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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 25, 1919
Page
7
An advertisement promotes Dr Hamilton's Pills as a stomach remedy combining gentle laxative effects with a tonic for stomach liver and kidneys. It claims relief from indigestion sourness gas headache and biliousness and urges readers not to substitute another product. Price is 25 cents per box.
The scene shifts as Ruggles, now self confident after a lawyerly interview, paces the terrace near the haremlck. He contemplates entering the shaded avenue toward the rose kiosk where a laughing distant from a girl echoes, debating whether to announce his arrival or wait for the ladies to prepare.
In a tense scene at a Turkish harem, Ruggles pushes to meet the young ladies. Miss Elliot, the governess, resists his entry and asserts authority while a sly wait unfolds under the pergola as preparations for Paris proceed.
Ellery J. Gardner of Height of Land Canaan New Hampshire has completed a violin built entirely by himself. Years earlier he created the smallest perfect jack knife ever made with the blade open measuring under three eighths of an inch in length.
The fragment mentions a head feeling good today and references a vapor. No clear names, places, or dates are provided to identify an event or source.
Advertises Catarrhozone as superior to syrups sprays and pills claiming it cures irritation and inflammation by inhaling healing balms. States symptoms like tightness soreness and huskiness vanish with the inhaler and pine essence. Pricing listed includes a dollar outfit with inhaler and trial sizes 25c and 50c. Kingston Ontario dealers shown.
G H Hutton notes Alberta's strong showing at the Chicago International Stock Show with J B Lucas of Cayley winning oats. Duncan Marshall and Beeching praised, cattle entries top 1 000 in car lots, and horse exhibits strong. Saskatchewan also swept Hay and Grain Show prizes, winning 14 of 25 spring wheat awards.
Wireless telephony wowed visitors at the houses of parliament with airplane and airship communication up to 165 miles and 100 miles respectively. The display included gramophone tunes and a high altitude signal reception, with invitations extended to RAF pilots to dine with General Seeley as aircraft circled London within 30 miles at altitudes reaching 15 900 feet.
The article notes spoons of standard sizes are modern, with teaspoons arriving after tea entered Europe in the seventeenth century. It mentions salt spoons and after dinner coffee spoons as later inventions, reflecting evolving dining customs and tableware.
The Bank of Montreal reports drought and high prices in Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba with good wheat yields elsewhere. Irrigation growth, wool values, and cattle markets show mixed results while labor shortages limit output. British Columbia sees strong lumber demand, high cedar prices, and steady mining with cautious outlooks for 1919. Immigration rises modestly and wholesale retail trade stays solid nationwide.
Western Canadians seek winter escapes with options to visit relatives in the East or travel to the Pacific Coast California and Florida. Canadian Pacific Railway offers through trains to Eastern and Pacific Coast points and assistance securing rooms cottages or hotel accommodations. Florida winters provide golf riding boating and other outdoor life with numerous resorts. Contact a Canadian Pacific agent for full information and trip planning.
Aerial observers report hearing human voices at 1,600 feet and animal sounds such as a mole cricket at 2,500 feet and frogs at 3,000 feet. Distinct noises extend to 9,000 feet with musket reports and dog barks, while trains reach 8,209 feet and locomotive whistles near 10,000 feet.
The British army estimates in 1920 foresee expenditure of £405,000,000 and a end of year force of 300,000 British troops plus 100,000 Indian troops. The total will be reduced later after March 1920. In March 1919 plans called for 2,600,000 men with 1,548,000 demobilized and released since.
Belfast police uncover 30 to 40 sticks of gelignite and 69 pounds of service ammunition beneath rags during a search for stolen property. The find lies near the Grattan Street Sinn Fein arsenal main site blown up months ago where about 100 bombs were in production or storage.
A published aphorism notes that a woman chooses to read the narrative first and only then consults the preface. The remark emphasizes reader priority given to plot over introductory framing.
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