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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
9
A historical overview of early film special effects explains how stop motion and double exposure create illusionary stunts. Dummies replace actors during critical moments like a steam roller run over a actor, bricklayer falls, and furniture moving, with parts reassembled between frames. The article notes gear, studio setups, and careful development to produce seamless, lifelike scenes.
In a playful scene, Little Elsie grimaces at a glass of charged mineral water her mother offers. The girl insists she will instead drink the kind her mother has paid for, highlighting a light domestic quirk.
A jeweller cites a higher price for a ring with chasing work, while the customer jokes that the jeweller does not hate to chase him and cheekily offers to pay for what he gets.
Describes telescope fish developed by Chinese and Japanese breeders. Notable forms include Yen tan yen veil tail and others like sheep's nose pig's snout and fan tail. Breeders focus on color via water temperature and minerals, producing many shades and markings such as spotted silver bellies with blue and carmine tones.
Tourists pass through Rheims visit the Gothic cathedral with its massive clock. The sexton, a shrewd man, asks visitors to wind the weights themselves. About 200 visitors daily oblige, unwittingly winding the clock and tipping him for the chance.
The article traces the Hebrew Mem meaning water and notes the ancient manuscript form as a wavy line suggesting water. It discusses philologists who link Phoenician M to a picture of a human face with strokes for contour nose and eyes and mouth, noting the old form resembles a comical face.
A commuter survives a fatal head on wreck where four coaches telescope and fire erupts. Dragged from a mass of mangled bodies, he proclaims he is fine, boasting his accident insurance policy as proof.
A government astronomer describes stars with immeasurable parallax. Canopus is thousands of times brighter than the sun. Estimates vary whether it is 20 000 10 000 or 5 000 times brighter. First magnitude stars Rigel and Speca are at immeasurable distances yet appear vastly brighter than the sun.
A lighthearted exchange unfolds as George confirms his watch keeps better time after his fiancée places her picture inside the case. He jokes about adding another jewel to improve the mechanism, drawing a merry response.
The garden's landscape architect remarks on a discordant plant pairing. He notes a dogwood planted near pussy willows, causing alarm in the lady as the aesthetic judgment is challenged. The exchange reveals tension over garden design choices.
A history teacher asks the juvenile class for Nero's greatest crime. A clever student at the foot jokes that Nero played the fiddle, delivering a lighthearted classroom moment from the past.
Russia weighs how to handle the Imansk republic a covert colony founded by Innokenti Sibirakoff. Veliki’s Siberian discovery reveals a 4000 resident settlement with its own constitution laws and brutal enforcement including public punishments and native Chinese convicts.
A Britannica style tally shows Europe hosts about 100000 doctors with England leading in both total numbers and per capita share. Bulgaria records the fewest practitioners at 0.47 per 10000, while Germany 22500 doctors at 5.6 per 10000, France 19800 at 5.1, and Italy 18270 at 5.6. Ireland’s Own.
The text describes solar wasps and their varied activities. Some are miners digging tiny tunnels in the earth, others are carpenters cutting channels in wood to form partitions. They build mud nests on branches, dividing homes into small rooms where the mother stores prey for her young.
A garbled passage describes a laundress testing saliva on hot iron to observe evaporation behavior. It explains that if the iron is too hot the saliva drop vaporizes and shoots away, while if too cold the drop sticks and evaporates slowly.
Four year old twins had no playmate of their own age until a neighbor’s three year old girl visited. The trio played together and the twins asked their mother where the fourth child was, marveling at the missing playmate.
A humorous exchange yields a punchline about how a wife kept her husband by sitting on the tails of his coat all day. The joke plays on literal imagery to imply close companionship and influence within a marriage.
A terse quote reflects a harsh view of someone unwilling to share troubles and questions the value of offering assistance. The remark suggests that those who conceal issues may not merit aid.
The Westminster Gazette surveys various theories on the origin of Mephistopheles name. It notes Goethe in a 1820 letter could not provide a definite answer and discusses proposals from hybrid Greco Hebrew etymology to Greek mephos tophilos and modern suggestions linked to Pephiboscheta and Architophel.
An American Magazine reader recalls a 1-0 Washington vs Cincinnati game in which Wilmot hit an infield fly that rose high, fell inside the infielders, and allowed Wilmot to dash home for a winning, uniquely rare infield fly home run. Buck Ewing and McPhee misplayed contact as the ball dropped.
The New York Telegram advises hanging pictures early when moving to a new home to keep them out of the way. This simple step reduces broken glass scratches and dents from packing and unpacking objects.
The article notes checkers or drafts as an ancient game to some and relatively modern to others. It mentions many variants Chinese English Polish Spanish Italian Turkish and a native New Zealand interior version among the many forms cited.
A brief schoolhouse exchange shows a child pondering belief and science. Bobby questions the world being round and turning on hinges, while Uncle-Well prompts faith and understanding in a simple, moral frame.
The Pittsburgh Post reports Mrs Wombat’s house was robbed and she grew indignant. The burglars returned her silver plated ware the following night, sparking local talk about the incident.
Fragmentary OCR note hints at a bracing phrase about pleasures and softness, with unclear context. Missing subject or actions limit clarity. no identifiable people or organizations are readable.
Theodore Roosevelt notes in Scribner's Magazine that true man eaters in East Africa are lions and crocodiles. He recounts incidents of lions delaying Uganda railroad work by killing workers and attacking station staff near the Guaso Nyiro headwaters and Machakos areas.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt notes on August 8 1815 Napoleon was moved from the Bellerophon to the Northumberland for exile to St Helena. Government fears of Napoleon as a dangerous force persisted despite protests in England and commentary by Charles Lamb praising him as a “fine fellow.”
A cowherd guiding five cows to pasture near Ishtib used patterned groupings to convey intelligence to the Austrians about Servian battalion positions and strength. The herd movements alternated between two cows, single cows, and three cows to relay tactical data before the decisive clash.
A Strand Magazine remark imagines water as an inch thick armor capable of stopping powerful bombs on contact, offering resistance comparable to steel armor of modern battleships.
In the Kenesa City Journal a dialogue asks why a policeman stands beside a newly painted park bench. The reply notes the paint draws testers, and the officer’s presence aims to keep people in line.
A man grows bitter at his recently broken engagement after the woman returns the ring with a cruel label on the box reading Glass-With Cere. The brief item hints at a personal grievance and sharp humor in the literature note.
An abbreviated transcript hints at a domestic scene with Kate attempting to reform a miserly partner and Pilunks commenting on his nature. The dialogue explores desire, marriage plans, and moral judgment in a concise, character driven exchange.
Patrick, stolen as a child near Lachine, has been reunited with his Potsdam, New York, family. Frederick Brousseau, taken by Romany gypsies seventeen years earlier, learned his true name and location after a Gypsy woman kept a paper bearing the town of origin. The tale highlights how gypsy communities sometimes adopt lost children and preserve their origin through such papers.
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