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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 28, 1918
Page
3
An evocative ad copy touts Liniment from Canada as a clean, economical remedy for external aches and pains. It claims rapid penetration and soothing relief for back cramps stiffness and strained sinews, urging readers to ask their druggist.
A Dominion Express Money Order for one hundred dollars costs three cents. The item notes the low charge for this service and reflects historical pricing practices for money transfers.
A society lady in France sought a portrait of the Prince of Wales and wrote after his Pope visit. While awaiting a reply the Marne counter-offensive began. She soon opened a letter from the heir apparent but received Gen. Foch’s portrait instead.
The article notes ongoing smuggling by Germans into the Netherlands, citing two countesses with a foreign office recommendation caught at the frontier with rubber and other goods. It mentions Dutch day laborers crossing to Germany, returns at night, and smugglers who stay home to pocket profits.
Senator Sorghum affirms speeches are prepared for delivery but emphasizes they remain uncalled for. The exchange reflects cautious timing in Washington as the Star notes.
Advertising copy touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a 35 year trusted remedy. Claims claim to expel impurities from blood and improve health after short use. Offers a reward for a cure and lists F. J. Cheney & Co as manufacturers with 75 cent price.
Restful Lapleigh is described as self focused and calm, avoiding heavy thoughts or concerns. The remark notes his preference for simplicity and minimal mental load in daily life.
The Germans appear to have abandoned the goose step for the Foch trot.
An ad from the Vancouver Province touts Miller's Worm Powders claiming to drive worms from a child's system without harming the child. It asserts the powder is easy to take, suitable for delicate stomachs, and provides speedy relief from worm pain.
The piece argues sugar can be managed by mental strategy, noting wartime internment of sugar as a deterrent. It compares sugar desire to other habits, stating that removing sight of sugar breaks the urge and that willpower plus planning reduces cravings. The proverb Out of sight, out of mind guides the idea.
The article notes bronze casting was introduced to Siam by the Chinese about the eleventh century and used to produce statues of Indian deities for religious purposes.
An anaemic girl longs for energy and social activity as she struggles with indoor living and thin blood. The ad promotes Dr Chase's Nerve Food as a restorative treatment, claiming it rebuilds blood, boosts appetite and digestion, and restores health. Available 50 cents a box, 6 for $2.75, from Edmonson Bates & Co Toronto.
The article notes irrigated farming in Southern Alberta flourishing with crops beyond wheat. Alfalfa, clovers, vetches, tame grasses yield well, and Brooks reports peas at about forty bushels per acre. Lethbridge sees tomatoes from irrigated land selling for 5000 dollars. potatoes yield 400 to 700 bushels per acre. Sugar beets require more labor, but diverse produce thrives near rail lines, promising intensified farming.
The text promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a remedy for bilious headache. Taken as directed they regulate stomach irregularities and calm nerves and blood vessels, promising relief from head pains. It notes biliousness affects many and urges having the pills at hand.
The 1547 Persian gun built by Shah Ismail II to wage war with the Turks is inscribed with bold phrases and is now on display at Horse Guards Parade in London. Sir Stanley Maude’s British expedition sent the weapon as a gift to King George V for public inspection.
A Dominion government order forces requisition of all creamery butter in Canada from Sept 30 to Nov 9 for Allied needs. Manitoba is seen producing about 650000 pounds, Northern Alberta about 500000, Southern Alberta 500000, and Saskatchewan 750000, totaling over 2.25 million pounds across the three provinces in six weeks. The Western Canadian dairy industry is growing in importance.
The economical Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator is affordable for all and available at any druggist.
An excerpt from Everybody's Magazine contrasts two Tommy figures, one with a large auburn beard and the other clean shaven. The bearded Tommy insists the beard suits him, while a companion jokes about trimming and indoor reflections.
The Buffalo Express recalls a British graveyard epitaph in France noting that the Allied dead gave their today for our tomorrow, praising sacrifice and remembrance of veterans from the war effort.
Historical note links blood health to daily nutrition and introduces Dr Williams Pink Pills as a home care blood-builder. Claims include improved appetite nerves digestion and daily functioning. warns of weak watery blood and promotes Brockville Ontario company mail order at 50 cents per box or six for $2.50.
Two soldiers of a Yorkshire regiment loot a 168 pound pig in a recently evacuated village. After killing it they hide the carcass under a blanket on a stretcher and pass a Brigadier General, who asks if the pig is badly wounded. The stretcher bearer replies the head is hanging on, and the Brigadier salutes gravely.
Seager Wheeler of Rosthern wins the International Sweepstakes trophy for the best half bushel of spring wheat at the International Soil Products exhibition in Kansas City Missouri, also claiming the C P R 500 cup for the third event. T R Dickerson of Birtle takes the sweepstakes prize in cattle and Nick Tallinger of Claresholm wins barley sweepstakes. Canada earns Manitoba cups and premiums, Saskatchewan cups and prizes, and Alberta cups with various seconds and thirds.
A Scottish steam fishing boat hooked a halibut that tried to swallow a cod on the line. The halibut surfaced multiple times during the haul, seized by the haul clips, and was finally landed on deck weighing over 170 pounds.
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