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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 13, 1919
Page
7
An ad proclaims Dr Hamilton's Pills of Mandrake and Butternut cure kidney weakness and related pains. It promises relief from backache lameness swelling and rheumatic aches and lists tiredness headaches dizziness and vision disturbances as symptoms. Boxes sold for 25 cents.
A villainous duel erupts under moonlight as Raggles battles two foes, one a ragged man and the other an officer. In a shocking moment the moonlight reveals the officer is the Balkan gentleman from Paris whose shoes he once sold. The scene ends with Raggles recognizing the adversary.
The passage describes a nighttime scene with a wavering call, gusty wind, rifle fire, and cries of Allah. A man named Kuggies lies unconscious across the body of his late client, a Bulgarian gentleman, as the moon lights his pallid face.
On a sunny Therapia terrace Hamid Pasha, an elderly Ottoman, listens as Ruggles reads Swinburne while war wounds linger. The scene blends poetry, memory, and hopes for peace as a Bulgarian bullet limits Ruggles’s mobility. An embedded medical advert touts Dr Chase's Nerve Food for exhausted nerves with pricing details.
The dying Hamid Pasha, rich from Egyptian estates and Suez holdings, reflects on faith, life, and poetry. Free-thinking yet devout in parts, he recalls marriages, vast securities, and a cultured love for jasmine, music, and the Bosphorus as he faces dissolution.
Sophia towers over a misty dawn as Hamid relishes pomegranate and fresh fish from the Bosphorus. A feared yet gentle Bashi-Bazouk in battle, he shuns heavy foods alcohol tobacco and other poisons while cherishing deep religious faith and a poet's sensibility.
Early this year extremists in Bolshevik circles in England and the United States discussed plans to seize Whitehall and Westminster through a sailors and soldiers union. One plotter was jailed for revolutionary speeches. the scheme failed due to lack of support and police vigilance.
A provincial note warns about high heel wear causing corns and urges stopping pressure on toes. It touts Freezone as quick relief to remove corns or calluses with a direct application, claiming no irritation. It suggests asking a druggist for a quarter ounce and even clipping this for storage.
A fragmented note references Boston Transcript and hints at a personal tale about love and marriage. The text blends casual slang with hints of romance and alarm over marital steps, reflecting mid century newspaper mood.
An advertisement extols Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills as essential for women's health, citing Mrs. P. H. Ryan of Sand Point Nova Scotia and noting a price of five cents per box. It also reports Indigenous farming figures: 82,421 cropped acres, up 11,733 from 1917, with farm products valued at $2,853,149.
The article urges aging businessmen to speed up work and stay fit. It promotes daily laxatives to keep bowels clear, tepid sponge baths, brisk air workouts, and regular exercise. It recommends Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and Anuric to prevent old age, improve backache, rheumatism, and kidney issues via uric acid elimination.
A fragment describes a child hurt after a risky play scene. Mercy voices shock at the bump while Green Girl blames instructions to let him play on the piano. The brief exchange centers on a domestic mishap.
An early 20th century style medical ad promises a sunrise of health after consuming Cascarets to cleanse the liver and bowels. It warns of foggy skin headaches and indigestion from poisons, touting Cascarets as gentle, inexpensive, and non griping, effective overnight.
The Calgary winter livestock show last week showcased many cattle sheep and swine with total sale proceeds reaching 23000. Cattle average 146.4 per head and Helstein grades were common while sheep sold at about 18 per head. The event occurred in the new livestock pavilion praised as one of the finest in the country.
A reader recounts a sore corn described as painful yet tolerable until stepped on. After trying Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor, the corn disappeared and the user now voices satisfaction. The product is advertised at 25 cents and available from all dealers.
The Saskatchewan Cakole Company submits an offer to Regina city council to convert city garbage into fuel briquettes for five years. They request free use of the transfer station and annual rent waivers plus electricity, plan a building costing 35 000 to 40 000 dollars, and grant the city an option to buy the plant with eight percent earning capacity.
An ancient mosque in Constantinople, St Sophia, was constructed over a thousand years ago using mortar blended with musk and the odor remains detectable today.
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