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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 24, 1918
Page
6
A German prisoner escaped from an internment camp and a description circulated to aid recapture. A telephone transmission misread the prisoner as "height 3 ft 6 all beard and moustache," prompting a correction to read "small" for "all" to avoid misidentifying a taller man with a beard wandering alone.
The Canada food board asks if households can save sugar as about half a teaspoon per cup remains undissolved in 12 million daily cups of tea coffee and cocoa, wasting 120 000 pounds of sugar each day. Minard liniment is mentioned alongside as a curiosity in the text.
Canton Ohio reader Mrs Marie Bord credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relieving female troubles and sparing her from an operation. The ad urges others with similar issues to try the remedy before hospital surgery. It notes the company offers guidance from its long experience and invites inquiries.
The article notes rapid growth in ore extraction in the past years, stating that iron copper and petroleum output in recent decades exceeds all prior history. It warns that resources may be depleted within a few centuries if consumption continues at the current pace.
A Victorian health notice touts Parme Lee’s Vegetable Pills for stomach and liver disorders. It claims early symptoms respond to the remedy, emphasizing a blend of laxatives and sedatives that allegedly restores digestion quickly.
A French learner asks what the sentence means. It ponders if Mr Noble consents to stand again and be run for a walkover, implying an easy victory with no contest.
Queen Alexandra agrees to sponsor a drive sending home comforts to American soldiers at the front. In a letter to Sir Charles Walston she calls the scheme first rate and offers to adopt and help by correspondence. Non rationed comforts will be sent to put American troops on an equal footing with Allied comrades.
A vintage style advertisement touts Putnam's Extractor as a simple cure for corns. It claims a drop or two peels away a troublesome sore and promises quick relief at a cheap price of a quarter.
The Christian Science Monitor argues that a negotiated peace with Germany would threaten Allied aims. It contends Russia's loss of freedom under Brest-Litovsk shows the danger of weakening war goals. The piece asserts only a defeated Germany can ensure durable peace and democracy's cause.
In a wartime note the office boy compares German numbers to a circus barker. He riffs on a faux exhibition of a hyena used to illustrate the tallying of prisoners. The quip reflects trench humor and reportage tone from the era.
A Buffalo Express excerpt captures a father and son discussing wartime attire. Corrigan Sr remarks on the son’s U.S. Navy or military uniform while debating practicalities. The exchange emphasizes pride and readiness in the face of potential combat.
The Sultan of Egypt officially recognizes camels as war animals. Native camel corps members received special awards at exercises where presentations were made, acknowledging their role in transporting war supplies across deserts.
The Canada food board lists reasonable prices for wheat flour substitutes with regional ranges. Eastern Canada sees rye and corn flour priced around 6 to 7 cents per pound while the extreme West reports up to 8 or 9 cents. barley and other substitutes show similar east west spreads. Retailers are warned not to charge exorbitant prices.
Montdidier, capital of its arrondissement in Somme, sits on the River Don about 62 miles north of Paris and 23 miles southeast of Amiens. Before the war its chief industries were tanning and zinc white. its notable sites include St. Pierre Church with an 11th century tomb and font, St. Sepulchre, and the former city castle Parlais de Justice with 17th century Brussels tapestries. Parmentier, famed for advancing potato culture in France, is its most celebrated son.
An army motorcyclist at a training camp heroically stopped a runaway parachute dragging a lieutenant by racing into the field at full speed and driving his bike into the belted parachute. The collision anchored the parachute, halting its dangerous pull and saving the officer from death.
There is more Catarrh to this section of the country than all other diseases put to gether and for years it was supposed to be incurable. Hall's Catarrh Cure is a constitutional remedy taken internally through the blood of the mucous surfaces. A one hundred dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. Sold by Druggists. Malis Family Pills for constipation.
A Kansas City Star quip suggests skipping gooseberries altogether when making a sugarless gooseberry pie. The line implies a practical shortcut or humorous take on traditional fruit pie filling.
A German officer praises French resolve under occupation, contrasting German behavior with French forbearance and grit. He notes French pride, lack of complaint, and willingness to endure trials, while criticizing German attitudes. An autobiographical note mentions a 1915 injury and a 1906 testimonial for Minard's Liniment.
Italy’s renowned poet, famed for his aerial feats and fearless stance, tells a friend he expects to die in action. He says his worldly life is over and he wishes only to die for his country, hoping each expedition may be his last.
Constipated children can be helped with Baby's Own Tablets a mild laxative. The ad cites Mrs. Eugene Couture of Knox Bridge Quebec praising relief for her feverish baby after use. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
The United States operates 157 shipyards with 51 active before April 1917 and 106 newly established since. Yard distribution includes 66 on the Atlantic, 22 Gulf, 15 Great Lakes, 54 Pacific. 70 steel hulls, 80 wooden hulls, three steel ship fabrication yards, four for concrete vessels. Ultimate capacity reaches 834 shipways with 720 for the merchant fleet emergency program. 29 yards build naval vessels and 21 serve private owners.
A short humorous anecdote from Harper's Magazine about a young man in the South who marries with three 25 cent pieces as the pool for payment to the minister. He jokes that if they have children they will send them to the minister’s Sunday school, highlighting a rural era clash of funds and wit.
The term honeymoon is linked to an old Scandinavian practice of drinking diluted honey, called methlegen, for thirty days after a wedding. The custom aligned with the moon’s age as the couple began married life.
The piece honors 114 Polish officers and soldiers imprisoned in the United States who refuse compromise and pledge to die for Poland. It likens them to Nathan Hale, praising Polish idealism and insisting the nation exists in hearts and will endure. The article cites the New York Tribune remark that nations that know how to die never die.
Letters from hundreds of cases praised Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy for long neglected sufferers. The text claims the famous preparation brings prompt help even after years of asthma.
The piece contrasts German fear and reliance on military power with French and Belgian resolve during Paris siege and Belgian atrocities. It argues Paris showed calm under threat while Germans expect punishment, claiming civilization rests on courage and restraint versus force.
Mothers can mend large holes with net groundwork. Use black net for dark fabrics and white for light colors. Cut a piece larger than the hole, tuck it in, then sew through the meshes for a neat, woven look. Net darns last longer than plain repairing.
The Frankfurter Zeitung reports Bolshevist Russia cuts city telephones to 15000 for technical reasons and halves factory instruments. The plan assigns a public telephone to each house stair, free for all residents, with neighbors allowed to use nearby phones if their own is absent. Doctors and officials may receive personal phones only after universal access is achieved.
Britain has about one ounce of jam per week for civilians. Canadian housewives are urged to conserve butter by making as much jam as possible to help offset the shortage abroad.
The advertisement asserts Holloway's Corn Cure kills corn roots and draws out the callosity without injuring the surrounding flesh, promising safe removal of corns and warts.
A witty exchange captured as a multi millionaire climbs into a limousine and tells a reporter to back off. The youth retorts that the only difference between them is stage of wealth, while he remains in pursuit of his first million.
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