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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 06, 1913
Page
2
Dora pressures Thorold as doors fail and Joan vanishes after threats and lies. Thorold learns of Durand and Mayne disappearances and Dora schemes to contact Green for answers while suspicion tightens around all three figures.
Mrs Harris of Tyneside Ontario reports relief from back and kidney pain after using GIN PILLS. She says rheumatism improved and urges other women with back pain and weak kidneys to try the remedy. 50c a box six for 2.60 sample free via National Drug and Chemical Co. of Canada Toronto.
Dora travels from a plain lodging to a riverfront address in a grim Clerkenwell district. A five pound offer persuades a wary landlord to reveal a place to hear of Green. Dora, drawn by dread, knocks on a shuttered house and waits for a response. To be continued.
Short Distance Writer Weil recalls a Georgia man speaking to a former slave about his son’s schooling. The father emphasizes education to avoid labor hardship, noting the boy can write to an aunt 20 miles away but not yet to another 60 miles distant, while the boy gains strength with writing.
Riley questions the spelling reform as Tim explains the date eighteen hundred ninety eight. The exchange humorously debates whether spelling changes are overreaching in a rural setting.
A witness at the Norman Cross Police Court recited a casual remark about three boats named Hose Shamrock and Thistle and suggested Wales is not represented due to a leak on one vessel.
A reader shares years of coffee and tea related health troubles including dyspepsia headaches and heart weakness. After switching to Postum for eighteen months digestion and nerves improved, with the sponsor Canadian Postum Co. Windsor Ontario promoting the product and its two forms. There is a call to write for the title book The Road to Wellville and a slogan There’s a reason for Postum.
A mother adopts a new plan letting Johnnie run away without notice and stay away as long as he pleases. He returns at dusk, finds no welcome, and mutters casually about the family cat revealing the ruse.
Tommy returns home with two rabbits and confronts a rabbit about arithmetic. He holds the animal by the ears and repeats twice two, then questions the teacher’s claim that rabbits multiply quickly, accusing her of fibs.
A misheard mishap recounts Jones tumbling into a table causing its four legs to break. No injury to Jones is reported, and the incident centers on the fallen table rather than the man.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case and praises F. J. Cheney and company. It claims Hall's Catarrh Cure treats catarrh internally by affecting blood and mucous surfaces and lists price and distribution through druggists.
Small Willie teases his sister's beau in the parlor asking about his pennies. The man replies he has none, prompting Willie to remark that mamma was right and that he has no more sense than a rabbit.
At Thames Police Court a woman sought a summons against a person for breaking a thing. The magistrate asked if it was deliberate. The applicant replied that the act was done with her hands, not on purpose.
An agent peddling a handsome illustrated book is declined by a man who claims he never buys books. The agent lectures on the work and its engravings, but the man reveals he prefers to wait for others to tell him what is inside and to skim the pictures.
Mark Twain era tale shows a subscriber asking if a spider in the paper foretells luck. Twain replies the creature merely watches which merchants fail to advertise. Also a morning visit to Mrs Brewster reveals a comical misrecognition at the doctor's office with a noirish mist of accident dialogue.
An old lady asks if a horse shies at motors. a cabby responds that the horse did not even shy when railway trains arrive, implying calm behavior around moving machinery and rail activity.
A playful dialogue has a man asking why only he remains while others court. A suffragette defends prison time as beneficial, jokingly calling it a kind of priesture. The exchange hints at gender roles and early feminist activism.
A second comet has been located in Pisces west of Omega by Prof F Barnard at Yerkes. Discovered Sept 6 by Neujmin, it appears asteroid like with a nebulous eastern appendage, making it distinct from Metcalf’s first comet. It will not be naked eye but visible with a five inch telescope and is periodic.
An advertisement asserts Holloway's Corn Cure defeats the most obstinate corns and warts by topical application, promising relief for sufferers.
A couple took their baby to a theatre with no babysitter. The infant cried through the first act and officials warned of a refund and exit. After silence, the father asked how the show was and the mother snapped Rotten Stick a pin in the baby.
E A Randall of Portland Maine, 1912 New England trapshooting champion, captured the 195 of 200 hit title at the Paleface Shooting Association tournament in Wellington Massachusetts September 10 11. He also won high amateur average with 383 of 400. H D Gibbs using speed shells and a Remington pump gun was high overall with 388 of 400 targets.
A Belgian Government clock installed in a railway station in 1881 has run for over a century with only four windings in 1886 1891 1896 and 1901. Another long running clock in the Church of St Quentin Mainz reportedly stopped only once in 500 years.
The speaker warns a trespasser in the garden that if seen again she will alert the constable. The intruder retorts that he cannot do anything as the man is her husband.
In a church service a clerk announced infant baptism entries as the minister intended hymnbook instructions. The deaf clergyman misinterpreted the baptism notice as hymnbook sales offering small and special hymnbooks at set prices after the sermon.
A brief exchange questions the safest path home amid confusion. The notes reference Blinks asking about the best route while Jinks speaks on sobriety, with no clear outcome or location provided.
T C Breslin of the Plaga told hotel men at a New York Greeters dinner they must not be niggardly. He recalled old Cornelius Husk asking his boy about a thermometer and warned that overuse wears it out and costs 25 cents to replace.
Bobbie visits his grandmother and learns she will bake a pie for him in a saucer. He replies that mother said not to bother her, and if it is going to be any trouble, she should make his pie a regular size.
A small notice urges mothers to stock Baby's Own Tablets to guard children from constipation colds vomiting and stomach upsets. It claims tablets can cure sudden troubles or prevent them with occasional use. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
A light afternoon tea leads to a pointed confession as a guest asks about Mrs. Smith’s husband. She reveals he has been dead two months, leaving the room in awkward silence and shifting the conversation to more cautious topics.
In a lively exchange Mrs Exe mocks fashion plates noting their engraving from photographs, while Ninard's Liniment is praised for neuralgia relief asExe counters with remarks on modern dress scenes showing two women in opposite directions and new gowns.
A caller asks a probing question about the husband’s earnings. Mrs. Wise replies that it is about 1 am, indicating late evening inquiry and a private response.
A humorous exchange ponders why a man outruns a boy and notes the wagon wheels as a playful misdirection about speed and size. The dialogue ends with the question left open and the speaker conceding.
No machine has yet been invented to replace manual labor in making champagne bottles in France. The workers performing this difficult task are well paid.
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