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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
3
A teacher warns pupils about laziness and idleness by sketching a loafer, then singles out John for attention. The boy eagerly asks the teacher to describe the person who receives clothes, food, and lodging yet does nothing in return.
For years Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator has ranked as the most effective preparation manufactured and it always maintains its reputation.
A quarrel between children in a Mapleford area led to a mud fight after one child said another insult. The boy claimed he spoke softly to deescalate, but the confrontation ended with mud being thrown.
A crowded three cent car line reports a foreign man boarding and buying eight tickets. The conductor handed him tickets, then the man offered more after each call. After exhausting the supply the man exclaimed I pay more tickets and walked off.
A fatherly voice equates luck with paw luck that fuels another’s success, teaching his son that fortune comes from the other fellow’s gains rather than mere chance.
A classic Jay Gould tale recounts how he advised a poor minister to buy a railroad stock, promising secrecy. The stock later collapsed, the minister confessed sharing the tip, and Gould repaid the ten thousand dollars plus ten more for the trouble.
A six year reunion brings a former sweetheart to a party where she has married. In dances, recognition arises as she asks if a certain man was her old beloved. A doctor worries about a large patient while the patient plans to seek another physician. The scene ends with encouragement to recruit accomplices.
The proprietor asked what he was doing feeding the husks. The prodigal son replied that what he heard was telling him to come out, noting that husks are worth money these days.
A woman confronts George about burning letters from before marriage. She angrily questions his sentiment and accuses him of plotting to secure her estate, as she notes plans to ensure a challenge to her will on grounds of insanity after her death.
A witty exchange notes thirteen at table being lucky if the thirteen dines on the house. Brown answers that bad luck is avoided when the thirteen pays for the dinner, framing the superstition as a financial bluff.
A controversy centers on the year the plug hat entered the nation and the identity of the first figure to wear it. Historians weigh evidence, hoping to honor the earliest wearer with a monument at their grave site.
Curator Kermode and Assistant Curator Anderson report many new species seen in British Columbia during a trip to Atlin Lake. Grayling fish documented in the province with casts prepared for permanent display. Alaska forms include the Alaska spruce partridge and Alaska jay to be added to the provincial museum collection.
Mothers are urged to keep Baby's Own Tablets at home to treat common childhood ailments promptly. A free booklet on infant care is available to anxious mothers, with Mrs. G L Bonham of George Ontario praising the tablets as safe and reliable for four raised children. The product costs 25 cents a box and is sold by medicine dealers or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
A historical note highlights George Witzoff as the world’s record bigamist with over 100 marriages, including eight ceremonies in one week. It also cites a Russian woman who married twenty times, a Pennsylvania woman jailed for bigamy after twelve marriages in ten years, and De Beers a Boer woman with six husbands and forty nine children across generations.
Novelist James Francis Dwyer prepares for a worldwide journey carrying money. He recalls an Englishman he met at the Knickerbocker who offered a letter to a Sydney contact, Rowlingson, whom he once paid five dollars a week for work worth forty. He aims to confront him about past grievances.
The Balkans described as repulsive yet florally rich. Bulgaria invites endless rose fields to wander through, celebrating vast stretches of blooming roses across the region.
A fragmentary dialogue shows Bildad and Cynicus debating why many social Ughis resemble monkeys. The exchange hints at satire on behavior and appearance, with partial lines suggesting bemusement and mockery in a late text.
A stern father declares a fixed yearly income for his son and insists the son must live on it. The son questions the fairness, noting the difference between a tax free 5000 and a taxable income. In fury the father overturns a waste basket and tears up his checkbook.
In Canada the 57 570 rural mail boxes show 44 525 in Ontario reflecting how rural mail benefits from high population density. Miller's Worm Powders claim to clear stomach and bowels of worms, be sweet to taste, non injurious, with vomiting possible but not due to nausea, signaling effectiveness.
An anecdote recounts Pombo, the famed South American poet who died in 1912, in a New York literary salon hosted by an Argentine hostess. He quips that Edda, the Bogotana poetess, is in New York and the hostess urges meeting her, only to have Pombo reveal I am Edda, prompting playful dressing room banter and guests eager for his exit.
A bartender drags Zeph by the collar to the alley after failing to persuade him to drink less. Zeph resists with drunken stubbornness claiming no air will help him and grins as he is escorted outside.
Bridget the cook recalls the vanished red apples from the Morse pantry after Mrs. Morse notes the four large apples were missing. The pantry mystery hints at a conflict between Bridget’s loyalty to her mistress and care for the Morse child.
In a terse exchange a janitor questions a tourist about a poet Oliver Goldsmit who allegedly lived there. The conversation suggests uncertainty over residence and emphasizes the policy of demanding rent in advance.
Advertisement in a Connecticut country paper seeks a steady respectable young man to tend a garden and care for a cow in New England. The job requires a good singing voice and choir experience. The note highlights the cow’s rare accomplishments and the household duties.
A rural town scene contrasts a teacher's math homework with a father's note on work hours, a young boy's unattempted problem and a kiss incident. The dialogue reflects early 20th century humor on parental rules, school life, and propriety as two couples improvise a social evening.
A garbled message mentions a person named Mr Henn and a first husband. The text reads as a personal complaint or comment with unclear context and missing details about any event, location, or outcome.
A physician treats a young boy who complains of ear pain. After draining the ear the doctor asks how the water got in. The boy replies that he has been swimming and eating watermelon, implying accidental water in the ear from both activities.
A college French class activity features an oral translation of a cow story from French to English. One student misgendered the cow as he repeatedly until the professor corrected her and explained the cow is she. The lesson links pronoun use to social perception and language nuance.
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