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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
3
Zam Pak purportedly soothes wounds and chronic sores using herbal ingredients. ZamBak soap marketed for babies’ baths and skin relief also claims to prevent infections and freckles.
An officer describes discovery of four iron spearheads and prehistoric graves during trench work with the British Salonika Expeditionary Force. Bones and ancient pottery, beads, and gold ornaments are reported. dated around 1200 BC by an archaeologist. Notes museum transfer to Athens and reflects on Greek history. A separate ad mentions Dr Thomas Electric Oil and a Kentucky farmer quip.
Twenty three creameries in Saskatchewan last year earned over one point six million dollars from ice cream milk and buttermilk sales. The same sources fetched an additional three hundred seventy nine thousand dollars in related products, boosting overall revenue.
The article outlines Admiral von Tirpitzs role in German naval policy and the shifts in Berlin politics leading to his resignation. It notes his influence on submarine warfare and the limitations of earlier plans, while detailing the changes in the German naval command and the impact on wartime strategy. A Toronto chicken breeder is also mentioned, selling incubated chicks.
A Canadian reader shares how after scarlet fever left her with a weak stomach and kidney trouble, a doctor approved Grape-Nuts. She improved quickly, gained weight, and returned to daily duties. She notes water felt heavy and credits Grape-Nuts with her recovery and urges others with stomach issues to try it. She reports others with similar problems benefited as well.
The article notes flax breaking ahead of May 26 for sowing season and outlines seed rates from 40 to 60 pounds per acre. It stresses careful sowing before June 1 to yield a fair crop, mentions wheat sowing adjustments, and cites flaxseed revenue around two dollars per bushel in recent months.
Advertisement extols Dr Hamilton's Pills as a cure for women's ills caused by impure blood. Claims vigor, strength, better color and appetite, improved digestion, and safe rebuilding effects. Ends noting price 25c per box and long-standing use as America's family medicine. The fragment ends with a joke about Algy in an asylum.
A letter from Chas. Whooten of Port Mulgrave endorses Minard's Liniment as a reliable remedy for sore throat colds and common ailments asserting it relieves and cures promptly.
Naval experts note that Germany relies on Krupp for rapid gun and armor production. In 1909 England's First Lord McKenna claimed Krupp could supply guns and armor for eight dreadnoughts annually. The Essen factories, with current expansion, could equip Germany’s naval program, unmatched by other nations.
Advertised powder treated stomach morbid conditions that nourish worms. It supposedly kills parasitic worms on contact, digests them, and evacuates them with waste. The remedy is said to restore organ soundness and steadily improve child health.
A dramatic exchange ends with the threatened suicide and a warning about parental disapproval. The scene unfolds at a garden gate as a young man pleads for a decisive answer from the coquette.
The dialogue discusses a peculiar annual fur shedding of a muff and a vendor’s remark. A patient line references Minard's Liniment used by physicians. Tommys asks about gooseberries, and a mispronounced line about swallowing a cat appears. The American Agriculture report mentions the winter wheat crop across a market against a yearly rate.
A murky clipping describes posters posted by a man for recruitment at Young bo dies' College and near a cemetery gate. One poster urged “Fall in and do your bit” while another hinted at local infrastructure work with a promise of wages.
One hundred dollars reward offered for an incurable case of catarrh. The advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as blood-borne remedy, claiming 35 years of use and disease relief. It urges immediate use, promises general health improvement, and invites testimonials, from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, to be sold by all druggists for 7ic.
The Kaiser aimed to destroy empire but will instead rebuild it on a liberty driven foundation. In decades, Britain may shrink within a broader confederation, yet the English race could lose its center. If we meet our heritage, Britain will retain the glory of founding the greatest confederation of free peoples the earth has seen.
In a brief exchange Mrs Noovo-Reesh and her companion discuss attending the matinee at the recently opened theatre. They remark on the acoustics being a bit gaudy yet pleasant, while noting the theatre’s fresh opening. A Saskatchewan agriculture sketch mentions spring germination tests with 95 percent vitality.
About eighty five purebred animals were offered for sale at the Winter Pair in Regina during March. The beet breed averaged 18 pte animal with a top price of 75.
A spring health note extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic to renew blood and vitality amid winter fatigue. Personal testimonial from Mrs Eugene Cadarette of Amherstburg credits six boxes with weight gain and relief from dizziness and headaches. Pills available by mail or at druggists, Brockville Ontario. Also reports India’s quiet winter frontier, neutral Amir policy, and brisk munitions manufacture as part of a broader dispatch.
The dialogue sketch centers on a compassionate cook comforting a distressed mistress. The master has been wounded and the cook assures care will mend the situation, promising improvement rather than fear. The scene implies a period setting with domestic figures in a tense moment.
An officer, supervising a varied stock intake, asks a sergeant major to pick a clerk from among the men. The sergeant-major brings a private who admits little clerical skill but can do a bit with figures. The captain learns the man was a professor of mathematics before enlistment.
The British consul at Osaka notes a surge in cotton price goods exports from Japan since the war. Mills profit from shirtings and drills while stock decline in Shanghai from May 1915 spurred demand. By early 1916 mills had sold six months of output, signaling a strong position in China and India markets.
Commander Armstrong leads a Canadian recruitment drive to select six hundred volunteers for officers and chiefs to man patrol boats for the Royal Navy auxiliary patrol. The party will visit all districts to assess volunteers for command of boats, seafaring roles, and marine engineering.
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