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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 13, 1915
Page
6
A vintage advertising note touts Nerviline for coughs sore throats and congestions. It claims rapid absorption through tissues, soothing relief for chronic colds rheumatism neuralgia and headaches, with a 500 bottle and 25 cent trial size sold by Catarrhozone Co Kingston Canada.
Retired wrestling star Frank Gotch, once world champion, travels from Humboldt Iowa with his wife for an auto show and shopping. He describes a productive 900 acre corn crop yielding about 61,200 bushels valued near 45,900 at 75 cents per bushel plus oats hay and stock. He owns four farms near Humboldt and serves as bank director as profits rise despite hard times.
An advertisement urges men with sedentary lives to take exercise and use Parmelee's Vegetable Pills to regulate the stomach and liver. It recommends keeping a packet on hand to restore healthy digestion and prevent illness.
A passerby judges a farmer by his surroundings noting straight fences sturdy gates and orderly outbuildings. The image of diligence earns respect even if the finances are not robust, with orderliness promising eventual reward.
A thief, claiming Britain guards small states, explains his moral code as he rapes a victim and steals a watch and diamond pin, asserting protection and exchange as his motto amid wartime reflection on Belgium and Canada.
Sailors bearing two crossed insignia guard the navy code used for signaling. Semaphore, flags, lights, and later wireless telegraphy carry messages between ships. A single misread sign once cost 700 lives and a million and a half pounds.
Restore spring energy with Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The ad claims the pills cleanse bad blood and strengthen nerves, promising clearer skin brighter eyes and better sleep. Sold by dealers or mailed from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont at 50 cents per box and 2 50 for six boxes.
A Seed Branch Ottawa bulletin notes many city families with truck farming experience pay high rents for city houses. It says twenty acres of country land could rent for less and yield larger returns than urban occupations.
The London Telegraph notes France as more united and resolute than in centuries, recalling the nightmare of Paris's capitulation. Minard's ointment is advertised widely. A child's cut of dialogue reveals a penny-for-apples bet and cap loss worry.
The article urges Southern and Western Canadian farmers to self supply by home gardens, full corn production, winter legumes, poultry and hogs, and careful fertilizerUse. It cites Bradford Knapp and U S Department of Agriculture guidance to reduce imports, boost livestock, and live at home amid high regional shortages and rising costs. It highlights low livestock averages in the South, large import bills for wheat corn oats meats dairy and poultry, and warns against overreliance on a single crop.
The text notes a policy of broad diversification to supply home needs on a large scale, asserting that if carried out, sections would shift away from their current rigid framework and align with secure local production goals.
Manitoba approves broad hotel and boarding house sanitation rules after persistent lobbying by commercial travellers led by J. A. Cox. A provincial health board inspector will enforce standards including fire escapes, ventilation, fly screens, and safe food protection across hotels and boarding houses province wide.
A New York Commercial editorial urges accelerating preparations for the postwar era to seize commercial supremacy before rivals begin, arguing the early start decides the race. A separate product notice promotes Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as a remedy for worm-related childhood illness.
A fisherman on a French riverbank, near recent fighting, was found with a wire on his boot. The wire traced across the river connected to another wire leading to a German camp, signaled by a steel blade on his other foot. He now has no need for boots.
A sufferer with muscular rheumatism is urged to rub the region briskly with Dr. Thomas Ot Oil until relief is achieved and cure is promised by the potent oil. The advice emphasizes swift pain subduction and substantial virtue in a small amount.
An American in France, delayed at a small country station, asks a passerby in faltering French for help finding a train. He apologizes, explains he has left the train and does not know where to find it, and the stranger offers to help search together.
An advertisement extols Dr Chase Kidney Liver Pills to relieve constipation indigestion and back pain. It quotes Professor A T Smith of Montreal praising the remedy after years of ill health and claims the pills can form a regular bowel habit and improve digestion with a few boxes. Batteries of claims assert efficacy and urge purchase at 25 cents a box from dealers.
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