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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 26, 1922
Page
3
An editorial urges greeting with action, urging Canadians to foster confidence, curb pessimism, and pursue cheerful measures to improve happiness and prosperity in 1922. It notes hopes for better crops, declining costs, and easing war debts, while calling for collective effort to realize a positive year.
British Columbia exports rapid growth with shipments passing Vancouver port. Canned milk to France for distribution in Germany marks widening offshore trade and a Vancouver firm reports expanding activity. Additional consignments included book shooks and apples to the United Kingdom salt herrings and wheat to the Orient and lead to France.
Liverpool Cathedral nears completion as the first portion rises larger than York Minster and taller than Westminster Abbey. Standing 155 feet above the Mersey, the combined site with the Chapter House and Lady Chapel covers over 100000 square feet, surpassing all English cathedrals. A 2500 crowd can gather in the choir and eastern transepts, while 8000 can be housed in the full building.
The Victoria Times stresses the need to encourage tourist travel as a forward wave of new population. It argues many visitors stay, warns that halting invitations ends travel, and calls on British Columbia to match California’s success to address urgent population growth.
A customer recalls a prescription mishap where a clerk gave a quart instead of the prescribed half pint, highlighting a rare serious mistake in a pharmacy. The exchange ends with a quip about the error.
Premier Oliver announced that the British Admiralty will use British Columbia Douglas fir instead of Oregon pine in timber orders. F C Wade, solicitor general, prompted the change, with Navy Contractor Jenkins noting a recent contract awarded to supply fir timber from British Columbia.
Advertises Nerviline as the strongest pain relief available for back pains and side pains. Claims quick action on small pains and deep penetration to address big pains where other remedies fail. Promotes 350 bottle size sold at all dealers.
Eighteen chartered banks operate over 4500 branches in Canada with additional West Indian, South American, and European locations. The article lauds the Canadian banking system as admirable and notes that all bank notes must be secured dollar for dollar by gold or Dominion notes.
The ad promotes vitality as a result of good blood and nerves and claims Dr Williams Pink Pills restore energy and health. It asserts benefits for men and women and urges purchase through medicine dealers or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont at 50 cents per box, six boxes for 2.50.
About fifteen hundred compact wireless outfits are installed in Paris jewelry watch and clock shops to receive the Greenwich meridian time sent daily at ten o clock from the Eiffel Tower. The nine inch diameter device uses a ground wire and a modified bulb plug to receive signals, enabling rapid fine time readings.
A periodical promotes Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy claiming rapid relief from nights of agony on the train of asthma. It asserts the medicine banishes frightful symptoms and clears passages, enabling the sufferer to sleep soundly again.
Birmingham operates an aerial tax service from Castle Bromwich Aerodrome with fares cheaper than ordinary motor tax. The rate is thirty cents per mile for two passengers, sixty cents per mile for one passenger, and freight up to 500 pounds is charged at the same rate per mile.
The earliest known inscriptional plaque dates to 767 B C, marking a milestone in ancient record keeping. This artifact provides insight into early writing and civic memory across civilizations.
Loreto C. Lynch discusses Isidor Berger of the Greater New York Taxpayers Association who says rent reductions hinge on tenants maintaining clean, well-kept apartments. He cites wear from careless children and poor upkeep as driving repair costs, urging mothers to teach civic responsibility by preserving rented homes for future citizens.
Police dismantle a feud that has lasted since 1915 in Naples by arresting 40 members of the de Lucia and Fiorillo families. Two young children, a boy and a girl, remain in protective custody and are described as affectionate playmates.
The total area sown in fall wheat this year in Southern Alberta is estimated at 842,400 acres, up from 792,200 acres in 1920 for 1921, marking a 6 percent increase. Threads of gold used in India for lace are extremely fine, with 1,100 yards weighing only one ounce.
Bernard Breen, a Grand Trunk Railway clerk, says Tanlac cured his long stomach ailment and smothering spells. He describes prior operations, digestion issues, and night-time breathing trouble, noting appetite returned, sleep improved, and daily well being restored. Sold by leading druggists.
W. Kimble retires after 40 years as Windsor postal worker. It is estimated he walked about 248000 miles, ten times around the world. He served as Windsor Castle court postman in later years and never took sick leave or had a single adverse entry.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a tonic that acts on mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation and restore normal conditions. Notes that catarrh worsens in a run down state and implies constitutional influence. Circulation via Druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
A Paris dinner celebrated M. Real’s promotion to Commander of the Legion of Honour. The provincial presses sent regional dishes by train or motor car, with Bordeaux wine from La Petite Gironde and Rouen duck from Rouen press among others.
A conference of representatives from all sections of Saskatchewan with provincial government members will soon outline a definite program for improving the province's roads. Cooperation with other Dominion bodies interested in good roads will also be sought.
Saskatchewan dairy output last year reached twenty three and a half million dollars. Creamery butter accounted for three and three quarter million, dairy butter nearly eight and three quarter million, ice cream over eight hundred thousand, milk consumers over ten million, and calf feed over one and a half million dollars. Forty eight creameries operated with a two million one hundred seventy five thousand dollar investment, and seven new plants were built during the year.
The note states that a well bred camel is capable of covering about a hundred miles per day indicating the camel’s endurance and stamina for long desert treks.
An Armistice Day moment at Covent Garden Market left porters still and carts halted as an old man quietly counted cabbages aloud. He apologized after being chastened by a market worker, then resumed his silent duties until the next number rang out.
Miller's Worm Powders claim to kill worms without causing stomach disturbance pain or griping. The medicine works quietly and painlessly with immediate improvement and a cessation of internal symptoms from the first dose.
The 1920 outlook notes Nova Scotia and British Columbia hold vast sea frontier coal resources. Nova Scotia tops two billion metric tons with most coal higher to mid grade, while British Columbia exceeds twenty three billion, mostly high grade. Overall reserves are far larger than current estimates.
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