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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
7
An advertisement touts Dr Hamilton's Pills as a leading blood remedy to restore complexion, appetite, strength, and endurance. The narrative excerpt follows a fictional exchange where characters discuss news from Camlyn, with Tony and Clegg present in a tense moment.
After a frenzied gaming night Tony West and Clayton Kenyon retreat to familiar rooms in St James. Kenyon muses on his self styled expert in crime reputation while West teeters between misstep and moral decay as whispers of a Cornwall murder loom.
Secretary McAdoo orders Cass Gilbert to alter the Germania statue atop the New York custom house. The changes include removing the German eagle from breastplates and replacing it with a Belgian lion, and replacing Kiel and the initials W Hi on the shield with the word Belgium.
The passage surveys British military reach from Suez to the Pacific, noting engagements against German stations, actions in the Tigris, Salonika, and the Adriatic, and colonial troops aiding Africa. It credits British diplomacy with restraining Turkish and Islamic forces and mentions marches toward Archangel and Vladivostok.
A Canuck soldier explains to his captain that he carried a German prisoner back to the rear but kept walking when halted. The officer suspects, and the Canuck says his bayonet hit the prisoner by accident after he had no orders to halt.
A wartime readership piece discusses sugar shortages and substitution with brown sugar and corn syrup, offers a glucose based marmalade recipe, and notes a dairy class in Guelph for future farm labor. It shows price lists for various meats and a call to conserve sugar while awaiting the new crop.
The Japanese moon vine grows rapidly and reaches thirty to forty feet in summer with heart shaped leaves and pure white disk blossoms opening after dew and twilight. The flowers emit a delicate fragrance carried by night breeze as the vines climb with support though they wilt in full sun. Continuous blooms provide fresh flowers throughout the season.
The army orders 875000 twenty five ounce cans of blackberry and plum jam to a canner in Oregon, signaling a massive demand for canned fruit products. The contract will require 34 million pounds of sugar and represents the largest sweets order for soldiers to date.
In Tit Bits a dialogue shows an artist promising a speaking likeness of his wife, while the patron insists a likeness requires it. The exchange hints at craft and consent within a playful professional clash.
Observers note a drastic shift in English farming as tractors replace slow methods. Five machines work fields at once, cutting and gathering in a single day, while a reaping machine races to its next task as fire brigade style efficiency becomes the norm. Maxims reflect national urgency.
A discussion on palmistry for monkeys notes their hands and feet resemble humans. It describes a spider monkey with four hands and a prehensile tail acting as a fifth hand. The article compares their palmar tail surface to human palms.
A quotation from Abraham Lincoln emphasizes steadfast effort and integrity. The speaker asserts doing the best possible work and continuing until the end, hoping for a positive outcome and noting that misjudgment cannot erase honest effort.
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