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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 13, 1910
Page
3
Rouletabille pursues the killer amid hypnotic theory and mounting evidence as Darzac faces a tightening web. He recalls footprints, open windows, and Mile Stangerson’s locked door while pondering if Mile. Stanger son aided the intruder.
The account recalls a stormy October night when Joseph Rouletabille awakens to a sinister cry from the Bete du Bon Dieu near the chateau. He investigates in a drafty gallery, finds a window ajar, and contemplates who opened it as a terrace lies five feet below the window.
A reflective editorial urges restraint in remarks about invitations appearances and weight. It argues that quiet tact prevents social harm and that critics should avoid discussing generosity or dieting, noting how sensitive readers may resent unwelcome commentary.
The narrator and Daddy Jacques stalk a chateau by night seeking a murderer. They plant a ladder to reach a half open window and glimpse Mile. Stangerson at her desk as a man sits unseen, the candle casting eerie shadows. The scene ends with the reader awaiting the continuation.
A remark attributes a friend's face to Browning's poetry noting it has hard lines. The exchange appears in a quoted dialogue from the Butisio Express.
A guide on thanking guests after a wedding stressing sincere, personalized notes over formal set phrases. Include the fiancé in thanks for gifts, acknowledge the couple, and invite friends to view presents if no reception. Caution against impersonal notes and relying on the bride alone to thank others.
An anxious mother wonders if chaperons are still needed for teen social outings. The article argues chaperons remain the best form for modest gatherings, providing dignity and safety in emergencies, and that well bred youths would still prefer a chaperoned outing.
Emerson notes that education is social and genteel. He cites Fuller on William Nassau and the custom of removing hats, arguing that a refined society requires many cultivated women and salons to sustain Mme de Stael.
A cautionary note advises young girls traveling alone to resorts to be wary of unfamiliar men. If a man shows persistent attentions, they should seek the company of an older female guest to observe his behavior until he proves trustworthy.
A Harper's Weekly description explains the Sargasso Sea as a vast central region bounded by circulating ocean currents. It notes calm waters, drifting weed beds, and a diverse fauna including a transparent pedicel eyed shrimp and variable water fleas, with some fish building weed nests bound by strong glutinous threads.
The article describes shark and bear steaks appearing in London restaurants, with frozen Russian bears and other oddities like porcupine and wallaby eaten as delicacies. It notes Burns Night servings from Canada and a Iceland mass banquet famous for moss dishes.
A lawyer raised in the country notes city people lack directional sense. He cites witnesses in a case who knew nearby buildings well yet could not identify bank corners or trolley directions, despite describing the vicinity clearly on a map.
The article explains Vienna’s sperrgeld or door opening tax. Residents pay twopence to pass a bolted doorway before midnight and fourpence after, every entry or exit incurs a toll, including posting letters and visiting friends. Janitors, or house masters, reap substantial income from this regime.
A demiculverin of 4 inch bore stands 11 feet long and weighs over a ton. It was left in the Wear by Gen David Leslie and his Scottish army after besieging South Shields in March 1544. The relic is placed in a park for exhibition.
On a country club terrace a group of nongolfers discuss golf while tea is served. A male nongolfer defines golf as billiards gone to grass, others offer witty, sharp quips about land and language and the sport’s essence.
Queen Alexandra welcomed Captain Scott at Buckingham Palace and gave him a Union Jack while the Queen Mother urged flag planting at the furthest British Antarctic point. New Zealand plans coal and provisions for Terra Nova at Lyttleton, with three cases of King's ale from Bass & Co. aboard for temperate South Pole to toast King George.
A man holds four hearts and a club in draw poker. He discards the club and draws a spade, calling it a hearts flush. He bets $7, another player calls and wins the pot. Moral a wise man calls a spade a spade.
Oysters with a pedigree grace the menu of a London hotel. The prized shells come from Red Bank off Galway where Cistercian monks cultivated beds in the twelfth century. Napoleon III once stocked France with these famed oysters for their delicacy.
In Berkshire two youths John Cooper and Patsy O Leary broke into the late Dr Gordon Stables home. They barricaded doors and windows and, from an upper room, hurled crockery and water at about six hundred onlookers. One brandished a knife and made threats. Police forced entry and the pair surrendered claiming they sought food only.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote recalls a tramp who admits taking an unclaimed pie from a window. He rationalizes the theft by noting repeated inquiries from the department of the interior and vows to deliver the goods.
A veteran English statesman Viscount Knutsford 85 expresses doubt that women would vote in a referendum on women’s suffrage. He notes his long career from legal adviser to Colonial Secretary in 1887 and says his vigor and intellect remain sharp after decades of royal commissions.
A reader questions public correction of a child in front of strangers while another voices the opposite view that a child should not be corrected in the presence of strangers. The exchange highlights opinions on proper conduct and decorum in parenting.
Miss Jean Nesbitt a Toronto native and pupil of Teschetizky made her London debut at Bechstein Hall in a piano recital. Her technique brilliance and musicality place her among renowned pianists from the Vienna school with a refined Bach and Beethoven interpretation shown in the performance.
A profile of Horace Avory KC noted as one of the era’s leading criminal lawyers and a respected judge. The piece recalls his Cambridge rowing, hunting, golf and tennis, his austere humor, and his rare jokes as his forty year career spanned.
Sir Clements Markham, who celebrated his eightieth birthday, began Arctic studies sixty years ago and doubts whether more discoveries remain in the North Polar regions. A member of the 1850 Franklin search, he also explored worldwide and notably introduced cinchona trees from Peru to British India after a two year Peru expedition, aiding quinine supply that once cost four guineas an ounce.
Bees from six hives shipped from Guildford to Malden near Kingston on Thames caused chaos at Surbiton station when a hive broke apart. Porters retreated as the van moved to Waterloo and back. On return, workers dragged hives onto the platform and bees swarmed, stinging several staff before oily waste quelled the hive.
J. G. Hudson of the Department of Mines discusses fatalities in Canadian coal and metalliferous mines from 1209 to 1908. He cites ten year averages 1599 to 1903 per 1,000 workers with figures for British Columbia Nova Scotia and other regions and metals including coal, nickel, iron, and cannery products.
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