The Mystery of The Yellow Room Continues
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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 24, 1910
Page
3
A serial mystery piece continues with clues and suspects hinted. The article teases further chapters and unresolved puzzles while inviting readers to follow the developing intrigue.
The tale centers on Milo Stangerson and her father as a brutal assailant wounds her thrice in the chest while suspicions fall on Robert Darzac. Rouletabille witnesses a dramatic scene at the chateau, Darzac is arrested, and Stangerson collapses in distress as authorities search for the truth behind the killer and the murdered keeper.
Sir William Treloar former Lord Mayor of London 1906 7 travels to Canada to study child care and philanthropy. He is tall rich and a keen naturalist with an aviary in Norwood. Every Christmas he funds hundreds of hampers for impoverished children and has seen odd gifts including a fifty pound note in an envelope and regular stamps.
The article notes H. B. Irving closely follows the Crippen case and crime study. It mentions his father Sir Henry Irving wanted him to be a lawyer and later supported his acting. Irving wrote for Judge Jeffreys and, in Ipswich, viewed a house now a stationer shop where Jeffreys allegedly resided during assizes. The shop assistant checked a theatre booking sheet and said no seats were booked for the gentleman.
Lieutenant General Sir Joceline Wodehouse recounts a quiet rebuke to a military critic during the South African campaign. A senior officer claims he might have done better, and Wodehouse replies that he was not there to judge. The exchange ends as the general recalls an important appointment.
The exchange questions penalties for lying and recalls a tale of a man who dislocated his shoulder while stretching to exaggerate a fish catch. The anecdote underscores the risk of misrepresenting feats and the consequences of boastful deception.
The Australian Commonwealth earmarks 30,080 yearly to fund an English spread for an Australian drama and immigration push. Canada’s earlier strategy grew from a 15,000 yearly advert spend in 1895 to 1,000,000 by 1905 with agents and bonuses. Australia advertised a 25 passag e for 250 deposit in London, free grants of 160 acres, and Western Australia’s 000,000 acres open for selection.
The article profiles David Shackleton once a mill half timer who, dismissed for union activism, rose to political prominence. Married young to a mill coworker, she kept the home while he faced gatekeeping. He gained broad support, won Parliament by a large majority, and is a teetotaler who quit smoking for practical reasons.
Mr. F. C. Selous, the Government spokesman at the International Big Game Congress in Vienna, recalls a near fatal encounter in 1878 with a herd of elephants near the Umbila River. He and three companions killed twenty two of the largest tuskers after a long chase, and a bull elephant nearly overtook his exhausted horse before he was killed.
In a quaint Aubrey tale Lord Bacon visits fishermen at work in a garden and negotiates over a catch. The net holds only two or three small fish. He says it would have been better to take his offer. They reply hoping for a better draft, and he notes hope is a good breakfast but an ill supper.
A tiny willow named awort grows at the corr top of Ben Lemond. It is the smallest tree in Great Britain, reaching only about two inches in height at maturity.
A small town Ontario weekly prints a front page attack on the rival village’s telephone service. The rival editor responds with a single bold line about a drunken man on a veranda and ends the exchange, illustrating the cheeky newspaper rivalries of rural presses.
St Stanley Larkin of Moose Jaw shares a public verse in memory of King Edward. His uncle in England, aged eighty one, wrote a condolence that praised Edward as a peacemaker and called for a royal olive branch. Buckingham Palace sent thanks via Miss Knollys from Queen Alexandra.
A Magazine contributor recalls a ritual where dreams guide favors. A chief told Sir William Johnson the governor he dreamed of receiving salt from his regimentals, and Johnson agreed. The chief then mentioned a dream of gifting a large land tract, and the governor consented, adding a quip to stop dreaming.
A grimly comic note from the Sault Star recounts a frazzled editor who is confronted by a powerful owner and beaten back to his senses. The clash ends with the editor surprisingly buoyant, declaring life worth living and hoping the owner won’t shut the paper down.
A man afraid of thunder hid in a hollow log during a thunderstorm. The log swelled trapping him until he could not escape. As his past sins passed before him he remembered he had not paid his newspaper subscription and suddenly found a way out.
A late reveller recounts seeing a delirious patient escape from a local hospital wearing an oversized shirt and attempting to pull up a tree. The odd scene stands in for temperance lectures and is noted in a brief Ottawa Journal item.
The piece profiles Dr. Carmichael of King Township Ontario, a Presbyterian pastor for fifty years who preached in English and Gaelic, educated at Queen's University with a Glasgow year, and lauded as a Hebrew scholar. It highlights his humble rural ministry, self sacrifice, and steady loyalty to his flock over generations.
The French actress recalls her 1879 London Colisseum appearance at the Gaiety as the most acute ordeal yet. She describes windlike nerves driving her to overreach, yet the suffering sparked instant triumph as critics reported her success the next day.
Drawings in Paris from Sir Francis Drake's ship deck during his last voyage carry a mournful margin note dated January 28, 1595. The Defiance lay off Puerto Bello when Drake died, marking a somber end to his expedition.
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