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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 06, 1929
Page
6
The article extols a lifelong drive for cleanliness in Canada with call to paint up and keep it up. It discusses historic examples and urges sustained efforts against dirt and disease. It also offers painting guidance about yellow pine and the dangers of boiled oil in priming coats and other painting pitfalls.
A rural business guide explains paint as a key to efficiency and longevity. It advises materials, methods, and routines for barns, fences, silos, and roofs, highlighting protective coatings, wood preservation, and common painting errors to avoid.
Doctors say souring waste in a baby's digestive tract causes poor weight gain. The quick remedy is cleansing the stomach and bowels with Fletcher's Castoria, a gentle vegetable preparation doctors trust for colic gas constipation diarrhea and related ills in babies and children.
Large patterned material should be used sparingly in big rooms to avoid restlessness. Big designs are not bad but demand careful selection and skill. The value of any item depends on whether you are buying or selling it.
Mre Wm Fowler of Auburn Ontario describes numb hands and cold feet from heart and nerve trouble. He tried doctor’s medicine with little help, then used the advertised remedy from The T Milburn Co in Toronto and reports no recurrence. Cost 50c, available at druggists or by mail order.
Do not accumulate rubbish or waste near buildings and avoid unclean lamps or burners. Keep gasoline in airtight red cans and avoid filling stoves when lit. Warn children about bonfires and ensure electrical work is done by an electrician. Paint and cleanup campaigns reduce losses, improve safety, values, and community spirit.
The article urges pairing painting with cleaning to maintain tidy spaces. It argues painted surfaces resist dirt, dirt shows on paint, and cleanliness increases property value. It promotes using both paint and scrub brushes as a united effort for farm buildings and homes.
This piece highlights home gardening as a thrifty, healthful hobby that boosts food supply and provides affordable outdoor exercise. Cultivating a backyard plot regularly can save households money and even help maintain a house through routine upkeep and painting.
The article urges farm owners to start Clean-Up and Paint-Up campaigns by removing ramshackle buildings repairing and painting remaining structures trimming hedges and trees and cleaning tools and machinery. It notes rural districts show as much incentive as cities. Hoisting of the Nationalist flag in Manchuria on December 31 placed the greater part of China under the Nationalist government.
Toothbrushes and handkerchiefs are described as tokens of valor presented by Chinese generals to their troops, illustrating the symbolic rewards used to honor soldiers.
A historical call to citizens detailing practical steps for a community clean up. Tips include removing ashes and trash, organizing hauling with hired teams, burning waste where safe, painting fronts, demolishing unsightly sheds, repairing walks, trimming hedges, and painting barns and tools to improve town beauty and sanitation.
Floors remain attractive when kept in perfect condition through regular waxing. Doorways passages and tracks wear and look unsightly first, but frequent waxing with a good prepared wax and floor polishing brush keeps these spots looking well with little time and effort.
A historical notice urges communities to adopt Clean-Up and Paint-Up campaigns to combat disease. It links dirt with influenza and typhoid, argues cleanliness and painting reduce germs, and cites Alameda California where placards labeled houses as Clean Dirty or Filthy as effective.
Health campaign urges cleanliness sunlight and fresh air to stop tuberculosis and other diseases. Advice advocates scrubbing washing painting and removal of filth, rubbish, and manure to reduce flies and improve homes from cellar to roof. An odd note claims an ostrich egg weighs three pounds.
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