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Brief items report plans for a French expedition to the North Pole and a pole to New York interview. Others note a flour pool idea for Western Canada farmers and a new twin engine flying boat for Manitoba fire fighting.
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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 17, 1925
Page
9
Brief items report plans for a French expedition to the North Pole and a pole to New York interview. Others note a flour pool idea for Western Canada farmers and a new twin engine flying boat for Manitoba fire fighting.
Futfalo Jones, a hunter from the southwestern state, lassoed and captured live mountain lons in their native wilds. The event showcases his skill and the endurance required to pursue these elusive creatures in rugged terrain.
Windsor Ontario woman Mrs Annie Perry praises Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic and nervine for young mothers. She says it kept her well through pregnancy and enabled her to perform household duties. She now recommends it to today’s young mothers and notes availability in tablet and liquid forms.
A Winnipeg notice invites readers to order sewing patterns by mail from the Union at 175 Mepermot Ave. Include pattern number, size and a 20 cent payment or stamps and wrap coin carefully.
A Mooreal Gazette summary notes rising impatience with foreign birth agitators who seek to realign state power. It cites police attention to New York irreconcilables harassing visitors and Scotland Yard raids on Communist headquarters as efforts to curb dangerous propaganda.
Feature on Weston shops at Canadian Pacific Railway detailing construction dates, expansive grounds, 13 shop buildings, 35 miles of service tracks, and a 2,500 worker payroll. It notes extensive machinery, boiler power, locomotive output, and a robust apprenticeship program with on site technical schooling.
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane tells the American College of Surgeons in Philadelphia that 95 percent of people are harming themselves with their diet. He says medical leaders including Dr. Charles Mayo agree food chemistry is the key to preventing and curing disease and that in five years the medical profession will teach the public how to eat to reduce hospital and operating theater use.
England faces a shift in dairy farming as farmers earn more selling milk than producing butter. A pound of butter costs two and a half gallons of milk, yielding about two shillings and two pence, while milk can fetch a shilling per gallon in cities. Consequently, butter-making declines while butter imports rise.
Prospectors returning from the interior report finding buried tree trunks with tropical-like bark and large grassy blades at the Kobuk River area. Sand layers resemble ancient drift. scientists plan early summer 1926 investigations to confirm a former tropical or semi tropical Alaska climate.
A Moscow radio report credits Dr. Joffe with inventing a storage battery capable of powering a motor car for 16 days at top speed without recharging. The device is described as small enough to fit in a pocket. The report adds a remark about memory skills among successful men.
The bureau of statistics notes a shift in Canadian fashion with growing manufacture of fur coats for women and men and a drop in fur lined coats. Last year Canada produced 40 616 women's fur coats versus 809 women s fur lined coats.
A wry remark links a woman's dislike of cigar ashes on the carpet to a failed honeymoon. The quip notes a bee dies after stinging a person and imagines crossing that with a stock seller.
A dense list of crossword clues across and down with numbers and partial hints covering people actions animals scents weights and geography. The page presents a long puzzle key including demigod burdensome mother recede restrain lyric poems toward several scale notes and various objects from plants to tools.
Sir Robert Horne urged Britons to emigrate to Canada saying they could escape precarious lives tied to charity. Ralph B. Bluemfeld of the Daily Express broadcast the remarks and suggested Horne lead a scheme to place desirable people in Canada with good chances of success.
The Marquis M. N. Degli Abizzi, winter sports director at Lake Placid, forms an organization called the Nomads to arrange fifteen and thirty day pack horse trips through the Canadian Rockies. The planned route reaches the Columbia Ice Fields in the north, the Yoho Valley in the west, and extends south to Mount Assiniboine.
About four hundred British farm boys are registering for training in Alberta. Two groups of twenty are at Vermilion and Olds schools, and another at Claresholm. The influx will bring total registrations to roughly four hundred as they join the program from various English agricultural districts.
In a rural exchange, Mrs Johnson explains to a doctor that she followed directions to give Sam a head pill three times daily until gone, but she has run out and Sam has not yet finished the course. The doctor remarks on the adherence while noting the supply issue remains unresolved.
In spring sap loss from injured trees can reach up to 150 pounds per square inch, comparable to the steam pressure used in a standard locomotive. The fact highlights the hazards and strength of sap flow during healing.
A father and son exchange a joke about a turtle after a car crash described as hitting another vehicle, skidding into a ditch, and turning turtle. The child asks what happened to the turtle, prompting a brief, lighthearted reply.
J P Pratt assistant counsel for the Central Region Canadian National Railways warns that motorists ignoring signals at level crossings and brake failures cause rising costs. He says railways may need protection against flank attacks from cars running through gates into moving trains.
The BC provinces shows a manufacturing boom from 1880 to 1924. In 1880 about 415 plants operated producing around 3 million dollars yearly. By 1924 3,566 firms were active with a payroll near 2107 million and goods valued at 285 million, with capital investment over 300 million.
Fort Simp son offers guidance predicting a strong year for trappers with lynx and fox plentiful and marten beaver near average. The distance notes place the outlook roughly 1 000 miles north of Edmonton.
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