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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 06, 1915
Page
4
The notice outlines rates for display advertising at $1.50 in the United States and 12 cents per inch, with $10 per annum in advance. It lists transient ad categories like Wanted Lost Pound Strayed For Sale To Let and notes a single insertion fee with an added Ze for each following insertion.
A poem from The Scottish Farmer contrasts the invincible worker behind the plow with the glory of armies and rulers. The article also reports a War Revenue Act 1915 note clarifying postage stamps may be used in lieu of Inland Revenue War Stamps for certain payments and letters.
The poem recalls the call to arms and departure of a Canadian unit under Colonel Steele aboard a Grand Trunk Railway train. The Vaderland sails from Old Canada to Ireland, with farewells to women and pennies to the boys, as they sing of the Maple Leaf and set course across the sea.
Rod and Gan for May from W J Taylor Limited Woodstock Out features Edward T Martin on Have the Pigeons Returned a piece on the possible return of the passenger pigeon once pronounced extinct by authorities such as Prof Hornaday of New York. Ray Giddings tells How the Ram of the Stormycat vanished and was finally secured in an entertaining Western tale. Other stories and departments fill this issue of the Sportsman's magazine with an engaging mix.
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