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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 23, 1906
Page
7
The narrator returns to the castle and finds Captain Sercombe at the dining table with Montgomery asleep. He presses for truth about a crime trade, noting Sercombe’s calm humor while concealing a hidden hand. Tension rises as both men probe each other for leverage.
Greatorex and Captain Sercombe negotiate a private war over a hidden treasure in a castle. The detective learns the treasure is crown property salvage and the terms hinge on covert battle tactics and mutual distrust as Montgomery plots to aid. The night ends with trust fragile and plans in motion.
A humorous local column links price hikes to ice cost. Ice rises from three to five dollars a ton and ice cream to forty cents a quart, triggering higher costs for beef radishes and bricks. The joke ends with a jab at wage freezes and class effects, noting the ice boom’s strange reach.
A historical portrait of King Edward VII and his golf passion. The piece notes his early interest at Musselburgh, his influence on Windsor’s private nine holes, his skill with clubs, and his role in shaping bunkers and layouts to challenge players. It highlights his status as a devoted enthusiast and architect of a personal course.
In the first Sunday after relocation from their suburban home to a seventh story apartment, the family gathered at the piano for their usual hour of song. Ten year old Marjory requested a hymn about nearing heaven, remarking she thinks of it each time she rides the elevator.
A Green Rider event tale recalls a severe fall in which a farmer’s son broke a leg. The horse owner, a wealthy local woman, offers no concern, leading to a fiery farm confrontation. The injured youth retorts with sharp humor about breeding and training as the quarrel escalates.
A dairy man warns in National Stockman that white specks in butter are bits of curd or sour milk. Straining the cream before churning is the only effective method to eradicate them, saving the butter from being filled with these specks.
The article contrasts Oxford and Cambridge in classics versus mathematics, noting Oxford's classical strength and Cambridge’s top mathematicians. It cites Rhodes Scholars, women’s education, and intercollegiate lectures, then surveys archives, architecture, boating, and campus life, ending with local color and traditions.
A French refugee Jacob du Moulin was accused of circulating counterfeit coins and faced a death sentence after a complex scheme showed him as the victim. A seal engraver Williams was killed and his wife confessed her husband’s gang involvement, revealing the drawer filled with the tools and false coins.
In Emily Monroe Dickinson’s A Patriots Mistake the late Charles Stewart Parnell is depicted as superstitious. An instance follows his marriage when crowds broke his carriage window seeking contact, interpreted as evil signs. He then avoided a house after a maid claimed to see him on a staircase before his arrival.
Daguerre visited Lord Avebury in London and sought permission to photograph his young son to demonstrate the art. The resulting portrait became the first successful photograph in England by Daguerre and the son was used as the subject for the demonstration.
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