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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
2
A farm report notes cucumber production on a one and four month acre from Summerland, indicating peach boxes packed from the crop and a total price averaging eighty cents per box. The entry records yield and sales figures for market assessment.
Hilda and Parminter plot a quiet break in to access a study during the night. Parminter insists on a five hundred pounds payment for assistance and warns of accomplice risk, while Hilda counters and secures funds. The dialogue hints at government papers and a planned, secret operation.
Hilda pressures Mrs Tressingham to finance Waters and Parminter’s plan to steal a despatch box. Von Roon will retrieve the box from Hartsdale House at night and return it after examining its contents in Down Street rooms. The waiting period in the house unsettles Hilda and drives her to impatience.
George Ellington returns to Curzon Street unaware he is the target of multiple plots. Unknown watchers track his movements all afternoon and confirm the despatch box is with him as he enters Hartsdale House. He reserves his night to rest, leaving business behind at the door. Marcia sits in the dark with talk of politics as Letty is away.
The British food controller advises Canadians to eat their surplus potatoes to save cereals. A memorandum on UK potato imports states resources will go to essential foods like wheat bacon and cheese, so no import facilities for Canadian potatoes can be arranged. Direct consumption in Canada could free cereals for export to the United Kingdom.
German propaganda tour showed a captured British aeroplane to the public. The initial town reaction was fear rather than pride, with residents convinced British raids on German towns would soon follow.
Western Canada in land boom as farmers push to expand holdings. Saskatchewan sales yield high prices from 45 to 76 dollars per acre, with totals at Nokomis 770000 and Young 515768. Morse Brownlee and Viscount show strong demand for private lands near Regina Saskatoon Radisson Lethbridge.
Interesting the Children Seed fairs have become a key branch of agricultural education in Saskatchewan. Forty fairs are arranged across the province and run from mid month to mid June. Poultry shows and occasional livestock displays accompany them. Two College of Agriculture judges travel to each fair to explain seed formation and agricultural matters and discuss livestock. The judges stay one or two days per location. Children participate by rearing animals and presenting completed projects that track care, weight, feeding, and costs, showing learning outcomes beyond classroom time.
The New York World derides a plan to conquer Great Britain with a massive 600 foot airship, noting it could be brought down in France by trouble and captured by a farm-hand while hunting rabbits, adding more terrors to war.
The war department reviews daily inventions as potential end war tools. Dozens propose devices from sun blinding reflectors to aerial torpedoes, land torpedoes, chained sabres, and armor coats, though most are deemed impracticable for immediate use. Nearly 10,000 have been offered since the preliminary conflict began. few fit quick wartime needs.
Mrs Alfred Berthelotte reports scalp itching burning and flaky scales were relieved by Cuticura Soap and Ointment within a week. She credits instant relief and complete healing after use and notes the daily toilet use prevents skin troubles. Sample offer to mail by post-card Cuticura Dept A Boston U S A.
M L Urann argues in the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture report that the church should lead rural development through social departments in agriculture training, sanitation, nursing, and physical activities. He stresses community service and public welfare as church aims, urging support from religious motives or business needs.
Manitoba government officials plan to import sheep from Montana after failing to buy enough at Ontario stockyards. The move follows removal of import duties to facilitate the purchase and bring sheep into Manitoba.
A Winnipeg newspaper projects Manitoba farmers will gain sixty five to seventy five million dollars more in cash receipts this year. Wheat yield is forecast at 199,239,760 dollars with high prices, oats improve on price though lower yield, and dairy products may add over 5,000,000. Bank clearing figures show Winnipeg rising to second in the dominion, Calgary strong, signaling westward prosperity.
The piece quotes Theodore Roosevelt urging no negotiated peace with Germany and supporting strong action on European soil. it also notes a Russia related detail about Madame Sukhomlinoff, wife of a Russian general, and her extravagant expenses including a 150,000 rouble dress bill and 15,000 rouble perfume spend.
The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture announces free freight and accounting forms to assist co operatives in livestock marketing. The set records a full year of work and reduces labor with ready to use devices. After initial free distribution the sets cost about 1.25 dollars per set.
Mrs Nellie Fishback of Louisville credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing severe female troubles, headaches, and nervousness that left her unable to work. She avoided an operation and now runs her home and cares for an eight month old baby girl. The ad invites others to write for free advice from the Pinkham company in Lynn Massachusetts.
An American author living in Berlin describes rising prices and poor quality in the city’s food. He cites mussel sausage, dried sea lion meat, sawdust bread, crow and seagull dishes, horseflesh at 60 cents a pound, rancid Danish butter, tuberculous beef, coffee substitutes, and scarce milk with cows kept in palatial courtyards.
A perplexed woman watches as a man binds a small cut on his hand then jokes that a regular nurse would marry the patient. The tone shifts with his eager line about marriage as the remedy.
A sharp exchange unfolds as a refined lady chides a tramp for not liking work while he quips about his late wife, revealing tense class tension in a brief street vignette.
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