Blue Ribbon Tea advertisement claims vigor and relief
An ad extols Blue Ribbon Tea as rich and delicious that stimulates a man in the morning and helps him forget troubles at night. It urges readers to ask for the product.
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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 05, 1924
Page
2
An ad extols Blue Ribbon Tea as rich and delicious that stimulates a man in the morning and helps him forget troubles at night. It urges readers to ask for the product.
The article notes a shift from Canadian pessimism to optimism, citing strong gains in trade and exports, expanded manufacturing in trucks and autos, flour, pulp and paper, lumber, mining, and wheat. It highlights a balanced budget, tax cuts, better employment, rising immigration, and healthy agriculture as signs the tide has turned for Canada.
Quebec officials forecast a maple sugar crop near 22 million pounds this season, with a seven to eight week tapping period longer than the usual five weeks. At 25 cents per pound, farmers could realize about 5.6 million dollars as sap strength and yields exceed recent years. Quebec remains a major world supplier of syrup and sugar.
The Calgary Board of Trade announces a $500 prize fund to be distributed in 1924 to first prize winners from Alberta at the International Hay and Grain Show in Chicago in December. Alberta entrants won four championships and 44 additional prizes last year.
A professor vents frustration at students during a morning class as the mood turns tense and signals dismissal. He warns students not to chatter as they leave, reflecting a strained classroom atmosphere.
Advert shows Fletcher's Castoria claimed to relieve constipation and colic in children, ease flatulence and feverishness, and aid digestion and sleep by normalizing stomach and bowels. It notes the genuine bottle bears a signature.
Twenty Mennonite families acquire the Wilson Brothers farm of 5 588 acres at Harris Sask near the Canadian National line in a 270000 dollar deal. Negotiations were led by the Canada Colonization Association which notes the buyers differ from earlier Mexico emigrants and emphasize industry over old colony prejudice.
A brief note describes dyeing faded clothing and draperies to restore color and present a neater appearance. It emphasizes women applying dye to garments to renew their look.
A 15 cent Diamond Dyes package offers simple directions so any woman can dye or tint worn items. Choose any color at the drug store and refresh fabrics even without prior experience.
The final mosaic panel in the Houses of Parliament depicts St Patrick for Ireland and was created by R Anning Bell. Unveiled on St Patrick's Day, it completes four arches begun at construction, marking a century and a half of posterity filling. The earlier panels show St George for England 1870 St David for Wales 1898 and St Andrew for Scotland last year.
Don’t limp any longer. The oldest remedy for fifty years proves a true success and will remove corns, warts, and bunions quickly. Putnam’s Painless Corn and Wart Extractor costs 25 cents everywhere.
Official statistics from Hon. Wm. Sloan minister of mines show British Columbia’s mineral production value for 1923 at 41 504 5, an increase of 6 045 477 over 1922 and up 17.5 percent.
Mr H A Reid of Upper Musquodoboit Nova Scotia writes that after wartime concussion his heart and nerves were wrecked and he could not sleep. After two boxes he enjoyed a good night’s rest and urges other veterans to try the pills. Price 50 cents a box, sold by dealers or mailed from The T Milburn Co Toronto.
About 15 000 children under sixteen in Ontario depend on public charity per the Mothers' Allowance Act annual report. Last year 1 500 found homes, 2 250 placed in orphanages, 225 in infants homes, and 486 in shelters.
A reader champions the honor system in a recent election, claiming five votes cast in its favor. The informal exchange reflects strong support for self governance and integrity in polling.
Reginald Berkeley argues in the Spectator that the pre-war mind cannot abandon the view that armaments are for use. He notes elders shaping youth to accept war as inevitable, contrasting domestic defense rhetoric with fear of other nations, implying only a post-war shift can end war.
The five 400 horsepower Zeppelin engines for the ZR-3 are being refined in Friedrichshafen ahead of trials. Officials aim for a four day Atlantic crossing with the ZR-3 to Lakehurst, with Dr. Hugh Eckener targeting a June start despite possible delays.
A claimed line of Catarrhozone inhaler is advertised to stop colds by clearing nose and throat, easing hoarseness, and healing inflamed bronchial tubes. The kit is offered for one dollar, with a smaller size priced at fifty cents, available at druggists and by mail from The Catarrhozone Co. Montreal.
March car loading reached 289 389 units, well above February 233 360 and the March 1923 figure of to indicate a strong improvement in the national trade, according to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
Though Canada was not the birthplace of Dr. Thomas Electric Oil, it is the home of that famous compound. From here its good name spread to Central and South America, the West Indies, Australia and New Zealand, where it is in sale and in demand.
The Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Russia docked in Vancouver with a cargo worth millions in silk and a record Siberian skins shipment. A passenger list exceeded 700, and silk was unloaded within minutes into box cars bound for eastern markets, with the entire cargo departing within three hours.
A Chicago Evening Post item notes an Arkansas man divorces his wife because she bobbed her hair. The column quips about the melody loving her for her rocks of gold and love growing cold after the loss.
Farmers and stock raisers should keep Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for family ills and as a horse and cattle medicine. It serves as a superior substitute for sweet oil in horses and cattle affected by colic and stands as a potent remedy.
David Barrows former president of the University of California returns from study of French colonial administration. He says France aims to make Dakar a world class seaport and notes the administration is less militaristic and the natives are being educated without brutality.
The advertisement asserts that no surgical operation is required to remove corns when using Holloway's Corn Remover. It presents the product as a simple alternative to professional treatment.
A special train of fifty carloads of cedar shingles was shipped from Vancouver to points east of Buffalo marking the first Pacific Northwest lumber eastbound by rail. The shipment, expected to be repeated in spring and summer, uses 1,125,000 logs and could roof 800 buildings for about 4,000 people, with shingles lasting 40 to 50 years.
In 1919 the Bureau of Mines reported about 465000 workers in American mines from non English speaking races, many of whom were illiterate, alongside a note mentioning Minard’s Liniment for Distemper.
A sapling of Russian origin sits on the White House grounds. It traces to acorns sent by Charles Sumner to the Czar, planted in the Imperial Palace park, then grown and given to President Roosevelt who planted it on April 4 1904, thirteen years before the United States joined World War I.
The text describes anaemia in young girls as possibly hereditary or caused by air, diet, and lifestyle. It promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a simple remedy that improves blood quality, energy, and sleep. A testimonial from Pearl Parks of Reaboro Ontario claims recovery after about a dozen boxes. Pills priced 50 cents a box from Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
Tiny china egg cups under a quarter inch high with matching cups and plates have been completed for Queen Marys famous dolls house.
A light exchange on widow remarriage prompts the joke that dead men tell no tales, reflecting on social norms and humor of marriage taboos.
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