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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 23, 1924
Page
2
A.S. Bennett's Is the West Worth While argues Western Canada holds lasting value for the nation. It urges East and West to unite, cut reliance on governments, and boost individual effort and cooperation to fix economic ills and promote lasting progress.
Winnipeg report says wholesale grocers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan will end long term credits. Retail traders are told net 30 days or 1 percent for 15 day payments, retroactive to January 1. Wholesalers cite tighter bank finance as cause of the change.
A plantation worker named Mose explains his stance on religious examinations with a wry remark that he avoids heavy topics. The dialogue satirizes questions about preaching and belief, hinting at skepticism and careful wording. The excerpt also notes an odd statistic about ice cream entering France around 155 percent.
W T Kyle of Page Steel and Wire Co Bridgeport announced a tested highway guard device. The fabricating wire apparatus has elasticity and recoil and wraps around a speeding car, stopping it at average speeds.
Miller's Worm Powders claim to expel worms from stomach and intestines and to restore digestive health. The product asserts it creates conditions that hinder worms and support growth, backed by hundreds of cases and testimonials of trustworthiness.
A brief note states that automobile use in the United States rose dramatically from 1909 to 191? a rise of about fourteenfold. It also mentions the Cincinnati Zoo maintaining a hospital annex for the monkey house.
An old advertisement touts Fletcher's Castoria for babies and children. It promises relief from constipation flatulence wind colic and diarrhea and claims to aid digestion and sleep without opiates. The genuine bottle bears a signature.
Dr J A Amyot deputy minister of health in Canada warned that ten to fifteen thousand drug addicts and active traffickers harm the country more than older drinkers. He spoke in Toronto saying most addicts are under 30 and emphasized Canada’s co operation among provinces in tackling venereal disease.
Advertisement asserts mercury and mineral salts in pills cause harsh effects and promotes Dr Hamilton's Pills of Mandrake and Butternut as safest laxative. It claims they clean stomach intestines and bowels drive out waste tone kidneys and forever cure constipation.
An old advertisement touts Dr Hamilton's Pills as a mild general tonic and system cleanser. Sold at dealers for 25 cents per box, five for $1.00, by The Catarrhozone Co Montreal.
Chauncey M. Depew ridiculed the German case for reparations at a New York banquet. He compared it to a prohibition orator’s muddled metaphors about buckling down, axes on shoulders, and a Temperance ship sailing forward.
Mrs. M. O'Connor of Whitestone Ontario reports long lasting relief from breath shortness heart palpitations and fainting spells after using Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills. She keeps them handy and claims several years of improved health. Pills cost 50 cents a box or mailed from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ontario.
The small depositor is a ward of the State. He places his money in a chartered institution and is entitled to feel that his deposit is protected by bank competence and conscience and by adequate public oversight and control.
Seed Board chairman M. P. Tullis was elected at a board meeting in Saskatoon. The post arises from the enactment of the new seed act.
German medal wearers entitled to 25 marks monthly from the treasury. Prewar value far larger, now one forty-billionth of a German groschen. Some recipients joke about officials examining a hero’s face and paying only a minute fraction for risking life for the fatherland.
Warns that colds travel to the lungs becoming consumption and urges quick action. Claims Catarrhozone reaches the disease source, heals nasal and throat soreness, stops discharge, relieves headaches, and purifies breath. Advertises monthly treatment for $1.00 or 60c small size, sold by druggists or mail from The Catarrhozotic Co. Montreal.
Literacy tests showed that about one third of 700 recruits from two infantry regiments could not read or write. Many did not know a postwar peace treaty existed, and few understood who made laws for France.
Detroit reports the largest flow of Canadian arrivals in history with about 250 new arrivals processed daily by immigration officers. Officials note this count excludes individuals being smuggled across the border.
An old clipping parodies a corns remedy ad, noting blood poisoning from a penny- pinching misstep. It promotes Putnam’s Painless Corn Ex with a mock sales pitch, claiming reliability for fifty years and a 25 cent bottle price, urging to refuse substitutes.
Prof Beaman head of science at State Normal Brockport spoke before the Nature Study Society outlining four reasons for winter. He said the sun heats the earth six hours less daily, heat spreads over a larger area, rays travel farther through the atmosphere, and much heat melts ice rather than warms the air. The sun’s northward return begins December 21 and returns June 21.
Science confirms a finite lowest temperature near 459 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Experiments show particles vibrate above this point, gases liquefy, and solids form as heat drops. Liquid air, liquid hydrogen and helium advances are cited, with absolute zero never quite attainable despite refined methods.
The article promotes Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a reliable home remedy for inflammatory pains and minor injuries. It argues the oil saves fees when a physician is not immediately available and praises its effectiveness for cuts scratches bruises and sprains.
The text argues that character cannot grow through alternating negative and positive days. It notes daily self doubts fears and poverty sayings erode what has been built in a harmonious creative life. It emphasizes steady, constructive thoughts as the path to strength.
The article notes winter confines a baby to stuffy rooms and causes colds and upset stomachs. It promotes Baby Own Tablets to regulate stomach and bowels and break up colds. The Dr Williams Medicine Co offers boxes at 25 cents postpaid via Brockville Ontario.
CP Rail moved over 3.3 million tons of coal in the west during summer 1923 under a new policy. Alberta shipments were directed east when freight traffic was light, with coal stored until the crop began to move and then drawn for commercial use.
An agricultural representative in close touch with the hog raising situation in Bruce County reports that by shipping a carload of hogs on a graded basis the farmers who contributed the stock gained approximately $80 over the flat rate of shipping which up to that time had been the rule. The load graded 75 per cent selects and the balance thick smooths.
A Bohemian scientist declares the discovery of a serum to treat arteriosclerosis, but warns that no cure exists yet for heart hardening. The remark appears in the Harrisburg Telegraph.
A Denver Post cartoon panel shows a debt dispute where a borrower requests a ten dollar loan and the lender offers five, arguing the fairest way is to split the loss equally. The exchange highlights subtleties of negotiation and fairness in lending.
The Prince of Wales sails from Southampton on May 2 for a three month tour of British possessions in South Africa. He will visit Capetown and travel through Cape Colony, the Orange River Colony, Transvaal, Natal and South Rhodesia, meeting Governor General Athlone and Premier Smuts. Official functions will mix with sports, hunting, mining visits and social engagements.
Quebec registered 132,905 United States tourist autos in the last year. Vehicles came from 45 states and every Canadian province except Prince Edward Island.
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