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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1929
Page
2
A health article argues that accidents kill far more people than autos, with children most at risk in the home. It stresses personal adjustment to modern machinery, education over harsh laws, and the need for better roads, planning, and common sense to reduce preventable deaths.
The Ministry of Industry Commerce and Labor announces that foreign accountants cannot practice in China except within foreign concessions. No documents or accounts bearing their signatures will be recognized by Chinese courts if cases arise.
Advertising by provincial governments boards and clubs in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta backs the Canadian National Exhibition plan. Within a year or two western provinces may match Ontario by erecting their own pavilions in Toronto. Alberta weighs a duplicate E P Ranch House at Exhibition Park rather than a provincial building.
A light dialogue hints at domestic life with a joke about credit at a grocer. The speakers contrast grocery credit with milkmen, implying small town commerce and humor surrounding marriage plans.
E. D. Ramsey says progress continues on rewriting the Canada grain act with meetings planned in Winnipeg Montreal Toronto and prairie centers. Col O M Biggar in Ottawa leads redraft aiming no radical changes while noting crop grading effects and high wheat moving within statutory grades.
Advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a remedy for rheumatism by correcting thin blood and expelling poisons. It cites Mr Thomas Martin of Novar Ontario whose rheumatism improved after using the pills and claims results persist while blood remains rich. Pills available from druggists or by mail for 50 cents per box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
From a London apartment Tay Pay O'Connor in his 81st year reflects in a wheelchair that politics is often humbug due to scarce jobs. He notes politicians remain unchanged across nations and politics shifts from comedy to tragedy for the innocent, per the New York Sun.
The advertisement claims the product is effective with over 23 000 people reported missing to the New York Police Department last year and 97 percent located.
Mrs J Cunningham of Saiit Ste Marie Ontario reports after a February influenza attack she developed heart palpitation and throbbing. She describes weakness and fatigue before starting treatment.
A reader thanks for a medicine found to help. notes about six boxes used and value. Mentions price of 50 cents a box and availability at druggists or by mail from The T Milburn Co Toronto Ontario.
The Toronto Telegram asks if women will prove equal to men as pilots while noting progress in flight training and civil aviation. It cites Amelia Earhart and says civil schools train women, air lines gain women patrons, and Copenhagen endorses a separate category for women flyers.
A Museum For Children in New Haven Connecticut becomes a Yale Peabody Museum branch focused on objects of special interest to kids. Educators commend the project.
Explorers surveyors prospectors and hunters will find Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil useful in camp. When feet and legs are wet and cold rub the oil to prevent pains in the muscles. If a cut contusion or sprain occurs the oil makes an excellent dressing or lotion.
Mixed fruit medley recipe serves six with pineapple grapefruit apple and orange segments tossed with confectioners sugar and orange ice. Chill thoroughly then portion into individual dishes with a ball of orange ice on top.
A dated recipe for plum pudding style dessert with raisins dates figs and chocolate junket. Includes steps to simmer fruit with water sugar and spices then stir in warm milk and dissolved chocolate junket before chilling and serving topped with whipped cream and a cherry.
The article reports M. Lott's plan for radio towers on Atlantic coasts to transmit guiding waves across the sea. Operators would interpret signals, potentially replacing charts and compasses, with four towers to be erected within two years.
The province leads Canada in wheat and boosts dairy and egg markets. October creamery butter production reached 1,191,895 pounds, up 50.7 percent from a year earlier. Saskatchewan Egg and Poultry Pool markets nearly all eggs and poultry. its directors are mostly farmers' wives with one man.
The Aquitania aboard introduces a full West End store replacing ship side-lines in barber shops. Passengers can outfit for Europe and replenish wardrobes during voyage. The Southampton mayor led with two neckties and sent one to New York’s mayor with Regent Street boast.
Charles Seible of Amsterdam praises a finger length old kid glove as productive fishing bait. Twenty three black bass averaging two pounds were caught in Schoharie Creek in a single day using this method, with fish over eleven inches. Also, a judge fines a lawyer five dollars for contempt of court while the enraged attorney presents a twenty dollar bill.
French engineer M William Loth says his weather control using radio light beams can guide a Paris New York flight and ship passage around storms through two land stations. He demonstrated the concept to the French Academy of Science claiming pilots and sailors with no navigation knowledge could avoid bad weather.
The Department of Agriculture notes widespread use of combines in Western Canada during 1928 for wheat oats barley and other crops from Winnipeg to the Rockies and from the International Boundary to Township 80 in the Peace River District. The 1929 count shows a large rise over 1928.
The water in Norwegian fjords is so clear that objects about one and a half inches in diameter can be seen distinctly at depths of about 150 feet. This remarkable visibility highlights the exceptional clarity of subarctic coastal waters and environmental conditions contributing to shallow underwater sighting at extreme depths.
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