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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 19, 1917
Page
6
Le Figaro lauds British optimism as noble and practical, avoiding effeminate sentiment while facing war’s horrors. The portrayal emphasizes a major key approach that has yielded splendid wartime results and steadiness in national morale.
An advertisement extols Dr Cassell's Tablets from Drells Co Manchester as a reputable remedy for many ailments including dyspepsia kidney trouble sleeplessness anaemia and nerve disorders. A free sample offer is available through Harold F. Ritchie & Co Toronto with five cents to cover mailing. A stray humorous snippet about a tramp and a summer boarder appears at the end.
The lines present a personal exchange about identity and mortality where one speaker laments that their name would die with them, while the other asks for their name and receives the answer Smith.
A British gunboat chases U boats with a deck gun, depth charges, and ten lance bombs. Lance bombs are 14 pound contact bombs on six foot handles used at close range, packed with TNT for sub surface work, with rehearsals warned against by shipmates.
An advertisement touts a catarrh cure with a money back promise and testimonials. It offers a $100 reward for proof of cure and cites J Cheney & Co as purveyors, with the claim that internal treatment heals constitutional disease affecting the mucous surfaces.
A curious list describes tornado-proof houses on pivots and peculiar devices like a pedal “long factor” to warm toes, a corn-cob teeth polisher, scented chewing gum locket, snoring stopper, a noiseless alarm that yanks a sleeper, egg counter, pepper sprayer for burglars, chicken eye protection, and an automatic hat removal device. Each item showcases eccentric ideas once deemed worthy of patent consideration.
A historical report notes 1912 to 1916 barn fires in Canada destroyed over 5200 structures with losses exceeding 7.85 million. It finds lightning and spontaneous combustion as main causes, and asserts rodded buildings resist lightning damage, urging farmers to install lightning rods to save costs.
Many women juggle household duties and caregiving causing daily stresses that affect health. Dr Williams Pink Pills are advertised to restore color, appetite, and energy, with a testimonial from Mrs G Strasser of Acton West Ontario. Purchased at druggists or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
A Cincinnati authority promotes freezone as a home remedy for corns and calluses. A few drops on the corn relieve pain, dry and shrivel the tissue, and the root can be pulled out with the corn. A small bottle is inexpensive and widely available at drug stores.
Dinah suffers a toothache and when a dentist touches her tooth she screams. The dentist asks why the noise, and Dinah retorts that perhaps he is painless but she is not. The exchange ends with a sharp, humorous jab and a mild clash of expectations.
A promotional notice touts Parmelees Vegetable Pills as relief for indigestion and mental distraction. It claims a course of treatment will prove their excellence and confidently recommends them for all claimed benefits.
An editorial cites the New York World warning that fears of overproduction are unfounded and urges sustaining farmer effort and home gardening to prevent lower yields and higher prices next winter amid global shortages even if peace comes tomorrow.
A brief readers’ note crisp with comic dialogue and stray quotes about price, evening plans, and a literary remark. The fragment mentions Minard's Liniment claimed to cure garget in cows and includes casual banter about thoughts and nickel offers.
Boundary Inspector L L Kramer reports a sharp rise in American settlers crossing into Canada via Emerson, North Portal and Coutts in May. Settlers reached 2891, with wealth of settlers totaling 645171 dollars, and cars of effects 91. The farming class leads, and many bring stock to begin farm work promptly after arriving.
A woman asks for one hundred twenty five dollars to invest in stocks. The proposal centers on the Mile. Marie Millinery Company claiming each share includes a fashionable hat. The exchange hints at a promotional stock pitch from a millinery business.
The Bureau of Fisheries urges the public to try whale meat and other marine mammal flesh to prevent waste during the war emergency. It notes texture resembles beef and that fresh, canned, and carned meat may become available. Seattle and Portland residents already enjoy whale meat at hotels. Each whale yields about 20 000 pounds of meat suitable for steak or pot roast.
The crown prince, now 36, has altered views from German supremacy to questioning long term prospects of his throne. His army’s strategic retreats limit celebration time as he contemplates how the world will judge him on his next birthday. Holloway's Corn Cure promises painless corn removal.
A bystander hero saves a man. when asked about relation the hero reveals the man owes him 200 dollars. The magnate boasts coal dust made him rich and explains he owns a laundry chain, not stock in mines.
Mrs Exosic J van der Sanz of Paterson New Jersey writes that after suffering back pain irregularity exhaustion and nervous distress she used Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier and regained health She recommends the remedies to other women and provides contact details for the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co
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