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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 28, 1927
Page
2
A public health warning condemns municipal negligence after the Montreal theatre fire and a typhoid outbreak tied to milk supply. Officials are urged to invest in prevention, vaccination, and sanitary reforms to avert further deaths and suffering.
A word problem on multiplying grains and trains ends with a large total. Several garbled quotes follow about parental control, a wife’s memory, and a wife’s temper. The text mentions a fort Worth sermon, a stadium plan for Bologna, and a note on dictating to a woman.
Viscount Willingdon told the Canadian Club in Victoria that Canada should be one of the world’s great nationalities within the British Commonwealth. He said the empire thrives on greater self rule, with each part managing its own administration while remaining loyal to the Crown. He stressed Britain’s enduring vitality despite postwar troubles.
An advertisement touts Nerviline as a rapid remedy for stomach cramps and related pains. It claims a small dose cures cramps instantly, noting the medicine is five times stronger than typical remedies and suitable for stomach gas fermentation and cramps. urging readers to buy at 35 cents from dealers.
Commander Geofrey Unsworth DSC DSC RINE located the Laurentic wreck and helped salvage $25,000,000 in bullion but received no Admiralty recognition. He had saved the crew after the liner struck and endured exposure requiring hospital care. Admiralty efforts to locate the treasure-laden ship had failed.
Cart of manuscripts lie in locked chests at Westminster Abbey with some dating back to the eighth century. The British Museum librarian plans to publish a precis of about 17,000 important papers. A Dominion Elections bill seeks to have the chief electoral officer appointed by House of Commons resolution at a salary of £1.0 per annum.
Two young farmers near Victoria advertised in an English paper seeking to correspond with two young English women for matrimony. A British boat delivered replies numbering over 7,000 letters from England Ireland Scotland and Wales. Minard's Liniment claimed to cure warts. The note ends with a product code WW x C 3g6.
A new Winnipeg District Aeronautical Map covers the area from Winniper to about 50 miles east of Kenora and to the Ontario Manitoba boundary. It highlights water routes in special colors and differentiates main waterways to aid aviators and travelers by dog team or canoe, and may be obtained from the Topographical Survey Department in Ottawa for 25 cents or 50 cents folded.
Andre Paphin, columnist for Comedia, promotes raw germinating wheat as a universal cure in a series of diet articles. He claims the grain supplies vitamins lacking in other foods and boosts nerves, with many followers and doctors now endorsing the practice. Restaurants reportedly feature a “magic teaspoon” serving.
James Thom, called the loneliest man in the world, a Hudson's Bay Company employee, is in Kingston Ontario visiting his sister. He has spent seven years near the Arctic Circle near Studson’s Bay Company posts and was furloughed from Wagar Curler about 2,400 miles north of Winnipeg. His district has six weeks of summer and no trees.
The 1926 annual Bureau of Navigation tally records 291 vessels lost at sea or on inland waterways. Of 2,014 mariners aboard wrecked ships, 175 perished. Private yachts numbered 24. the rest were merchant or passenger vessels.
Directors announce plan to construct or acquire elevators at 57 locations across Saskatchewan. Total owned elevators will rise to 644 for the 1927 28 crop season with a minimum average delivery of 5000 bushels at each point, excluding sidings and new stations.
British physicians urge adoption of an international medical code to standardize remedies transmitted by signals during wireless consultations at sea. The code would remove language barriers between doctorless ships and ships carrying doctors, easing communication in medical cases.
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