How Our Prairie Towns and Villages Came Into Being
The piece recounts Hamiota Manitoba’s origins from a pioneer stopping place to a incorporated village. It covers railway arrival in 1891, early stores and homes, social life from dances to ice carnivals, and gradual growth including a post office, hotel, sidewalks, school, gas and electric lighting, a hospital, and a local newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairies
Hamiota
Manitoba
Women's Institute
Government of
Canada
Prairie Provinces
British Isles
Europe
Winnipeg
Hamilton
Birtle
Rapid City
Brandon
Ontario
Hamilton Tepees
Hamiodta
Great Northwest Central
Chater
George Elliott
Elliott
Stock Exchange of Butter and Eggs
Colin MacMurahy
Pye
Cora Hind
McConnell
Fraser
Chambers
Park
Whyte
Venables
Pie mixup would have cost $125 in Hagerstown
In Hagerstown Maryland Mrs Ralph Saladini found a stack of $125 bills in an oven after noticing a peculiar odor from the oven and realized her husband had placed the money there for safekeeping and forgot to tell her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hagerstown
Ralph Saladini
Is it a bus or a truck in Ellendale North Dakota
John Bell fashions a 25 passenger bus by mounting a bus body on a truck chassis to carry his 16 children and parents. Two license applications were denied under state law that a bus be licensed as a bus not a truck. Bell jokes the family uses it for joy rides. The Bells, married in 1924, have 16 children with one deceased and another killed in a tractor accident.
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Ellendale
N.D
John Bell
Bell
North Dakota
Bismarck
Copy Of Weekly Paper Serves As Passport to Canada
In Wheaton Minnesota a Gazette issue published by William B. Sweetland helped Carl Swedberg gain entry to Canada. He lacked a passport and citizenship papers but the paper listed him as former mayor, leading officials to grant citizenship rights on the basis that aliens cannot hold U.S. public office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Wheaton, Minn
Wheaton Gazette
Willian B. Sweetland
Carl Swedberg
Swedberg
Wheaton
United States
River Altered by Engineers Near Lethbridge
Engineers removed a section of the St Mary river dyke and an elbow to shorten the river bend helping the St Mary River dam project. The $20 million irrigation work aims to irrigate 513000 acres of farmland with a 200 foot high dam forming a large reservoir.
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Lethbridge
Alta
Alberta
St. Mary
St. Mary-Milk
St. Mary River
Canada
City orders newsboys to quiet cries
Municipal government gag orders newsboys complaining their cries exaggerated headlines. Authorities say loud shouting rattles a nervous population. Early spoons described as sometimes a mere chip or splinter of wood.
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Peiping
Inland Clams Found Near Minot North Dakota
Clam shells four to five inches long were found by well diggers at a depth of 50 feet inland near Minot North Dakota about 65 miles from the geographic center of North America.
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Minot
N.D
North America
British Aluminum Ship and Historic Finds Highlight World Happenings
Britain launches its first aluminum ship, an experimental motor torpedo boat, while a 1500 B C flint arrowhead is found near Hastings. Other items note Queen Mary purser retired after 37 ships, Costessey cemetery funds, a Norfolk family emigrates to Australia, a Cardiff choir for Princess Elizabeth, Queen Wilhelmina abdication schedule, POW marriages policy, and India ordering 100 locomotives.
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Britain
Fairlight
Hastings
England
Johnson
Cunard
Crossword Puzzle Clues Darken the Page
A compact crossword list with numbered clues across and down including maritime terms and personal names. Entries hint at classic puzzle answers such as Welsh myth figure wife of Geraint and a Scandinavian goddess along with common words like seed covering and reptile compounds.
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Hector Ford
Dominion Department of Agriculture
Fraser Valley
B.C
University of British Columbia
By Jane Dale
BY William Ferguson
Chuma
The
Cope
Little
Rhode Island
Newport and
Providence
Pat
Florida
California
Costessey
Norfolk
Sydney
Australia
Elizabeth
Cardiff
Official
Wilhelmina
Juliana
War Office
India
Montreal
Kingston
Ont
Vertica
Geraint
Peninsula
Yellow Sea
Brazil
New York
Sweetheart
Persia
Balkan
Mediterranean
Inner Mongolian
Mediterranean Island
Margarita
Little Reggie
Reginald
Prisci
You Krow
al Vermeer
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