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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
2
In a tense dialogue, Hilda devises a plan to influence a country-bred woman to obtain a key document. Von Roon approves the scheme and they discuss using the Amaranth to reach Barthelemy. The plot hinges on manipulation and clandestine access.
Hilda Tressingham plans a plot to lure Letty Ellington into travel toward the Admiralty affair. Letty, bored with Mayfair life, awaits a new social opening while George Ellington sails with officials. Hilda sees a chance to manipulate Letty with a single message: Tonight.
Letty and Hilda plot a cultured evening inviting Letty to a discreet Bohemian supper club. Marcia and Mr Ellington’s travel, plus Letty’s reluctance, set the scene for a suggested outing that will reveal social tensions and hinted affairs. The plan includes dinner, theatre, or a music hall and a final supper club visit.
The article describes wartime efforts to save rags and old clothes for shoddy mills to relieve wool shortages. It cites Britain’s government urging national thrift with depots, sorting, and profits aiding Red Cross. it urges Canadians to adopt similar collecting, with emphasis on wool, cotton, and mixed fabrics.
Saskatoon chemist Dr. R D McLaurin urged straw gas as a new energy source at the Saskatoon Engineering Society. He argued for a 500 outfit, 7000 cubic feet of gas per ton of straw, and power potential seven times Niagara Falls, plus a recommended National Council funding and better mineral and fertilizer policies.
A lawyer recalls a client who could offer only a watch as asset, calling it the most outrageous fee she had seen. A witty rejoinder followed as the tale appeared in London Tit-Bits.
The piece notes a shift in household menus with economy puddings and economy meat pies gaining popularity in fashionable homes. Plain foods regain favor as postwar times influence dining choices.
Representatives from Dominion and provincial agriculture departments and prairie colleges met at Manitoba Agricultural College to discuss joint rust and plant disease studies. W P Fraser led rust work. planners expect extensive university, college, and experimental farm collaboration across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with greenhouse and lab studies and future details to follow. Winnipeg Free Press notes hospitable reception by President J B Reynolds.
The piece traces Manitoba’s transport evolution from Red River carts and Hudson Bay traders to Eastern homesteaders, long wagons and horse teams, westward migration from the South, then top buggies, rubber tires and finally the automobile. It frames trails as the province’s growth record linking settlement to modern roads.
The Harland and Wolff founder started earning three pence an hour. By 1851 in Glasgow his weekly wage reached five dollars with long shifts from six in the morning to eight fifteen in the evening.
Vernon Bartlett recalls stories of observation officers under fire in World War I. He describes spotting enemy digging from trenches, shells passing overhead, and men risking life to relay positions and call artillery. The narrative highlights the hazards and bravery of the eyes of the guns.
About 1,000 cadets and 3,000 mechanics in the Royal Flying Corps program in Canada will be moved to Texas as winter training continues. An additional 210 cadets and mechanics from the U S training camp in Seaside are also training in Texas under the Royal Flying Corps auspices.
Dialogue from a wartime newspaper column features Sandy and Laddie discussing religious operations and guidance during shelling, reflecting civilian wartime humor and concern about safety and location choices.
The article asserts the United States created an expansive espionage system after entering World War I to combat German agents. It notes federal detectives, expanded manpower, and widespread surveillance including waiters and taxi drivers, with more than 100000 operatives and taps on telephones, aiming to sever German information links in the hemisphere.
A caller laments that mocking stories about a mule and his hells reveal a cowardly streak. The remark frames a local feud of reputation and bravado, signaling tension between neighboring figures.
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