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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 09, 1930
Page
2
A reader quotes a column from The Valve World about gratitude and perspective. The piece presents life as richer or poorer by one’s viewpoint, urging daily acts of usefulness, gentleness, and cheer to build happiness. It advises rereading when life feels hard and to value what one has.
The Lake Placid Club rink features an 18 foot star outlined with 150 yellow bulbs and club initials in red and green bulbs frozen into the ice. The glowing display reflects through five inches of ice creating a spectacular sight. An octagonal nine story tower at Nanking once featured porcelain facing. If the world is a Stage the majority are scene shifters.
Sir Alfred Yarrow, famed shipbuilder now 88, contends he introduced the typewriter to Britain. He recalls Remington sending 12 machines in 1876, one dropped in the dock mud, later bought for a few shillings and cleaned. He hired a shorthand writer who could play piano to operate it.
Southern railway has secured stock in and arranged with Imperial Airways to maintain an air service. The agreement aims to avoid wasteful competition between rail and air transportation and signals coordinated transport plans.
City officials in London impose a prohibition on street advertising flags and banners. The rule targets public thoroughfares and aims to reduce visual clutter and safety concerns during demonstrations and events.
Canada leads with eight national parks totaling over 12 000 square miles set in the Rocky Mountains with Jasper Park as the largest at 4517 square miles. New Zealand’s Fiordland and Tongariro National Parks are among the world’s biggest with Fiordland featuring lakes sounds and The World’s Wonder Walk from Lake Te Anau to Milford Sound.
The Vatican mosaic workshops plan to sign over to the Roman Catholic University in Washington D C a copy of Murillo s Immaculate Conception valued at 25 000 The Rome studio is ancient and famed for patient master craftsmen who work from 27 000 color shades and thousands of heated glass pieces The mosaic may take from two to ten years to finish and some have required twenty years for completion
Mrs Leo Bedard of Quebec City credits Williams Pink Pills with lifting three years of weakness and pale health after childbirth. She took ten boxes, felt like a new woman, and urges others with watery blood or weak nerves to begin the tonic. Sold by dealers or sent by mail for 50 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
Sugar is distributed in Washington in liquid form via gravity pipes from refinery tanks to tank cars or trucks, then pumped to distributing tanks at the buyer’s plant. A high purity carbon enables production of a white syrup refined from raw material, matching granulated sugar quality.
The advertisement asserts Holloway's Corn Remover relieves many by its own power and promises effective relief from corn discomfort.
The article describes using common laundry soap for multiple tasks. It softens wood and prevents splitting when rubbed on nails, aids in applying stove blocking, and makes nails and window frames glide smoothly and stay clean during work.
Mrs Riccardton of Birchtown Quebec writes that after a life change she became nervous and run down. She credits Vegetable Compound Blood Medicine and Liver Pills with improving her nerves appetite and energy enabling her to perform home duties. She says she will answer letters from other women.
An advertisement claims Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil reduces inflammation and loosens phlegm for croup, sore throat, chest issues, earache, rheumatic pains, cuts, bruises and sprains. It is described as indispensable in many family medicine chests.
The text touts silk from Canadian spruce wood and large scale wood based paper and linen linoleum and dynamite products. It then promotes Miller’s Worm Powders as pleasant to take and effective for expelling intestinal worms with cleansing power, noting occasional vomiting in unsound stomachs but not indicating harm.
German women writers mark the 1000th birth anniversary of Hroeswitha of Gandersheim born to a Saxon noble family. She lived and died a nun at Gandersheim convent near Hamelin, the city tied to the Pied Piper tale.
The water works department in Saskatoon reports a net surplus for 1929 of 31717.59 compared with 18561.54 in 1928. Total revenue for the year was 214241.16.
The year 1929 saw fishing off Canada's Atlantic and Pacific coasts reach 1 024 221 000 pounds valued at 26 170 350 dollars. The data highlights strong industry activity across both oceans and underscores Canada’s maritime output.
Dialogue snippet shows a man declaring candid speech and a woman urging ongoing verbal participation during the evening. The exchange implies tension over communication in a social setting.
One hundred articles made by Eskimos and Indians of the Mackenzie River district have been donated by Miss Yvonne Sutherland and Miss Margaret Sutherland to the Strathcona Ethnological Museum at McGill University. The Forbes D. Sutherland collection preserves pre contact native art including hunting knives bone and horn needles bows arrows harpoons bone and horn fish hooks ivory canoe models skin money and other items used for subsistence and trade. The set also contains a Willow root fish net and three highly decorated native costumes.
The London Daily Herald reports a new British Antarctic expedition led by Commander Frank Worlsey, former skipper of the Endurance. It would be ambitious, potentially include aeroplanes, and cost about £25000, serving commercial and scientific aims.
An audacious German blackmailer sent a parcel with a carrier pigeon and note demanding money under threat. An airplane tracked the pigeon to a miner from a mine, enabling police to identify the sender’s house. The piece also notes Mayon as the Fujiyama of the Philippines.
An advertisement claims Catarrhozone soothes breathing passages fast. The vapor is inhaled to treat bronchitis catarrh colds and irritated throat and supposedly clears congestion within seconds.
Advertises Catarrhozone as eradicating disease traces with two months’ guaranteed treatment. It promises relief from nasal blockage headaches and buzzing ears. It lists prices of 1.00 for standard and 0.50 for smaller sizes at all dealers.
A new single day toll record for the Panama Canal was set on January 18 1930 with 86 665 collected from fourteen ships traveling Pacific to Atlantic. The Virginia of Panama Pacific Line led the list with 15 210 in tolls. The average toll per ship was 6 190 35. The prior one way record was 86 224 78 on December 8 1928 from twenty two ships traveling Atlantic to Pacific.
The Southern Alberta Beet Growers Association and Canadian Sugar Factories Limited plan 13 000 to 14 000 acres of sugar beets to be planted this spring at Raymond with a target of about 80 000 tons of beets to be sliced this fall.
Diamond Dyes claim top quality anilines for true bright colors on dresses and drapes. They promise even, no spotting dyes that resist wear and washing and say price is just 15e at drug stores.
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