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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
3
A Scottish parson in his forties picks up Mary, a farm maid, and drives her home while they chat. The scene ends with a courteous farewell at the farm gate as she alights. The brief appears amid miscellaneous notices and jokes from era periodicals.
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh a constitutional disease. It asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces builds constitution and offers 100 dollar reward for any case not cured. Sells by druggists at 75 cents and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Travel Magazine records a humorous exchange between Martha and Miss Min as Martha guides a novice housekeeper in pudding prep. Martha defers measurements to judgment while Miss Min pleads for guidance, highlighting playful domestic instruction.
Edwin Jones visits his best girl's home but Miss Wrinkle is absent. An eight year old brother answers the door and the boy reports she is in the mirror blushing and whispering about the surprise encounter.
Captain Engel undt of the Erndte survived twelve days aboard a capsized ship after the gale as the vessel sank at Memel. He lived on canned goods and rice, hammered to signal for help, and was rescued by the Norwegian steamer Aurora which towed the wreck to Neufahrwasser. The captain’s three crewmates perished.
In Cafes like Paillard and Cafe de la Paix, prices are fixed for the rich and unknown guests may face a bill with no price. At Cafe de Paris the maitre d hotel may demand payment based on perceived means, prompting a bold claim that only princes and fools are welcome.
A saying contrasts honesty and sagacity in business. A broker tells his son two traits matter: honesty means keeping your word, while sagacity means never giving your word. The tale frames integrity and prudence as opposing yet essential.
The article notes how railway construction has often caused vast forest destruction, contrasting Booth’s careful burning restrictions on the Canada Atlantic Railway with the patrols on Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway. It warns that rail lines have driven major burn scars from Nipigon to Winnipeg, cites 1869 forests, 1882 84 destruction, and highlights patrols and protections along GTP lines and in New Brunswick.
At the Yarmouth Y M C A Boys Camp held at Tusket Falls in August Alfred Stokes General Secretary notes Minards Liniment gave immediate sunburn relief and comfort for colic and toothache.
The Iron Age reports the largest engine ever installed, a horizontal twin tandem rolling mill engine weighing 550 tons without fly wheel and foundation plates. Each of two castings weighs 118 tons after machining. The engine develops 25 000 horsepower and can be operated by one engineer.
The Japan Times reports a prevalent illness in Kobe referred to as borei kaze or departed souls cold. It is described as a superstition that the spirits of soldiers killed in the war curse the living to awaken duty and responsibility amid postwar governance.
In October 1774 Roger Atkinson writes from Cumberland England to Samuel Pleasant about Virginia’s seven delegates to Philadelphia. He praises Patrick Henry as a patriot farmer but calls him stern and blunt in politics and notes others like Washington and Braddock with sharp, wary character sketches.
A story from Success Magazine recounts Speaker Cannon aboard a Illinois suburb railroad where a lady carrying lavender smelling salts incidentally filled a car with the fertilizer’s strong odor near a factory. He asked the lady to cork the bottle, remarking on the fumes.
A Corrector of Pulmonary Troubles. Many testimonials could be presented showing the great efficacy of Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil in curing disorders of the respiratory processes. The Oil is recommended to all who suffer from these disorders with certainty of relief and will allay inflammation in the bronchial tubes unlike other preparations.
A concise reflection on how initial encounters can cast a lasting emotional tone. The saying warns that a negative first impression tends to foster a lower mood and affect subsequent opinions.
A London Tatler snippet notes a humorous exchange in Rome where an English visitor questions pastry shop boys about tasting cakes. The boy replies he only licks cakes while delivering them, not eating them. The remark highlights curious etiquette and street life among English visitors abroad.
A citizen urges prompt attention to minor childhood ailments using Baby's Own Tablets to avert serious illness. Mrs H Gen dron of Martinville Que endorses the product, claiming safety and reliability for both newborns and older children. The medicine is sold by dealers and via mail at 25 cents a box from Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont. A light wedding joke follows about choosing June for weddings and a July twentieth date.
Thousands of mothers attest to the effectiveness of Mother Graves Worm Exterminator, citing proven usefulness from experience and repeated use in their homes and gardens.
Dennis and Pat observe a dingy coal barge named a dead ship beside a grand liner. They discuss its fate and the large wake it leaves, noting the barge’s collapsed, weathered hull and its stark difference from the liner.
A Boston area minister’s wife employs a recently engaged colored cook. The wife requests more oatmeal for breakfast to suit her Scotch husband, prompting the cook to remark on the husband’s similarities to their own race.
Captain Chandler explains that free balloon ascent feels like no movement the earth seems to drop and the landscape becomes a flat colored map. Sounds fade as altitude grows and only a statoscope shows upward or downward motion while rapid descent yields no falling sensation.
A passage from T Baron Russell predicts future baths featuring oxygenated water jets for cleansing, a drying cupboard with fast brushes and desiccated air, quick leather drying, electric stimulation, and a lift to breakfast with morning news read aloud or whispered by a talking machine.
The article notes that from foundation to near completion St Peter's in Rome took about 350 years, with eighteen architects and forty three popes involved. By the late seventeenth century the cost reached 50 million dollars excluding sacristy bell and towers, and Pope Pius IX completed the last major work on the four hundredth anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth.
A husband recalls settling a marital dispute by taking his wife to McLemore’s cave where a remarkable echo delivered the last word. The anecdote frames marital punishment as a joke about the echo ending the quarrel.
A wife puzzled by her husband’s fault finding at breakfast. He criticizes the vase of flowers on the table while deeming the steak burnt. The exchange highlights domestic friction and irritability in a dated, humorous tone.
Fragmentary line from London Express hints at a school inspector motif and a parental rebuke scene as a mother confronts a father in a temperate march vignette. The readable text mentions a lion and lamb simile and a questioning child audience.
A vaudeville style exchange quotes a Cleveland Plain Dealer joke about Miss Peckham and Mr Pincher. The snippet notes she acts as a bene factor by watching the plate while he contributes a quarter, prompting questions about generosity.
A short Atchison Globe snippet notes many people do nothing and pressure others who work. The piece comments on social behavior and idle conduct in broad terms.
A grand pageant planned for July in Quebec will dramatize early Canadian history from Champlain to the Plains of Abraham. Master of Pageant Frank Lascelles envisions a living display with 15 000 performers, archæological detail, and a world audience, featuring Cartier, Henry IV, and Stadacona as pivotal scenes.
A narrative recalls Champlain and his wife, Montmagny, Marie, and frontiersmen as Quebec rises from Stadacona to a modern city. It celebrates reverent ceremonies, church figures, and joint French and English triumphs, with ships firing salutes to Canada’s past, present, and future.
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