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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 14, 1907
Page
3
A narrator recounts a country house party where Miss Elsie Hyler rebuffs suitors and confides love for St. Albé. After a tense ride and near mishap, Elsie’s fear fades and she accepts a proposal from Dennis as the crowd cheers.
The article critiques the aging constitution of the House of Lords and reform pressure aiming to overthrow it. It argues reformers fear a vigorous peerage, reflects on Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, and notes the Lords’ historic eloquence and split verdict against the measure.
A fragment from Chicago News recounts a humorous exchange about a man visiting a rich young woman to ask for her hand. The tale features worried dialogue and a startled confession that of a “bur glar storm” misstep. The father’s response centers on locating the mistake.
The light Brahma thrives with large families and hungry households, prized for size and rapid growth. They yield heavy brown eggs in winter and are valued for hatching duck goose and turkey eggs. Though not clever insect eaters, they stay confined and mature with calm, motherly disposition.
The article argues that consistent daily feeding timing, clean and suitable feed, and gradual increases in corn are essential for optimal hog growth. It warns against wasting feed, rushing meals, and overreliance on corn alone, advocating combination with mill foods, alfalfa, clover hay, and turnips for better digestion and appetite.
Professor Kennedy of the Iowa Experiment Station advises light grain during prefarrowing, with thin slops and epsom salts to cool the digestive system and prevent milk fever. After farrowing, keep pigs with the sow, feed milk-boosting seeds, then a gradual mash buildup to a full ration by day ten, including ground corn.
The San Jose scale spreads through about sixty plants and is expanding. It mainly injures members of the rosacee family, to which deciduous fruits belong, with a few incidental hosts noted.
A writer in The Workbench suggests using a shed or existing outbuilding as a farm workshop with a basic setup. It recommends a 2 by 10 foot workbench, a steel vise, a bench drill, drawers and shelves for organization, leather tool loops, and a selection of essential hand tools. Start with quality basics a 26 inch handsaw, steel hammer and square, chisels, and a brace. add planes, level, spoke shave, and sharpening stones as needed.
Miss Isobel Rife, formerly a public school teacher, previews taking up institute work after gaining a course in the MacDonald Institute at Guelph. As a lecturer she has proven one of the most acceptable on the Women's Institute staff.
The text discusses preventing rot in stored potatoes. It recommends keeping the cellar near 35 to 35 degrees, sorting after sweating to remove wet rot, and notes dry rot rarely spreads between potatoes. It mentions field pits showing rot before cellar storage and suggests dirt cover slows rot spread.
Barnyard manure, when well rotted, excels for garden crops and outperforms many commercial fertilizers. Avoid sources with harmful elements and excessive sawdust or shavings which can sour soil. Chicken, pigeon, and sheep manures rank high, nearly matching lower grade commercial products, with fowl manure ideal for hill and row applications.
The article urges keeping hogs thrifty by providing all the feed they will clean up and housing them well. It notes that constant access to clean feed yields better growth than interval feeding and that pigs farrowed in late fall or winter can go to grass as spring begins and reach market weight the next fall for top prices.
The article surveys affordable fabrics and popular styles for women, urging sturdy dark colors for daily wear and offering guidance on materials like Messaline for bridesmaids, velvet and satin appliques, and decorative stoles. It notes trends in gowns, boleros, and parasol plumes with emphasis on color contrasts and timeless elegance.
The article outlines winter wear options including dark gray cloaks with fur trim and boas, long for street use and shorter for carriage wear. It notes silk crochet buttons, lace blouses with elbow sleeves, skirt fastening placements, and shirt waist style gowns alongside a nut brown benrietta frock with brown plaid trim and silver lines.
Bridesmaids wore pale green frocks with black velvet hats, plumes and tulle streamers. They carried pink carnations tied with velvet bows. Hats featured fur bands, feathers, lace and trimming. The description notes how fuller figures influence hat and gown choices.
A fragment describes black taffeta belts and velvet trims, a canary yellow velvet bordered cloak with mink and lace, green or navy waistings with plain skirts, an empire scarf in Persian colors, lace trimmed aprons for housework, hat plumes tipped with a flower, and a dark red broadcloth girl’s coat with black velvet collar and frog fastenings.
A survey of recent fashion finds highlights black frocks with lace trimming and contrasting linings, bold red hat accents, pale blue satin hats with violet wreaths and blue feathers, new automobile veils with ribbon borders, detachable fur linings for leather wraps, and varnished passementeries in heavier braids. Mousquetaire gloves pair with shorter sleeves in tan or black, while a leather colored cashmere frock features brown silk banding and cream lace chemisette.
A home guide on preserving worn furs without buying new. It details dry cleaning methods using bran or flour, magnesia and alum powders, and ammonia for white furs, plus tips for linings and long haired hides. The piece discusses dry versus wet cleaning and cautions on fur shrinking or stiffening if moisture is overused.
A step by step recipe using mild Spanish peppers prepared by boiling and deseeding. Fill with a sausage forcemeat mixed with onion, grated bread, butter, egg, and salt. Bake peppers covered in a sauce of flour sherry and broth until thick and tender.
The difficulty in cleaning gas globes comes from the ornamented roughness of the glass. Soapy water is often insufficient, even with soda. A little salts of lemon added to soap suds makes the task easier.
Up to date sleeves praised as exceedingly pretty and smart for gowns and gowns. The text notes the home dressmaker cannot easily reproduce them and describes four sleeve types for different garments including dressing gowns, coats, blouses, and lightweight cloth gowns.
Practical kitchen hints for attractive cakes and pies. Sprinkle sugar in the oven and close the door tight for browning. Place a cup of water in the oven to prevent meat from burning.
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