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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 07, 1912
Page
2
A reflective prose piece notes how a city’s inner workings are known to one who walks its streets from dawn to night. It contrasts crime, worship, commerce, and newsrooms with the lives of readers, the police, and riders of the city. The observer sees the rhythm of markets, theaters, and transit, and the hunter in the street wins by wit over work.
Mr Hn C Good of Boston’s Good & Doherty reports from Edmonton and northern Alberta on mortgage business and city property placements. He praises the Grand Trunk Pacific for its roadbed, service, and the Edmonton hotel project. He notes higher real estate values and a faster Winnipeg to Edmonton run as pivotal to regional growth and Transcontinental completion.
Col J L Taylor special agent of the International Bureau of Explosives spoke to G T R workers in Ottawa on safe handling of dynamite black powder fireworks and acids. He outlined regulations for transportation and safety practices amid nearby powder magazines and a Hull explosion history. Accompanying him was A H deMusea local inspector with bureau headquarters in Toronto.
A half century ago Iris Reeves stayed at a South Coast hotel and bet a fiver with a fellow singer he could walk the beach in disguise and perform his famous songs without recognition. He launched into Tom Bowling and My Pretty Jane but received no tips, challenging an Edinburgh spectator who hailed him with a harsh Scottish remark about the pricey luxury of further performances.
A new lightship in Germany now in commission carries a single high power electric light atop a hollow mast shaft, wireless telegraph, fog and submarine signals, and diesel engines with a dynamo and large battery banks for emergencies. The vessel measures 150 percent long and 25 feet wide and will anchor near the Elbe mouth shallows.
The article lists train nicknames used by English and American railways such as the Twilight Express and the Owl while noting British trains like the Flying Dutchman and the Wild Irishman. It also mentions Parmlee’s Vegetable Pill a trial remedy for digestive ailments claiming many cures with its use.
The Civil Service of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States seeks cadets. Applicants must be natural born British subjects aged 22 to 24 on August 1. Selection is by competitive exam held with Civil Service of India. Cadets receive 1250 dollars yearly, with half from departure and half on arrival, plus free furnished quarters and passage.
In Japan a method grows Chiltake mushrooms on oak trees felled in autumn. Ripped trunks are gashed along the length, left in forests for three years, then mushrooms sprout in the hollows providing a year round, rich harvest. The system contrasts with underground cultivation in Paris and other places.
A butcher offers a boy about the reader's age a daily job for three dollars per week. The boy asks if there is a chance to rise, and the butcher confirms with a firm yes, requiring the boy to report every morning at 4 o'clock.
A brief dialogue recalls a fiancee who can not cook and sparks questions about her attitude toward learning. The exchange contrasts indifference with a possible effort to improve.
An electric searchlight mounted on a gun barrel would help hunters see game in darkness, described as a German invention. A commentator notes guides may feel unsafe even in their beds at home.
Dialogue shows Mrs. Youngbird pressing for doughnut holes and the baker offering a cent each to return them. The exchange underlines a humorous bake shop interaction about waste and pricing.
Walter Joyce recalls meeting Henry Byron on the Strand and tells of the hungry sandwich man seen there. Byron quips nine pence a day as the poignant moment highlights the humorist's wit and the era's mood.
Recent statistics claim Germany is a nation of law-breakers with one in twelve convicted of offences. The figures also note women and youths facing legal conflicts, including one in twenty-five women and one in forty-three boys, among others.
James Payn recalls a dockyard anecdote about an Irish sentry explaining duty in a crime escape. The guard jokes that firing should occur at the last extremity, which he defines as just around the corner of the yard.
A burly skipper on a new steam collier learns the engine telegraph controls and jokes that it replaces engineers. A village rector recalls a farmer who tried whisky to stop a pup from growing, and the pup died, teaching a hard lesson about whisky use.
A brief jailhouse exchange shows a warder informing a convict’s wife is present while the inmate, in distress, declares he is about to be released or to leave. The constrained dialogue captures tension and urgency within the cell block.
In a drawing-room Mary-I pours a glass of wine when the butler interrupts and insists on an intervention. Mary-I explains she did not plan to offer the wine to him, clarifying her intent.
A vandal altered the epitaph by adding the word friends to Skinner’s tombstone. The original inscription read He did his best. Authorities are reviewing the incident and inspecting surrounding markers.
Miss Frances Barratt of Northampton, aged ten, won the first prize for French composition at the National School in Monnd, also placing for geography and arithmetic. The report notes a comparison to Frawein Brunnhilde, famed for height, and recalls a 19th century Alhambra performance of the Amazon Queen, a German girl who died at seventeen.
An eminent medical specialist relied on a memory aid notebook. After his aged father died he attended the funeral as chief mourner and, in a solemn moment, drew out the notebook and erased the words Men. Bury father.
A poem and dialogue capture labor hardship and a market scene. A worker struggles with missing buttons and torn garments while a pair of men discuss passing time and a pawned suit at a shop near the three balls sign, reflecting ordinary urban life.
A healthy boy Jimmy plays outdoors and returns home with dirty hands. His mother sends him to wash, scolding him for the mess. Jimmy protests that the dirty water also washed his face, sparking a small domestic quarrel.
A clipped exchange shows Becker distinguishing two mortgage types the first for a car and the second for upkeep. The line hints at budgeting or financial planning in a casual, conversational tone.
A wry note on a star’s album price and a legal point on a child’s earnings after age sixteen. The piece hints at a celebrity lifestyle and parental claims in adolescence.
An advertisement promotes a home study course from W. H. Shaw, president of Shaw Correspondence School in Toronto Canada. It claims to teach at commercial branches including accounting drawing and illustrating, aiming to prepare young people for better positions and good salaries.
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