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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 02, 1913
Page
2
A mother daughter exchange hints at marriage plans and social propriety as they debate dishwashing and its implications. The girl fears George may infer intimate expectations if the topic continues, revealing underlying tensions about propriety, romance, and family norms.
A fragment claims a pair of shoes worn by Charles I on his way to execution aided his stride. The speaker insists the shoes were for the right foot, while another suggests the king walked gracefully and calmly despite a limp.
A historical column touts Dr J D Kellogg’s Dysentery Cord as a premier remedy for spring dysentery and notes a joke about carrying coal to Newcastle. It also mentions Monard’s Liniment Cures Diphtheria and includes a humorous domestic exchange about unnecessary effort.
The vessel F I was launched at Chatham on Thursday. It will reach fifteen knots and use high flash point oil engines safely. It is more powerfully armed than prior subs and carries a disappearing gun.
A speaker jokes that her husband is at fault for not supporting women's voting rights while noting he does want women to vote. The remark blends humor with a light political quip about suffrage.
A dialogue shows a passenger asking about conductor Bill Jones and the conductor admitting he is color blind and cannot distinguish his own car from the company's, implying service disruption.
A historical discussion urges Canada to boost livestock through mixed farming, noting western land division reduces beef and mutton supplies. It argues home markets are strongest, banks should accept livestock as collateral, and cautious expansion is needed despite cold western winters. The piece cites Alberta’s mutton potential, import competition, and policy debates in Ottawa about supporting the industry.
A persuasive editorial urges Western farmers to raise livestock and cites publicity education as a path to benefit. It calls for Renk Act revisions to allow loans against farm products including grain and live stock to sustain a steady supply for packers and butchers, ensuring home market growth and better prices.
An article touts lasting relief from chronic pains and aches through a proven method. It promises freedom from daily discomfort and asserts improved mobility and renewed vitality for readers seeking effective, lasting comfort.
A Newfoundland resident, Alex J Stone of West Point, Newfoundland, writes of relief from liver and kidney congestion, headaches, backaches, and indigestion after using Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills. He praises the medicine, says he feels better after five years, and credits others with similar improvements. Pills priced 25e a box from Edmanson Bates & Co. Limited Toronto.
A street car collided with a milk cart in a large city. Can after can of milk exploded onto the pavement as onlookers gathered. A short man tried to see past four stout women blocking his view. The woman warned him to mind his own business.
The czarevitch’s physicians report a hemophilia diagnosis, a hereditary bleeding disorder. The disease has recurred among European royal families, with cases cited in the late Duke of Albany, Spain’s royal offspring, and rumors about other dynasties, though females are rarely affected.
Miss Linewell, long a member since the society’s formation, unexpectedly resigns. The choirmaster is stunned and asks why, while the secretary hints the impending solo may be the cause, noting the line I once was young but now am old.
A London seaman aboard the cruiser Diamond was sentenced at Harwich for burglary after leaving his leave ticket at the scene of the break in. The incident showed how the suspect’s own card betrayed him and linked him to the crime.
Thieves robbed a jeweler on Place de l Opera in Paris early yesterday, taking about $60,000 in rings and a diamond necklace in under five minutes. Police suspect the thief used a gap created by a neighboring bank branch and wall work, possibly staying on site overnight before escaping at dawn.
A British woman with memory loss in Paris has given names under hypnosis, claiming to be Winifred Courtney Henderson rather than Alice Meadows. She recalls India birth, Simla, Bombay, a British army family, and a convent at Ipswich tested by Abbe Hernoh, but the convent denied knowledge of her. The shipwreck recall between New Haven and Dieppe remains unverified.
In Constantinople the sultan and his household face panic over Bulgarian advances toward the capital. Boats ready for flight to Asia as the harem members fear invasion, while the sultan awaits front reports hoping for a Ottoman victory amid security measures.
An advertisement for Shaw's Schools of Toronto invites young men and women to write for a curriculum. It claims trained brains earn higher salaries than trained muscles and offers training for a business office or telegraph operator career under President W. H. Shaw.
In time Nazim Pasha the Turk ish Minister of War and Constantinople defender is called the Kitchener of Turkey. European powers were surprised by his defense as Bulgarians were expected to win. The fate of Constantinople remains a major issue after Turkish Balkan warfare.
Constantinople stands as a major world city with a population well over a million, two thirds Muslim and many nationalities. It highlights its commercial importance and cosmopolitan nature under progressive rule. The piece promotes Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as a cheap, effective digestive regulator for the poor and those seeking relief.
A Russian imperial decree pardons Private Dachur who left ranks to petition the Czar. The decree cites grace for recovery to the throne heir. In St Petersburg a general strike grows over death sentences for seventeen Black Sea fleet men involved in revolutionary propaganda.
A father and son argue about school attendance during holiday time. The boy refuses to return to the farm and to the school, claiming he dislikes it, while the father defends the school as an excellent establishment that has produced many notable men. The boy insists he was expelled.
Nine or ten members of the New South Wales legislature have refused the parliamentary salary increase approved by the body. The move reflects a rare backlash against higher pay for lawmakers amid ongoing debates about public salaries.
When the news spread the clerks congratulated a man on his engagement. A skeptic asks how to tell his fiancée from her twin sister. The groom dismisses the issue, noting the family is pleasant and he need not distinguish them.
A barber jokes that after sharpening a razor the edge may improve if laid aside for ages. The customer counteroffers that the razor used on him should be set aside for a thousand years, playing on the idea of aging a blade.
For an hour the cautious batsman faced the bowlers without a run, as light faded and fielders closed in. Spectators left, and a lone call from the pavilion rang out Look out Jack theyre all around you Take care you dont get your pocket picked signaling heightened danger nearby.
The speaker recalls proposing in a taxicab, then the man paid the bill and they left, continuing their walk. The memory centers on a hasty gesture and immediate departure.
Advertisements claim cures for earache lungs and general aches via Minard's Liniment. Rev. William Brown and Mrs. S Kaulaback and Mrs. S Masters are named as users. The tone is promotional and testimonial in nature.
A doctor tells a patient to cut expenses and change habits to improve health. He orders reduced meals, walking instead of streetcar, no theatres, no smoking, and no drinking for months. The doctor notes the patient will likely save 25.50 to pay last year’s bill.
In a pavilion gathering cricketers recall a misremembered record. A player boasts of scoring a hundred and taking nine wickets, then admits the alarm clock woke him before claiming a final success. The yarn ends with the humorous twist that the claimed feats were dreamt.
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