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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 26, 1928
Page
2
A royal proclamation designates April 22 to 28 as Canadian Forest Week highlighting forests as Canada’s key wealth. It urges protection of timber, water power, soils, agriculture, wildlife, tourism, and irrigation, warning against fire and wasteful logging as threats.
The Outlook reports Tibetan women have multiple husbands and a male reaction. Amouki leads about five hundred men in a march to Lhassa with banners denouncing female supremacy and polyandry. Outcome unknown as they have not returned home.
The Saskatchewan Government outlines a community school scheme to teach adult European immigrants essential language, Canadian history, civic ideals, and agricultural methods to integrate them into Canadian life.
There are between five and six million acres of leased range lands in Saskatchewan and Alberta. This figure highlights extensive grazing rights across Western Canada and the scale of range use in the prairies.
National advertisers spent 225 million dollars on newspaper advertising in 1927, the bureau of advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association reports. About 355 companies spent 122.5 million dollars, led by 57 automobile concerns at 33.505 million. Food advertisers totaled 24.045 million and tobacco firms 15.26 million.
The advertisement claims external use by brisk rubbing opens pores and penetrates tissue to relieve trouble. It also suggests internal use reduces throat irritation and soothes bronchial and respiratory issues, urging readers to try it and be convinced.
Tests with special instruments and bright lights show that about one in ten race horses has defective sight. Racers wore irregular spectacles and quarter mile times improved by up to three seconds. Numerous trials with and without glasses confirm sight affects a horse's speed.
A traditional Turkish value centers on caring for every resident of the country. This belief reinforces social solidarity, community support, and public service across regions and generations.
Immigrants are urged that the Canadian prairie offers wealth through fertile wheat lands and abundant cattle. Prosperity is portrayed with modern comforts and devices in wide reach for those with tenacity to work, as described in Wide World Magazine.
An old advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a year round blood builder and nerve tonic especially useful in spring. It claims the medicine supplies new red blood and renewed energy, aiding those who feel tired, pale, or run down. A testimonial from A Marcotte of North Ham Que endorses improved health after use. Pills available for 50 cents a box from The Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
W S Woods reports 65 percent of land settlers in the Calgary District have paid up to June 30 1928 with over 513000 collected of 765000 due. Board holds security on wheat pool assignments for deferred payments covering over 200000 bushels of wheat. Officials consider this a strong showing. A French astronomer predicts the sun will provide heat and light for 150 million years.
A compact aphorism notes that every man knows someone smarter, yet often resists admitting it. The line reframes pride as self awareness, pairing a universal remark with understated humor about intellect and ego.
Lord Grey of Fallodon opened a new institute in Leeds a training centre for the blind and paid tribute to Prince Lichnowsky as a great peace advocate. He recalled Lichnowsky's efforts in 1912 and 1914 to avert war and urged leaders to seek peace in future crises. The piece notes wartime reflections and ends with an advertisement for Miller's Worm Powders.
The Earl of Elgin spoke at Victoria Hall Helensburgh and urged Scotland to adopt Canada’s hospital model. He described a single large hospital with private wings for paying patients and non paying patients admitted in the same building, ensuring access to top doctors and modern equipment for all.
A bold claim travels from advertising pages as Holloway's Corn Remover is pitched as removing corn roots completely. Consumers are urged to try it and report results, with testimonials backing the product’s claimed efficacy.
The text explains that a single drop of blood completes its circuit from the heart to every part of the body and back in roughly thirty seconds, illustrating the rapidity of circulation and the efficiency of the cardiovascular system.
Colonel Bishop VC was guest of honor of German aces in Berlin. He spoke of aviators greeting him as a Canadian who shot down 72 German planes. Udet proposed his admission to the German Ace Association and Bishop joked about crashing more British planes.
A report from J Forsyth Smith states Canada will require retail and container marks on imported apples under the British Mercantile Marks Act. The change will distinguish Canadian fruit from other apples in British commerce.
Fred T. Roberts Jr, at age twelve, is among the nation’s youngest inventors. He has earned seven patents, including a device to raise cars without placing a jack under the axle. The tool uses a 19 inch bar and a clip over a spring to position the jack.
The British prime minister at the outbreak of the great war, the British commander-in-chief on the main front, the German ambassador to Britain in August 1914, and Marshal Diaz the Italian commander-in-chief all died within a short span.
In Madagascar many residents live about 20 miles from water sources and rely on beverages from the cactus or on milk. This practice highlights the remote rural lifestyle and local adaptation to scarce water access.
Mrs Keith Miller and Captain W N Lancaster completed the 15000 mile flight from Croydon England to Port Darwin Australia in a two seater Red Rose. They started October 14 meeting mishaps including a broken nose for Mrs Miller and a cut lip for Captain Lancaster at Muntok Banka Island. After repairs they continued to Sydney with plans to press on.
Denver capital plans a test well in the Calgary area north west of the city near Cochrane to search for oil. Toronto interests will drill in the Suffield field in Southern Alberta. Both ventures are closed corporations with no stock for sale.
Tommy tells his mother she misled about Mr. Flubdub’s wedding. He notes that unlike her claim he did not go into the ceremony blindfolded, prompting a tense exchange about what really happened.
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