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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 27, 1921
Page
7
The piece argues that Canada thrives with increased settled population and imperial migration from Britain. It contrasts Manitoba and Winnipeg in past and present, stresses selective migration, and notes Manitoba gains from British settlers funded by over $1,000 per new arrival in costs paid by the province.
A joint Idaho state and British Columbia press despatch outlines a plan to drain 60 000 acres in the Kootenay River Valley for cultivation, with about 30 000 acres on the Canadian side. The project centers on enlarging the lake outlet to reduce spring floods, cost estimated just over 2 million dollars, and would sell drained lands in 49 acre farms to settlers with cost shared by U S and BC interests.
W Richard, superintendent of northern Alaska posts, cites a 1921 Yukon gold yield totaling about 4 million dollars tied to Canadian and U S territory. Interior Alaska accounts for 2 675 million, Yukon Territory 1 25 million, Atlin 75 600, with Dawson hydraulics ending for clean up.
A schoolteacher recites the Pilgrims landing to a class and asks students to draw Plymouth Rock. One boy hesitates and asks whether to draw a hen or a rooster, prompting a gentle classroom moment about interpretation.
The lines portray a young wife who worships her husband and offers burnt offerings three times daily, suggesting a ritual or extreme devotion. The fragment hints at ritualistic behavior within a marriage context.
A California woman lives in a home nicknamed House of Hearts where all furniture features heart shapes. The beds have heart headboards with bedposts carved as Cupid arrows, and the story notes Hungary plans currency printed on leather from pig skin hailed as nearly impossible to counterfeit.
In Japan books are bound at the edges and read with readers starting at the sock's edge and moving forward, following traditional vertical text rather than horizontal.
A Youth's Companion excerpt discusses that a successful leader of boys must live the life he asks of them. It notes boys are critical, loyal, humorous, fond of mischief, and have a sense of justice, yet crave discipline to ease responsibility, and preaching must be backed by example.
A Reuters despatch from Brisbane reports that 35 bodies have been recovered from Mount Mulligan pits in Queensland after the explosions. Rescue teams with respirators face dangerous gases and may have to halt efforts. Relatives receive messages of sympathy from King George, Viscount Curzon, and Premier Hughes.
Aviation experts joined by the air ministry to study installing an air police system. The goal is to protect frontiers from smugglers and invaders and to deter bandits amid growing aerial travel between Paris and major European capitals, including night flights.
An important copper find in Shetland yields high grade lodes with half a million tons of ore already in sight and indicates substantial wealth for London interests.
A brief joke item notes a quip about a dad questioning his son who was riding around with friends. The punchline involves a hairpin left in the car and a character called the Texas Scalper.
The Argentine government opens 16,000,000 acres for colonization as U S and Canadian applications pour in. Lands span Misiones to Terra del Fuego with high prices blamed on land monopolies. Immigrants face costs beyond land price. officials hope settlement boosts agriculture. Carlos Tornquist notes livestock quality up while quantity falls over 12 years.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, interviewed in Cape Town before the expedition to the Antarctic, calls the Quest the lightest and best equipped polar ship and says the team will unlock many grim secrets. Captain Saunders sends the utility boat Consuela from Cowes to join Quest at Plymouth, capable of sailing rowing punting paddling or gas motor and fitted with a rubber band for sludge ice.
A noted barrister, long before attaining silk, overheard a question about the extreme penalty for bigamy during a trial. He dryly answered that the penalty would be two mothers-in-law, turning a grim moment into a biting courtroom quip.
A brief note argues that Sir Isaac Newton invented a thermometer scale, crediting Fahrenheit with a later refinement by defining zero at extreme cold and dividing the scale by ten for convenience.
The piece argues Arctic Canada holds rich resources and potential, contradicting views of a barren north. It highlights wheat origins near Fort Chipewyan, Arctic grasslands, grazing by missions, and proposed reindeer and muskox breeding projects in Southampton, Mansel, Goat’s islands, and Baffin’s Land leases.
Major G L Jennings of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police reports from a three month, four thousand mile northern tour that everything is orderly between Edmonton and the Arctic. He notes high law and order, visits all detachments to Herschel Island, and outlines winter dog patrols to oil camps and to Fort Good Hope Dease Bay and Great Bear Lake. He says only Smith Portage needs improvement and that no prosecutions have occurred under clearance certificates.
The international race began in Brussels with fourteen entrants. Paul Armbruster piloted the Swiss balloon and landed at Landay Island off County Dublin, securing victory for Switzerland in the James Gordon Bennett trophy event.
At a church fete in Hounslow Middlesex six hundred nineteen entrants competed to be the fastest speaker. The winner was H J Nias of Hounslow who repeated the phrase Some fountain pen 78 times in 30 seconds a rate of 468 words a minute.
A Piedmont note recalls the human struggle with temptation and the prayer for guidance to avoid falling into it.
A town’s growth relies on business activity and supporting local dealers. Encouraging purchases from nearby merchants boosts employment and community vitality.
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