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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 14, 1918
Page
3
Approximately 100000 acres of Saskatchewan land will be brought into the Indian affairs department plan next year. Indians will cultivate more land to address food shortages and will feed wheat at double the acreage they planted this year under the commissioner’s direction.
The article notes shifting fronts as Allied forces push in Macedonia. It contrasts learning local pronunciations of village names with rapid war developments and a sense of distraction from Grand Rapids reporting.
Dominion Department of Agriculture notes the sheep and goat division aids purebred ram distribution among prairie farmers. In Manitoba thirty associations received rams, led by Pine Valley Club with nine rams. Oxford rams are most in demand. Of fifty one rams placed thirty are Oxford, nine Leicester, nine Shropshire, three Suffolk. rams spread to northern Manitoba where few breeds were kept previously.
A terse inquiry asks which nation or group holds the speed title a Bulgar a Turk or a Hon with no clear answer yet. The note hints at a comparative sprint debate or athletic context without detailing names events or results.
Catarrh Cure is advertised as an internal remedy that reaches the disease in the mucous surfaces. claims to be prescribed by a leading physician and composed of ingredients that affect the blood. The notice urges sending for testimonials and lists Cheney & Co of Toledo as suppliers with a 75 cent price.
A youth named George Dorrington appeared at the Guildhall charged as an absentee from the 14th South Lancs regiment. He claimed 19, peers said 16, and wore two wound stripes with three blue chevrons. He admitted overstaying leave and was handed to an escort. He is reported to have fought at Ypres and been wounded in the retreat from Mons.
Swiss police arrest a German spy at Geneva for sending girl agents into France to locate U.S. headquarters. Authorities also discover mail tampering by French soldiers.
Cologne Gazette lauds Marshal Foch praising strategic unity among allied forces in France and the Mediterranean theaters. The German paper notes Allied secrecy in armored tanks and crew training, asserts Allied numerical superiority in tanks and artillery, and warns Germany cannot match these quantities.
Butter production in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta rises with exports up to the season’s peak. Manitoba reports export of one hundred cars and sufficient local creamery butter, while Alberta and Saskatchewan also increase shipments though exact figures are not yet available. A 98.16 score silver cup winner judged in Toronto shows high keeping quality, and Saskatchewan Creameries shipped two carloads to Siberia totaling 60 000 pounds.
Mrs Willie Theriault of Pacquetville New Brunswick says she is very thankful for Baby's Own Tablets noting her baby thrived and she cannot recommend them enough. The ad claims the tablets break up colds fevers cure constipation colic indigestion teething pain and minor illnesses. Sold by medicine dealers or mail order 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
A London Opinion bit mocks a minister and makes light of a ceremony. It mentions a baby about to be christened and a bottle of Jordan water carried for the purpose in a humorous antiquated tone.
A Red Cross captain in France encountered an American Negro soldier marching toward Chateau Thierry. The soldier, after aiding a German major, wore the major's monocle and had transferred the German officer's sack to his own back. He called out in pride at his hijinks, tauntingly shouting a slang phrase as he passed.
Farmers in Western Canada advance honey production as a promising line. Alfalfa fields under irrigation show expansion opportunities with leaders like Terrill and Kerr demonstrating success. Kerr expects half a ton of pure alfalfa honey from thirty hives this year and aims to build a hundred hive apiary.
Advertisement claims Putnam's Painless Corn and Wart Extractor lifts corns and callouses without pain. It promises quick results and high satisfaction with a 25 cent bottle sold by druggists nationwide.
The war teaches the value of Swiss aid as a small nation with limited wealth acts as a vast clearing house. Swiss Red Cross volunteers provide bread, apples, coffee and chocolate to the wounded and needy, delivering relief even as they sacrifice food for their own families.
A military drill ends with a wagon hampered by a broken wheel delaying the convoy. An officer orders movement while a wagon declares it cannot proceed. The exchange highlights discipline and readiness during field instruction. A separate ad touts Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as the best medicine to destroy worms.
The report notes that over 500 men from the Shetland Isles have died since the war began. An advertisement touts Parmelee’s Vegetable Pills as leading liver pills, claiming to correct disordered livers from chill, exposure, diet, and drink with no superior among similar remedies.
Strangers in London note scarcity of small shops on main streets while England hosts over eighty thousand retail grocers. The count includes 5,000 co operatives serving ten million, 10,000 multiple shops serving seven million, and 70,000 small grocers reaching twenty four million customers. The rationing system relies on ministers and wholesalers to keep public supplied.
The piece surveys Germanys Africa and Pacific colonies highlighting vast yields yet brutal rule in South-West Africa where the Herero genocide occurred. It notes Dernburg as colonial minister, Zimmermanns demands, and anticipates debates at a future peace congress. It ends with a wartime advertisement for Miller's Worm Powders.
One of Manitoba's leading ranches started its yearly cattle move. The first train of thirty stock cars left Winnipeg Union Stockyards last week, heading presumably to Great Britain. The total shipment plans include 150 cars and about 2700 head, a large increase from last year's 1500 head. Historically, these cattle went to Chicago.
The article recounts early Philippine rice cultivation from Magellan’s landing in 1521 to the early twentieth century, noting a decline in rice production due to hemp and sugar industries and labor shifts. It highlights Ifaguos terraced fields along rivers rising up to a thousand feet and fifty foot walls, contrasting them with “Christianized” tribes and Tagalog oppression.
The Kansas City Star remarks that the Kaiser may have a nervous condition, but dismisses the idea of shell shock. The comment uses a humorous tone to question military mental strain.
An English paper recalls a 1871 Paris canvas shortage affecting Danish sailing vessels. Bismarck offered Berlin cloth to make sacks for France to deliver the indemnity. France paid 23 500 francs after France’s finance minister cited the law, and Germany did not lose out.
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