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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 01, 1914
Page
2
Mrs. Comstock Bell enjoys a breakfast on a Tangier terrace with Gibraltar and Tangier views as she recalls travels from the Prado to Vienna. Her husband fears a Typhoid outbreak and urges a quick departure, but she jokes about danger while awaiting letters.
A Toronto reader recounts years of dandruff and hair loss cured after trying Cuticura Soap and Ointment. After using the sample, washing with the soap and applying the ointment, the itching subsided and hair regrew inside three weeks.
Verity and an unnamed man discuss happiness and future plans while sharing a tense, intimate exchange. Deep questions about love, probability, and a future together unfold as a coffee cup shatters, signaling a turning point in their relationship.
Mrs Goby’s new house is pictured as Jessie and her mother Mrs Toby visit. Jessie recalls being told to be quiet, then says Mrs Toby knocked many times and suggested tea in town, triggering a tense, cold exchange about propriety.
A collage of quips from a 1900s humor page features jokes about marriage aesthetics dental gags and courtroom lines. The snippets include Mrs Nurich and Miss Goodrich banter about tooth pulls and lovers while lawyers and judges chime in on cross examination reputation and family heritage.
A century ago settlers hand dug coal for heat and cooking, yielding tens of tons annually. Modern mines use air drills, powders and elevators, with 1500 foot shafts and daily output near 1000 tons of high grade bituminous coal, now exported worldwide.
An instructional description explains fingerprinting as a reliable identifier, noting Scotland Yard’s large file and the quick ability to identify a prisoner. It outlines a simple method using moist sepia paint, water, and paper to capture the entire fingerprint for study and records.
After extensive trials with four large manufacturers, the forest service selects juniper as the most available cedar substitute for pencils. Major companies are arranging lumber rights in juniper lands in New Mexico and other areas. Current output is about 1.9 million pencils daily and 7.99 million cubic feet yearly. Cedar supplies are shrinking while hardwoods are impractical due to user habits.
A tourist in a remote German village notices a linen tree in the square plastered with ads for Ober s furniture Lieb ling s rings Mullers kitchen items and a dining room breakfast. A villager explains couples carve their names into the bark to remember the wedding suppliers they will need.
The New York statue base will use stones from the Rouen dungeon foundation where Joan of Arc was held. Stones came via a French insurance company after the government failed to buy the Rouen site. Over 25000 dollars has been raised for the New York statue.
In a London opinion piece the Seed Merchant argues a foot between radish and onion rows suffices. A Prospective Amateur Gardener counters with three or four feet to prevent onion flavor, stressing cautious spacing.
The Frenchman quips about barking dogs with a host, debating, in a playful exchange, whether a dog knows the proverb as well as people. The exchange hinges on linguistic puns involving ze proverbe and ze dog.
A family prepares the house for summer boarders from the city. They hide valuables and set out plain items to present a rustic country welcome, ensuring guests enjoy a traditional homestead experience.
A brief item notes a aviation themed comedy titled When Money Took Wings did not sustain success after its premiere week. The exchange mentions a ghost no longer involved after week one as the show's run faltered.
Canada shows financial resilience as Finance Minister and Canadian Bankers Association discuss crisis measures. Banks will continue to issue and accept five ten and twenty dollar bills instead of gold or Dominion notes, ensuring public access to funds. Government support and strong reserves reassure depositors about banking safety.
The article explains natural fertilization via insects and wind for fruit trees. In greenhouses where pollination is scarce, gardeners manually fertilize blossoms using a camel hair brush or a rabbit's fluffy tail tied to a stick to dust pollen from one flower to another, enabling fruit set.
An enthusiastic fisherman shares a plan for a Colorado fishing trip. He boasts about thousands of trout in the lake and jokes that the fish are so aggressive a man must hide behind a tree to bait a hook.
The tallest single piece wooden flagpole, 35 tons and 15 inch base, stands at the Panama-Pacific exposition grounds in San Francisco. Three derricks raised it into place on a reinforced concrete foundation, with a 620 pound apex ball. A 46 foot flag will fit, while a 150 by 75 foot flag led a St. Louis flag day procession. Suggestions arise to send the banner to San Francisco for Missouri Day.
The article traces bagpipes as ancient instruments used by civilizations from China to Rome and notes their appearance on a Nero coin. It lists modern variants such as the Breton bignon, the German sachp felfe, and the French cornemure as alternate names for bagpipes.
Frank J. Cheney of Fr Cheney Co swears as senior partner that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every uncured catarrh. The notice, dated December 6 1886, seeks endorsements and claims the cure acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists at 75 cents. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Sea horses swim in a salt water aquarium at the Children's Museum Brooklyn. They are fish with chessboard-like heads and worm-like bodies. The male carries eggs in a pouch at the tail base. the female lays eggs there for hatchling young.
A Missouri farmer recalls his son’s repeated civil service refusals. He jokes that Joe was short on spelling and phon[a]py and lagged in arithmetic, and wonders what he will do next as times stay tough, suggesting a return to teaching.
The article asserts that corns vanish when Holloway’s orn Cure is applied, claiming the treatment reaches the root and halts growth. It presents a direct causal claim about effectiveness and mechanism.
A mother asks if her son has offered encouragement and the sweet young thing replies that he spoke last night asking whether two could live as cheaply as one. The Baltimore News quotes a lighthearted exchange.
The city visitor inspects a rural boarding house aiming to spend the summer with his family. He questions the table offerings, asking about milk butter beef lamb and garden produce, but the farmer dismisses the idea of keeping boarders, implying the comforts are not for sale.
A Pittsburg Post quip recalls a wife who feared leaving the faucet running after seeing Niagara Falls. The joke plays on sudden awe and domestic humor.
Harriet Beecher Stowe records girls dancing a jig titled Go to the Devil and Shake Yourself. The Duke of Buckingham and Candos offended at a ball in Airesford when a rector's wife, deaf, misheard a request for a dance. The incident dates to 1795 and is later noted by Crabbe in Tales.
The article depicts a spider cornering a fly in its parlor and wrapping it in silk. Eight eyes glare as a hairy palpus waves in menace while a leg stretches to tighten the web. Spinnerets release threads and the fly is spun into a silken prison.
In the novel Hagar, Mrs Green objects to women earning money. She argues that sentiment restricts female enterprise, insisting women face more prohibitions than opportunities and that money making is not acceptable for them.
A student humor section quotes campus chatter and quips from the Columbia Jester and Boston Transcript. The tidbits mention fashion patches in dress and a goat milk joke, reflecting light intercollegiate wit.
A fragmentary exchange contrasts suffragette salute to the prime minister with wartime gun salutes and social jibes about women and men. The dialogue hints at gender roles and wartime fatigue in a terse, satirical mood.
J H S Munro carried a trapped black bear ten miles along a rough Jordan River trail to Revelstoke in eight hours. The seven foot long, 163 pound bear was shot on Cottonwood slide. its skin is described as deep black and of high quality. The mayor bought and had it mounted life size. F Tillman accompanied for photographs.
In St. Paul Minnesota teachers and students constructed a large relief map of the United States in the schoolyard. The forty by one hundred twenty foot plot used five inches to a mile scale with mountains rivers and shores carved in, aiding arithmetic and geography lessons through teamwork and reference to charts.
The article explains coyotes are highly sly and dig up traps. It recommends baited bonfires after placing traps to erase human scent and lure coyotes back to the set. Burning bacon rinds bones or sage hen remnants attracts the animal from afar, increasing trap success.
The Pall Mall Gazette records how the artist Titiens once struggled with a hot temper. During a supper in a provincial town she hurled a soda water bottle at her manager, missing him but shattering a window and nearly striking a passerby. The incident reportedly cured her of the habit.
The pterodactyl is described as a large feathered winged creature with spearlike wing hinges and toothy jaws. True birds, especially warblers, are much younger in geological time with no bird melody in carboniferous forests. singing likely did not influence humans much according to a New York American note.
The essay notes the father of Saint Gaudens was a bootmaker who matched his son’s care in sculpture. It argues countless millions are spent on crafts beyond fine art, highlighting eighteenth century cabinet work, textiles, lacemaking, pottery, metalwork, printing, and bookbinding as joyful crafts rich in human skill.
A humorous exchange from Harvard Lampoon features a playful back and forth about frog legs and a cheery hop aroma. The dialogue showcases light banter and timing typical of campus humor.
A Buffalo Express quip notes Jiggs has very poor golf form but excels in arithmetic. The remark contrasts weak golf skills with strong numerical ability in a light editorial tone.
A short observation notes that a man’s intellect can be tested in conversation. If he agrees with you, his sense and reasoning appear clear through dialogue.
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