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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 17, 1919
Page
7
An old advert promises quick facial improvements with Dr Hamilton's Pills. It claims purifying blood clears humors, strengthens the system, and restores looks and health. The Catarrhozone Co sells 25¢ boxes with a forty year guarantee.
Ruggles junior, a shoe retailer and inventor in the Walkeasy Company lineage, dreams of expanding American manufacturing prowess. He envisions new retail shops, possibly in Vienna, as part of a growing international outpost strategy. His father’s inventive legacy and his own career in the company fuel ambitions to surpass European trade and push the Walkeasy flag worldwide.
In Paris the Walkeasy Shoe Company contemplates global depots with Dick Downing Jr. leading on his father’s legacy. Ruggles, senior salesman, admires Downing’s rise from Yale athlete to factory deity, championing workers and labor saving through humane pride over mere machinery.
A vintage advertisement touts Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills as prompt and permanent relief for heart weakness and nerve derangements. Mrs. Walker Greives of Apsley Ontario shares a testimonial of dramatic recovery after using eight boxes. The copy notes price 50c a box and mail order options via The T Milburn Co. Toronto.
Ruggles in a New York store discovers Dick Downing’s rival shoes and his sister Ruth Downing, daughter of Richard P. Downing, as they visit the shop. Ruggles keeps composure while the two Olympians tour the window displays before entering the shop, exuding confidence in the latest models.
Cincinnati authority warns against cutting corns as it risks lockjaw and blood poisoning. A quarter ounce of Freezone may be bought cheaply at drugstores and applied to one corn to relieve soreness. The drug dries quickly and allegedly shrivels the corn without irritating surrounding skin, offering a painless root removal.
Lieutenant Commander Albert C. Read of the NC-4 spoke at the American Flying Club dinner in New York about a future three year horizon. He predicted air travel to Europe by airship could become common with morning departures and afternoon returns. Read noted strong aviation enthusiasm in England and France and surprise at the US’s lack of fervor upon return.
Krupp's Essen works issued a statement to workers noting strikes and unrest have caused lost orders. They cite a Dutch contract awarded to England despite lower German bids, and Norwegian state railway steel deliveries going to an American firm at higher prices.
A vintage tobacco advertisement touts Black Watch as the top black plug chewing tobacco available. It emphasizes rich flavor and strong value, branding the product as superior to competitors in the market.
In Sonora Governor Plutarcho Elia Calles has issued a decree under Carranza’s system to enforce prohibition, directing city and town officials to execute all persons involved in liquor dealing. Calles, returning to hand over state government to Adolfo De La Huerta, previously faced moonshine and smuggling evasion, and now aims to curb violations with capital punishment for liquor traders.
Sir Douglas Haig decorated 16 American officers on Horse Guards Parade before Major-General Biddle and allied staffs as thousands watched. He said the honors marked close army ties and mutual respect between British and American forces in the field. Saskatchewan reported a relief fund total of $21,336, about half of Canada’s contribution. A final quip notes a man gains by siding with an ally to dodge a saloon, and that a friend’s worth cannot be bought.
Report from Coblenz claims the former German emperor William II will not face trial under the peace terms. Friends question his courage, while Rhineland talk cites German anger over French flags burned in Berlin and a rumored “death by own action” club among submarine commanders.
Sir Sidney Low compares current European parceling to 500 years ago when Poland Bohemia Hungary Ukraine Courland Estonia Serbia and a Balkan Greek kingdom existed before empires Austria Russia Turkey and Prussia absorbed them. The war fractures empires and 20th century maps may revive medieval borders.
Mme Melba shared a humorous Covent Garden gala anecdote at a Red Cross event. The story revolved around a young couple, a rich music-loving aunt, and a gramophone recording of the wife’s violin solo. The aunt’s later quip about her will ends the tale.
The Naval Department reports May sea fishing results show total landings valued at 3,985,050 dollars, up from 2,229,877 dollars for May last year. The rise exceeds 800 thousand dollars, reflecting higher catches on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
In the House of Commons Sir Thomas White tabled supplementary estimates totaling 36.7 million dollars to be voted before prorogation. The main item is 10 million for vessel construction under the shipping program with thousands more for public works. Harbor and river improvements include 500 thousand for a dry dock at Esquimalt and projects at Port Arthur Fort William Toronto Quebec and St John. About 23.49 million funded from current revenues with the remainder on capital account.
A Belgian farmer resumes work on his Poelcappelle area farm near Ypres after armistice. He cleared leveled dug and planted wheat on several acres while a German pill box serves as his family home. The Agricultural Relief of Allies Committee has begun aiding small holders with English livestock with hundreds of cattle pigs and poultry already distributed.
A West Philadelphia woman describes long marriage hardship and nervous prostration. She credits Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Co products with restoring health and urges others to seek their remedies, noting the company’s extensive experience and guidance.
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