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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 16, 1919
Page
7
A Victorian style advertisement touts Dr Hamilton's Pills of Mandrake and Butter Nut as a universal cure for pimples and skin troubles. The copy claims the remedy purifies blood, strengthens the body, and restores health through improved liver and kidney function, priced at 25c per box.
Henry C. Rowland portrays Ruggles confronting manager Durand over betrayal in pursuit of a Vienna job. The scene unfolds in a shoe store with Austrian Lorenz watching. Ruggles accuses Durand of lies, exposing a failed promise to advocate his transfer.
An advertisement extols AutoStrop Razor blades offering a clean satiny shave for fractions of a cent per shave. It claims 500 shaves from 12 blades, easy stropping with a lever, and no disassembly needed for a six week supply of fresh shaves.
Ruth informs Ruggles of Downing’s promise of a Rome store position after Vienna, provoking a heated scene in a busy shop. A distinguished man steps in to calm Ruggles, guiding him away with a taxi waiting. To be continued.
Alberto Santos Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer and former president of the Aeronautic Federation of the Western Hemisphere, visits North America to study modern aviation gains. He built the first dirigible and first airplane flight, won Paris prizes, and was honored by France.
The advertisement links constipation and bilious symptoms to a torpid liver and foul bowels. It claims Cascarets cleanse the stomach remove sour food and poisons, unclog the liver, and flush waste overnight while you sleep.
The Great West Natural Gas Company of Calgary buys the Eastend oil well drilling plant owned by a local syndicate and moves it to a field chosen to supply natural gas to Moose Jaw and Regina. The plant, among the best of its kind, can drill to 5,000 feet.
Berlin reports that all German prisoners detained in France will be repatriated directly after the peace treaty is ratified. The Swiss legation in Paris informed the central office for prisoners of war in Berlin of this decision.
Nationalist forces led by Mustafa Kemal Pasha seize Konie in southern Asia Minor and expel local authorities. Dispatches note a separatist parliament convened at Erzerum, with troops near Smyrna and Erzerum. Konie, a key railhead serving Constantinople and Smyrna, has 45,000 inhabitants and strategic value.
The initial Canadian railway ran 16 miles between La Prairie near Montreal and St. Johns on the Richelieu River, inaugurated in 1836. By 1847 the mileage rose to 54 miles, with total steam tracks later counted at 39,000 miles and including 50,853 miles of all track.
A student asks where the Dead Sea lies and admits he never knew its existence. The teacher presses the point with scorn as the exchange reveals a broader moment of unfamiliarity with geography.
A pupil quips that bees "cell" honey as a joke about how they store and manage honey. The playful line plays on the word cell linking beehive cells to storing honey.
A. G. Gardiner in the Toronto Daily News lauds Lord Grey as the nation’s best mind for the United States. He portrays Grey as a noble, disinterested, visionary messenger moved by the era’s agony to rescue the world from moral peril.
In a kid's line about soap and Eskimos a boy notes soap smells nice in cakes but tastes awful and stings the eye. He recalls his father saying Eskimos never use soap and wishes to be an Eskimo himself.
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