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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
7
A dated health ad promises restorative results for weariness and poor appetite. It touts Dr Hamilton's Pills as a marvellous aid to appetite and nourishment, claiming they convert food into tissue and strengthen nerves and muscles, with lasting health benefits at 25 cents per box.
Tom Burbury schemes to spy on Morgan and Professor Zimbalist at Michael Hever’s wrecked brig seeking dirt on Anthony West. Morgan offers five hundred pounds to silence a rival and secure his marriage to Mavis Comlyn while Hever plots fossil wealth and revenge.
Household bread can save wheat by adding potatoes. Collect leftover boiled potatoes and water, mash while warm, mix with yeast solution and salt, proof overnight, then knead and rise. Shape into leaves and bake in a moderate oven. Potatoes may comprise up to half the dough with stiffer dough required for higher ratios.
The piece notes that munitions workers gain masculine traits from heavy labor as sociologists describe virility among women workers in England. British women policemen exemplify this change, described as towers of strength who manage crowds and bullies with mastery.
A plumber and a painter share a house. The painter arrives late and explains he stopped for a haircut. He confirms the haircut was done on his employer's time, to which the plumber responds.
A vivid report on RAF operations before a major offensive. Reconnaissance and bombardment by day and night disrupt German plans, with patrols, aircraft, and bombers targeting roads, dumps, railways, aerodromes, and camps to wear down enemy capabilities.
A novel silent alarm wrist watch uses a heated wire and miniature battery to shock the sleeper at a set hour. The device bites the skin near the wrist to trigger waking, offering a neighbor friendly alternative to loud clocks, with potential use on battlefronts.
Dialogue reveals Mrs. Gabson left her husband and moved back to her mother amid accusations of cruelty. The couple's story centers on an alleged gas mask confrontation during a domestic quarrel, with neighbors noting the husband could not be accused of beating his wife.
The Canada food board urges private households to limit personal sugar use to 1 percent pounds per month per person and to favor brown sugar. It warns against hoarding as unlawful and wasteful amid shortages from Cuban, American beet, and Louisiana cane crops, plus German drive and submarine losses.
A Boston Transcript joke notes Agnes married a self-made man and forced him to make extensive alterations. The quip highlights marital bargaining and social satire in a brief humorous item.
The King approves Princess Mary as colonel-in-chief of the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) a unit famed for its long service and historic record. The Royal Scots are the oldest in the British army and have been humorously nicknamed Pontius Pilate's Bodyguards. Other royal colonels include the Queen 19th Hussars Princess Royal and Princess Louise.
Mr. H. B. Thomson, chairman of the Canada food board, told the Fisheries Association in Halifax that before the war Canada had barely enough beef for home use. He said increased conservation and other factors now allow Canada to export meat to feed an army of 500,000 soldiers at the front.
In France, several American college women aid war ravaged villages as peddlers and hucksters. They train in social service and carry tinware clothing and farm tools, selling milk poultry and goats while opening plans for grocery stores. They offer staples below cost on instalment terms to revive village trade and restore local shops.
A fragment from the Boston Transcript describes a scene where a customer jokes about large berries piled on top and a fruit peddler complains about the trouble of hunting through the box for them. The exchange highlights a small urban moment.
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