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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1927
Page
2
A Ottawa woman describes her two year battle with nervous exhaustion and stomach trouble and credits Tanlac with restoring strength, appetite, sleep, and calm nerves. The ad touts Tanlac as nature's tonic made from roots herbs and barks and notes over two million bottles sold.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics finds 1,299,150 Canadian families own homes while 762,062 rent. Rural urban splits show Saskatchewan Alberta Ontario and Manitoba with high ownership, Quebec urban renters rise, and Western lot prices hinder expansion. The report links home ownership to health and lower mortality, noting high prices deter building in western cities.
The Medical Examiner notes radium poisoning caused the death of Elizabeth Webb 25 of Waterbury Conn at Presbyterian Hospital New York. Webb had worked for some time with gasoline clocks and other radium painted objects before deteriorating health.
Mrs Gladys Hell of Montreal reports relief from years of severe headaches after taking Carter's Little Liver Pills. The advertisement promotes the pills as a purely vegetable remedy that relieves constipation biliousness nausea indigestion and improves complexion without calomel mercury or habit forming drugs.
The report notes extensive testing for a poison that causes bone rot, an outcome likened to cancer effects on Mesh. It highlights the efforts to identify the cause and its impact on the patient.
Report notes large consignments of railway material originally built in Eastern Canada for Russia are being sold to the Soviet government. The stock frames, worth over 100000 when built, will be assembled in Manchuria and used as freight cars on the Trans Siberian line. A total of enough material remains to build about 1000 cars.
The Paseker seaplane, the smallest ever built, delivered at Surespes, rises from water in seconds and reaches 20 feet in minutes. It is designed to be carried by submarines, allowing rapid surfacing and on deck assembly for flight, with a predicted brilliant future for this air machine.
An advertisement touts Nerviline as fast acting pain relief that penetrates deeply for stubborn pains. Separately a Nationalist Union of Dergen protests to Norway about Denmark selling Greenland to Canada, fearing officials depart Copenhagen for Ottawa.
When a child shows early cold symptoms prompt relief should be swift. Baby's Own Tablets are touted as quick acting, non narcotic, tasteless and safe for immediate use with praise from mothers. Haley's Own Tablets offered at 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams' Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
Canada remains the leading asbestos producer with 266000 tons in 1926, out of a world total of 4900000 tons. Rhodesia contributed 54000 tons, while Russia and Cyprus produced about 20000 tons combined.
Francis Henry Cook describes a general decline in health from indigestion and abdominal distress. He credits Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with relief and improved strength. He endorses the medicine, noting extras large bottle prices and inviting free advice from Dr. Pierce's Hotel in Buffalo, New York.
The St John Globe reflects on journalism stressing education over sensationalism and detaching from party influence or commercial pressures. It argues modern progress favors uninfluenced, untarnished news that pleases readers with trustworthy content.
A legacy from 2100 years ago funds a memorial in Edinburgh for Sir William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. The Wallace Bruce memorial began with Captain Hugh Reid's 1832 gift of 1,000 pounds and has grown to 6,000 pounds. Unveiling is planned for 1926, marking six centuries since Edinburgh’s charter by Robert the Bruce.
The many purpose oil offers relief for cuts bruises burns scalds rheumatism and sciatica sore throat and chest for humans. It also helps horses with similar ailments and mishaps, a remedy trusted for fifty years with many firm friends.
Canadian National trains equipped by the Field Crops Departments will tour Saskatchewan and Alberta in February to April offering lectures on forage crops and crop rotations. Equipment includes a demonstration coach and seed cars with alfalfa hay corn and grass seeds at cost to farmers.
Airman Shirley Short receives the Trarman Trophy for best 1926 performance by an American flier over Byrd. Short piloted the Chicago to Cleveland mail run, logging 2000 hours with no serious accidents. He flew daily, six days weekly for fifty weeks, illustrating aviation’s progress as routine work.
King Prachachipok of Siam trims royal costs by slashing the rural establishment electric bill once as high as 500 dollars daily, reducing expenses from an annual 4,500,600 dollars as lights are dimmed or removed.
Advert appears to promote Pape's Diapepsin as fast relief for indigestion gas flatulence heartburn sourness and stomach distress. Claims suggest tablets provide immediate relief and cost only a few cents with Druggists selling millions of packages.
A World War I reminiscence notes the removal of shell holes and barbed wire in the Flemish countryside. It claims millions of unexploded shells were cleared from the soil and the landscape bears deep wounds turned to healing.
A War Department report from Panama tells of an aeroplane flight that ferried an aged native woman S00 miles to her people in the Chriqui country after Panama City physicians judged her case hopeless. An interpreter asked if she feared the trip. she answered, When one must die, one dies.
Castoria has served over ten years to relieve babies and children of constipation flatulence wind colic and diarrhea. It calms feverishness from these issues and aids digestion for natural sleep without opiates. The genuine product bears the signature.
A traveling salesman staying at a small hotel asks the proprietress for an alarm clock to catch an early train. She lends him a clock and warns it may stick but should ring if he taps the hammer, offering a simple solution to startle the alarm.
The Transvaal Chamber of Mines secretary Johan nesbare reported that gold mine profits in November 1926 totaled £1,110,254.
A terse observation notes that a few workers manage to avoid sufficient tasks, leaving others to cover a dozen roles through implied overwork and supervision.
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