used while working or sleeping. It asks readers to send a small coin for a sample.
On Marriage Day romance ends and history begins when Putnam’s Painless Cord Extractor is applied. It removes corns by uprooting roots and stems with no trace left, sold for 25 cents at all dealers. Refuse substitutes.
At the Calgary Winter Fair the baby beef class crowned a standout Shorthorn that won the grand championship and big shield for the children's class. Verna Stankey of Cochrane led both yearling and calf divisions, with Muriel Pritchard of Carrose winning the final calf class prize. Pig divisions saw Jack Jamsey of Nipawin and Allister W. Massie of Carstairs excel, as judges noted fewer poor animals and strong showings from Lougheed Sedgwick Alliance Killam districts.
A town mayor riding a new bicycle at dusk asks a laborer at a cottage door for water to run his acetylene lamp. The laborer mishears and jokes about the mayor needing off. The mayor dismounts and repeats the request while the exchange ends with a rebuke about his age.
A pair of buffalo donated by the Canadian Government to the Zoological Gardens in London England left Wainwright Park and were shipped in crates to Montreal. They will be berthed on board ship in specially constructed pens measuring 16 by 12 feet.
A new oil lamp, claimed superior to gas and electricity, passed U.S. government and 35 universities tests. It burns cleanly with no odor or smoke, uses inexpensive fuel, and is offered on a free 19 day trial. Inventor T V Johnson of Winnipeg promises potential agencies and monthly earnings of 250 to 500 dollars.
Data shows CPLR lines moved 65 219 498 bushels of grain to Oct 14 from Sept 1 across the three prairie provinces. Saskatchewan points loaded 25 500 cars, with total Saskatchewan handling reaching 7 102 500 bushels this season.
The article notes the population of Norfolk Islands in the Pacific Ocean handles about $25 in total annually, highlighting the scarcity of currency in daily life and the community's unusual monetary practices.
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