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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 22, 1923
Page
7
An advertisement proclaims Catarrhozone a pine based natural remedy from Australia that quickly stops colds coughs and catarrh. It claims rapid action without stomach upset and offers a two month treatment for $1 with mail order from The Catarrhone Co Montreal.
Rehabilitation work on the Hudson Bay Railway advances. 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 was unveiled in Lublin. British immigrants to Canada numbered 26 625 in five months, vs 10 500 a year earlier. Storms devastate grape and olive crops in three Italian communes. A Cairo hospital for poor women and a training school for women doctors will open in December as a Kitchener memorial.
The rapid rise in Saskatchewan export butter trade is highlighted by a recent shipment of 25,900 pounds of butter to China by the Saskatchewan Cooperative Creameries, marking a notable achievement in the provincial dairy industry.
A Woodbridge Ontario reader reports relief from female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes headaches backaches and dragging sensations and credits neighborly recommendations for trying the remedy. She endorses sharing testimonials to help others.
At the Royal Botanical Gardens a simple yet uncanny device for armless users was shown by William Whitt who, bereft of both arms, used metal levers operated by his feet to perform tasks. He peeled an egg lit a cigarette wrote and typed while the machine, devised by W J Thompson of Edinburgh, seemed robotlike.
When your back aches morning noon and night and you feel depressed tired and out of sorts turn to Dr Hamilton's Pills. These mild vegetable restoratives like mandrake and butternut revitalize the liver and kidneys soothe backache and leave you feeling brisk and full of pep. 25¢ at all dealers.
A cablegram from the International Institute of Agriculture Rome places Canada at the forefront as a source for global wheat supply. It lists prospective exports by country: Canada 290 million bushels, United States 180 million, Argentina 129 million, India 30 million, Russia 20 million, Balkans 10 million, with Australia 10 million.
Save the Children urges mothers to keep Baby's Own Tablets at home to prevent stomach troubles cholera infantum and diarrhoea in summer. The tablets are government analyst guaranteed harmless even to newborns and help regulate bowels keeping the stomach pure. Sold by dealers or by mail at 5 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
The Natural Resources Intelligence Service reports Saskatchewan holds numerous valuable metallic and non metallic minerals including gold silver iron copper coal gypsum ochres peat petroleum quartz salt natural gas mineral waters slate stone and sand. 1921 coal production reached 335,632 tons with up to 1000 square miles of promising coal area.
North Alberta reports its cattle herds exceed two million, with the swine industry also expanding rapidly in the northern province. The note highlights significant growth in livestock numbers over recent years.
The term vestibules derives from Latin and originally described a area where Romans left their garments or outerwear. It notes how the word’s sense evolved from a cloak room to a general entryway term.
A sharp boy answers the teacher with a witty reply claiming the ace as the largest diamond. The exchange highlights a playful classroom moment and student quickness.
A column dated April 14 argues that cancer and most modern diseases arise from wrong feeding and artificial cooking. It promotes a potassium treatment and natural diet as inexpensive home remedies, blaming civilization for illness and urging readers to adopt a wholesome, seasonal diet. The piece credits Charles Walter of Toronto and ends by recommending Holloway's Corn Remover as a sole satisfactory remedy.
A direct parcel post exchange between Canada and Germany resumes after nine years, adding a route beyond the England line. Parcels depart from Montreal during summer and from St John or Halifax in winter, with rates from 23 cents per pound to 1.37 dollars for 11 pounds and standard packing and customs rules apply.
An advertisement warns parents about cholera infantum a deadly summer bowel illness in children. It promotes Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry claiming to stop vomiting and diarrhoea and cites a Halifax testimonial. The product price is 59 cents per bottle from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ont.
Farmers nationwide are asked to submit weed names and infestation details to the Dominion Experimental Farms Division of Botany. They should use a form accompanying Seasonable Hints July and include soil type drainage crop rotation suppression methods and weed rankings. Postage free entries may cite couch twitch grass Canada thistle wild mustard wild oats ragweed and other common weeds.
In September 1912 Dr. Gustav Stresemann, newly serving as German chancellor, visited Ottawa representing the German Imperial Government. The trip aimed to end the Canada Germany customs war but failed to produce a lasting accord, as reported by H. S. pielman of the Canadian Translation Bureau.
The Argentine labor department cites recruiters who lure Indians with high wages only to ship them in poor conditions on flat cars. Workers endure harsh, underfed confinement on plantations, paid with store orders and charged inflated prices, often spending any surplus on liquor.
Brazil harbors one of the world's greatest free ore regions in its interior with pure abundant beds. Development is held back by poor transportation. Natives smelt ore into utensils and farming tools. water power could feed electric furnaces. Brazil currently imports iron and sheet metal.
Pulpwood exports from Canada to the United States rose to over 1.6 million cords valued near 10 million dollars. The trade has doubled since 1912 and shows a steady year by year increase.
Tokio Japan is now designated Greater Tokio and rises to the world’s third largest city with a population of 5 164 000.
Miller's Worm Powders are in demand everywhere and can be bought at any chemist or drug shop at a small cost. They are a reliable remedy to expel worms from the system and ease worm-related suffering, with many mothers expressing relief for their children.
More than 650 Swiss immigrants have been placed on prairie farms in the last three months, says Thomas Geiley, Dominion Immigration Commissioner at Winnipeg. Large numbers are located along the Canadian National Railway lines in the three prairie provinces.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics report on Canada’s religions from the 1921 Census shows 97.6 percent in Christian denominations, 1.9 percent in non Christian faiths including Jews and Oriental beliefs, and 0.5 percent without religion. Anglican Church grows fastest due to immigration.
In a brief comic note, Jimbleberry asks a floor walker in a department store if they stock stationery. The clerk quips that if they did stock stationery he would lose his job, followed by a Minard's Liniment for Dandruff promotional line.
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