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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
3
Alberta ranch horses under 1200 pounds, once bred as undesirable, find a ready market in Ontario. The Union Stock Yards Toronto horse department manager notes eastern buyers eagerly pick up this lighter type, shifting supply from the west to meet demand.
A cor respondent reports relief from rheumatism and backache after using Dr. Pierce's Anuric tablets for kidney derangement. The letter describes improved mobility and reduced pain, praising the product and advising others to try it.
A rustic designed resort will open July 1 at Lake Windermere in British Columbia offering bath ing boating riding golf automobiling fishing and big game hunting. Accessible from Golden via a new auto road under construction by the Dominion Parks Board.
An old ad offers 100 dollars for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine taken internally. It claims action through the blood on mucous surfaces and notes sale by druggists for over forty years with testimonials free. F I Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio company contact appears.
A Saskatoon house built by refrigerator engineer H Gauvin uses cement walls and airtight design to keep cold out and heat in. The structure features a concrete basement and 43 windows across nine rooms with only two entrances. The home was heated entirely by electricity during last winter.
A new branch of livestock farming reaches Canada at Hague near Saskatoon where Russian farmer David Krocker experiments with astrakhan sheep to obtain Persian lamb fur. He imported a ram from New Mexico for 300 dollars and aims to build a farm of astrakhan sheep by crossing with ordinary stock.
A wartime vessel allocation list assigns six former German warships to Great Britain along with 124 submarines. The United States receives Ostfriesland and Frankfurt, France gets Thur ingen Emien and 23 submarines, Japan takes Oldenburg Nashua and Augusburg, and Italy receives seven submarines. Remaining light cruisers destroyers and torpedo boats are to be allocated after France and Italy select from ships to be surrendered under the Austrian treaty.
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills for weak run down girls and women. It claims the pills enrich blood, boost appetite and digestion, relieve back and limb fatigue, and restore health. A testimonial from Violet Booth of Glenarm Ontario praises renewed strength after six boxes. Sold by dealers or by mail at 50 cents a box or six for $2.50 from Brockville company.
The Alberta farm women's institutes become the Dominion's second largest with over 13 000 members. In 1919 they organized 32 new branches, totaling 265 across the province and offering classes in cooking sewing sociology child welfare and relief work.
The North Sea is described as draining a quarter of Continental Europe in addition to half of the British Isles, highlighting its vast watershed and influence on regional hydrology.
Testimonial from Mrs NaPolxon Lavigne of Berwick Ontario praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Medicine for restoring health after organic troubles and aiding childbearing. The letter claims the remedies helped become strong and produced a six month old baby. notes confidentiality and reader replies.
Three men returning after years away describe reasons for their reentry. A Baptist immigrant denied communion due to lack of membership cert moved to organ duties. a Presbyterian left after a Hell sermon rejoined for family needs. a Methodist rejoined after an unwelcoming city church and a temperance sermon. Rural Canada notes rejoicing in heaven.
Dominion entomologist Dr A E Cameron reports ongoing work at the University of Saskatchewan on internal parasites to combat grasshoppers. He says traditional methods will be used again this year but hopes parasite development will curb the plague by 1921.
Western Canada hobbyists seek bees as Manitoba publishes a 24 page illustrated guide "Bee keeping in Manitoba" by R. Muckle B S A specialist lecturer. Free copies available from the Manitoba Department of Agriculture Publications Branch Winnipeg on request.
A war economy worldwide has driven price rises and discontent among belligerents and neutrals. The supreme council approved a world economic declaration on March 8 noting inflation is an inevitable wartime outcome. It compares current price hikes with Napoleonic and American Civil War periods, where rises reached 75 to 100 percent and normality took years.
Minard's Liniment in the House Gold has been discovered on Snake Creek eight miles north of Okotoks and 20 miles south of Calgary. Prospector activity surges with many miles of claims staked. A sample analyzed by the Calgary city chemist assayed $18.SO to the cubic yard of sand.
The Times leads a revival of atrocity stories tied to Lloyd George’s policy toward Soviet Russia. It highlights Reverend North as a British chaplain detained in Moscow, claims the arrest aims to curb his evidence online about Soviet conditions, and alleges Northcliffe’s paper spreads propaganda to mislead outsiders.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs as the safest laxative for children noting its fruity taste and clear dosing on each bottle. It emphasizes saying California to ensure trust and fear-free administration.
About 10 000 acres of Doukhobor lands near Kamsack Saskatchewan were disposed of by ballot to soldier settlers under the federal soldier settlement board on April 30. Twenty six parcels were sold leaving eleven farm units to be disposed of. This closes out the government lands once held by Doukhobors amid earlier difficulties during homestead settlements.
A University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine survey linked to a proposed $5 million Rockefeller Foundation grant shows Toronto has one doctor per 567 people while Ontario overall averages one per 766. London Ontario has one per 711, Hamilton 790, Ottawa 840, with British Columbia and Nova Scotia and Manitoba following in order.
Queen's University awards Seager Wheeler of Rosthern Saskatchewan the honorary Doctor of Laws. Rev. C S Young of Saskatoon receives an honorary Doctor of Divinity. The honors reflect recognized contributions to religion and agriculture in Canada.
Farmers in the western provinces face rail gaps 10 to 60 miles from lines. Hauling grain costs 0.03 per bushel per mile. A two ton truck can move 80 bushels round trip twenty miles in four hours, enabling two trips daily. At Saskatoon Grain Growers meeting attendees calculated seasonal truck savings.
An application to form the Bank of Alberta with its headquarters in Edmonton proposes a capital of 2 million dollars largely to be subscribed by provincial farmers. The plan includes branches to be opened in Edmonton and Calgary immediately.
United Seed Growers in Penticton B C plan to seed 300 acres for vegetable seeds and 100 acres for sugar beet seed in 1921. The district and province have made large strides in producing high quality seed crops.
In Thibet the people salute their superiors by taking off their hats and thrusting out their tongues three times.
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