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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 28, 1932
Page
3
Winnipeg Tribune notes Saskatchewan shows a 90 percent comeback in a year. Government relief fell from 14.6 million to about 1.9 million this year. Wheat supply and seed costs are covered, with most farmers able to pay taxes and repay seed loans.
Imperial Oil No. 2 near Fort Norman, about 50 miles downstream from the settlement, yields 200 gallons daily of refined gasoline and fuel oil for lake and field machinery. Ray McPhie of Edmonton was first customer. reopening June 30 by R. W. McKinnon and J. Rowan sparked renewed activity at the site.
The piece links recurring disasters to scarce funds and neglected repairs, citing a New York ferry explosion and various explosions across the continent. It argues that old equipment and inadequate maintenance raise safety costs, including repair and liability expenses, questioning the value of delaying essential upkeep. It notes Marble's late Roman adoption and ends with a Stockholmsquippet about new house building.
Judge Camille Poulliot recalls pledges of hospitality to Rt Hon Stanley Baldwin and Mrs Baldwin during Imperial Conference departure aboard the Empress of Britain. Islanders watched as flags dipped thrice and the ship sounded three siren blasts in salute.
The tomato began as an ornamental garden plant native to the Western Hemisphere. Native Mexican names and early North American records show its first appearance around 1871, with widespread popular use arriving only later in the 1800s, as noted by Dominion Fruit Branch.
Dominion Field Husbandman E S Hopkins notes the best stage for cutting sweet clover for ensilage is full bloom. He suggests hauling soon after cutting and advises against adding water. Stored sweet clover silage shows little palatability loss after three to nine months.
A London Times writer estimates that UK farm output value exceeds Canada and Australia total agriculture. For a typical predepression year, the value is about 300 million pounds versus 275 million in the dominions.
Nyasaland now has five horses while Kenya Colony holds four, reflecting a reduced equine stock in both regions.
Piano makers and musicians note a revival as radios expand listening to live piano artistry. Observers say listeners, old and young, rediscover the instrument and seek the piano as a single performer’s highly organized music maker, replacing passive listening with active engagement.
An elderly reflection on changing tastes and economic strain across decades. The piece notes that workers now bear more personal burden as bosses adapt to new costs and the public resists a return to leaner days. It contrasts past wage pressures with current self-reliance and nostalgia for easier meals.
English apiarists report bees and even wasps showing drunken behavior after feeding on lime tree nectar and overripe plums. Beads of nectar intoxication render bees helpless and at risk of predation, with wasps acting similarly when fruit is fermented.
The British canning industry nears an apex year with little fruit to process. Factories run half time due to meager supply and high tariffs blocking foreign fruits while domestic demand grows. A wall in Camberwell is tied to the Dick Turpin legend. The Strahov Stadium project in Prague costs 210000 dollars.
Prof J G W MacEwen of the University of Saskatchewan spoke in Saskatoon predicting a great development for Churchill as a northern port. He said cattle from Saskatchewan and Alberta would move to British markets and grain would ship daily in the navigation season doubling current output. He noted Churchill’s loading limit and that a ship leaves daily soon replacing eight to ten grain ships. He cited data on the Hudson Bay route and three British objections ice, fog and compass issues.
Alfred Dreyfus now 73 and living retired learns that the League for Human Rights will place a commemorative slab at Port Halidquen marking the spot where he first walked free after serving his sentence. Once accused of selling military secrets, he endured a long legal ordeal beginning in 1894 with reversals and a 1906 pardon amid advocacy by Clemenceau and Zola.
A reflection on President Hoover, noting no envy of the presidency despite its honors. The piece asserts the job is far harder than it appears and urges consideration of the burdens before desiring high office.
Dr Adramn Boult, music director of the British Government Broadcasting Service, told an Oxford audience that excessive foot tapping parallels writing with tongue and fingers. He warned it harms psychology and may lead to madness as limbs lose control and energy is wasted.
After a year of struggle the sole theatre in Churchill closed. More than 500 men camped nearby during construction did not draw crowds for films. Silent pictures were a flop amateur nights drew no crowds and talkies failed dismally.
The Border Cities Star argues only a zigzag track could let locomotives dodge automobiles. The piece questions the practicality if one train zig fails to zag.
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution and Finland’s Geological Commission investigate radioactive elements in pre Cambrian rocks to refine estimates of Earth's age. The work challenges Kelvin’s 27 million year figure by using radioactivity and cooling rates to project a much older birthday for Mother Earth within a few million years.
A reproduction of a 13th century illuminated manuscript of the New Testament, known as Codex 2400, was released by the University of Chicago on September 14. The work, rescued from the Paris Paris shop by Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed and bought in 1927 by Edith Rockefeller McCormick, was produced by Max Jaffe of Vienna for scholarly use.
Opinion holds that recovery foundations are in place and the trend will rise as prices for commodities and necessities do not fall, prompting greater buying. The note mentions Jersey cattle purity for 500 years and jokes about free thinkers and wives.
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