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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
2
A narrator recalls a midnight escape from a hunted intruder in a dark house, detailing a desperate climb from a hidden shaft and a tense pursuit through locked doors. The excerpt shifts to a humorous note on a Chicago area pack peddler who roves rural Illinois, pestering the narrator’s household with a comical, relentless parade of goods while the wife anxiously guards four remaining pennies.
A narrator recalls a perilous ascent and escape from a cedar closet after a grueling climb to safety. He details nearly collapsing but managing to reach a window and breathe free air. The account ends with a note that Hiram Sears visited the house and the inspector acknowledged the successful night’s work.
The text argues clothes influence female behavior and could aid reforming criminals and the insane. It cites experiments where dressing inmates according to behavior improved manners, and a French report claiming clothes as a control method for criminal women. An anecdote shows a dying girl improving mood after seeing pretty dancing slippers.
The article advises washing feathers in soap suds and gasoline before dipping in paint and gasoline to color them. After dyeing, feathers are hung to dry. Women new to feather wholesale should test on a small white feather to avoid large losses.
The article advises styling to make eyes look larger with a slight head tilt, warns that chin lowering creates wrinkles and a double chin, and promotes peppermint essence and home remedies. It discusses glossy hair from regular washing, brushing, and scalp massage, and notes egg white as soothing for burns. It also covers exercises to lift a double chin and skin care methods to reduce fat folds on the chin and throat.
The article recounts historic will peculiarities page by page. It cites 1770 John Abbott and Mary receiving six pence each for a halter, 1793 Philip Thickness requesting his right hand be cut off for his son, and Lt. Col. Nash funding muffled bells for his wife's anniversary. It also notes Jasper Mayne’s servant getting an old valise with a red herring and Sieur Benoit’s coffinless burial in a trunk.
A dealer forged a painter’s signature on a tavern scene in Jan Steen style. The work was seized in New York for fraud. The importer paid 20 000 dollars in fines and duties, then resold the piece for 50 000 dollars, profiting from the deception.
Miss Annie S Peck, former Smith College Latin professor known worldwide for fearless ascents, recently climbed Mount Hauscaran in the Peruvian Andes, about 25 000 feet high, surpassing earlier record by W W Graham. Her career spans two decades of mountaineering from the Matterhorn to Mount Sorata in Bolivia.
A downtown businessman on the fifteenth floor recalls sneezing in an elevator. The draft caused his $150 set of false teeth to fly from his mouth as onlookers, including a carload of stenographers, snickered at the mishap.
The Japanese servant has many cu rious traits. He is inordinately polite and never gives notice when leaving. His work worsens until you fire him, a deliberate tactic to avoid announcing his departure.
A light exchange compares social introductions to a poker rule called to see what someone else holds. Mrs Subbubs notes a neighbor moving into the Dudleys old house on Saturday, and Mr Subbubs links it to the idea of calling to reveal what others have.
The stage manager laments the meadow scene looking artificial. A witty remark follows about ads signs missing, joking that advertising is what makes it seem natural. The exchange highlights a playful critique of set design and commercial presence.
A witness characterizes the magistrate as the sort of man who avoids looking you in the face until your back is turned, describing him as sneaky. The exchange suggests a cautious, evasive judicial figure and hints at mistrust in proceedings.
A brief note from Manchester Cnica claims no glow in flowers yet hints they may brighten some dark moments in life.
Advice on a compact traveling medicine kit. It lists bicarbonate of soda for indigestion, peroxide for antiseptic use, and very weak carbolic acid solution as a germ killer. It recommends a small roll of bandages and adhesive plaster for emergencies and stresses hygiene to prevent infections.
A brief note praising women who contribute to society by strength health and a drive to learn and grow. The article emphasizes character, ambition, and personal improvement as keys to usefulness and success.
Mrs Asquith sets fashion by gifting books to brides guiding Londoners on wedding presents. The piece urges choosing books or sets like Kipling Thackeray Hawthorne and American history volumes as stylish, affordable options that double as decor if unread.
A playful but sly instruction describes a woman slipping into a sleeping husband’s room to lift coins from his pockets. The guide suggests placing the trousers over the bed, pulling pockets out to reveal cash, then returning items and masking the theft as rent repair.
Instructions on proper jar preparation and equipment for home canning emphasize clean jars with intact rubbers and sealed tops to prevent fermentation. It advises using wide mouth jars for small families, porcelain or granite kettles, a long handled spoon, pulp or pestle, and proper sugar pans along with towels, jelly bags, and a grover’s funnel.
The British suffragists were given a new war song at a private reading hosted by Miss Janette Steer in Shonne Gardens, London. Edmund Cooper first performed the pew song and march with a refrain urging women to rise and vote, urging persistence until victory.
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