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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
7
An 19th century style advertisement touts Dr Hamilton’s Pills as a universal remedy for aging and ill health. It claims the pills purify blood, restore vigor, and prevent headaches indigestion constipation and poor appetite. Sold in 25 cent boxes everywhere with a forty year track record of keeping people in good condition.
Ruggles explains how Ruth’s portrait steadies him after a betrayal by the company. He recalls praying with the image and its role in keeping his nerve and sense of worth during hardship. Ruth listens, torn between astonishment and emotion as he asks for coffee and plans to summon Mustapha.
Chapter Sixteen describes Mr Falconer inviting Ruggles to his apartment an hour before luncheon to allow time for a private discussion. The tone suggests a cordial social engagement that masks a planned conversation. The scene centers on anticipated dialogue between the two men.
In a richly dialogued scene, Ruggles and Mr. Falconer plot the future of Hamid Pasha's four adopted daughters. They discuss social standing, religious freedom, and the need for a proper chaperon. Falconer proposes Neuilly as a potential residence and suggests Miss Challand, with Miss Westbrooke as companion, to guide the girls amid suitors and society.
Imperial Oil plans to spend at least 300000 in southern Saskatchewan outside Regina in 1920. Funds will build tanks, warehouses, pumphouses, filling stations, trucks and barrels, reflecting strong faith if crude oil supplies can be secured.
A reader from Urbana reports severe winter grippe and postmenopausal symptoms improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits renewed strength and the ability to perform housework to the product.
England sees a wave of baby airplanes tested in parks and fields with models named the British crew and the pocket airplane. Inventor Austin Whippet aims 96 mph with a 16 foot monoplane that folds for trunk transport as French firms and Passepartout join the mini aircraft trend priced between 1000 and 1200 dollars.
A flock of 220 pullets at the Dominion Experimental Farm in Lethbridge Alberta lays fourteen dozen a day totaling about 100 dozen per week. The success comes from hatching eggs from proven laying strains with simple feeding and housing within reach of most farmers.
Diamond Dyes promises a new rich fadeless color for wool silk linen cotton or blends. The Direction Book explains how to dye over any color and a Diamond Dye Color Card helps match fabrics.
The department of naval service announces two medals for wartime naval personnel: the Victory Medal for mobilized service before armistice and a silver British War Medal for Canadian naval service with 28 days mobilized service or death in active operations. Applications are to be withheld while eligibility lists are prepared. desertion or dismissal forfeits the decorations. A stray line about a short club and persimmons appears.
George G. Anderson of Los Angeles reports the Lethbridge Northern irrigation plan in Southern Alberta is feasible with adequate water. Dominion survey work is praised but costs are believed underestimated. about 4 million dollars may be involved per Minister A. J. McLean. The northern Lethbridge project precedes a larger southern scheme.
The article warns that untreated colds can progress to consumption as the inflammation travels from the throat to the bronchial tubes and lungs. It notes lungs cannot be regenerated and describes consumption as practically incurable, while claiming catarrh can be cured except in its final fatal stage.
The advertisement promotes Catarrhozone as a universal cure for catarrhal troubles. It claims the healing vapor stops sneezing and coughing by removing irritation and destroying secretions. It offers two months’ treatment in large, small, and sample sizes with prices of 1 dollar, 50 cents, and 25 cents.
Major Arthur Lincoln of the Dominion Air Board visited Saskatchewan and urged establishing air service stations in North Saskatchewan and an air service training school in Regina. He proposed north forest patrols, use of aircraft for fur shipments, police support in the north and on the Saskatchewan United States boundary, aerial photography of unsurveyed lands for ranching, and limited mail routes where rail service is weak. Inspector Tait discussed hydro aircraft for north patrols, capable of landing on water or snow and flying in 40 below zero weather.
A chaperone dispute ends with a co-ed refusing to join a young man in the garden, insisting on a chaperone first. The exchange highlights social expectations and flirtation norms in polite society.
A. M. Steed of Stirling sold ten pure bred Shorthorn cows and heifers for 14000 dollars to George Isaac of Markham Ontario. The shipment will form a foundation herd on Isaac’s farm and marks a regional record for Southern Alberta cattle quality. Steed has built his herd in recent years on his irrigated Stirling farm attracting buyers from the older province.
In a whispered quarrel a pair discuss keeping their engagement private while a scornful acquaintance mocks the match. She admits revealing the plans to others, claiming she told the gossip that he had proposed, inflaming the dispute.
A quirky verse notes telephone girls and calls, with clever lines about pitchers tumblers and household acrobats in playful imagery. The piece reads like a period quip on domestic tech and common objects.
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