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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 07, 1918
Page
7
Brighten appearance with Dr Hamiltons Pills claim to restore youth and regulate the system. Advertises a 75 cent box promising relief for headaches back and limb pains and benefits for bowels stomach and kidneys. Contains bold marketing language and targets general wellbeing.
Curate Laurence Clegg visits Kenyon to relay rumors around Sir Anthony West and a Comlyn Court murder. West, seen near Comlyn on the day of the crime, faces village gossip amid a dispute over Miss Mavis Comlyn and Jasper Morgan.
The article quotes Lloyd George asserting victory is assured if Britain remains resilient. It argues no sign of heart failure exists across the empire from England to Mesopotamia and Archangel, praising the navy, merchant fleet, and allied resolve as Germany calls for peace through Austria.
A collage of reader notes on sugar substitutes, marmalade recipes, fish distribution plans, and food conservation. It discusses white corn syrup, glucose, and marmalade preparation from Toronto’s Central Technical School, plus a mail order system for frozen fish and calls to save sunflower and buckwheat seeds for poultry. The piece urges continued price controls, law enforcement, and vigilant restraint amid wartime shortages.
A Camp Meade cook forgets her pass and confirms her identity to a sentry by admitting she makes the tomato soup. The sentry salutes and grants passage, remarking on craving the soup.
The Museum of the Numismatic Society in New York received a gift believed to be the rarest coin in its collection, a Confederate half dollar. A reverse die bearing a Confederate shield was used to strike only four pieces, with two surviving. The obverse reused the 1861 Liberty seated figure, and four pieces were likely prepared for Richmond officials before bullion ran out.
A teacher asks Harold a riddle about eleven sheep with six jumping the fence. Harold insists none remain, quipping you may know arithmetic but not sheep.
The Basle Nachrichten recounts Finland’s great composer Jean Sibelius narrowly escaping execution during a Red Guards purge. Professor Kajanus disguised a rescue plan by appealing to a war minister who was fond of music, securing a passport to enable Sibelius’s escape.
A fragment notes a dramatic escape where the hero passes the ring of Red Guards and saves Sibelius, signaling a tense moment in the narrative with vivid danger and perseverance.
Miss Julia King of Colonel's Island Georgia explains how beekeepers contribute wax and honey to support soldiers. She notes her 50 colonies produce lambrine material for Red Cross healing. lambrine, found by Dr Barthe de Sante fort, is used in military hospitals to reduce scarring and pain.
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