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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 16, 1911
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text shows garbled names and stray phrases. No clear event, person, or organization is decipherable to form a coherent headline or summary.
A fire started at a residence was halted by rapid telephone calls to Central. Prompt aid within ten minutes prevented spread to the Editor's House and Contenta, highlighting the importance of using the phone to summon help, especially when women are alone at home.
A short notice argues for systematic and courteous advertising by merchants. It recounts a tea party remark about dainty dishes bought in Brandon and not advertised locally, showing home prices were ten cents cheaper. The piece urges timely seasonal ads to inform customers, especially for limited run goods.
For a week buyers from Winnipeg and Regina swarmed the livery barns and stock yard, shipping five carloads of surplus farm horses. Prices reached solid levels, signaling confidence in the district’s horse market beyond its wheel crops.
The text notes buyers leaving around substantial sums with local farmers, deposits rarely reaching banks, and plans to return in weeks to buy more. It highlights Hamiota district's reputation for fine farm horses and its annual fair, underscoring its future as a leading wheat and horse-raising area in the province.
The 1911 edition of this concise Canadian facts collection edited by Frank Veigh of Toronto is issued and filled with data on Canada's resources trade and national life. It is praised as worth its weight in cobalt silver or Yukon gold and available from leading news centers or for 25 cents from the Canadian Facts Publishing Co 667 Spadina Avenue Toronto.
The Virden flour mill and elevator burned to the ground on a Tuesday. Ox teams will depart Edwonton with supplies for a 500 mile northward journey. Royal coronation preparations and local political deputations are noted along with regional transport plans and upcoming events.
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