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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
2
Eleanor Wyns, after high exam marks among 1800 candidates, lands a civil service post with John Dabney guiding her entry. They share a seaside evening and discuss office life as she hesitates toward a lifelong desk job and a possible future with Dabney.
The east window at St Margaret's Westminster wandered for over two centuries and spurred a seven year lawsuit. Originating after Henry VII’s era it passed from Dordrecht to the abbot of Waltham and General Mook before burial in Puritan days. Restored later, it was bought for 400 guineas by the restoration committee and preserved after a court ruling upheld the church wardens.
A parsimonious old father approves marriage to a poor suitor with one condition. He requires proof of ownership for a home, insisting the couple must show a deed to a good night before consent. The dialogue frames a humorous aging perspective on wealth and marriage.
The article traces the thermometer from early heat measures to Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit who, in Amsterdam around 1720, created the mercury thermometer. It explains 32 as freezing, 212 as boiling, and the adoption of Fahrenheit scales, noting Celsius and Beaumur proposals and Fahrenheit’s death around 1740.
The Atlantic essay notes the sun delivers about two horsepower per square yard daily, suggesting vast free energy if stored. It highlights the need to develop methods to capture and hold this energy for future use and predicts major advances in storage within the next fifty years.
A rumor recounts that Queen Victoria, despite strict rules about meeting married women, granted a dying man’s request. Princess Louise conveyed the appeal, and the queen permitted a compassionate interview between Sir John Mill and his wife despite prior dissolution.
A toller moves toward savings to buy a farm after receiving a season's wheat check. An agriculturist reflects on future crops and city prospects as a worker contemplates a future with his spouse. A brief exchange hints at labor, poverty, and yearning for opportunity.
A dying man was urged by relatives to take Psychine, claimed to cure consumption, but the doctor warned otherwise. The patient died while his siblings, who tried Psychine, stayed healthy, prompting the brother to cry What fools we mortals be. A testimonial from Mrs. A Wells promotes Psychine with prices and a Toronto address for Dr T A Slocum.
The clipping reflects a bustling set of remarks and ads from a newspaper page. It highlights a fan’s praise for a ball game and an umpire incident, plus a Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil promotion and a shoe store joke involving customer and salesman banter.
A Milwaukee man’s illustrated tale shows German residents valuing sauerkraut as a staple. A Teuton notes cabbage price, saying they can now only afford three barrels, kept for illness. The exchange mocks health humor and German thrift.
A Norwegian journal recounts Prince Olaf defying playmates over seating, claiming both his father and mother’s places. King Haakon comforted the boy, who grew more upset by the second claim, reflecting a bold, headstrong moment in the royal child.
Cartoon dialogue from Harper’s Weekly features Dolly asking Prue if she would wed an extravagant husband. Dolly replies that the answer depends on how long the man has been extravagant, reflecting satirical domestic humor.
A long-winded account details a con artist posing as a paralytic beggar and burglar. Trained to imitate paralysis by daily drills, he relies on deception until a jail yard fire reveals his trick. He flees before punishment, claiming to have cheated the law of six years.
Queen Alexandra, keen on photography, amasses scrap-books in Denmark. She adds her own snapshots, often developed by professionals, and collects clippings from London papers. The Dowager Empress of Russia watches, noting the queen’s public-image tributes and her playful notes.
The piece mocks President Roosevelt by comparing his hunting to Kaiser Wilhelm II's. It cites official statistics claiming the Kaiser killed tens of thousands of game over thirty years, including pheasants, hares, boars, and a solitary whale, noting a single winter day with 1 063 pheasants.
The article recounts the ballad Annie Laurie and its love story. William Pouctas wooed the real Annie Laurie who chose a wealthier Fergus son of Creigdarroch. Douglas fought in wars, returned, married, and left heirs. The melody was set to words by Lady John Scott. Annie Laurie was born December 16, 1672, at Maxwelton Scotland.
An article warns that pale pallor signals anaemia common in young women and offers Dr Chase's Nerve Food as a remedy. Included is a testimonial from Lena Hiebert of Manitoba describing severe symptoms and recovery after using the product, with pricing details and distributor names.
A Philadelphia man Char les Deecroft yawned as streetcar collision sent glass down his throat risking loss of speech. In Cripple Creek Colorado a hotel boiler explosion wrecked the building but Len Morgan sleeping nearby was injured. Henry Tyson at Germantown Pennsylvania suffered a 13000 volt shock yet doctors say he remained uninjured. Since June John Roberts Wichita grocer has beard growth inward on one side of his face, baffling surgeons.
A German estimate places global rail capital at 43.31 billion dollars. New York City reportedly needs 1000 more cars to handle travelers. Fryeburg Maine hosts the state’s only horse railroad, built for a Methodist association meeting near the Maine Central station.
The article explains handling gas odors by placing a small pipe from range to chimney to vent gases and a large water bowl for odor control. It warns that gas odor from a rubber tube means the tube is saturated and must be replaced. It covers lighting, burner flame color, and ensuring the supply pipe size matches multiple burners.
A humorous fragment recalls a missing keyhole after a couple searches. The speaker jokes about pockets and memory lapses while the partner fumbles to locate a lost keyhole.
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