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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 19, 1918
Page
7
An advertisement claims lack of pure blood causes disease and promotes Dr Hamilton’s Pills as a universal remedy. It promises quick relief from backache dizziness and headache and claims to cleanse the blood, improve complexion and appetite, selling a 25 cent box.
Mavis resists Jasper Morgan who proposes marriage as a way to help her father with debts. He offers financial favors and questions a murdered man, while Morgan’s temper flares and a rescue nears with Reverend Clegg and Tom Burbury approaching. The scene ends as Morgan’s move is interrupted by the arriving trio.
A historical note explores the odd bond between death adders and bush rats in Australia. It cites cases where rats gathered with adders, causing repeated sightings until a decade-long lull, then a child was bitten after a rat disturbance near a garden while a death adder lay nearby. The piece questions why such apparent amity exists between predator and prey.
A humorous wartime exchange between a colonel and private highlights mock urgency over bayonets. The dialogue captures military tone and the reassurance that the equipment is sound despite a call to fix bayonets.
A Prairie Sunrise contrasts the beauty of prairie skies with practical urban needs. The writer argues that beauty and art sustain the human spirit, citing Milton and Christ, while noting wartime Canadians fostering homes, gardens, and fields despite economic challenges.
In response to oats and hay shortages, an empire wide edict calls for gathering leaves from oak maple linden poplar chestnut and elm to feed army horses. Soft twigs ground and mixed with foliage provide a substitute while farmers are urged to conserve fodder. Government experiments show foliage is less nutritious but valuable as a substitute.
Smugglers have traded gold coins into Germany for years with dealers in Amsterdam Rotterdam and The Hague paying premiums up to seventy percent of face value. In Germany the coins fetch double. Thousands of smugglers have faced courts in the past four years and seven thousand leases remain awaiting trial.
Rev. Dr. J H Jowett, back in England after seven years in New York, argues for mutual understanding between Americans and Britons. He cites climate as a key factor in mood differences, urges Americans to value candor and Britons to practice tolerance, and says honesty unites the two peoples despite temperamental contrasts.
It is found that the insulation resistance of telephone cables increases with the cable age when buried. The moisture within the cable seems to dry out over time, improving resistance.
The piece rails against a fictitious Kaiserite spreading German propaganda in the United States. It urges reporting disloyal chatter to the Committee on Public Information in Washington and circulating a pamphlet exposing “101 lies” to curb the slander at home. The text frames cooperation with authorities as patriotic duty.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer humorous vignette Willie asks what an echo is. Pa explains it can cheat a woman of the last word. A neighbor adds a jab about men visiting patent medicine almaniacs for wit as silence follows.
Two clerks are surprised by their boss who bursts in and accuses them of not working. The older man scolds them and the younger replies that it is due to their rubber heels, as per the London Answers anecdote.
War prompts a shift in British conservatism as Sunday baseball appears in England and the National Sporting Club welcomes American visitors. The influx of American soldiers and voices from New York to the south loosens old pride, bringing a new openness to customs and public life.
The Canada food board ends pork serving limits for licensed public eating places in both countries. New pork exports from Canada rise by 125 million pounds annually, a 571 percent increase versus the five year pre war average.
Detroit issues a restricted sale order halting brown sugar sales by retailers and wholesalers. The move aims to clear surplus stock before August and ensure all dealers operate on an equal footing.
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