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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 31, 1912
Page
7
Counsel asks about the defendant while the witness replies her husband is a finisher and is finishing his time in Pentonville Prison. The exchange highlights the inmate's role and current status within the prison system.
A judge in an Arkansas circuit town court found no pens ink or stationery provided. He fined a lawyer five dollars for contempt after the outburst, then directed an attendant to fetch required articles and give change if any.
The narrator recalls a Washington tale from Roosevelt era primaries. St Peter greets Roosevelt and promises a huge heavenly choir of 2500 singers, then 50 000 tenors and contraltos, and 50 000 sopranos. When asked who sings bass Roosevelt quips Jo sing bass.
An Army officer, newly posted as A D C in Bombay, visits Government House and meets a pompous military secretary. The secretary offers a two finger shake, but the officer replies with wit, claiming the governor grants him three.
A labourer tells Lord Chief Justice he is dressed as well as the judge, arguing over appearances in court. The exchange centers on the judge’s insistence on clean attire versus the labourer’s claim of equal readiness, highlighting class tensions in formal proceedings.
Canon Liddon urges readers to examine how much time they give to scripture as life nears its end. He asks what books command attention, what is unread, and how Bible study can prepare one for judgment and eternal questions beyond earthly concerns.
Pat, newly appointed village constable, proudly carries out his duties when a gust of wind blows his hat off. He asks to fetch it, but is told to stay and chase after the hat. The moment highlights comic mishap in early arrest duties.
The lat. Professor Hussey accepted an invitation to chair a Arctic Tobacco League meeting. A large gathering greeted him as he opened with a story about a smoker friend and a lifelong reluctance to give up tobacco after an after-dinner cigar. The speech drew hearty applause.
Thirteen Hebrew or Yiddish newspapers circulate in New York with three issued daily.
A woman seated in the stalls wore a floral hat and refused to remove it. After rude remarks and a public rebuke from a gentleman who defended her, the hat was finally removed to clear the view of the stage.
A Salzburg burgomaster punished a wife convicted of abusing her husband by forcing her to stand in public for six hours daily for a week and direct a torrent of abuse at a straw effigy of her husband. An official whipped her for any silence, ensuring the sentence was carried out.
A humorous anecdote features Dr W G Grace recalling a servant Susan who enjoyed Madame Tussaud's but missed the Chamber of Horrors and a joke about a future outing with his wife.
Mr Thomas D Walsh of Pictou Nova Scotia reports that his wife lay bedridden for two years with kidney back pains and edema unresponsive to other remedies. After using Dr Chase's Kidney Liver Pills she could sit up, later do housework, and the couple credit the medicine with full recovery. One pill two doses twenty five cents per box from Edmanson Bates Co Limited Toronto.
A reader testimonial from Canada describes relief from nervous tension and digestive issues after switching from rich breakfasts to Grape-Nuts. The writer reports weight gain, improved appetite, and elimination of anxiety, crediting the cereal with restoring health.
A proud father, leaving to borrow scales, meets a rag dealer who weighs the newborn in a towel. The nurse calls out six pounds, the father frets, and the dealer jokes that the scales are off by about four pounds. He estimates the child weighs around ten pounds.
The account recounts George Clarke a celebrated aero minstrel facing a lawyer’s probing question about his occupation. Clarke admits minstrel work though he notes it surpasses his father’s calling and sparks laughter when the lawyer learns Clarke’s father was a lawyer.
The captain quizzes Private Murphy on why a soldier should be ready to die for his country and receives a hopeful, humorous reply. A separate note touts Dr J D Kellogg’s asthma remedy as a proven cure based on extensive testimonials. A shipwreck anecdote recalls a mariner’s harsh island ordeal and distant frontier violence near Czernowitz with bodies and guards across three territories.
A village rustic who did odd jobs for the blacksmith received leave for the next day. In the morning the boss saw him in Sunday attire walking from the church with a woman two paces behind him. The man jerked his thumb toward her and indicated her with a head movement as he muttered Got er.
A child questions propriety after a servant is dismissed for staying away. In Italy Nicola Cappelli of Pitigliano left directions in his will for wine poured over his coffin and two hectolitres shared at his funeral, with friends dancing around the tomb.
The plaintiff in a breach of promise suit recalls a witty exchange with a well known lawyer. She describes the defendant smoothing his hair and the promise being made amid laughter in the wash house. The piece recalls former Lord Chancellor duties as a doorkeeper admitting suitors to the King.
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