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Newspaper
Hamiota Herald
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 12, 1902
Page
2
In a tense departure from decorum Mollie Dane reveals a brutal conspiracy within the Walraven household. She explains a forced marriage and a plot involving Mrs. Blanche Oleander and her cousin, as guardian Sir Roger Trajenna wrestles with shock and possible separation.
The fate of Andre the Swedish aeronaut who vanished near the North Pole is deemed hopeless with no further information expected from North America. Hudson's Bay Company officers, asked by the Swedish consulate to search, report no new details, though an Eskimo tale of a white-maned balloon and three armed men was investigated at Fort Churchill. An Arctic Huskie searcher failed to locate the scene or band, and the matter was forwarded to British authorities as a nonproductive mystery. The text ends noting dates for the Fort Saskatchewan Agricultural Association exhibition on August 14–14.
Market notes report dull Manitoba wheat trading with limited transportation hindering activity. Week saw little change. prices ended firmer after midweek gains. No. 1 northern 70 to 4c, 2 northern 67 to 68c in Fort William Port Arthur. various grains and commodities follow with mixed, mostly steady or declining prices across flour, millfeed, oats, barley, hay, meats, butter, cheese, poultry, eggs, game, potatoes, and hides in Winnipeg market context.
In Osivr Saskatchewan every lot in the townsite has been sold by the proprietors. A big boom is anticipated to occur this summer as development accelerates.
The town of Lethbridge announces a free tree grant to households along the irrigation ditch who commit to planting and protecting the trees. Residents receive saplings at no cost and must agree to care for them.
Prime beef cattle scarce at 444¢ per pound. Yearling stockers $14–$16 and two year olds $18–$20. Hog prices weakening with new lows for choice packing hogs delivered to Winnipeg. Mutton movement flat as butchers hold ample frozen supply. Milk cows in demand with prices $85–$95 each. Horses in poor supply drive high prices and poor quality across Ontario and the U.S.
In lower Senegal a giant baobab trunk measures seventy five feet around. Its fruit called monkey bread is used to curdle milk and treat ailments. Leaves bark gum and root are utilized for medicine cords and salves and the bark yields edible fiber. Also notes a home sandbag to retain heat.
A mother and daughter discuss odd slang linking nany 60 called kid gloves to monkey skins. The scene shifts as the young woman watches her little brother hanging from a shale tree limb, noting a remark about masks and tid in a local slang passage.
Amos Garner, a hard but respected Baltimore merchant, listens as Dunham Greer and a remorseful young employee John Leathcote explain embezzlement tied to bucket shop losses. Garner forgives the theft, requires repayment from weekly wages, and offers future support and a possible position.
A curious searcher notes that athletic women are not a modern product and describes their presence in earlier times, challenging the common belief. The piece discusses games and practices from the past, implying widespread participation in competitive female sports.
In the era of King Genre II the Lae dive of the ewort raced at regular Tonet meetings with both lady and gentleman jockeys. A series of women's races in Hyde Park drew high bets and public interest until an old man influenced the government to deem them unseemly, ending the events suddenly and to London's regret.
Willie laments lack of praise for simple happiness as his mother questions his unhappiness. The dialogue fragment explores expectations placed on Willie and the pressure to perform.
A diner confronts a waiter asking why an ill bred customer is allowed to dine in the cafe. The waiter responds with a stutter indicating the proprietor owns the cafe. The exchange appears in the Chicago newspaper’s society or humor column.
Relieve the story false that ought not to be true. Sheridan. Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. No man was ever so much deceived by another, as by himself. An artist's work is finished when he draws his last breath. Nothing succeeds the success, or has so much knocking against it. True dignity is never gained by place, and never test when honors are withdrawn. Tale bearers have done more mischief in the world than poisoned bowl or assassin's dagger. The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment.
The text notes Admiral Sir Charles Squadrers aided General Wolfe in the 1759 Quebec campaign. It highlights his Scottish heritage and prior service under Anson. It credits his squadron command for Quebec’s capture, praises his bombardment and fireship evasion, and records his 1766 appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty and his death in December 1775.
A crowded car scene unfolds as a gentleman plans to give his seat to a standing lady but a colored man slips into the seat. The riser retorts he was giving the seat to the lady. The man then bows and the lady takes her seat amid smiles.
The article presents a home remedy labeled the New York Sun mixture. It instructs mixing equal parts tincture of Cayenne opium rhubarb essence of peppermint and camphor spirits then taking fifteen to thirty drops in water every fifteen minutes until relief. The warning notes the remedy in view of a possible cholera visitant to America.
A Paris specialist describes a novel test for deafness using a vibrating tuning fork applied to the knee or other bone. If the ear is healthy the sound cannot be heard, but when the ear is diseased the note is heard clearly, offering a potential diagnostic method.
The instructions advise washing hands in tepid water until clean, then rubbing with an equal mix of glycerine and lemon juice before drying. After drying, wash again with cold water and soap, keeping hands in water briefly, then dry and powder with oat.
The Philadelphia Record notes a speaker taunts Pat's Capabilities and the Contractor at as slow workers. A tirade describes delays as a man spends an hour carrying bricks and a sauna worker delays the pavement project.
Dialogue shows Hicks asking about spousal arguments and Wicks replying that attempts to argue are dismissed as unfounded insertions in reply. The tone hints at strained communication within a domestic context.
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