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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 15, 1927
Page
7
Helmi enters a grim second hand shop in a ruined street seeking Sam. In a cold embalmed room she confronts a deadly snake motif while crowds and a headed raid unfold as a tall policeman seizes her. The scene ends with a police raid on the Shanghai Chop Suey House.
A Melfort woman describes prolonged illness with headaches back and side pains keeping her bedridden for eight months. After two bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and one bottle of Flower Medicine she could again dress and weigh from 78 to double that amount. She recommends the products to neighbors and offers to answer letters about her experience.
The morning papers report a sensational raid on a downtown opium den where a young white girl Helmi, in Miss Moore's care, is found in possession of the drug and unable to speak English. Neighbors, including Mrs. St John, mourn the deceit and fear for safety, while Miss Moore recalls Helmi's diligence and fear of exposure. The minister and his sister react with shock as inquiries begin into Helmi’s whereabouts and the night’s events.
The scene centers on Mr. Terry, minister of Young Methodist Church, pleading with Magistrate Windsor to see Nelmi a seventeen year old Finnish girl held after a raid. The magistrate denounces her as a wildcat while noting the prisoner's resistance during arrest and the minister hopes for clemency.
The Royal Institution lecture by Sir Ernest Rutherford discusses radium and alpha particles emitted millions of times per second at high speed, describing this radiation as a powerful tool revealing atomic structure. The notice also advertises Dr Thomas Eletric Oil as a cough remedy.
Three denomination issue features D'Arcy McGee on five cent purple stamp Sir John Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier on twelve cent light green stamp Baldwin and Lafontaine on twenty cent carmine stamp. Advertisement touts Mother Graves Worm Exterminator as relief for suffering children, claiming sure lasting effects.
Visitors from the United States flock to Canadian post offices to buy the new six stamp set issued for the Diamond Jubilee of the Confederation. The values run from 1 to 29 cents, with the 29 cent stamp showing five stages of mail transportation as a special delivery design.
San Francisco could transport its entire population in a single ride if each registered vehicle carried about six people. The city registers one car for every 3.7 residents and liner sailings from Montreal to Liverpool wear out of sight on their fourth day at sea.
Advertises a pest control product named Best of all Fly Killers available at ten and twenty five cents per packet sold at druggists grocers and general stores.
The Natural Resources Intelligence Service of the Department of the Interior in Ottawa publishes International highway maps that cover northern States and Canada and show trunk highways and connections. Four sheets Atlantic Great Lakes Middle West Pacific plus a general border map are available free on request in the U S and Canada.
A display of twenty nine miniature works showcases astonishing tiny titles including Galileo and Dante in movable type. Among highlights are a half inch by quarter inch Italian book and a hand written octagonal Koran found in Bagdad.
A Sunday School of the United Church honors Canada with a 60th Anniversary Confederation celebration and patriotic buttons for scholars. The buttons bear United Church branding and a small "Made in USA" mark prompting debate on domestic manufacturing. The piece cites a New York Times quote on royal visits and Canada’s independence.
Supersocialists who kill wealthy members of their community are blamed by Mrs. Violet Cuften during a tour of the Dutch East Indies. She cites the Mentawi tribe near Sumatra who execute prosperity linked violence and practice cannibalism with a 19 letter alphabet.
A Barred Plymouth Rock owned by the University of Saskatchewan laid a new three province record with 306 eggs in pullet year with a month remaining. Across Canada another pullet in Agassiz B C held a world trap nested production record of 351 eggs in 363 days. A craftsman named Krubsack bent 32 box elder saplings into a living chair after 11 years of work and sold it for 4606. A medical ad promotes Holloway's Corn Remover.
A Saskatchewan land sale in Rosetown set records as Louis Montreuil paid 76 dollars per acre for a quarter section while other parcels fetched 60 dollars per acre. In 11 hours the sale moved 240 parcels.
Harvey Shaw of the Independent Biscuit Co. Ltd told the Calgary Board of Trade the Calgary plant would be in operation in September with a payroll estimated from $150 990 to $2060 000 annually. The report also notes a new crime study in San Francisco and a proposed degree titled Consulting Criminologist.
Hon. Charles M. Hamilton Saskatchewan Minister of Agriculture spoke to the Canadian Club in Hamilton urging greater East West co operation. He stressed agricultural development in the West beyond grain and noted the need to make farming profitable so that youths stay on the land rather than move to cities.
A short weekly note presents a Bible verse theme with quotes from Ephesians and George Herbert. The excerpt includes a poem-like reflection on kindness and a kernel sown that grows into fruit over time, attributed to John Bosle O'Reilly. The text blends moral exhortation with religious and literary references.
Hyperbolic tips warn against early solid foods and harsh purgatives for babies. It endorses Baby's Own Tablets from The Dr Williams Medicine Co as safe for newborns, and claims they ease digestion and teething. A closing joke about a Scots fiancé and an overweight fiancée appears.
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