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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 03, 1925
Page
2
The ongoing project in San Francisco aims to create the world’s largest tap, measuring 660 feet long and 18 feet wide. The monumental industrial effort stands as a landmark among towering feats and draws wide interest from observers.
The British explorer F A Mitchell Hedges uncovered about 20 relics in the interior of British Honduras now at the British Museum. Most are pottery fragments including a smiling miniature head and a patterned die suggesting Maya familiarity with printing and moulded pottery.
A Pennsylvania factory reports selling three million speeches in 1924 and plans to double output in 1925. Prices span 24 cents to 40 dollars per speech, with bundles offered. The catalog also includes snappy stories, toasts, prayers, and ideas for introducing speakers, highlighting a booming after-dinner speech industry.
A Boston Transcript note quips that Turks pushing John Bull from Mosul would do well to know that John is the champion sit faster of the universe, labeling the exchange as a witty international jab.
The article notes that famed strongmen like Sandow and Breitbart died relatively young, despite immense physical power. It contrasts public admiration with personal frailty, citing Sandow’s death at 58 after a past car accident and Breitbart’s sudden death in Canada. John Marx, Sandow’s successor, died in his forties from consumption. The piece suggests strength does not prevent decline and emphasizes self-care.
Lieutenant Governor R G Brett and Minister W W Smith oversee a successful direct telephone service test linking Alberta with Montana Colorado and Arizona capitals Helena Denver Phoenix. Premier Greenfield attends as officials note Ottawa and Vancouver links postponed due to a short circuit near Wetaskiwin.
Dr W W Coblentz of the bureau of standards Washington reports using a delicate instrument to estimate Mars mean surface temperature near 20 degrees Fahrenheit compared with Earth's 55 degrees. He notes temperatures as low as 100 degrees below zero can occur on Mars and much of the work was done last August when Mars was nearer Earth.
Autumn silhouettes show a gracious line for full figures in a heavy crepe frock. Four three quarter inch tucks run down the front and back with a convertible collar, long or short sleeves, and pocket plaits. No 1127 sizes 40 to 48 bust, requires fabric amount, price 20 cents. Fashion Book patterns cost 10 cents.
An item lists ordering steps for patterns from Geion at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. It mentions Send 2% coin or stamps and to wrap the coin carefully. The text is an ad style instruction with limited readable details.
Hon. N. W. Rowell K C returned from the Orient and urged a peaceful solution to the China issue with foreign powers. He proposed a settlement granting China autonomy on tariffs and foreign trial affairs while safeguarding foreign trade, noting boycotts in China have severely harmed British commerce.
G. D. Finlayson superintendent of insurance for Canada spoke at the Ontario Fire and Casualty Insurance Agents Association convention in Toronto. He noted rapid growth in the automobile sector and estimated 600,000 pleasure cars in Canada with maintenance costs around 25 dollars monthly totaling 150 million dollars annually, half the national debt from a decade earlier.
Baron Joseph Csavossy and his brother Andre recently acquired a ranch in the Cochrane district Alberta and plan to bring several Hungarian families as settlers. Prospective immigrants will travel via Canadian Pacific Railway lines and receive improved land on the Csavossy estate upon arrival.
The potato plant, native to Chile and Peru, was brought to England from Santa Fe by Sir John Hawkins in 1565, with Drake also credited in 1586. Its early cultivation in Ireland is linked to Sir Walter Raleigh who held large estates in County Cork.
An insurance authority calls the cabin of an ocean liner the safest place in the world with a Pullman berth as second. The note urges staying home if possible but warns to reevaluate risk.
A patriotic note praising Canada as a land of pride for men and women. It urges confidence and determination to achieve success and glory for the nation, echoed in a public message from the Cities Star.
A curious note suggests the filover should study nature with a remark that even lightning does not strike a locomotive. The text blends whimsy and science metaphor, implying natural study over mechanical risk.
Readers see strong farm results across Alberta Manitoba and Saskatchewan with wheat yields around 45 bushels per acre from several farms and districts. Specifics include E Rasmussen Crooked Lake Alberta 41 acres 45 bushels Red Bobs and W Johnstone Deloraine Manitoba about 45 bushels per acre, plus Aberdeen Sask reports of 40 to 45 bushels on summer fallow and oats to 110 bushels per acre averaging 90. These examples underscore the Canada farming opportunities through real farmer returns.
A government decree in Turkey closes all monasteries and allows only secular religion, expelling about 20 000 monks and dervishes, whose strict orders are deemed unfitted for other work. Dervishes are grouped as howling whirling and whispering and prey on peasant superstition.
The London Daily Express reports three former British premiers the Earl of Oxford and As quith the Earl of Balfour and Ramsay MacDonald join prominent physicians to form the New Health Society. It seeks disease prevention and a new race through a new lifestyle with a nationwide publicity drive planned at its December inauguration.
The article notes Premier Baldwin’s fondness for crosswords and his habit of weaving remarks about word layouts into security and disarmament talks. It mentions Britain's leader rarely finds puzzles hard enough and suggests he study Russian as the craze spreads in the Soviet realm.
Those intending to provide a dust bath for fowls should supply material before freezing weather. Road dust is often mythic. ordinary earth is usually better and easier to obtain. Fowls prefer earth, and it keeps the house less dusty. Dry road dust beats wet earth since the latter freezes and becomes unavailable when needed.
The inquiry questions whether Washington will cancel the French war debt and, if not, why the British debt would remain unsettled. It examines potential policy logic and international financial obligations guiding such decisions.
A garbled puzzle clue list mixes horizontal and vertical hints for many entries including common words, weights, weather terms, and occupations. The readable fragments indicate a crossword with clues for words like schemes, paradise, printer s unit, precious stones, and various descriptors, though many items are incomplete or corrupted.
Antoine the knife thrower in Paris reportedly disclosed a method to erase India Ink tattoos. He described applying tannic acid solution, injecting it with tattooing needles, and lightly rubbing with nitrate of silver to form a crust that falls away in two to three weeks, removing the design.
Mrs. Hamilton of Toronto wins six first prizes for brown bread milk buns canned fruits and preserves at the National Exhibition. Her white bread and cookies also place second and third. Longtime Toronto resident she trained on a farm near Owen Sound as Margaret Merchant.
In 1858 Canada adopted decimal currency. Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the capital of United Canada, later to become the Dominion's capital. The Atlantic cable linked England and Nova Scotia in the same year.
A museum scene at Wembley features a grocer shop display with unwrapped cheese oatmeal bread sugar and mock rats to show why proper packaging matters. Real rats later raided the unwrapped goods overnight proving the point in a blunt, memorable way.
Miss Wheston, a long resident of Switzerland, becomes the oldest person to conquer the Wetterhorn at 70. With only guides and no companion, she endures the 12 000 foot ascent that defeats even vigorous youth, three such attempts having failed and one ending in a death.
Hon W R Motherwell minister of agriculture says a conference of provincial governments and municipalities will be convened to design a stronger TB eradication program. It backs steps by the department to establish tuberculosis free areas and intensify prevention.
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