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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 13, 1923
Page
7
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a natural remedy for colds, coughs, and catarrh. It claims rapid action within months of treatment and warns against traditional cough mixtures. The drug is marketed by The Catarrhozone Co. Montreal and sold by druggists nationwide.
Rehabilitation work on the Hudson Bay Railway progresses. The Prince of Wales accepts the presidency of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley next year. A temporary cenotaph to Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins is unveiled in Dublin. British immigrants to Canada total 26 625 in five months, vs 10 500 in 1922. Italian grape and olive crops suffer due to storms. A Cairo training school for Egyptian women doctors and a hospital for poor women open in December as a Kitchener memorial. Sir Erne Robertson Hay Blackwell to study Canadian penitentiary system. Great War Veterans Association to extend information by speakers. A Manitoba Noxious Weeds Act administrator, A. Bedford, superannuated after 35 years. For the French Bar, a woman becomes secretary, Mile. Lucille Tinayre. German grain buyers contract 12 795 000 bushels rye from Russia. payment partly in goods.
The Saskatchewan dairy sector reports a rapid rise in export butter shipments, highlighted by the Saskatchewan Cooperative Creameries sending 25 000 pounds of butter to China, signaling a notable shift in provincial dairy trade over the past year or two.
A reader from Woodbridge Ontario praises Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female ailments. The letter recounts relief from headaches backaches and dragging sensations and asks others to try the remedy citing decades of claimed value.
William Whitt, armless after an accident, demonstrated a foot operated machine at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Britain. The device, invented by W. J. Thompson of Edinburgh, used metal levers to grip and manipulate ordinary tools enabling tasks like eating, writing, sewing, and hammering.
When your back aches morning and night and you feel tired and out of sorts, Ee Hamilton's Pills offer relief. The mild vegetable restoratives like mandrake and butter nut supposedly revive the liver and kidneys and ease pain, leaving you with renewed pep. Sold for 25c at dealers.
A cablegram from the International Institute of Agriculture Rome reports Canada as the top world wheat supplier. It lists projected exports: Canada 290 million bushels, United States 180 million, Argentina 120 million, Australia 40 million, India 30 million, Russia 20 million, Balkans 10 million.
Save the Children urges mothers to keep a box of Baby's Own Tablets at home to prevent and treat summer stomach troubles and cholera infantum. The tablets are claimed harmless by a government analyst and are sold by dealers or mail order for 25 cents per box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
The Natural Resources Intelligence Service notes Saskatchewan holds numerous metals and non metals including gold silver iron copper coal gypsum ochres peat petroleum quartz salt natural gas and mineral waters. Coal production reached 335 632 tons in 1921 with a 4 060 square mile area identified as favorable for coal.
Cattle numbers in North Alberta's livestock herds rise to over two million, with the cattle and swine industries both growing notably in the northern province in recent years.
The word vestibule derives from Latin indicating a entry where Romans kept their garments. It traces to a space used for storing cloaks or outerwear before entering a home or building.
A teacher asks which is the biggest diamond. a quick witted student answers The ace. The exchange unfolds as a brief, humorous classroom moment highlighting student humor and timing.
An argument favoring potassium treatment and a rational natural diet to prevent and treat cancer at home. Claims most diseases arise from wrong feeding and drugs, and that civilization’s cooking methods destroy health. Names Charles Walter of Toronto as signer urging a natural, pleasanter diet for a healthier world.
An advertisement asserts Holloway's Corn Remover delivers full satisfaction, noting other corn removers exist but urging use of Holloway's for best results.
In September 1912 Dr. Gustav Stresemann, newly titled chancellor, visited Ottawa to represent Germany in an abortive effort to end the Canada Germany customs war. The account credits H. 8. Fielman of the Canadian Translation Bureau for details. Also mentions Miller's Worm Powders as a popular remedy sold by chemists.
More than 650 Swiss immigrants have been placed on prairie farms in the last three months, says Thomas Gelley Dominion Immigration Commissioner at Winnipeg. Large numbers settled along Canadian National Railway lines in the three prairie provinces.
Canada and Germany establish a direct parcel post route for the first time in nine years. The Empress of France carried the inaugural dispatch from Montreal on August 18, with packages handled under same rules as the England route and rates from 23 cents to 1.37 dollars per 11 pounds.
An old advertisement warns of cholera infantum in children during summer and promotes Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry as a proven remedy. A Halifax mother reports saving three children with the treatment, priced at 50 cents per bottle from The T Milburn Co Limited in Toronto.
Labor recruiters in northern Argentina lure Indians with promises of high wages. Workers are transported in flat cars, housed on estates with little food, toil hard, and receive pay only as plantation store orders. Prices are high, liquor is encouraged, and the practice is overseen by the national labor department. Also noted is an asthma remedy claim urging early use of Dr Kellogg's Asthma Remedy.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canadians by religion from the 1921 Census. Of 8,788,483 people, 97.6 percent are Christian, 1.9 percent non Christian including Jews and Oriental faiths, 0.5 percent without religion. Anglican Church grows fastest due to immigration.
Jimbleberry asks a floor walker in a department store if they carry stationery. The clerk humorously replies that if they did stock stationery he would lose his job.
The Dominion Division of Botany at Central Experimental Farm Ottawa asks farmers nationwide to send weed names and suppression data on a postage free form. Include soil type drainage crop rotation and methods. revise the provided list and add missing weeds with ranking. Submit plant samples in flower or fruit with roots if possible.
Canadian pulpwood exports to the United States last year topped 1,000,000 cards valued near 10 million dollars. The trade has doubled since 1912 and shows a steady year by year rise.
Tokio in Japan now designated Greater Tokyo and ranks as the world’s third largest city with a population of 6 164 000. The change elevates Japan’s capital amid shifting urban growth patterns.
The interior region of Brazil holds vast pure ore beds and would fuel rapid development if transportation were adequate. Locals smelt ore into simple utensils and farming tools, while waterpower could drive electric furnaces to unlock economic potential. Brazil currently imports much iron and sheet from abroad.
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