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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
7
An advertisement promotes Dr Hamiltons Pills as a mild laxative that improves daily bowel habits by toning stomach and bowels. It claims quick relief from headaches belching gas sour stomach fullness after meals and liver soreness with a price of 23 cents per box.
In a hotel parlor Ruth Downing counsels J. Ruggles on his future after he reveals plans to manage the Vienna branch. He explains meeting Darthea, an English girl, and his fear of how her aristocratic circle would judge his work selling shoes. Ruth probes motives and love.
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone a soothing inhaled balsamic remedy from the Blue Gum tree of Australia. It claims relief for catarrh coughs colds throat trouble and irritable throat with a pocket size inhaler sufficient for two months. Price 50 cents large size, 25 cents sample.
The speaker explains keeping a shoe-store job secret to avoid spoiling potential trips for others. He reflects on happiness from having someone to think about, yet insists there was no real romance, only friendship. Ruth asks how she would handle his situation, and the conversation ends with a teaser.
The King and Queen hosted a strictly private garden party at Buckingham Palace for the royal household servants and their families. The event featured the Royal Horse Guards band, a Southern Syncopated Orchestra, and a negro jazz group in an amphitheatre by the drained palace lake. Tea in marquees, a Punch and Judy show, and lively dancing with Princess Mary marked the 4 to 6:30 schedule, extended by an hour as guests enjoyed themselves.
The piece argues thrift is essential to lower living costs and urges individuals to assess their own contribution to production. It compares civilian effort to wartime sacrifice and asserts no cheap article will emerge without increased production, acknowledging human nature limits.
Java's world trade has leaped from 4 million dollars annually before the war to 80 million a year, says J A Barkley an industrial expert of Java visiting U S trade centers. He notes Java escapes high living costs with women workers earning 10 cents a day and managing to get by.
An open Dominion Labor party convention will be held in Winnipeg early in October to set plans for November civic elections. The party will test its strength in civic honors and is understood to nominate candidates for both provincial and federal constituencies when opportune.
Brigadier General Richardson spoke at the New Zealand Club about British staff college lectures predicting a world war timeline. They warned of deepened Suez canal effects, a French and British retreat from Paris, and Britain needing conscription for a 1,000,000 army. The German fleet would weaken British defenses with mines and submarines before a decisive strike a year after war begins.
A 1796 French proposal by Campenas offered Napoleon an aerial ship for 200 aboard to strike London in a single voyage with downwards fire brands. Napoleon rejected the plan, noting airships as scouts first, with aerial battles only emerging after a German pilot fired on a British craft.
Reports to the peace conference say Romanian troops requisitioned 71,420 pairs of shoes from Budapest orphan asylum on September 10. Most were sent to Romania with 8,000 left. fears persist that the orphanage may lose those too under military requisitions, leaving orphans shoeless for winter. Other looting cases were reported to the supreme council.
The New York Outlook argues that wartime waste demands a patriotic shift to thrift. It urges conservation of food and clothing, less class hatred, and restraint on wages and spending to curb hardship from profiteering and inefficient economics.
The remark notes how some women pray as instructed by clergy and refrain from actions deemed inappropriate by their minister. It reflects on gender and religious authority in daily life.
Philippe Roy of the Canadian commission in France says Paris will use 80 000 pounds of Canadian butter daily if shipments arrive. Samples from Canada have reached Paris in good condition after 36 days at sea. War disruptions have cut Siberian butter supplies, likely unavailable for five years.
A reflective note contrasts beauty with vanity and ignorance. It suggests that prettiness can attract attention while egotism, if linked to ignorance, may distort perception and self awareness.
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