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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 10, 1918
Page
6
The article argues that open cribs and unprotected grain piles are obsolete as grain prices rise. It urges permanent, dry, well ventilated, rat proof storage on the farm. Early sales after threshing can reduce storage needs and waste.
The Union County draft board of Lewisburg Pennsylvania finds a drafted man’s claim strong for exemption based on multiple ailments including rheumatism heart trouble catarrh nervousness and long spells of fainting The board will not refer the case to the central board of appeals and provides no name for the applicant The testimony details severe hearing loss limited vision a bad stomach and reliance on milk and light foods with periods of weakness and incapacity for work
The United States government urges economizing cotton with stark figures showing a 12 inch gun consuming half a bale per shot and a machine gun using a bale every three months. Naval battles burn five to six thousand pounds per minute per warship while absorbent cotton for wounds exceeds twenty thousand bales annually.
Recent Pompeii discoveries reveal Romans used window glass. Earlier homes lacked glass and used waxed linen or oiled paper instead. Waxed paper posters and oil treated paper filled sash spaces while some workers pasted oiled paper into windows at century end. Horn also served as a glass substitute.
Depicts Fourth Army capture near Amiens with 219 guns of all types seized from the German forces. Highlights high velocity 5.9 inch naval guns, thousands of machine guns, and vast enemy ammunition stores. Notes most captured artillery is serviceable and many guns bore trophy applications. Also blocks of asthma remedy advertisement follow.
The Dominion government weighs permits for free grazing of reindeer over 76 000 square miles in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Officials say the areas are well suited for reindeer, promising meat supply and transportation benefits to open up inaccessible regions.
A promotional line touts Holloway's Corn Cure as effective against deep-rooted corns or warts when used as directed, implying strong results for stubborn cases.
A correspondent visits six baker shops turned bread producers for the British army near a former German jute mill. Machinery is limited to an escalator-like loader. Chinese laborers move flour between floors while British, Australian, and American troops bake on the job.
An advertisement claims sickly women suffer from impure blood and can be helped by Dr. Hamilton's Pills a tonic that invigorates strengthens renews. It promises rapid improvement in energy color appetite and digestion and touts the medicine as America's valued family remedy priced at 25 cents per box.
Report describes coastal salvage of wreckage from U boat attacks. Monkeys nuts used for margarine, rubber and cotton items wash ashore. Locals pass items to wrecks receiver and keep salvage rewards. narrator likens modern looting to the Wrecker and the Pirate of Berlin.
General Gouraud shares battle plan with his troops in Champagne as German forces attack toward Paris. Defenders place machine guns, fight to hold line, and retreat to prepare a counteroffensive that shifts momentum to Allied forces toward Paris.
The Portuguese language is spoken by about 25 million people at home and abroad. It is the language of Brazil and Portugal, among other regions, indicating its wide international presence.
A technical investigation reported in the American Food Journal finds that keeping canned foods in their original tins after opening does not harm wholesomeness. The study notes slight acidity increases and trace tin and iron, with taste and odor largely normal, but advises not to leave foods in open metal containers and to transfer to proper dishes or refrigerate.
An advertisement touts Putnam's Extractor as a painless remedy that shrivels and peels away corns quickly, claiming it works on old, tough corn and costs a quarter at the druggist. Separately, reports describe Arctic ice barriers hundreds of miles from Point Barrow delaying an annual supply ship to a northern settlement of fur traders and Eskimos.
Mothers keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets to guard against summer stomach troubles cholera infantum and diarrhoea. The tablets are said to cure these troubles or prevent them when given to well children. A government analyst guarantees they are harmless even to newborns. Sold by dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
In 1632 Gov Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay issued the first public proclamation for a day of thanksgiving. Bradford’s letters mention news from England inviting Plymouth to join, and Boston reportedly observed June 19, 1632. This began a tradition later adopted across the United States.
English inventor Robert Whitehead, born 1823 in Bolton le Moors Lancashire, developed the first Whitehead torpedo. He worked in Milan and Trieste before inventing the first torpedo in 1866 at Fiume, its Austrian navy adoption, with Britain approving it in 1871 and later establishing a Weymouth works in 1890.
Patient describes severe skin condition with pimples and water blisters. After using Cuticura products from Cuticura Dept A Boston the face improves and redness subsides. Sold widely.
King Philip V of Spain reshaped the San Ildefonso palace grounds at La Granja in the early eighteenth century. He blasted slopes and moved earth to forge new terraces and gardens, spending about 45 million pesetas to create a Versailles like landscape for the palace.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as a constitutional remedy. It claims to cure mucous system disorders through internal action and offers a $100 reward for failure to cure, urging readers to obtain circulars and testimonials. It also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and lists retailers.
The article notes that one thousand Victoria Crosses have been awarded since the honor began under Queen Victoria. It lists counts across conflicts from the Crimean War to the Asian War, with nearly 200 awarded in the current war by September 1916 and Driver Dalziel the thousandth recipient, an Australian. It suggests that not more than half of the last four years' recipients are alive.
The Kingston Standard notes a wife warned her husband, a clergyman, not to expose his bare head to the damp ground as he left to officiate a funeral on a rainy day. The anecdote preserves a quaint domestic quip linked to a solemn duty.
Philadelphia mother describes chronic nervous indigestion and fatigue improving after one week of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She used it for three months and reports she now feels well with normal appetite. The ad touts the product's ability to restore health during run-down periods and backache.
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