How Our Prairie Towns and Villages Came Into Being
A summary of Hamiota Manitoba’s founding notes how a single settler family and a railway spur sparked a village. It traces mail and trade growth from 1891, the first stores and post office, social life from dances to Dominion Day celebrations, and eventual modernization including sidewalks gas to electric lighting and a local hospital.
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Prairies
Hamiota
Manitoba
Women's Institute
Hamieda
Brandon
Rapid City
Cora Hind
Hamida
McConnell
Fraser
Chambers
Park
Whyte
Venables
Pie Costly Oven Mixup In Maryland Home
In Hagerstown Maryland Mrs Ralph Saladini nearly paid $125 for a pie kept in the oven with a peculiar smell. Her husband had placed the money there for safekeeping and forgotten to tell her. The note mentions a safety match emerging in mid century.
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Hagerstown
Ralph Saladini
Is it a bus or a truck
Ellendale North Dakota reports the Bell family of 16 faces a vehicle question. John Bell built a 25 passenger bus on a truck chassis to transport 14 children and parents. He seeks a bus license but two applications were denied.
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Ellendale
N.D
John Bell
Bell
North Dakota
Bismarck
Copy Of Weekly Paper Serves As Passport to Canada
Wheaton Minnesota tale where Carl Swedberg used a Wheaton Gazette copy as proof of being a former mayor to gain Canadian entry. Officials accepted the document, noting an alien cannot hold US office, validating citizenship rights.
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Canada
Wheaton, Minn
Wheaton Gazette
Wil- Nan B. Sweetland
Carl Swedberg
Swedberg
Wheaton
United States
River Course Altered by Engineers in Alberta Project
Engineers removed a river elbow 30 miles southwest of Lethbridge to shorten the St Mary Milk river flow. The cut enables work on a $20,000,000 irrigation project, including the St Mary River dam to irrigate 513,000 acres, with a 200 foot high embankment and a 12 mile crest. The tunnel began in 1946.
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Lethbridge Alta
Alberta
St. Mary
Lethbridge
St. Mary-Milk
St. Mary River
Canada
City Muzzles Newsboys Over Headlines
The municipal government silenced newsboys citing exaggerated headlines to avoid alarming the public. Authorities warned against shouting sales pitches, noting the jittery population. Early spoons are described as often merely chips or splinters of wood.
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Peiping
Clams Found Inland at Minot Depth
Clam shells four and five inches long were found by well diggers at 50 feet depth in Minot North Dakota about 65 miles from the geographic center of North America and far from any ocean.
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Minot
N.D
North America
First British Aluminum Ship and Other World Happenings
The first aluminum ship built in Britain was recently launched. A flint arrowhead dating to about 1500 BC was found at Fairlight near Hastings. Johnson, chief purser of the liner Queen Mary, plans retirement after serving on 37 Cunard ships. In Costessey Norfolk residents are told to “go on living” until funds reach 1,225 pounds to extend the cemetery. A three generation English family, oldest 73, youngest 11, left for Sydney to start anew. A women’s choir sang for Princess Elizabeth during a Cardiff visit. The abdication date fixed for Queen Wilhelmina is September 4, and Princess Juliana to take the throne. German POWs married to British girls will not be repatriated until cases are considered. India orders 100 locomotives worth 13 million dollars from Canadian firms.
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Stock Exchange of Butter and Eggs
Colin McMurahhy
Pye
Whitely House
Fairlight
Hastings
England
Johnson
Cunard
Restoring Stiff Paint Brushes with Vinegar Boiling
A home tip suggests soaking stiff brushes in a vinegar filled can then boiling for about 15 minutes to soften bristles. The method relies on heat and acetic acid to relax dry bristles and restore pliability.
Crossword Puzzle Clue List and Grid Fragment
A dense list of crossword clues and misaligned grid numbers features terms from various domains including geography languages and myth. The fragmentary text presents across and down hints such as Archaic exclamation nail mining capital city Okinawa aviator Young salmon gods and myths sea creatures and tool terms followed by a vertical set of clues and stray numerals.
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Persia
Balkan
Mediterranean
Inner Mongolian
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Jane Dale
Government of
Prairie Provinces
British Isles
Europe
Winnipeg
Hamilton
Ontario
Hamilton Tepees
Great Northwest Central Railway
Chater
George Elliott
Elliott
Chuma
The
Orient
With Ren
COPE
NEA Service
Rhode Island
Newport
Providence
Florida
California
Hector Ford
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Swine Club
Seyvera Fraser Vasilev
University of British Columbia
Britain
Costessey
Norfolk
Sydney
Australia
Elizabeth
Cardiff
Official
Wilhelmina
Juliana
War Office
India
Montreal
Kingston
Ont
Vertica
Geraint
Peninsula
Yellow Sea
City
Brazil
Chinece
Port
Mars
New York
Lia
Little Reggie
Margarita
Reginald
Prisc
Ron, J
al Vermeer
Raha Cid
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