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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1901
Page
1
A vivid pitch extols life insurance as protection for widows or orphans and a means to honor the family. It praises North American Life as a modern, reliable company offering plans claimed to be best in the world and designed to preserve cash value for dependents.
The notice lists various dried fruits with prices per pound. Sultana Raisins at 10 cents, Table Figs at 15 cents and 2 cents per pound, Choice Cooking Figs at 10 cents, Chinese Candied Figs in one pound boxes at 25 cents, and assorted fruits such as Apricots Plums Peaches Pears Silver Prunes Nectarines at 15 cents per pound.
With cold weather, the town faces wood and coal scarcity. Wood dealer Geo McKague traveled to Winnipeg to arrange shipments from Dauphin via Canadian Northern and Canadian Pacific. He reports only eight freight cars arrived against a promised ten per week, warns if railways do not supply quickly, fuel for citizens and farmers will run out.
The item highlights Winnipeg bound students Wm Short and Walter Smyth joining Wesley College and a Manitoba education trip. It notes Maplewood school winning a prize for best kept yard, a Sunday school institute with Supt Irwin, a Scottish Concert Company show, Oak River bachelors planning a dance, and Hector the Black Knight lecture scheduled for December.
The new English church here will be opened on Sunday December 22. The ceremony will mark the community's first services in the building and will be attended by local residents and church leaders.
A series of local notes reports A W Lief securing evergreen decorations for the Xmas tree. Several residents face ailments and travels while the community prepares for the Dec 20 entertainment. The piece also notes crop reports from the Territories and Manitoba with cautious optimism about yields.
The Nor'West Farmer reports Manitoba Ontario and western territories crop yields from November includes Manitoba oats barley wheat flax and other regions. Averages show wheat around 23.76 to 30.29 bushels per acre with oats and barley values varying by region. August Manitoba bulletin had higher wheat and lower barley.
Wheat prices listed for No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 and 3 hard and tough grades. Also shows quotes for oats butter eggs hay potatoes flour bran shorts chop and other items per ton or per hundredweight. Text fragment lacks clear dates or full figures.
Several notices report births in early November and December. J G Stewart's wife in Hamiota has a daughter, F Coombes in Hamiota welcomes a daughter, and J J Cochrane of Hamiota ties with Mary Ann English Palmer. Arthur Palmer to Catherine Brown are listed in Hamiota notices.
Dr W Prowse specialist in diseases of the eye ear nose and throat with office and residence at 180 Donald Street Winnipeg. He offers consultations and treatments for ocular and ENT conditions and provides professional services in a central location.
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