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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1909
Page
6
Fred Anglin confesses his love at a Pilgrim's Pond skating party and learns his intended beloved is actually Geraldine’s twin Gerla in disguise. Geraldine grades the moment as a mix up, and Anglin anticipates the correct betrothal with Tom Beresford’s support.
A Westminster Review tale says William Pitt relaxed at his country house as a playful youth with friends. Lords Hawkesbury and Castlereagh arrived on important business. Pitt, after a brief pause, returned in stern dignity and dismissed them with measured froideur.
The Bombay Gazette tells of a large monkey plague at a northwest India station where monkeys looted grain from wagons. To stop them, officials fed sweets on the roofs to lure the colony, then secretly attached an engine. The train moved off and the trained monkeys fled into the jungle, never to return.
The article outlines three methods for teaching horses to jump: ground work with a rider guiding over small hurdles, lunging with a cord at the bit to keep the horse moving over a hurdle or shallow ditch, and driving with long reins and a light whip to encourage jumping. It notes gradual height increases and stresses safe progressive training for various horse types.
Chesterton humorously contrasts morality ethics and ethology in marital behavior. He notes a wife sending a drunken husband to bed or Coventry and suggests different societal responses. The piece plays on theoretical approaches to human behavior with a wry Victorian tone.
The pastor and his wife discuss a widow with a lively boy on their way home. The pastor praises her intelligence while the wife notes she is strongly negative, remarking that she always says Don't, Johnny to her son.
A gardener recounts how flowers seemed to respond to human suffering. He prayed all night as his employer lay ill, and the flowers on his sill drooped then revived. The same occurred with flowers sent to the patient, who improved as the blooms revived.
A humorous exchange between a wife and husband ponders the fate of missing pins. She laments not finding a pion while he muses that pins vanish as they are always pointed in one direction and headed elsewhere.
A humorous Yonkers Statesman snippet describes a child playing with toy soldiers when a dog intrudes, insisting on licking the entire army. The exchange captures a playful domestic moment in a local newspaper blurb.
A concise proverb highlights the value of rest in farming and life. The saying attributes wisdom to Ovid and links peaceful rest to a fruitful harvest.
The Duke of Greften, aged eighty eight, long known at Court, said during a luncheon at the Kettering Agricultural Show that he had broken a vow never to enter a motor-car. He noted he was in his eighty fourth year when the remark was made.
Overview of costiveness with dull intestine symptoms and dangers. Advises immediate treatment using Par melee’s Vegetable Pills and asserts quick, noticeable improvement once started.
A Washington Star quotation frames a parent son exchange contrasting past hardship with modern youth. The stern parent recalls his era of labor while the youth deflects by noting his ongoing repudiation of his grandfather’s stance.
If every housekeeper used Wil son Fly Pads freely during the summer months the house fly peril would quickly become a thing of the past.
A playful exchange notes Mrs Styles asking for a leg of mutton while the butcher replies to send it from a black sheep, mentioning they are in mourning and referencing the Jewish Ledger.
A humorous Life magazine snippet notes an old hotel clerk asking guests to sign a register while one guest refuses to sign without reading. The exchange highlights wit and social customs in lodging houses.
Advertises Holloway's Corn Cure as a painless remedy to eradicate soft corns despite warnings that old fools are more foolish than young ones.
At London's Strand Theatre during A Chinese Honeymoon, Miss Madge Temple fell ill and a doctor sent tabloids to her backstage. A dresser tripped and shattered a tabloid. The doctor feared poison but confirmed the correct tabs had been sent, avoiding a fatal error.
The piece argues Milton’s early verse echoes a dying Merry England, likening England to Samson without hair. It reflects on Milton as both slayer and slain, pondering the unseen visions that drove him and left him spiritually frozen.
The Washington Star reports infantry officers urge trimming equipment weight to 60 pounds, including rifle and ammo, with remaining gear moved to wagons. A Rock Island arsenal board will test samples and a battalion may be sent for field trials, spanning several months.
A condensed review traces Antarctic exploration from Ortelius to Shackleton. It notes early myths, Cook’s doubts, Palmer’s 1820 sealing, Wilkes’ expeditions, and later work by Carpenter Murray Drygalski Bruce Gerlache Charcot Larsen and Scott shaping modern limits from Victoria to Palmer Land across the pole.
The dulcitone of Thomas Machel of Glasgow uses a piano like keyboard with forks as the sound source. Steel forks strike to produce tones via a semicircular spring to the sounding board. It is lighter and portable, needing no tuning, and suitable for solo work or accompanying voices or instruments.
A Sixth Avenue restaurant reports clams just in from the water are so good the longtime Irish waiters are eating them themselves. A well known patron asked what was best and was told of the fresh clams, noted with a wink by the serving staff.
Vegetation slowly returns to Mont Pelee area once covered by 1902 eruption. Indigo and castor oil plants along with sensitive plants guinea ferns and silver ferns spread over ground. Roots survive hot ash and penetrate crust as animal trampling and water erode lava forming a new soil layer.
A fire in England saw a firefighter survive after a brass helmet saved him from falling glass. Fourteen tons of glass showered down twice, burying him to the shoulders. He spent four months in hospital and months more shedding glass from his body, yet remained one of the best men on his team.
The mescal button from a cactus, used as a narcotic among Kiowa Ponca Omahas and Sioux, spreads northward via missionary efforts. Clubs form for social use with chewing and tea, producing blissful lassitude and peace and removing the desire for alcohol, as reported by Hampton Institute Southern Workman.
The Missouri forests occupy 70 000 square miles and risk destruction without forethought. Deforestation raises floods and harms climate, reducing soil fertility for farmers. Over ten years forest cover dropped from 41 000 to 27 000 square miles while yearly lumber output remains about 600 million feet.
Cable messages from St Petersburg describe cholera spreading in Russia with cor respondent letters to London papers. A writer cites dirt and indifference among outlying Neva districts, cholera bacilli in canals, unboiled drinking water, and refusal to use disinfectants, predicting continued cholera until water is purified.
A Louisville Courier-Journal quote captures a curt exchange about engagement and shifting affections as the man laments happiness amid his partner's pursuits in rowing tennis horses golf and dogs. The dialogue hints at the strain between romance and social activity.
Relief for the low in spirits claims a deranged stomach and liver dampen mood. The ad touts Parmelee's Vegetable Pills as reviving digestion, benefiting nerves, and lifting spirits with cheap, simple, lasting effects.
A brief note reflects Crabbe's amusement at hearing a neighbor's piano, followed by a remark about hiring and removal action. Musical America is cited as the source.
An old newspaper ad highlights Murine Marine Eye Remedy for red irritated eyes and eye strain. It cites a NYC census showing 17 928 children needing eye care and urges Druggists to sell Murine at 50 cents with free eye books from The Marine Eye Remedy Co Chicago.
A neighbor notes the baby causes Mrs Torkins great worry. She explains that each cry signals illness, while any quiet moment triggers fear of the child being unconscious. The exchange reveals household distress.
An ad copy notes Wilson's Fly Pada is available at druggists grocers and general stores. It mentions an Insurance Agent asking if the insured has a weak heart and an exchange about watching a long ball game ending 1 to 1 in fifteen innings.
Advertisement copy discusses Minard's Liniment claimed to cure distemper with quips about love and spending on cigars. The text includes a Bohemian Magazine quotation about mutual affection and restraint in spending.
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