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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 26, 1925
Page
6
A Rural Canadian Mounted Police patrol in the Cumberland Gulf Barn Land district completed a journey of 2230 miles in a year. Four officers under Sergt. Wright traveled with dogs and sleds, crossing distances equivalent to one and a half times across the continent in single trips.
Nepeese, a mixed heritage girl, and Baree the wolf dog share a woods life with Pierrot the Ute map-maker. Baree joins the fishing pack, earns a place in the dogs, and plans to train as a sledge dog as autumn gives way to winter. Pierrot contemplates sending Nepeese to Nelson House while Baree helps draw her down on snow.
Mrs Rupert G. Mac Grecon of Sarnia Ontario writes that after childbirth she suffered nerves and fainting spells. She credits Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound with restoring her health allowing work and hosting boarders without an operation. She recommends the remedy to others.
At Lac Bain in late September MacDonald the map-maker arrives. Gregson, the investigating agent, stays as Bush McTaggart’s guest for ten days while McTaggart plots to gain Nepeese with Pierrot Du Quesne’s daughter. McTaggart hides a photo and plans to reveal his secret after mid-winter snows. Marie vanishes as Gregson departs, and a runner delivers gifts with a note to free her.
Nepeese prepares for trapping season while Mc Taggart reforms his house and guards a phonograph as Nepeese and Pierrot prepare traps. Baree senses Willow’s mood, aids calm by gesture, and avoids discipline from Pierrot who plots to keep Baree wary of men. Recurrent drama continues as winter hunt looms.
The Makwar dam on the Blue Nile, 250 miles south of Khartoum, Egypt, will be opened in January by a royal prince. Built at several million pounds, it employs over 20,000 workers and spans two miles, creating a 50 by two mile lake with a 56 foot depth and a network of canals totaling about 10,000 miles. The project irrigates over 30,000 acres, boosting cotton production and transforming desert into fertile land.
Parents can reduce babyhood illnesses by regulating the stomach and bowels. Baby's Own Tablets are promoted as a mild laxative easing constipation indigestion and teething discomfort. A Hamilton Ontario mother praises their use for her two children and the ad notes 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
A scientist argues salt intake shapes complexion. He cites Northern Europe with plentiful salt yielding white skin, China Greenland Korea and India with costly salt yielding yellow tones, American plains and Malay Peninsula with scarce salt yielding brown, and West Africa where unknown factors produce black hues.
The Savoy Hotel in London houses three swift lifts in the check room that reach nearly 70 miles per hour. Pressing a button launches hats and coats to a room about 100 feet above in just over one and a half seconds. A British Columbia silver nugget tops 26 ounces in weight.
A Brit tany coast anecdote describes Alfred de Musset attempting to skip pebbles along the shore. Lewis Hind recounts a Sandgate afternoon with Joseph Conrad and H G Wells engaged in the same pastime, noting the literary men’s unlikely fascination with a simple beach activity.
A voluntary pool for marketing dressed turkeys will operate in Saskatchewan this fall. The co operation and markets branch of the provincial department of agriculture will run it, and any turkey raiser can join as long as a local organization exists to assemble the birds.
An editor asserts women are naturally foolish because they were created to mirror men. The piece presents a controversial gender role that invites pushback from readers and contrasts with emerging calls for equality.
King George orders the Prince of Wales to study seriously on his ascent to the throne. The curriculum covers economics civil government history and legal procedure. Oxford education was interrupted by war and travels, and the King has prepared a definite program for the young prince.
A Canadian delegate at the International Conference of Nurses in Helsingfors relates a breakfast crisis where visitors struggled to get honey. After a nurse signaled with a wave and said Buzz, the waitress quickly produced the honey, illustrating quick bedside wit in a foreign hotel.
A statistical note states about one fifth of the U S population resides in villages. In a separate calculation a torpedo travels 6 500 yards to a target in four minutes.
Transforming the Province during the shipping season from April 11 to May 1 reports 2,470,000 seedings and transplants sent from Indian Head to 3,080 farmers and 2,500,000 seedlings from Sutherland to 3,010 farmers. About 81,000,000 broadleaf seedlings and cuttings and nearly 1,500,000 young spruce and pine transplants have been distributed to date.
Mrs J D McClintock of Charlotte town P E L writes of a year long heart trouble that kept her from sleeping and caused visual disturbances until she consulted a remedy after reading about it. The letter describes anxiety and sleepless nights before seeking treatment.
The notice asserts H. and N. Pills, distributed by The T. Milburn Co. of Toronto, have long stood on shelves and now allow a full night’s sleep without trouble. Dealers nationwide stock the product.
The heart is described as the human body’s most industrious machine beating about 70 times per minute. It runs roughly 4,000 times an hour, 100,000 times daily, and over 30,000,000 times annually in this analysis.
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