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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 10, 1916
Page
2
Mary and Aggie outsmart a lawyer in a business settlement scheme. The scene centers on marked money, letters, and a forthcoming meeting at 4 o clock with Mr Harris and Miss Lynch. They reveal their scheme to avoid arrest for blackmail and to expose the lawyer’s bid for the letters.
Mary Turner aids Helen Morris, a recently released prisoner, by offering honest work and shelter. Aggie notes the plan and Mary arranges a temporary room and milk for recovery before proposing the girls’ scheme to join an underground operation.
The piece calculates the length of ongoing and historical wars to show autumn 1916 could exceed any European war since Napoleon. It cites the Balkan wars of 1912-13, the Serbo-Bulgarian and Turco-Bulgarian conflicts, the Crimean and Franco-Prussian wars, the Russo-Japanese War, and the Boer and American Civil wars as benchmarks.
An editorial from The Melbourne Australasian argues Australia must recruit its manhood and continue the fight unflinchingly. It warns that yielding now would mean absolute defeat and surrender, asserting Australia fights for freedom and future survival and must endure as long as able.
A fragmentary note reports an elopement prompting a telegraph to the father seeking forgiveness and funds. The brief items imply a family dispute over support and marital steps.
The Nord Caper, a French despatch boat, captured a large Turkish schooner off Crete after Lieut. Lacombe and ten men boarded from alongside. They overwhelmed forty three on board, seized the helm, and raised the French ensign as the Turkish commander surrendered. The action earned praise in official records.
First National Bank of Stillwater Minnesota introduces a farm department with an experienced official to serve farmers like city merchants. The bank plans on loan visits and farm management guidance, offering regular financing at near ten percent while supporting livestock trade and active agricultural movements.
Farmers across the state send letters praising silos and silage for cattle feeding. They claim silage is cheaper than grass, and one unit paid for itself in two years. Cattle can switch between silage and grass without loss.
Dialogue shows a strained exchange over money with a husband accusing and a wife replying sharply about financial dependence and hardship, hinting at ongoing marital tension. The wife notes others lack financial practice and imagines life after death.
A new English steam boiler is claimed to achieve ninety percent efficiency by burning a mixture of coal gas and air through a fine mantle of a highly heat resistant substance.
Seventeen officers in the British Army receive the Victoria Cross for acts at Hill 60 Hohenzollern redoubt Vermelles and Hill 70 during late September 1915. Major A F Douglas-Hamilton commands his battalion at Hill 60 and is killed leading the charge. Capt Montray Read rallies disorganized units under fire near Hullluch. Corp J D Pollock bombs bombers atop Little Willie trench. Lt Fleming-Sandes bursts a parapet and bombs the Germans after taking command. Lt Johnson stabilizes Hill 70 with engineers under heavy fire. Lt Turner leads a solo bombing attack at Vermelles driving back Germans and saving reserves.
J D McGregor of near Brandon Manitoba converts damaged barley and straw into feed by blowing cut grain and water into silos. The method, tried due to wet weather and frosts, prevented waste and yielded good feed. Next year he plans to mix barley with corn and experiment with peas in the silo process.
An old negro charged with chicken stealing refuses a court appointed lawyer saying he wants to enjoy the chickens himself. The judge asks why, and the defendant explains he wishes to keep the chickens for his own enjoyment, not for legal help.
E. H. Dow urges farmers to treat the home and whole farm as a single, pleasing unit. He advocates neat, lawnlike surfaces, tidy fences, trees and flowers, orderly sheds, and well kept livestock to inspire pride. An orchard and garden enhance desirability, making the farmhouse the most cherished rural haven.
An ad extolls Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier that removes poisons from the stomach liver bowels and kidneys. It claims to curb eruptions and skin diseases and to rejuvenate the body by improving blood quality and energy.
Teutonic penetration analyzed by Jules Claes editor of Le Metro pole Antwerp. The German Mole argues Belgians were undermined by clerks and agitators backed by Hamburg businessmen. German schools and newspapers shaped public opinion and tensions between Flemings and Walloons. The piece cites Russia and warns Americans to beware foreign influence.
Dialogue hints at a marital dispute over an inheritance with a woman asserting control and a man acknowledging his limited role as sole beneficiary in a terse exchange.
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