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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 12, 1918
Page
3
Miss Mary Cottam of Ontario recounts severe facial pimples that left her skin sore and red. After trying Cuticura Soap and Ointment she was completely healed in one treatment cycle and recommends the product for daily use, with a free sample offer by mail from Cuticura.
Travelling through Western Canada on the Canadian Pacific Railway line from Calgary to Edmonton reveals rising farm prosperity with substantial homes and barns under construction. A large cooperative lumber mill planned in British Columbia will supply farmers on cooperative terms, aiming to lower costs and boost prairie building.
Fast selling Combination Cooker needs agents with no capital. One seller earned 388.55 first month. another sold 20 in two hours. others made up to 10 daily. Territory going fast. Shipments to reliable men on time. Write to Combination Products Co. 100 Thomas Bldg Foster Que.
Brand Whitlock in Everybody's Magazine argues that German organization is overrated by those with no real experience of it. He contrasts it with French improvisation, noting German systems are bulky, impersonal, and rigid, paralyzing adaptability with many prohibitions and excessive regulation.
A health notice explains that nervous exhaustion stems from blood deficiency and promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The pills claim to build up blood, strengthen nerves, improve appetite and sleep, and restore color, offering six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr Williams's Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
The article notes hundreds of thousands of women on the land including farmers wives and daughters at work year round. It urges town girls to volunteer to help farmers wives during harvest to free them for outside war work and boost farm labor.
The Dun dee Advertiser quips that the Duke of Argylls the great Maccallum Mhor has reported at Stirling for medical examination and passed Grade I. He is 46 and a bachelor and will receive three days’ pay from the national funds to cover travel. The piece suggests conscription in a democratic light.
Vivian calls the Palm Beach Hotel piazza home like a dear place while her father settles the week’s cane bill. The scene captures a family moment in a sunny resort setting.
A Chicago Tribune editorial notes impatience with the press under German control and observes pamphlets crossing German lines. It argues genuine truth requires a major blow visible beyond censorship, as private losses and privation press on the German people despite propaganda.
An Edmonton Alberta report shows Strawberries grown near the city are large and flavorful, matching coast imports. Prairie farmers have a strong market for surplus, while wild fruits like Saskatoons raspberries gooseberries and cherries are plentiful. Horticultural societies promote cultivation and exhibitions to boost fruit growing in Western Canada.
The Saskatchewan director of school agriculture notes rising statewide interest in fairs. Since 1909 the Melfort exhibition started, grows to 14 by 1914, 129 last year, and about 200 fairs expected this year with Manitoba also reporting large numbers.
Quotation reflects a dialogue about spending fifty thousand dollars in a humorous style. Two speakers exchange casual plans and self deprecating humor. The piece centers on a whimsical choice of vehicle and a nod to contemporary consumer culture.
An advertisement extols Anurie to cleanse the bladder and kidneys and cure rheumatism. It cites Dr. Pierce and urges trial packaging from Buffalo New York or Bridgeburg Ontario with testimonials claiming lasting relief from kidney trouble and related pains.
Canada food board issues a July 13 order requiring one pound of substitutes to replace nine pounds of wheat flour for bakers and households until further notice. The plan, to take effect July 15 in Eastern Canada, is deferred due to limited substitute supplies. Use of the label Victory Bread remains permissive, not mandatory. Police authorities enforcing the food laws have been notified.
In Life magazine style endorsement, the copy highlights Miller's Worm Powders as highly effective. It claims testimonials from mothers would flood in, yet asserts the powders speak for themselves with rapid, thorough action and immediate improvement in children after the first dose.
A humorous exchange riffs on a degree conferred without college attendance. The speaker imagines a ceremonial backdrop on the lawn while a friend teases about the unlikely honor and mock titles.
An advertisement touts Putnam's Extractor as painless and fast acting for corns. It promises immediate sting relief from a small drop and claims the product shrinks corns to dead skin, loosens them from the toe, and enables easy removal.
Frederick Abraham, honorary chairman of the vacant lot and home garden section of the Canada food board, reports strong response to planting war gardens across the west. He notes British Columbia could supply prairie provinces with fresh vegetables if transportation is solved, and that BC crops often yield two harvests per season. School children in British Columbia have joined the garden movement, promising to improve local food supply.
The Saskatoon director of food production reports strong gains in wartime shipments. Compared to the prewar average, wheat and products rise 85,000,000 bushels or 40 percent, pork up 122,000,000 pounds, beef 74,000,000 pounds, butter 12,000,000 pounds, cheese 30,000,000 pounds, and eggs 15,000,000 dozen.
Mothers testify to the product's usefulness with personal experience, praising Mother Graves Worm Exterminator for worm control.
A historic note outlines making miniature trees from orange peels. After halving thick-skinned oranges, fill the shells with soil, plant seeds, and ensure sun exposure. Roots emerging through peel are cut flush to keep shellac intact, then transfer to a holder. Conifers and fruit trees can be stunted, with some cedars lasting centuries and orange or plum trees blooming.
The Westminster Gazette highlights a vast, prolonged sea conflict referencing a pivotal period rivaling Trafalgar and the Nile. It praises the navy and mercantile marine for steadfast, silent work that underpins future world order and national resilience.
Parmelees vegetable pills are small but effective in action and widely demanded for stomach troubles. Known for safe simple remedy and considered the best preparation on the market for disorders of the stomach.
Winter damaged fruit trees leave supplies tight for jam making in England and Canada. Citizens near wild berry patches are urged to pick berries with families, boosting wild raspberry and wild blueberry jams to aid canneries shipping jam to soldiers.
The speaker urges Britain and France to unite against a common crisis, praising French courage and British resolve. He emphasizes unity over political differences, likening the challenge to a flood and Britain as a breakwater, calling for steadfast resolve to endure and prevail.
Captain W. E. Schuster of Belleville presided over a three day coal sale restricted to buyers with winter needs of six tons or less. He verified employer guarantees for payment and denied deliveries to wealthier citizens. The move drew praise from Regina Leader for its humanitarian aim.
A report notes 400 million people are short of food worldwide with one third of the global population on short rations. The claim highlights widespread famine risk and deepening food insecurity across regions.
Prices abroad show beef in Paris expensive at 60 cents a pound or more. In Italy beef ranges from 79 cents to 82 cents per pound and veal at 66 cents per pound, reflecting higher meat costs overseas.
After our note on work, F J B offers a highbrow definition. Work is the compulsory expenditure of psychological or muscular potency in activities devoid of immediate pleasurability but profitable. The contrast between seeing and law is sharp.
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