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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
2
A testimonial from D Barnes of Byron Michigan praises Dr A W Chase's Kidney Liver Pills and Nerve Food for curing pleurisy earlier life and kidney troubles. The note claims improved appetite weight sleep and strength at age 78 and mentions two of Dr Chase's Receipt Books and Edmanson Bates dealers in Toronto.
The Interwar department releases a comprehensive guide on the unexploited northwest reserves from the Peace River region to southern Manitoba. It details climate soil timber rivers minerals fish and game with over one hundred illustrations of agricultural progress. Free copies available from C. Lynen Ottawa.
A short ad style note touts Baby's Own Tablets for children claiming safety and effectiveness for minor ailments. Mrs. Henri Huard of Kingston Ontario endorses them, noting great service for her little ones. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario. A joke about luxury laps ends the item.
Advertised as a certain relief to corn pain, the remedy promises quick comfort for those afflicted by corn suffering. The note emphasizes ease of use and immediate respite through Holloway's Corn Cure.
A brief quip reflecting on poverty and ease, noting social contrasts with a concise pair of lines. The remark juxtaposes hardship and an ironic count of simplicity. The source text presents a sharp, humorous punchline without broader context.
A soldier writes of living in a recently built house gutted by shrapnel. Windows blown out, they improvise a brazier from a pail and use a petrol tin lid as a frying pan. They joke of starting a furnishing business on 234d and note a man making armchairs from orange barrels, who has cut himself four times and threatens more injury.
Charitably inclined visitor finds Mrs Atkins in grief as her husband fights at the front. The woman reveals Bill is in hospital with both arms off. She asks who will turn the mangle on wash days, noting the government's aid misses the point.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a guaranteed remedy for catarrh claiming it cures the constitutional disease. The text notes internal use, blood and mucous surface action, and offers a $100 reward for any failure to cure, with a request to send for list of testimonials. Sold by all druggists. Also recommends Hall's Family Pills for consumption.
In a light exchange, Knicker recalls a deaf uncle arrested and granted a hearing the next morning, while Bocker adds a tale of a blind aunt who walked into a lumber yard and saw dust, illustrating blunt humor about disability.
The article notes wide gaps in dairy yields, with a local herd averaging 2328 pounds and top yields near 4000, while two Western Ontario herds of 12 and 22 grade cows average 10657 and 10542 pounds with fats of 217 and 350 pounds respectively. It attributes gains to consistent milk recording and improved feeding and cow handling.
Thomas A. Edison spoke on the coming role of electricity in farming and transportation. He described central distribution, cheaper rates, and widespread farm electrification, predicted a bright future for electric trucks, and noted patent-law limits on coal electricity. He cited Germany as a model and recalled slow patent progress for new ideas.
A Motor Age article from November 1911 examines gravity as a measure for gasoline, noting conflicting race results with 56 and 35 gravity fuels and showing that gravity varies by crude source. It explains Beaume and specific gravity, and argues refiners rely on boiling points, not gravity, to judge gasoline quality.
A Western woman credits Postum with relieving years of insomnia and digestive troubles after quitting coffee and tea. She notes rapid improvement and six years of stable health, claims no medicines since starting Postum, and mentions two product forms with pricing and availability.
An expert explains that boiling points, not gravity, determine quick starting in motor fuels. Low initial boil points ensure rapid evaporation and cold weather performance, while high gravity alone misleads about fuel quality.
The article argues that women who view their work as opportunity to serve others and raise standards gain broader vision and success, while focusing on money narrows a worker. It emphasizes that serving needs and enlarging capacity leads to reward, with advancement seen as a natural result of high endeavor.
A social gathering prompts a discussion on marriage in heaven with witty remarks from Mrs. Jones and a sarcastic matron. A joke about the absence of men at a heavenly wedding ends the exchange. A man questions a recent marriage license, and the clerk confirms it, prompting the stranger to joke about his life.
A Bridgeport report shows about 8000 of 29000 munitions workers in Connecticut are German born or of German parentage. German machinists and toolmakers work alongside English Irish Swedish and French artisans in producing vast daily war material for the Allies.
In ten tons of solid and liquid sheep manure there are 250 pounds of nitrogen, 31 pounds of phosphoric acid and 214 pounds of potash. In the same amount of cattle manure there are only 87 pounds of nitrogen, 17 pounds of phosphoric acid and 51 pounds of potash. These figures show why the foot of sheep is golden to the land. Minard's Liniment used by Physicians.
Mrs Goodart suggests making up sorties for soldiers at the front to cheer the troops. The remark reflects a compassionate idea from an elderly woman to a caller as she notes others' forgetfulness of their own words.
Letter from Islay Street Markdale Ontario describes a two month old child with a spreading facial eczema rash. After applying Cuticura Soap and Ointment for three days the itching subsided and the rash dried, with the illness fully improving by the end of the treatment. Signed Dirs. John Shea Jr January 16, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are promoted with a liberal free sample offer for each product. A 22-page Book accompanies the samples, available by sending a postcard to Cuticura Dept. D, Boston, U. S. A.
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