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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 18, 1926
Page
2
An analysis praising labor as salvation and progress. It contrasts postwar Germany and Italy with the United States and Canada, notes Britain’s coal strike damages, and argues that universal work builds wealth, discipline, and national strength while criticizing idleness and excess.
The Canadian Pacific Railway offers a $10 prize to the Canadian scoring the highest points in hard wheat at the International Hay and Grain Show in Chicago during the first week of December. Historically, winners often claim the world wheat championship. Nap on silk hats notes milkweed fiber origin.
It is not claimed to cure all ills but Dr. Thomas Electric Oil serves as a general pain killer. Its uses are varied and the oil is valued by those who have tested its virtues and learned by experience.
A newly opened 3000-year-old perfume jar from an Egyptian tomb reportedly retains its fragrance. Experts note the remarkable preservation of aromatic compounds and consider the find significant for ancient cosmetic practices and burial rites.
A fragmented thought notes that men who try to maintain appearances eventually confront deeper truths. It suggests that outward show often masks underlying issues that persist beyond public display.
A Youth's Companion excerpt notes scientists aim to alter life by human ideas of fitness. One predicts a chemical reaction to end sleep, removing fatigue toxins. Vision: eight hours work and sixteen for leisure and recreation, challenging nature’s limits.
An advertisement extols Nerviline as a non oil liniment that penetrates tissues to ease muscular and nerve pain, stiffness, and soreness. It touts fifty years of success and availability in 35 cent bottles nationwide.
The Department of National Defence seeks photographs of all Great War memorials in Canada. Photos will join the imperial war memorial collection for the Imperial War Museum in London. Ottawa invites builders of memorials to submit images for the project.
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills as a nervous tonic and blood builder. It features Mrs R Dundas of Peterboro Ontario describing recovery from a severe nervous breakdown after trying the pills, noting weight gain and improved health, and offering mail order at 50c per box through The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
Knud Rasmussen predicts Canada will favor reindeer meat over beef as a future staple. He says it is excellent and will become preferred after generations. The text also touts Miller’s Worm Powders promising quick, thorough relief for children and notes self-made men faced hunger to start.
A brief dialogue notes a farewell and invitation for future tea with the child thanking the speaker. Mentions keeping Minard's ointment in the house and includes a World News Service tag.
Dominion highways commissioner A W Campbell returned to Ottawa after a 2000 mile inspection of western roads. He praised the progress of federal aided highways and the Edmont on Good Roads convention as highly successful. He urged a connected coast to coast trunk system and supported gasoline tax revenues for road improvements.
From Biggin Hill and Andover units of the 3rd Anti Aircraft Battalion collaborate with a Royal Air Force squadron to test a powerful searchlight aimed at a high flying bomber over London. Tests show the bomber at 20 000 feet has the advantage in most trials.
Mrs. Margaret Butt of Hamilton credits Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription with restoring her health from a run-down nervous state after using about three bottles. The tonic is sold by dealers in fluid and tablet forms or via trial tablets from Dr. Pierce's Laboratory in Bridgeburg Ontario.
Professor H T Turner of Oxford says the June 29 solar eclipse will cross England from Southport to West Hartlepool the first total eclipse in England since 1715 and 1734 and the last for about two centuries. Totality rises around 5:30 am lasting 25 seconds while Norway and Arctic routes follow the event into Siberia and the Aleutians. Most astronomers will view from Norway for longer totality.
A patent medicine ad urges readers to buy an inexpensive Geero Wormwood Balm to relieve catarrh and catarrhal deafness. It claims the balm clears clogged nostrils without syringes, requires no internal use, and improves breathing while stopping mucus drainage. All druggists carry it at trifling cost.
A report to the American Bankers Association at its Los Angeles convention states Americans mortgaged their future incomes by more than six billion dollars in the past year through instalment selling. It warns of rising debt burdens if industrial conditions weaken. The article also notes women are heavily affected by asthma and cites J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy as a cited solution with unsolicited testimonials.
The Dawson area high light remains of the gold rush era as old resort sites yield valuable gold dust beneath decaying structures. Prospectors dwindle but discovery of gold in soil boosts the property's appeal and raises questions about preservation and value.
Jugo Slavia King Alexander of the Triune Kingdom of Serbs Croates and Slovenes is described as an exceptionally hard working ruler. He reportedly rises at five each morning and directs state affairs late into the night seeing cabinet ministers generals and diplomats daily. He rejects receptions entertainments and banquets and avoids theatre opera or races pursuing only music and country walks as distractions.
Public concern grows over measures in Italy banning foreign people and performances. Foreign actors, plays, and even English and German works face prohibition as Mussolini moves to purge the Italian stage of non Italian content.
A Federal Department of Agriculture report shows Manitoba sowing grew from 5,664,988 acres in 1921 to 6,112,845 in 1926. Spring and fall wheat and rye fell, but gains in flax and barley more than offset those declines.
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