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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 21, 1911
Page
3
Like bkedhound on the trail, Herrick Rhomes, the celebrated detective, in his dreaming gown and straw hat, ambles along the road. Two chickens lie dead in a heavy sea as he and a companion stumble to their feet and notice a motorcar on the high road. Johnson exclaims, remarking on Rhomes’s odd behavior and calling him a tomfool.
Snippets discuss Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a horse and cattle remedy and family medicine, touting its effectiveness for colic and throat irritations. Also appears a quoted exchange on operations and Europe travel, with a Baltimore American reference and a note on a sore throat remedy using Hemiin’s Wizard Oil. A Puck quote questions rising tuition at a learning institution.
An old advertisement offers a $100 reward for an incurable catarrh cure and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials and dosage claims. The text includes unrelated dialog about mining and a misquoted “Rastus” line, reflecting garbled OCR from a historical page.
A humorous fragment describes a boy named Bert washing his head carefully. His mother interrupts asking what he’s doing to which he replies he is washing the rips on his heads. A dentist mends the mix up with a terse reply and arrives.
A House member remarked on Water L. Fisher's appearance upon his arrival to succeed Richard A. Ballinger as secretary of the interior. The comment noted an unusually long chin and strong jaw and suggested he would need them for the role, with an aside about ward knocks.
J T Stirrett argues that Winnipeg and Toronto oarsmen sweep American events, winning senior and junior sculls and eights at Duluth and Philadelphia. He notes Canadian physiques and training give them edge, while U S crews struggle to the finish. He compares Henley outcomes and questions American athletes' endurance.
A peculiar Toronto funeral for Mrs. William Mafino, Naples born wife of a Dundee Street contractor, occurred without a minister. A Protestant husband requested no clergy, music played by a hired band, and the casket buried with the sea sinking as mourners moved from Dundee to Avenue Road.
The Nova Scotia Historical Society unveiled a plaque before a Hollis Street tailor’s building commemorating a Wolfe era plan and a Louisburg Quebec attempt. Lieut. Col. Dennis of the Royal Canadian Regiment spoke on the anniversary, noting the marker testifies to early colonial sieges and the region’s patriotism.
A Boston Transcript excerpt presents a humorous dialogue where a father corrects his son on mythology and the meaning of equinox while a mother quips about bachelors. The exchange turns to anatomy and ships as metaphors, ending with a bedtime dismissal.
The 1900s tour of the King and Queen in Ireland drew extraordinary warmth, with royal events and a noted mix up as a shopkeeper knighted by error. A four year old presented Queen Alexandra with a bouquet to a tall general, who blushed as the Queen softly reassured all.
The report describes three elephants brought from Africa that were killed after rats gnawed through the wooden floor they stood on. The animals died from fright rather than pain, with mention of prior incidents in England including hippo Guy Fawkes and notes from Frank Buckland.
A Victorian style note on a Hebrew proverb about dining with a ruler. Boswell records a modern paraphrase from Dr. Johnson’s biographer, describing a rich host whose extravagant hospitality tempts guests to bite their tongues to restrain themselves.
The Pitch Lake in Trinidad covering about 100 acres produced more asphalt in 1910 than any prior year. At the current rate, surface levels fall about six inches annually and the central depth of the asphalt deposit remains unknown. A separate incident reports a creaking train near Bald Knob Arkansas where the conductor sought string after the engine broke.
A man tests a fountain pen in a store while a young saleswoman suggests a different stub. He writes “tempus mei” across pages. She hints, “Perhaps you’d like one of these stubs, better.”
A report describes dogs used as beasts of burden in Holland. Working from puppyhood, they haul carts and vegetables under heavy loads while owners smoke pipes. The piece notes legal limits inside towns but portrays the hardship and patient, long-suffering dogs.
A brief quip from the Boston Transcript frames a domestic dispute over darning versus knitting. Gibbs jokes that his wife knits her brows when asked to darn stockings, highlighting playful marital banter in a period newspaper tone.
A Greenock seaman lacks discharge papers and is passed over for a younger man. The captain later struggles to assemble qualified crew and hires the Greenock man. On voyage day one the rival drops overboard and the old sailor calmly asks the captain what happened to the papers.
A quirky quotation from the Atchison Kansas Globe notes that love people are unreliable, a child’s view of a policeman’s star is a half acre at sunset, and sunrise can be deadly. It compares the airplane’s hurry with the chance of stopping, and remarks on poor marksmen in a brigade at target practice on a cuspidor.
A Philadelphia despatch recalled a New York fire at Herald Square Theatre during a midnight performance two years prior. The headline was corrected from Three Twins burned out to Two Twins burned out, printed by mistake.
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