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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 02, 1928
Page
7
When pain signals indigestion excess acid irritates the stomach. Phillips' Milk of Magnesia is praised as the best alkali to neutralize acid instantly and relieve symptoms. The text urges readers to obtain a genuine Phillips' product prescribed by physicians for decades, with full bottle directions in drugstores.
Jack Ward Doran and Helmi Milander marry in a tense civil ceremony as the magistrate warns of foreigners and exposes a Winnipeg police notice linking Helmi to a past arrest. Jack confronts the accusation and vows protection while Helmi grapples with fear and distrust.
Canada remains the leading exporter of high grade hard wheat as Russia exits the market. Before the war Russia accounted for 24 percent of world wheat, with Canada at 11 percent. Last year Canada supplied 52 percent of shipments, Argentina 16 percent, the United States 14 percent, Australia 10 percent, and several nations minor shares. The Dominion’s land and farming success attract producers from abroad and solidify its hold in fewer markets.
The Canadian Police Bulletin labels Lash as an effective punishment in reducing crime, noting judges nationwide order lashings alongside imprisonment. In Montreal, two robbers receive twelve lashes each, one breaking down at the sentence. The piece argues a growing, youth-driven criminal class demands forceful action to prevent a Chicago-like decline.
New loud speaker fire alarms are installed in Edinburgh streets. A reporter breaks glass to report a fire and a door opens showing apertures. The sign says Wait Fireman will speak. The alarm bell rings in the fire station, and the fireman speaks from 12 feet away. Police and ambulance calls also go through the boxes. The system aims to cut false alarms.
A London bookbinding firm is owed 25000 dollars for design and construction of covers for fifteen volumes of The Lives and Times of the Popes ordered by Thomas Madigan of New York. Rich ornamentation uses rubies sapphires ivory silk scarlet leather morocco and heavy gilding. A year’s labor has yielded four volumes, one sent to New York. The set includes thirty original Papal bulls.
Egyptologist Howard Carter resumes work at Tutankhamun tomb and uncovers a well preserved alabaster canopic jar said to hold the king's viscera. The jar was found in an ante chamber among various vases and the tomb will reopen to visitors this month. Also advertised Minard's Liniment for rheumatism and Mother Graves Worm Exterminator available at druggists.
Sir Robert Horne recalls a failing opening night for a playwright where a woman returned a lock of hair after recognizing him. Palestine adopts new currency with English Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions while the pound remains a paper note and coins are silver and copper. About 25,000 London schoolchildren began wearing spectacles in the last year.
Weekly column notes small acts matter and faithfulness in little duties builds character. Quotations from Luke and thinkers William Ellery Channing and Arthur Penrhyn Stanley urge readers to improve their small circles and spread good beyond them.
A timeless homespun note promotes Baby's Own Tablets as a safe remedy for common infant and toddler ailments. The piece urges mothers to keep a box for emergencies, describing the tablets as a mild laxative free from opiates and sold for 25 cents per box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co. in Brockville Ontario.
Mrs Emma Wilson of 471 Wilson Street Hamilton Ontario writes that after suffering through Change of Life she improved dramatically on Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. She, a farmer’s wife, offers to answer letters from other women seeking information about the medicines. Sold by druggists everywhere.
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