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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 27, 1932
Page
4
Doctors note fussiness and restlessness in babies often come from constipation. Castoria provides a gentle cleansing dose using a pure vegetable preparation without harsh drugs, suitable from infancy through older children, to restore comfort and restful sleep.
Pope Pius may inaugurate the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin next June via broadcast. Winter wheat crops across 15 countries are two percent smaller than last year. Dr O T Avery of New York wins 1500 for pneumonia germ destruction research. H C Nixon's motion on Ontario lieutenant governor fails in legislature. Russia ranks second to the U S in industrial output and income per the Soviet Amtorg review. Britain will press India program despite threats, Hoare tells Commons. Jessie F Montgomery earns an ALA fellowship funded by Carnegie for library study. Unemployment insurance now operates in 17 foreign countries. Robert Cedric Sheriff, author of Journey's End, arrives in Hollywood to work at Universal, starting with The Road Back adaptation.
A young Frenchman serves 18 months with the colors and 28 years in reserve. A young Japanese serves two years and 23 years in reserve. A young Italian serves 18 months and 19 years in reserve. Such systems keep armies from being materially reduced.
An American broadcasting company tested 2,500 candidates over two years for announcer roles. Only ten winners were appointed after passing a stringent phrase test, including the line The seething sea seaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us.
Mayor Frank Murphy announced plans to work with creditors to refinance about 31 million dollars in interest and maturities due this year. He warned success would cut Detroit's 1932 tax levy from 76 million, while failure could raise the rate by nearly 3 dollars per thousand. The current rate stands at 22.63 per thousand.
Gladstone noted a distrustful figure as “of a composition to which water would add stability.” The remark captures the era’s sharp, acid wit and a statesman’s blunt appraisal without graphic detail.
Advertises Design No. 910 a slimming house dress with diagonal seaming and inverted plaits plus a matching apron. Available in sizes 18 to 46 inch bust with fabric needs listed and price 25 cents in stamps or coin.
First Turkish divorce statistics show 2,127 cases in a year with long decision times. Incompatibility leads 1,529 divorces while infidelity accounts for 290 with women at fault 260 times. Istanbul reports 246 divorces, urban areas higher than rural.
A British missionary and member of a Normandy-descended Scots family, Hannah Riddell spent more than four decades in Japan. She left conventional missionary work to aid lepers, many of whom flocked to her care. her example spurred the Japanese Government to establish hospitals modeled on her Hospital of the Resurrection of Hope, curbing wandering beggars.
A poem by Aline Michaelis on a mysterious beloved woman with shifting hair and eye color, described as clever and comforting, ends with juxtaposed notes about light weight buildings and tomato plant leaves drooping at signs of escaping gas.
The article argues Africans quickly embrace self-governance and Europeanized culture as new schools roads and trading stores spur change. It notes Africans start from a lower cultural baseline without heavy ancient burdens, accelerating modernization.
A Betty Barclay recipe serves 6 8 uses quick cooking tapioca lemon rind lemon juice sugar water and egg whites. Combine the first four ingredients cook 20 to 30 minutes remove rind add sugar and juice beat whites stiff fold in and chill before serving in sherbet glasses.
A recipe using large oranges and canned pineapple with cinnamon cloves nutmeg and pineapple juice. Slice oranges with skin, chop pineapple, mix with sugar lemon juice and bake in a moderate oven for 2 to 24 hours. A delicious meat relish.
United States public health service announces a new scarlet fever toxoid for children. The mixture uses scarlet fever germs with anti toxin and formalin as a preservative. Tests continue but the toxoid is praised as highly satisfactory and some physicians are using it on their own children.
A brief notice from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union lists the address at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg for pattern orders. It specifies pattern numbers to request though the page fragment is incomplete on pattern number details.
John M. Imre of Edmonton, chairing a Canadian Chamber of Commerce trade mission, told Calgary Board of Trade that a strong stable Chinese government is essential for regional and global peace. He cited Sino Japanese tensions, Manchuria issues, and rising Chinese nationalism as factors shaping the conflict and future trade benefits for Canada and others.
A report to the American Chemical Society by R. Adams Dutcher describes phosphagen as a body secreted compound of phosphoric acid and creatine that powers rapid muscle contraction. It is abundant in highly specialized muscles and absent in others.
Dr. O T Avery of New York won a 1500 prize from the American College of Physicians for discovering a method to pierce the pneumonia germ armor. He showed the germ has a protective covering and identified a microbe that dissolves it, enabling white blood cells to destroy the invader. The prize memorializes Dr. John Phillips of Cleveland, who died at the city clinic disaster on May 15, 1928.
About 4,909,989 automobiles entered Canada from the United States in 1931 for touring purposes, down 499,469 from 1930, per the Canadian Government Department of National Revenue. Of these, 3,439,492 entries were for under 24 hours, 1,469,753 for up to 60 days, and 744 for up to six months.
Not From Brazil Nuts of all kinds imported into Canada in the fiscal year ended March 31, 1931, were valued at $3,998,144. Shelled walnuts comprised the principal item totalling 4,806,662 pounds valued at $1,003,151. Two and a half million pounds came from China and nearly two million from France. Green peanuts totalled 25,323,421 pounds valued at $971,216, sourced mainly from China with 21,091,728 pounds valued at $729,108. Spain supplied most almonds not shelled at 931,556 pounds valued at $97,900, and shelled almonds 1,732,343 pounds valued at $441,131 with Spain providing 1,501,327 pounds valued at $364,854.
Prof Lachmian Gilchrist of the University of Toronto explained to the Royal Astronomical Society that a neutron’s weight is about 540th part of a million million millionth of a gram, noting a gramme equals roughly 2 600th of an ounce.
A scientific note states that all blood in the human body traverses the lungs about two thousand times each day, highlighting the lungs' central role in circulation and gas exchange.
Wonder Paper from the makers of PARA-SANIH heavy waxed paper in Green Box is stocked by many stores. Send the coupon to receive a booklet titled Leftovers with one hundred recipes as a bonus.
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