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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 07, 1927
Page
7
Helmi, arriving as a Finnish immigrant with red hair and a green Tam o Shanter, faces pressure from Aunt Lily and Mike Laine while choosing to stay with Big Kate and the cook. Conflicts over English, money, and future collide as workers debate immigration and solidarity aboard the Soo line train toward an uncertain new life.
Margaret Kenny opens a letter from Kate in the States revealing a Finn girl, with Kate insisting Maggie find her a place. Maggie’s tirade shows resentment at the farce of “loving” sisters and a plan to shelter or hide a migrant girl amid familial friction and mounting expectations.
Mrs L L Laseuesss of Coniston Ontario details a severe post operative illness followed by months of pain. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and related products she reports full recovery and resumed farm duties. She credits six bottles of the Vegetable Compound five boxes of Compound Pills two bottles of Blood Medicine and use of Sanative Wash for relief.
Mrs. P. Willis of Cranbrook B C possesses what is claimed to be Canada's oldest sewing machine at 73 years old. The machine arrived before major rail development and is still regularly used, while a nationwide search drew 53940 entries and over 100000 machines aged 40 years or more. A brief medical note offers Holloway's Corn Remover for corn relief.
A physician from the Ambruzzi Mountains in Italy claims hypodermic iodine injections cure scarlet fever and eradicate its germs. He reports using age proportioned doses during a recent epidemic and claims the scourge was stamped out in a few days.
The piece extols aluminum as the wonder metal of the age noting its lightness brightness and rust resistance. It highlights its adaptability and calls it a premier tea container with Red Rose Tea specifically packed in this modern metal package.
A descriptive overview of world sea lanes and the shift from sail to steam, noting main routes, busy trade corridors, and the enduring old sailing traditions. The piece contrasts steamers with sailing ships and cites Joseph Leming on ships and car f es. It closes with an advertisement for Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil promising rapid healing for persistent sores.
Secretary Melion authorizes a about one third size reduction for U S paper currency beginning with the dollar. The new dollar will be about 6% by 2 3% inches, roughly the size of Philippine currency. First notes may be produced soon but public release not for about twelve months. The item also notes anti tobacco leagues and English doctors' view on women’s smoking. Includes a humorous Pearsons Weekly exchange and a claim of Teku Ogin Ali Agha as possibly 147 years old with memories of events 135 years past.
Horace Woodford of England, a former Hull clerk and ex serviceman, travels the country with a typewriter offering letter typing for farmers and navvies. He charges 12 cents a letter and has typed thousands including love letters, noting romance on the land and even providing short poetry for the ladies. He plans to continue through Scotland after England Ireland and Wales.
A Toronto real estate dealer who died leaves his children not wealth but guidance. His will asks the “darling children” to embrace acts of kindness and love toward all people, promising riches in this life and the life to come. The piece quotes Tennyson on kind hearts and notes such virtues may outweigh money.
A religious snippet cites Matthew 5 8 about the pure in heart seeing God and feeling his presence everywhere. It contrasts mystical joy with the open eye drinking in light and notes strong faith from Parker and Holland. The last line advertises Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a child medicine.
A Parliament member aboard a sinking steamship faces a reporter's prompt for publicity. The statesman replies that he is in favor of a back-to-the-land movement. The exchange includes remarks about a musician son and an offhand comment on child discipline.
The ikon painters of Kholuy a Russian village claim a mass production system began 200 years ago. Passing each ikon through 100 hands, the village reportedly turns out 2,000,000 icons annually for distribution and sale.
Winnipeg retains third spot in national population rankings. Board of Trade figures place total including suburbs at 294,646 per Henderson's Directory, with City Hall proprer population at 198,932, up 7,000 from last year. Montreal leads, Toronto far ahead, Vancouver next at about 160,000.
The ad touts Baby's Own Tablets as an easy pleasant laxative for children and an ideal remedy for feverishness indigestion colic vomiting constipation diarrhoea teething pains and better sleep. Sold by medicine dealers or 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont. A Liberty article cites six as the age most children are killed by accident according to insurance statistics.
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