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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1926
Page
6
Seymour and Ruth Duperow discuss a staged murder involving a stolen uniform and a single shot wound. The victim Bart Caswell, also known as Ruesel Seymour, was revealed as a disguised mining expert. A deputy sheriff and coroner, named as a chump, complicates the case.
Arnprior Ontario woman recounts years of fatigue anemia and severe menstrual pains. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she reports improvement and urges others to try it. Her mother also benefited from the remedy.
A Canadian sergeant investigates a murder scene after a fake Mountie, Bart Caswell, is killed near a trail. He follows boot and horse prints through brush, discovers a copper cartridge case, and notes the slain crook wore a mounted police uniform. Ruth Duperow remains at the scene as others converge on Bart’s body.
Seximour arrives at a tense gathering where wary troopers scrutinize him as a crime suspect. A stout man with a belt pistol presses questions in a sharp voice, while Seximour declines to reveal his earlier visit.
The South Devon Atmospheric Railway operated by air pressure used a pipe along the track with pumping stations every three miles to top up air. The Monklands and Kirkintilloch line started with a single truck and no engine, using wind filled umbrellas for propulsion, but the return journey required passengers to push the train back.
The Bible Society of Maine finished an all hand written Bible after nearly a year with more than 1600 contributors providing a page each and many others supplying maps and illustrations. Contributors span a millionaire and a pauper a merchant and a housewife a public man and a life prisoner from varied faiths. The volume will aid the society founded about 125 years ago in furthering its aims.
The Innerton loaded 274,500 bushels of rhea in 64 hours at Montreal, reportedly establishing a new world record for speed in bulk loading operations.
The British air transport service carried 15,000 passengers over the past year and reported only one fatality. The single loss is noted as a rare event in the otherwise safe operation of the service.
A Bulgarian farmer uncovered a marble tomb while plowing and revealed bronze armor, a shield, sword, spear, and an ornate vase. Curators Velkoff and Popoff date the find to the pre Alexandrine era suggesting a High status occupant from a Black Sea Greek colony. The helmet bears images of Apollo and Poseidon, with Zeus on an ear-piece. cremation is noted as the burial method.
An episode at the American Church Mission shows a destitute Chinese couple stranded by illness offering to sell their young son to fund their journey from Hankow to Nanking. Missionaries helped the family with care and funds, amid a flood of similar pleas. many sellers were girls.
A single shipment of eighteen thousand doors was completed by an Oregon lumber concern shipped to a company in England, illustrating a significant export move by the regional timber industry.
Albert Brown of Saskatchewan Tuxis boys camp at Algonquin Park earned the Burt McDonald general proficiency scholarship for all round camping ability after two months. He also received an Indian name, Apenindis, in the Order of Glichiahmek, the only boy in camp to do so. The award, donor Burt McDonald and director Taylor Statten attended the closing banquet as Brown qualified for 16 activity bars across swimming, canoeing, campcraft and more.
The American Meteorological Society passed a resolution endorsing a 13 month calendar advocated by Winnipeg pioneer J. W. Harris. His 1919 book outlines 13 months of four weeks with one extra day as a New Year holiday and an additional Leap Year Day. He proposes renaming months to first through thirteenth and keeping weekly names unchanged.
A reader seeks rapid thinning guidance. The reply suggests eating nothing or very little, and if comfortable, consuming only bulky vegetables such as cabbage, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, radishes, turnips, beets, squash, pumpkin, and string beans.
English seamen long held that a whale crossing the ship’s path foretold misfortune. The superstition tied to the sea’s mysteries reflected cautious navigation and reverence for marine forces.
The article notes that official records do not confirm a maximum hailstone size. It cites reports of stones weighing over a pound and even larger specimens. Examples include a Natal hailstorm in 1874 producing a stone weighing a pound and a half, and others in Australia and Spain.
When baby is ill and cries the remedy is Baby's Own Tablets a mild laxative that regulates bowels sweetens the stomach and drives out indigestion. The formula is free from opiates and narcotics and safe for newborns with beneficial results. Sold by medicine dealers or by mail for 25 cents a box from The S. Williams' Medicine Brockville Out.
Travancore, a major Malayali state in Southwest India, notes the death of Maharajah Rama Varma, a renowned English scholar and progressive ruler. He abstained from meals with his wife due to caste custom, avoided water after greeting foreigners, and had a 19 gun salute with two added as a personal compliment. The crown passes to his elder sister’s son, while his own son cannot inherit the title.
A historic note recalls that frozen men first came to civilized attention when Eskimos delivered frozen game in air tight cases to Harwich England in January 1816.
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