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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 28, 1925
Page
6
Investigator W. T. BR. Preston of the North Atlantic combine asserts the steamship combine extracted 50,006,000 from settlers to Canada. He forecasts a population of 25,906,060 in Canada within twenty years if current travelers unite to break transport combines on land and sea.
The Vitagraph Picture WQABEE SON OF KAZAN stars Wolf the war dog and adapts James Oliver Curwood’s tale A Love Edic of the Far North into a motion picture presenting frontier drama with animal passion and rugged northern peril.
Nepeese lures Bush McTaggart to the chasm and he falls toward a pool below. She flees with Baree to a hidden wigwam as Pierrot warns of a dangerous Blood-poison and an imminent Lac Bain exodus. A fierce storm rises as Baree seeks protection beside the Willow.
Montreal reader Mrs. Taos H Gardner of Verdun recounts relief from postnatal pains and backache after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Medicine. The letter touts safety for nursing mothers and claims high satisfaction among users.
A story recounted by Sir John Jordan recalls Prince Confucius, descendant of Confucius, visiting Beijing after the war. At a banquet he was asked about Clemenceau Lloyd George and Wilson, and replied with politeness that those names were new to him. Such is fame.
Mrs ID H Wood of Eagle Hill Alberta recounts moving from Everett Washington in 1912 to Edmonton then 14 miles west of Olds. She notes 660 acres now with half cultivated, good buildings and water, near a school post office and store, and highway progress. She urges American settlers to relocate.
An Edmonton registrar refuses to issue a thirteenth marriage certificate calling it canceled and illegible. Three prospective brides declined the number 13 citing superstition and bad luck. One couple from the country and two local pairs avoided the certificate. the registrar spared a young pair from denial.
The League of Nations has earmarked 15000 to aid rescue work for Armenian girls enslaved in Asiatic Turkey during the Great War. Officials estimate about 2000 could be saved near Ras el Ain, where massacres and slave trades occurred in 1916. Some 10000 cases have already been addressed.
Crowds gathered at Hamburg station Pennsylvania watched a locomotive hauling four passenger cars stall as the throttle jammed. Steam could not be shut off and the wheels ground rails to grooves inch deep. Fire crews battled the blaze with a hose while the engineer fought the lever. It took two hours to lay new tracks and reroute traffic. Division officials say no similar mishap is recalled.
Sir Arthur Currie, McGill University principal, urges no sectionalism and names agriculture manufacturing and transportation as Canada’s three fundamentals. He predicts a prosperous agricultural outlook, supports government funding of agricultural science, and calls for constant demonstrators. The piece also notes ads for Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil and reports on a 70 foot fossil tree found in India, plus a caution about free will vs others' rights.
The Prince of Wales may make a social visit to the Irish Free State as soon as conditions stabilize. A prior plan was delayed last year due to unrest, but the government now believes the trip would be welcomed amid improving conditions and positive reception of his tour films in Irish cinemas.
People lacking vitality seek a blood building tonic to restore color energy and sleep. The ad touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a longtime household remedy used by Canadians and endorsed by customers like Mrs Louie Mitchell and Mr W W Francis. It claims to aid digestion nervousness and fatigue and offers free books on building blood sent by the Williams company.
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