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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 08, 1931
Page
2
An 1931 outlook urges prairie growers to plan for seed, crops, and costs amid low wheat prices and global shortages. Farmers must decide acreage, seek clean seed, cut overhead, and possibly rely on personal effort rather than government aid to endure a hard season.
White hunters from Fort Smith contest Indian and mixed-heritage access to beaver trapping. At a recent protest meeting they claim denying whites the privilege is unfair while Indigenous and mixed-heritage people trap each season. The text also notes Hawaii’s islands atop a plateau far below sea level and ends with a proverb about gossip.
The Halifax Gazette is identified as Canada’s first newspaper born on a half sheet of foolscap. The text highlights how modern weekly editions expand to 60 to 100 pages, eight columns wide and 28 inches deep to inform the public.
A witty exchange shows Lemuel teased about buying a new car and Samuel warning about traffic. The dialogue playfully contrasts impulsive purchase talk with cautious driving cautions as the humor turns on everyday road mishaps.
Mrs. Wm. Diotte of Glensandfield Ontario recalls suffering heart trouble and weakness. After hearing a friend’s success with Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills she used two boxes and regained strength. She now recommends the remedy and notes it is sold at general stores or by mail from The Milburn Co. Toronto.
The article extols carbon as the world’s most wonderful substance noting forms from soot to diamonds. It explains carbon enables atom families to form substances like petrol medicines bread and meat and underpins life itself. It calls carbon the foundation stone of all life and highlights its unique electron count.
After eating distress gas sourness and bleating Bisulated Magnesia offers quick neutralizing relief. Relief is certain and gratifying with the first dose and lasts a long time for a few cents from any good druggist.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics notes Canada ran a favorable trade balance with six European countries in 1930 Denmark Norway Greece Netherlands Italy and Belgium Japan and China bought more from Canada than they sold Greek purchases valued at 6.651 million with exports of 234 thousand led the spread Argentine Brazil and Cuba also provided a favorable balance.
An advertisement proclaims Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy as the superior and unchanging cure for asthma. It urges sufferers not to endure attacks and to obtain the remedy today, claiming ever growing sales and proven relief.
An AT T engineers study in New York on business call circuits found that 20 simple words dominated 79 390 words recorded. Pronouns prepositions conjunctions and a few verbs formed nearly half the speech, with 155 words making up over 20 percent of the total. Shifts in usage included rare “shall” and frequent “yeah” “uh huh” and “er” as grunts. Quick action saves trouble.
A London department store handed out 2.5 million dollars in orders to wholesale houses in a single day and published large newspaper ads inviting the public to buy the lot in a week, aiming to spur trade.
The total highway mileage open for traffic in Canada at end of 1929 reached 390 060 miles, up 8 083 miles for the year. A fountain pen designed for dark writing is fitted with a small flashlight.
Dino Grandi told the Italian Chamber that disarmament of land and air forces could follow the Italo French naval accord and that a general disarmament conference in 1932 may adopt similar measures. He emphasized reducing armaments to the lowest limit with parity to Europe’s strongest power.
A Nova Scotia storm switched Saber Island's freshwater lake to salt as seas eroded a ten foot high wall of earth and trees. The mile long lake, once a fishermen’s ice rink, now rises with the tides and allows large vessels to enter at high tide. An island resident recalls 85 years without salt intrusion.
English engineer M. Thompson, who escaped a Russian prison after being held by the O.G.P.U., was found dead under a car aboard the Moscow Warsaw express near Warsaw. He claimed to have been imprisoned in Tomsk after factory work in Russia and escaped by walking and traveling beneath trains with help from the Polish capital.
A German scientist develops a non breakable mirror made from wood. The process soaks timber in caustic alkali then immerses it in metals and chemicals, dries it, and is polished with a smooth lead tin or zinc surface to produce a brilliant reflective finish.
An ad describes Persian Balm as a delicate fragrant skin aid that absorbs quickly, leaves no stickiness, and soothes roughness from wind. It promises a velvety complexion and soft hands, claiming essential feminine charm, while noting Americans eat about 18 pounds of tomatoes yearly in reference to bottled and canned varieties.
The will of Albert E. Pillsbury seeks lectureships to study women’s roles in home life politics and business. Harvard, Princeton, Columbia have refused with Yale likely to follow, citing donor views and lack of student interest. Possible redirect to women’s colleges on voting literacy.
The Saskatchewan Poultry Pool Limited reports a nine percent increase in product volume for the year ended January 31 1931, with 2418 new contracts. President Mrs Bertha Holmes submitted the annual meeting report noting higher membership and growth. A British scientist cites up to 50000 living mollusc species known.
A note suggests using a more liberal dose of Castoria for babies with colic, claiming it is better for growing children than strong medicine intended for adults. The statement reflects historical dosing beliefs and parental care practices.
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