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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 03, 1924
Page
6
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a cure all for catarrh and colds with pine forest healing vapors. It claims thorough lung and nose treatment, safety and efficacy, two months' complete therapy for $1.90, smaller sample offered, and mail order from The Catarrhozone Co Montreal.
The narrator recalls winter scenes in Spruce Creek with Murray and the twins. They brace the cold through wood work, church poems, and Epiphany of fire, while neighbors like the Fenwicks Mowbrays and Gagnons enrich evenings with music readings and cards. The wartime-tinged social fabric blends literature, music, and informal gatherings in a close northern community.
The Henan region around Nanyang hosts numerous bandit gangs that threaten to desecrate ancestral graves to extort ransom from wealthy families. Reports describe 60 gangs with 600 to 2,000 members each, led by figures such as Wan the Bearded, Wang the Monk, and Chang the Ninth, with little government suppression observed.
The article traces ancient shorthand from Quintus Ennius’s 1106 signs to Cicero Horace and Pliny references. It notes Caesar’s political secrets carried by shorthand and St Luke reporting the Sermon on the Mount in similar characters. Wax tablets bound with wire formed early book-like records.
The article describes mastodons once roaming Canada with eight foot tusks found near London Ontario and notes the Red Deer Valley in Alberta as a major mastodon cemetery. Geologists disagree on timing of extinction while some authorities suggest man and mastodon may have coexisted briefly in North America.
League of Nations urges all governments adopting daylight saving time to fix identical start and end dates for the summer period to ensure uniform time during the season.
Austria maintains an economical republic with a president’s bureau budget of 710,640,000 crowns annually roughly 16 thousand dollars. The total covers President Hainsch and 19 aides and staff, plus entertainment, travel, car upkeep, stationery and other office expenses.
A children’s tirade contrasts the vice of procrastination with the reward of acting now. It recalls the fable of Rothschild racing to beat news to London, and includes a poem about Put-Off town with figures like Old Man Wait and Don’t Care, urging immediate action.
The province will manufacture its own educational moving pictures in a local plant. After studying costs and private firms' results, the Provincial Treasurer announced Ottawa has purchased for 30000 a small modern plant in Trenton from the Atlantic Producing Company Ltd.
A woman admonishes a boy for playing in a puddle. The boy provocatively retorts to seek his own puddle, claiming he found this one first. The exchange captures a humorous child adult moment.
A speaker recalls a man who seated himself in the front row and waited to interrupt. The man asks how long the lecture has lasted and stays to hear the remainder, noting the speaker has spoken for four years.
An old advertisement touts Fletcher's Castoria claiming over thirty years of use to relieve constipation flatulence wind colic and diarrhoea in babies and children. It states the product reduces feverishness by regulating the stomach and bowels and aids assimilation of food.
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