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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 12, 1928
Page
7
Clarence Harry Hatry, once ruined after a major company failure leaving debts of about 750,000 pounds, has rebuilt his fortune. He now launches a large London omnibus venture linking independent firms, backs drapery groups, and formed a notable Dundee jute combine.
Helmi and Jack grow closer as they share days by the Falls and help with his riverfront house. A Christmas gift deepens Helmi’s devotion, while townsfolk weigh Helmi’s past, unsure of Jack’s intentions, setting a possible showdown.
Mrs Lottie Muracy of Peterboro Ontario says the Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription helped her recover strength and nerves during pregnancy and aided appetite and endurance. The notice promotes tablets or liquid and urges readers to send 10 cents to Doctorey Laboratory Bridgeburg Ontario for a package.
Mrs. McMann and Bill Larsen, a bartender, share a common grievance against the popular Hehmi. Mrs. McMann fears losing the best girl she ever had and resents the boarders fondness for Hehmi, a train arrival without backing who became beloved in the village. The Anglican Church seeks funds for its incumbent, prompting further plot.
An old style ad promotes cure for eczema with Cutiura and Qaticura soap ointment and talcum for daily use. It lists mail order pricing and sellers like Semple and Mowhneek with product names and packaging details.
Legends aside, Mustapha Kemal’s deeds outshine his peers. He rebuilt the Turkish army, resisted Allied pressure, reclaimed Asia Minor, Cilicia, and Western Thrace, and forged a republic with a new constitution. He ended the Caliphate and theocracy, granted conscience to choose religion, ended polygamy, and modernized dress and speech.
Curiosities from pre-mail days form a 100000 item collection owned by the Union of Post Office Workers in London. Americans offered £200000 for it. the archive likely becomes a permanent post office museum. Notable pieces include a 1659 letter from Sir Edward Osborne to Colonel Fairfax and a 1397 Normandy post receipt.
The Sud Express on the Paris to Madrid route reaches sixty two and a half miles per hour on the Bordeaux to Dax segment, an electrified ninety two mile stretch, with the route now the fastest timetable in France. Separate adv promotes Dr Thomas Electric Oil for burns and scalds with immediate pain relief.
The piece urges accepting friends as we find them and channeling our love into shaping the friendship rather than demanding perfection. It highlights many touch places and sharp edges in relationships and cautions against ordering friends to fit an ideal.
The uncut red pine saw timber in Canada is about 4 000 000 000 feet, mostly in Ontario and Quebec. The annual cut runs around 95 000 000 feet. A stray wedding joke and a note about lilies in cocoanut fibre are also mentioned along with Minard’s Liniment for Colds.
The tale recounts Boniface of England visiting Central Europe around Christmas in 724. He confronted Thor worship at a forest altar beneath a great oak where a boy faced human sacrifice. Boniface shattered the pagan rite with a Christian appeal, turning the tree into a symbol of the new faith and the first Christmas tree.
The curfew bell is rung at eight o'clock in several English places including St. Thomas Church Newport Isle of Wight Rye Sussex and Hailsham. Originating in William the Conqueror era the bell was intended to guard against fires in towns and villages when chimneys were absent. The term couvre feu describes covering the fire as smoke rose through a central floor hole.
A tour ist agency interview revolves around language, with the manager testing the candidate in French. The applicant initially struggles but then confidently says he speaks French, while a brief aside notes a historical line about Romans having one name and a Munich Jugend reference mentioning inexpensive coffee and coats.
Brief devotional notes quote scripture from 1 John iv 16 and highlight love as divine gift. It cites Richard Chenevix Trench and Harriet Monsell urging readers to seek God through love, avoid cursing, and uplift others toward the Fount of all love.
The ad cautions that general debility from thin blood lowers energy and appetite and promotes restlessness. It promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a method to build rich red blood, boosting all organs and overall health. Pills available from druggists or by mail for 50 cents per box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
A dairyman mystery unfolds as a jackdaw feeds on bottle stoppers left on doorsteps while the milk remains untouched. The stray bird follows the milkman on his rounds and opens as many as a dozen quarts in a single street, prompting discoveries about the clever thief.
Mrs Ambrose Orser of Elginburg Ontario describes a nervous heart condition where even small excitements caused palpitations and fluttering. She recounts suffering for some time before encountering a turning point after she saw a remedy or advice that changed her symptoms.
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