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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
3
An urging for strict economy in food use by every household. Emphasizes conserving shortages, avoiding hoarding, and using staples like corn, peas, beans, oats, and barley. Calls for canning perishables and winter storage of garden vegetables to prevent waste. Also promotes Dr Retlogs's asthma remedy as relief and potential prevention.
A colored preacher denounces sins including shooting craps and lifting pullets while focusing on melon stealing. A brother in a back seat snaps fingers, then explains he left his knife, prompting a stern reply about racial spearfish.
Summary covers 1916 Canadian dairy production data with milk, creamery butter, cheese factories, condenseries and values totaling near 120 million dollars and a forecast for 1917. Also promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for failure to cure and sales by F J Cheney Co of Toledo Ohio.
Annamite troops from Indo China known as the little brown men served initially in rear roles in France. They proved their mettle after a year of auxiliary service and earned places in fighting ranks alongside Russians, Canadians, English, Belgians, and Australians, with many volunteers rising from students to frontline soldiers.
A company officer in despatches and awarded a Military Cross fell ill with pneumonia in the trenches. In the base hospital he overheard a doctor predicting death while a feeble patient challenged with a chancy five to one bet. The exchange reveals wartime wit and grim resolve before the patient, urging sleep and effort, and the nurse’s grim sides remark fades.
Marcel Richart a French officer and his companions in Meister prison camp recall a 47 year old act of kindness from a German guard who, as a prisoner in 1870, sheltered them. Now the old commandant grants wide privileges and even buys a tennis kit for inmates while Richart writes home about his tennis plans.
The pamphlet urges mothers to protect infants from worms using Miller's Worm Powders. It claims the vermifuge expels worms and serves as a health giving medicine, addressing ailments that weaken infants and threaten their lives.
A call to conserve food and cut waste urges individuals to reuse leftovers and avoid throwing away edible bread. The piece cites Chicago cutting daily garbage from 406 to 200 loads through thrift and asks rural residents to heed the same discipline to prevent want and famine.
A man with a prior good record faces a minor charge. Law and evidence favor the defense, yet the verdict is guilty and a fine imposed. The defense lawyer, seated with his back to the magistrate, asks to be fined for contempt of court, claiming silence as the reply.
Gifford Pinchot declares the nation must guarantee farmers a fair price for crops and ensure a reasonable harvest labor supply to win the war for democracy. He adds that farmers should raise enough food to support the war effort against Kaiserism, a view applicable to Canada as well.
An appeal favors biscuit shipments to dealers avoiding tins with paraffin lined cartons. The message touts fresh biscuits and frequent prompt deliveries to support the troops, promising high quality product without tin packaging.
Captain Garandeau awarded the Legion of Honor for recovering Lieutenant Sevey and orderly Oulmo killed near German trenches. French gun crews covered the operation with barrage fire while Garandeau and Verdier crawled across no man’s land to attach the bodies and pull them to safety, with Crete and three soldiers later retrieving the second body. Croix de Guerre awarded to the rescuers.
Dr. Ruttan of McGill explains a Western mission on industrial and agricultural development. They discuss lignite as cheap fuel, government support to develop it, and the value of mixed farming. He cites German drying of potatoes to preserve vegetables without waste and notes market access challenges for produce.
The term Boche is French for thick headed and equivalent to bonehead. Nicknames for soldiers like poilu tommies yankees and jolly rebs carried no bitterness, but Boche and Hun are reproachful labels reflecting German wartime conduct and barbarity during the era described by the Columbus Dispatch.
A British pilot flying low over German trenches during the war saw a bullet rise toward him. He caught the bullet in midair, then pocketed it, a moment described as a cool, quick reaction amid a shower of fire.
Promises from Mother Graves that Worm Exterminator clears stomach and intestines to restore healthfulness, easing fretfulness and sleepless nights in infants.
The New York Times weighs German wartime reviews and questions how the imperial navy could not repeat its Jutland triumphs. It argues German press enshrines a victory while still fearing British retaliation, suggesting overpraised officers hid weaknesses.
Major Goldthwait, one of twenty US medical officers in France and England, reports 1350 wounded men sent to a London hospital for crushed and broken bones, with about 1000 able to return to active duty at the front. He aims to recruit surgeons to bring back advanced methods to the American army.
Thousands suffer nervous exhaustion and low mood, with pale faces and tremors, but Dr Williams Pink Pills are advertised as a nerve restorer and blood builder. The ad claims they revive energy and memory and offer 50 cents a box or six for $2.50 via The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville nt.
In Ottawa an investigation witness says hospital leadership should be a professional colonel. Mr. Edward W. Reynolds notes Canada has no professional soldiers and profiles amateur generals and leaders like Lieutenant General Curry Brigadier-General Mercer Brigadier-General McRae Lieutenant-Colonel Dr. Herbert Bruce and others who have raised Canada’s wartime reputation.
Max F. Wolff, editor of the German Herald in New York, announced he would not seek exemption from the draft and was willing to serve in the military for the United States, expressing readiness to fight for the flag.
The quote suggests that favorable intentions require tangible good actions to be valuable. It emphasizes accountability and practical outcomes over mere words. Recognizing that deeds convert intentions into meaningful impact anchors a moral standard.
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