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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1914
Page
7
A hotel misreading over room numbers sparks a comic confrontation between a bold bachelor and Miss Chalmers. After a playful game with a ring and a letter, he returns the items and pursues a surprising courtship, ending in marriage as he confesses to his wife.
A hospital chaplain writes of constant duty and the aim to be a friend to all inmates. He recalls learning faith, hope, and charity from patients, noting even distressed individuals reveal quiet goodness beneath complaint. He relays stories of an elderly dying woman and a resilient patient who calls suffering God’s cleaning brush.
The London Times Cairo correspondent says two giant Rameses I statues from Memphis will be transported to Calico and placed in the new Station Square. No Theban statues will be relocated.
A historic incident recounts the theft of Holbein’s Field of the Cloth of Gold at Hampton Court Palace. The head of Henry VIII was cut from the canvas by a would be buyer who refused to purchase after inspection. The missing head was later returned by a nobleman who confessed during the Restoration, and the circle from the knife remains visible.
George Bernard Shaw replies to German criticisms by saying he borrows what he can and uses it gratefully. He admits his plays are full of pillage and cites Shakespeare Dickens Conan Doyle Oscar Wilde as fair game, claiming his literary morals imitate Molière.
The city of Edmonton announces free anti-toxin for all children suffering from diphtheria or exposed to the infection. The measure ensures no charge for the treatment and aims to curb the disease spread.
Practical notes on mending plaster with camphor alcohol and shellac edges, cleaning carpet sweeper brushes with kerosene, crisping souffle crackers by soaking rounds, assembling a blue white guest cushion with pins, and making arrowroot jelly by simmering arrowroot in hot water.
Much attention this season centers on hair styles and ornaments with new casque combs pins and bandeaux in rhinestone aluminium and elastic. A combination barrette and feather ornament offers flexible use you can wear it tucked into the coiffure or spread as a glittering head mass. A girlish headdress bands the hair at the back with a crescent pearl studded foundation and a fan shaped white tulle centerpiece.
Guide to removing mildew from white fabrics with chloride of lime, boiling water, and sal soda. Warns against colored fabrics, suggests sun drying, and explains hosiery care and lingerie waist pressing using hot water and muslin.
A bracelet novelty features a pew watch mounted on a wide oblong bracelet. The piece measures about three fourths of an inch by two inches, harmonizing with the bracelet pattern. Numbers along the sides help tell time easily, prompting wonder why the mica watch wasn’t tried sooner.
A glossary of Australian frontier terms with quirky meanings like sundowner for a day’s end stop, corralled into a readable guide. It defines bush, squatter, cocky, jackeroo, and other slang key to pastoral life and colonial travel.
A new biography of the fourth Earl of Clarendon recounts Queen Victoria writing an anonymous April 1864 letter to The Times defending her retirement from court life and social duties. The letter, marked Anonym, was personally handed to Grey for delivery, and its editor Delane reportedly did not know the Queen authored it.
The original journals of Sir Robert Scott from the south polar expedition are placed in the British Museum by Lady Scott. By trustees order they go on view on the second anniversary of Scott's arrival at the South Pole and will remain for an indefinite period. The three small pencil written books were carried to the pole and found with Scott's body in 1912, ending with the famous Message to the Public that deeply moved the nation.
Sir Henry Irving acted on the stage at nineteen earning five dollars a week for a minor part in Richelieu and failed. Fifteen years later he played Mathias in The Bells and won fame. Lon don Mali.
India has about 315.6 million people with literacy under half in native vernaculars. Despite this, the country supports 658 newspapers and 1 86 periodicals, reflecting a vibrant print culture across languages and regions.
The article profiles Sir James Murray, born 1837 in Denholm, who toiled 34 years at Oxford’s Stratum Scriptorium to build the New English Dictionary. It compares him with Dr. Samuel Johnson, notes word origins, quotes, and the vast scope of the project including hundreds of thousands of words and quotations.
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