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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 08, 1920
Page
2
A promotional note touts Catarrhozone inhaler as fast acting relief for coughs and bronchitis. It claims to reach hidden germs and cure in minutes with a large $1 size and 25 cent trial. The passage then shifts to a fiction excerpt involving a woodsman, a girl named Willow, a Frenchman named LaPeer, and others as tension builds over an accident and a potential attack.
Willow worries about her felon father and warns Dorkin that Abe Dalton’s gang may threaten them. The woodsman vows to help as they decide to visit a dying father, travel by trail to Lesser Lake, and prepare to confront threats while keeping the escape route secret.
Representations from the provincial department of industries led Hon. C. C. Ballantyne to pause selling trawlers in Great Britain. A Victoria firm reportedly seeks to purchase two vessels for use in Canadian patrol and mine sweeping efforts. The article notes Alfred the Great’s reign as a key historical turning point.
A reflective column questions media bias and sensationalism in reporting. It contrasts rhetoric with reality, urging readers to scrutinize sources and seek fuller context beyond stark headlines.
Irrigation expansion and farm subdivision in Southern Alberta are expected to bring growth to small fruits vegetables and a pea canning industry. Labor availability and closer settlement will drive development as irrigated districts offer a long sunlit growing season and high yields.
Farmers' Coal Mining Company plans to start operations at a new field near Lampman Saskatchewan within sixty days. Shaft depth already 170 feet with coal bed 210 feet below surface. Coal shown to exceed 2000 BTU and is high grade. Mine aims for 1000 tons daily once fully developed, with work to tunnel and channel before reaching capacity. surface coal expected in two months.
A Mission British Columbia report anticipates a strong heavy fruit season with bumper raspberries and early strawberry picking. By mid month strawberry pickers total about five hundred in Mission, with raspberries loganberries and blackcurrants to follow in peak labor demand later in summer. The 1666 Great Fire of London is noted as a historic reference.
Comedic letters mock a wedding report misprinting “uninterrupted bliss” as “uninterrupted bills” in the London Passing Show style. The note inflames editors by lampooning misprints that affect celebration coverage.
An old advertisement claims catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as an oral remedy that cleanses the blood and treats mucous surfaces. It stresses the internal approach, lists ingredients as tonics and blood purifiers, and offers testimonials and pricing through J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
Germany, cut off from cotton and wool, converts paper into yarn. In 1917 alone over 45,000 tons of paper were turned into paper yarn. The strips are twisted and treated to resist damp, then woven into fabrics from coarse canvas to undergarments, towels, and stockings.
Persian served as India's court language for over two centuries before British conquest and remained the official language of British India courts until a later period, shaping legal and administrative traditions.
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