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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 27, 1924
Page
6
Sergeant Seymour escapes from a jail by forcing open a padlocked door after a nighttime capture. He rides out toward King Street, evading capture while deputies suspect a killer on the loose. He travels north toward the canon where the pursuit continues with wary allies.
A Dublin Ontario woman reports relief from weakness and sleep trouble after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She notes weight gain and improved regularity and urges others to try the remedy. A Halifax maternal nurse endorses the product to numerous women seeking a tonic and offers to share information and books on women's ailments.
Sergeant Seymour, camping by Cheena Creek, receives Brewster the freighter as the first visitor since his alleged arrest. Brewster claims Hardley and Cato spread word of Seymour’s jail, while Seymour contemplates a nearby, open confrontation with O Malley and his niece about a secret conference.
The narrative recalls a sheriff, a drunken alibi, and the Glacier Creek blockage. Missionary Shan O Malley built a holding pattern for Native claims while Bonnemort and Kluger from Canada leased and fenced Indian holdings. Ruth Duperow and the uncle backed a no trespass guard as Hardley weighs legal options. Concerns rise about rightful leases and control of a canyon approach.
A distinctive New York facility, the Andrew Freedman Home, serves as a nonsectarian poor house for ex rich men. Funded by Andrew Freedman, it aims to provide aging former wealthy individuals with a lifestyle close to their affluent days, featuring gray limestone four stories, forty eight bedrooms, a large library, a stately living room, a Chinese dining room and a card room.
Windsor Castle kitchens are famed for their order and longevity as English roial larder operations. Each kitchen hosts a master chef with dedicated cooks and assistants, preserving old methods while meeting modern demands for feasts.
A shield found near Damascus features a Third Century AD map painted in red for land and blue for sea. An archer from Palmyra marked his marches as a Roman legionary, showing places visited and the Empire’s extent during Severus’s era, asking how long a legions march around the Black Sea would take versus a British ship to Hong Kong.
Persians fear burial expenses in Kerbela as high charges mount. A Tehran to Beirut to Baghdad route by a local motor transport firm aids moving bodies toward Kerbela for railway onward transport. Families face mullah fees plus about $1,000 in transport, seen as small compared to burial plot costs.
A Dublin newspaper contest offering 50 guineas for an Irish national anthem fails to produce a publishable entry. Judges W J Yeats Lennox Robinson and James Stephens report none worthy of a guinea and urge a fresh attempt studying national songs of other countries. Most submissions imitate God Save the King.
Fines collected from blasphemers funded a new clubhouse in Newbrancepeth a Durham colliery village. The non-swearing club began after a dance offended miners who agreed to curb swearing and fine themselves. Members joined quickly as fines grew the exchequer.
A farm laborer with no golf experience is pressed into duty on a western Ireland course. After two rounds, the player he caddied for pays well above the ordinary wage, prompting the caddie to inquire about possible further work tomorrow.
In Germany near Berlin, the first European ostrich race was held with birds harnessed to bamboo sulkies. Pneumatic tires and light guiding sticks kept the birds on track as drivers steered across one to one and a half miles. Nino, a grey headed four year old, won the championship.
A large man enters a hardware shop, demanding a razor. He insists on a "dangerous razor" rather than a safety model, prompting a tense exchange with the clerk.
A brief note reflects a claim that Chinese must visit Christian Rations to obtain war provisions, illustrating wartime logistics and supply concerns.
A pithy reflection on how death seeks grand symbols yet keeps to sparse, glinting targets, hinting at elusive notoriety and scarce opportunities for lasting recognition.
A wife shows him a paper claiming smoking harms the body and urges quitting. He retorts that he looks unarmed and healthy at sixty, joking he might have reached seventy if not for smoking, highlighting stubborn stubbornness.
Scientists announce measurement of four millionth of an inch and suggest future refinements to reach a size useful for slicing ham in sandwiches at a firm.
A Paris police notice warns that irritable telephone subscribers may face arrest. The alert urges calm and orderly conduct, linking disruptive calls to potential enforcement actions by authorities.
A devotional poem reflects resignation to God s will with lines from Matthew 26 39 and a Bishop Butler admonition. It urges calm acceptance of divine purpose as the core of piety and a steadying temper for mortal life amid uncertainty.
The Houston Post reports on a road sign painter in Houston who proposed provocative railroad crossing signs. He suggested lines like Come ahead You're unimportant and Take a chance You can get hit by a train only once to spur drivers to safer behavior.
A reflective remark compares a mule’s kicking to a man’s behavior in life. It notes that when someone is reacting defensively or aggressively they are not acting to achieve constructive goals. The saying invites contemplation of motive and effect in human actions.
The saying suggests that the farther from money matters one is, the less alluring wealth appears. It reflects a perspective where proximity to wealth influences perceived value and temptation.
President Coolidge lauds adopting business methods in charity work in a radio talk to the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies in New York. He praises the community chest system for financing benevolences and philanthropies, saying it eliminates wasteful indiscriminate giving and advances organized humane service.
An old advertisement urges mothers to guard children against autumn colds with Baby's Own Tablets from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont. It claims the tablets act as a gentle laxative and help prevent or relieve colds with prompt use. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box.
A hard headed self made man uses a simple screening: ask Got a jackknife. If yes, more questions follow. if no, the interview ends with Dont want ye Boy that ain't got a knife. The test signals readiness and resourcefulness in job seekers.
A popular science writer notes explorers observed Iceland as mostly green and Greenland as largely ice. The piece highlights contrasting landscapes and historical misconceptions about these regions.
A terse line notes an individual has invested in a salt mine, with a peppery tone suggesting irony or skepticism about the move. The remark hints at unusual financial risk and public curiosity.
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