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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 31, 1912
Page
7
Two brothers, Ned and Fred, reunited in their city, plot to swap identities to win their loves. Fred woos Isabel with a dramatic confession while Ned observes and assists, but the ruse collapses when Isabel discovers the deception. Both brothers face consequences as the practical plan falls apart.
William Cobbett, famed English statesman, met his future wife in Halifax Nova Scotia as she worked at a wash tub. He declared her the wife for him and pursued marriage despite long sea distance. She had once thought herself rich on 25 dollars a year.
The Alberta Woman's Association, a leading western province group, includes nearly all female university graduates and spouses of professors and governors. Formed six months ago to promote higher education, they back the billboard campaign of the City Planning Commission and support stricter bylaws.
A discussion on Cockney language notes that London County Council sought to curb the dialect in schools, while Mackenzie MacBride argues Cockney is an ancient, honorable form tied to centuries of speech in London Kent and Surrey. The piece suggests Cockney has survived amid more cultured speech.
A fragment discusses why the nine of diamonds is called the curse of Scotland. It cites a Seoted member of Parliament linked to a family arms and malt tax voting, and mentions George Campbell accused of stealing nine diamonds from the royal crown during Mary Stuart’s reign, prompting taxes.
A friend arrives to dine with Sir Isaac Newton but finds him absorbed in thought. Dinner is served to one, and Newton, upon noticing the empty dishes, mutters about a horn that he had yet to endure, revealing a quirky lapse in attention.
A London lodging-house encounter with The Finder in W H Davies’s The True Traveler details a man who roams streets after losses and inventories a locker full of found valuables. He gathers pens, a gold pencil case, jewelry, a silver cross, purses, a parasol, a cane, and books, with total value over 500 dollars. He avoids selling items and maintains a beggar appearance to stay unnoticed.
The Tiber water yields bronze armaments and statues from imperial palaces. From Lake Newmi near Rome divers recover antiquities once submerged for preservation or mischief. Legends say Attila hid his treasure beneath the river.
Two English soldiers plan a playful prank on a comrade from Irishtown by chalking a donkey head on his coat. The wounded moment comes when Mike, seeing the mark, asks the Enogusamen which of them wiped his face on it, in a moment of confused humor.
A jurist recalls Missing the barrister’s witty reply in a donkey theft case. The prosecutor asked if the donkey was stolen from the gate, and the witness answered with a sly flourish that the ass was missing, highlighting witty courtroom banter.
The English judge Lushington who died recently left an estate near 100000 dollars and failed to properly attested his will and a codicil. The lapse may trigger litigation benefiting his professional colleagues.
The article recounts a duel between Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore Barron following a court martial and suspension over duty aboard the Chesapeake. They fought at Bladensburg on March 22, 1820, both mortally wounded. Decatur died that night, Barrow survived until 1851.
E J Sjostedt a Swedish geologist long active in Canada and the copper districts of Lake Superior perished in the Titanic disaster. He had been aiding Norway and Sweden investigations for the Department of Mines and was returning home when the ship sank.
Ranchers in the Buikley valley were selling their eggs this spring for 1.50 a dozen. The report notes higher prices due to market demand and supply pressures affecting local poultry producers.
The article notes that savages with full hair are not protected by bare heads and that sun exposure harms hair and health. It cites Gottheil via Medical Record on sun rays causing irritability, nervous cardiac issues, and skin lesions, while warning a hatband may also affect head circulation.
A dining party mocks a German superstition about knocking on wood to ward off envy. After one man raps three times, a waiter appears with three beers, seemingly understanding the ritual. The anecdote ends with the waiter delivering the drinks.
Chiia's Bank ranks among London's oldest private banks. The Fleet Street site, once a goldsmith shop, reportedly became a bank under Sir Francis Child. Locally the front is called the shop and the back the counting house. A tradition keeps three junior partners and two salaried partners sleeping on site in rotation.
A school keeper elected to a southern state legislature years ago rejected a bribery offer. He had been asked to vote on a key measure for a thousand dollars and, after opposition offered two thousand, refused, stating no one is a gentleman who sells out twice on one proposition.
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