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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1914
Page
6
An advertisement from J. A. MacMurtry & Co. solicits ideas for patents and provides free sketches and information on patents. It promises a Bend report and mailed fee information from their Toronto office at 154 Bay Street.
A weary woman rejects a magazine declaring every story unsuitable for her daughter and calls the issue a waste at 15 cents. Her husband consoles with a puzzled question as she sighs over the material.
A short exchange reveals a daughter confirming engagement plans with Jack and a mother’s reaction. The dialogue implies approval and mutual intention to marry, with the daughter noting Jack has spoken to her and intends marriage as well.
The speaker observes a refined sense of humor and the boy shows a strong dislike for anything resembling slapstick, indicating a notable aversion to physical comedy.
A brief exchange questions awareness of the Hetch Hetchy controversy while criticizing moral dances as a social issue. The dialogue hints at public debate and cultural concerns surrounding the water project.
A vivacious blonde claims Archie Allscadds plans to marry Virgie Skeemer as a noticeable change in his manner appears. The sparkling brunette confirms the new mood, noting his resigned expression and lack of avoidance when she approaches.
Mrs. W. A. Baldwin of St. Walburg Saskatchewan says she was nearly helpless with rheumatism for two years. After trying doctors and remedies, a neighbor advised Dodd's Kidney Pills and she began to improve from the first boxes. She reports swelling, joints pain, headaches, fatigue, and thirst all vanished as her kidneys healed.
A brief exchange questions life value and responds that the discussion concerns the speaker's life, not L Ah's. The tone is reflective and slightly admonitory as the participants argue over meaning and purpose.
A Seattle dinner anecdote features Bishop Blougram praising the American girl and a widow of the West recalling a marriage to a cowboy. The piece contrasts playful dialogue with a practical aside about Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a remedy for croup.
A boy tests his pet rabbit with multiplication jokes while a Cleveland physician who ran over a holdup man discovers a new use for the automobile.
The piece explains why Saskatchewan shifted from grain to mixed farming. It notes past incentives for grain, rising costs, scarce livestock markets, and labor issues, then outlines government railway and local support encouraging mixed farming through loans, education, stock programs, market development, and cooperative efforts.
A playful line explains that alfalfa is just slang for whiskers in a tongue in cheek exchange. The quip contrasts two terms with a humorous Cumberland County TV reference.
A colleague writes of a shipwreck where passengers are swept from bow to stern by towering waves. The captain orders abandonment as the sea takes its toll on the doomed ship.
Madge questions the beauty doctor’s performance while Marjorie notes she has not had any photographs taken. The dialogue hints at dissatisfaction with makeup or cosmetic results and delays in portraits.
A quirky dialogue shows Quandary Ted debating two girls while Ned cites money as the tie breaker. The exchange hints at comic rivalry and a humorous stake in a pretend tier one decision.
The Mother Graves Worm Exterminator is described as inexpensive and affordable, within reach of all, and obtainable at any druggist.
A married couple discusses meals and errands while the wife asks for lamb and eggs. The husband shrugs off trouble as they note items stored in the icebox cellar and back porch. The wife plans a lunch tour to cooking school to learn grand meringues from the instructor.
An advertisement touts Nerviline as rapid relief for pleurisy and chest congestion with a testimonial from Samuel St. Johns of Stamford. It claims Nerviline reduces inflammation and pain from various conditions including stitch in the side, lumbago, neuralgia, sciatica, and rheumatism, with pricing for 60c family size and 25c trial size.
In the Russian Duma a motion to appoint women as factory inspectors was introduced. Government representatives opposed it but the motion passed 77 to 64 to draft a bill and was referred to a committee.
A husband tells his wife he cannot live without her, she replies, and recalls her father’s threat to cut off her allowance after a year of marriage. The exchange highlights the strain of their union and parental interference.
Druggists resend money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itching bleeding or protruding piles. First application gives relief. 60c.
A humorous note asks if the groom is intelligent, suggesting he is about eighty in wit. the speaker wonders whether brains exist in the family, implying a lighthearted bet on the marriage.
An old advertisement touts Putnam’s Painless Corn Extractor promising fast relief for various corn types. The piece also recalls a Texas to Oklahoma move where a mother jokes that she washed her large family before leaving Texas, highlighting water chores for a creek-supplied bath.
A woman returning from a worldwide journey asks her friend Ed what reform she should advocate. Ed replies he does not know, provoking a discussion on the most fashionable reform of the moment.
A pupil defines the difference between a biped and a quadruped as two legs. He writes that a biped has two legs and a quadruped has four, so the difference is two. The humorous answer relies on simple subtraction rather than biological distinction.
The text notes O Grady just back from his honeymoon and mentions a black eye. It hints at a playful remark about getting married, framed in casual banter between Mike and another speaker.
In a tense exchange a member accuses another of lying while invoking bylaws. A chairperson counters that the rules do not permit such remarks, prompting the accuser to push the point within the association’s governance framework.
A geologist muses that a thousand years pass without concern while a humorous exchange about money and insurance unfolds. An agent asks Mrs Stone to insure her own life after paying out her husband’s policy, prompting her playful response about luck.
Thousands suffer crippling rheumatism the blood must be purged to cure. Dr Williams Pink Pills claim to enrich the blood and end pain, with a testimonial from Jeremie Nadou of Quebec and mail order details from Brockville Ontario.
An early note quotes Orville Wright on an automatic stabilizer enabling flight in twenty minutes. The question ponders whether easier and safer flying would reduce the incentive to learn piloting skills.
A woman at a social event asked for water and a young man hurried to help. He joked that delivering water to an elephant in his circus days trained him for quick service, revealing his past as a water carrier for elephants.
A brief exchange contrasts expectations of support with shifting styles. One speaker laments not receiving accustomed backing while the other acknowledges that styles evolve over time.
The fragment suggests Rudimentary Astronomy with mention of Hypatia and Muriel. It notes a young collegian expressing curiosity about space and a playful line about getting beyond the solar plexus. The text is fragmentary and lacks concrete events or dates.
A reader from St John reports a severe throat attack, two weeks laid up, and says applying Minard's Liniment eased swelling overnight. The note credits the liniment with warding off another Quinsy attack after soaking a cloth and leaving it on.
The scene at Rob Roy fades to sadness as the cinema presents a gloomy program. Mary notes the moving pictures are very sad, but the maid predicts a brighter bill next week with Less Miserables on the screen.
Mrs Newlywed asks for frank suggestions to improve her doughforms. Mr Newlywed replies to make the hole bigger. Upside down dinners stirring London society are noted as common on ocean liners and Great Lakes slips.
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