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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 11, 1918
Page
7
Catarrh sufferers can be cured at home by inhaling Catarrhozone a healing vapor sent directly to the lungs and air passages The product claims to kill germs destroy secretions and provide rapid relief from colds sore throats and bronchial trouble The ad asserts the vapor is pleasant safe and guaranteed to cure or prevent winter ills with immediate relief once breathing begins
Sir Anthony West accepts a sealed envelope containing a fifty pound note to pay fines if he fails a condition. Laura Gaspard joins him in a Napier as they drive from Mayfair toward the Oxford Road, the pair planning to confront Jasper Morgan and settle debts, while avoiding police scrutiny.
In a tense scene Sir Anthony plans a risky outward run to beat a bet as he and Laura travel toward Gerrard's Cross. The scheme aims to lure officers by a slow start then a rush home. He warns Laura to observe the speed, promising a rapid pass near fifty mph.
The food shortage prompts British forces to cultivate 50,000 acres in France 7,000 in Salonica and about 700,000 across Mesopotamia Egypt Palestine and Cyprus. Camps in Egypt Palestine and Salonica will produce vegetables hay and forage as well as in England Aldershot expands from 28 to 1,200 acres in 18 months.
Saskatchewan’s government figures show last year’s agricultural exports valued at 229.599 million dollars covering grain live stock butter wool and furs. The total exceeds by about 39 million the value of all Dominion home production exports from twelve years ago, highlighting a remarkable growth.
Mr. J. D. McGregor director of Labor for the Canada food board estimates the three Prairie Provinces will sow an acreage increase of 2 690 acres in wheat oats and barley.
Ralph D. Paine spoke to a guests of J. P. Morgan about Allied navies in action. He described land fleet activity, a midnight dawn voyage from Scotland to seek German ships, and American battleships in the van behind the British flagship. He cited Irish attitudes toward American sailors in Cork and noted 5,600 sailors ashore at Edinburgh for Christmas with only three drunk.
The text analyzes land value by its earning power, comparing high and low priced lands by interest costs on investment. It argues wheat profits rarely justify $125 to $250 per acre except in war-time prices, contrasts US land prices with Western Canada, and notes population pressure, transport distances, and relative production costs shaping values.
A London Answers anecdote tells how a town tradesman left a box labeled for the blind outside his shop. Weeks later the box vanished. He explains he received enough money and points to a new canvas blind over his window as the reason, joking that the blind is now the window cover.
Hon T. A. Crerar, Minister of Agriculture, declares urgent call to farmers to plant every workable acre in wheat. He argues no idle men should exist if physically able to work, urging province wide cultivation to address grain needs.
Maxim Gorky in Petrograd Novaya Zhizn reports disintegration and famine on the countryside as peasants turn on one another over spoil. He notes slaves among soldiers and a market in human chattels, contrasting alleged communism with brutal reality and mass discipline in Sebastopol, Simferopol, and Eupatoria.
A man in Ireland laments his wife with a tongue in cheek line about her gentle broom strike, noting she was a good woman and finding humor in a domestic memory.
Capt Persius the German naval critic, famed for defending U boat warfare, expresses gloom over victory prospects. He doubts any German peace by force and suggests England may seek peace, while questioning guilt for the war and whether motive to fight remains. From Chicago Evening Post.
In a dialogue quoted from Household Words a young woman confirms serious thoughts about marriage after consulting two fortune tellers a clairvoyant a sign-book a dream on a lock of hair an astrologer and a medium all urging her to proceed she vows not to marry recklessly party line echoes Victorian fate and caution about impulsive unions.
Earl Rogers argues that daily gathering preserves egg freshness and reputations, noting how even grocers unknowingly pass along bad eggs. He warns that one spoiled egg can ruin a farmer’s name and urges careful candling and select buying practices to protect value.
The Canada Food Board urges greater use of corn meal and corn flour to save wheat. Private households and public eateries should adopt these substitutes. Milling agreements with companies now enable at least 20 000 bushels of corn daily. current Canadian mills produce 10 000 bushels daily, meeting demand as substitutes expand.
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