04 Aug 1927
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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 04, 1927
Page
1
Warm day shopping note highlights Owl Stoves with oven $28.00 and a 3-barner cabinet style stove with mantle shelf $45.00. Stoves operate on same generator as Coleman gasoline lamps and are described as safe with a hot blue flame.
Coleman’s Gasoline Iron offers adjustable heat for any task on hot days. It generates its own OWL ice and is described as safe to pet. Price listed at $6.50.
An old advertisement promotes Fly Cop as a house spray that kills flies and controls mosquitoes, moths, and roaches. Available in three bottle sizes with a mouth sprayer included. prices listed as 75 cents and 1.25 dollars.
Manitoba Hardware & Lumber Co. lists items to be sold by public auction in Arrow River on Friday August 12 including a portable 20 hp gasoline engine furniture sewing machine stove beds and more with cash terms. Principal Albright resigns from the school board to become supervisor of Miniota Municipal School. Miss Lillian Emerson returns to Hamiota after vacation. many local teachers have graduated from McConnell with Emerson as the first to take up nursing.
Leonard Sheardown spent summer holidays at home as Miss Bessie Stewart visited Brandon. Several residents traveled to Winnipeg and Brandon for visits or work. The Hanmiota Horticultural Society show is planned for August 19 and 20. Church picnic set for August 1 at The Narrows Shoal Lake. Grade XI exam results show limited passing marks with three clear passes Dora Bennett Jessie Little Dorothy Reid.
Friday and Saturday specials slash prices to clear summer stock. Advertised as ridiculously low and money saving with every article on sale. Customers urged to cut out the ad and shop.
The ad lists men and boys clothing bargains including boater hats Leghorn hats and raincoats with reduced prices. It highlights regular prices versus sale prices for items such as uniforms socks sweaters jerseys and wool suits aimed at families shopping in the department. The sale includes boys sizes 2 to 8 years and a range of fabrics like gabardine and tweed.
A fragment from Hamiota notes a bobtail collie dog following T. J. Strachan home and requests ad buyers. It mentions frost on Monday morning and crops, prize money donations to the Hamiota Agricultural Society, a found necklace at Echo Office, room and board ads for Brandon college students, and local livestock sales including Ayrshire cows Jersey heifers and Hereford stock with prices.
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