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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 12, 1930
Page
6
Reduce the Acid Take a spoonful in water and your unhappy condition will probably end in two minutes. The product neutralizes many times its volume in acid and has been a physician standard for 50 years. Be sure to get the genuine Phillips Milk of Magnesia prescribed by physicians.
The Young plan was signed at the Hague reparation conference. Canada reports 12 430 post offices last year a drop due to rural free delivery. London forecasts a million and a half pound cut in War Office estimates. A Saskatoon area search for old Hudson's Bay Company post and Northwest Company fort. Newfoundland aims to balance its budget this year for the first time in a decade. Ottawa banks impose a 50 cent fee on bad cheques. Salvation Army officials in London noted death of Commissioner George Mitchell. Executors of Gen Bramwell Booth to General Higgins turn over £1 000 000 to the Salvation Army. Brandon Aero club beacon light begun to guide night fliers and air mail routes.
An estimate based on actual disbursements from over 500 securities shows Canadian corporations paid about 250 million dollars in regular dividends in 1929. Additional bonuses and cash dividends were issued, with roughly 10 million dollars added in the final quarter.
BC canned salmon is exported to over thirty countries with an annual marketed value exceeding 13 million dollars. The piece notes the American gallon being smaller than the English by one seventh and includes a humorous line about a smokeless cigar attributed to Tokio Pakku.
Building activity in Canada rose eight percent in 1929 reaching $235.66 million, the highest level ever recorded. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported 1928’s $219.11 million prior peak, with 1929 surpassing the combined totals of 1920 and 1921.
A youthfully styled general day dress in mauve red tones with molded bodice and turn over collar. It features a scarf tie, flat hips with side pockets, fitted sleeves with flaring cuffs, leather belt at the waist, and a circular flaring skirt. Available sizes include bust 36 and 38 inches, with classroom options in army blue wool crepe and other fabrics and colors priced at 23 cents.
The article explains that sunlight and ultra violet rays are essential to plant and animal health. Ordinary glass blocks these rays, but Windolite glass substitutes allow full UV penetration, helping turkeys thrive in confinement and enabling sun rooms, dairy barns, hospitals, and sanatoriums to use sun baths as part of treatment.
The narrator recalls Martin Littleton delivering a late after dinner story about his South Carolina hog farm. A neighbor criticizes feeding whole carrots, and Littleton quips that "What’s time to a hog?" as his father shrugs at the advice.
The piece argues a 4 B C death of Herod and a lunar eclipse the night before. It notes 1929 as recorded then hints Tit Bits 1933 or later may revise dates. It critiques church dating of Christ birth and cites astronomers determining past eclipse dates precisely.
Total farm production in British Columbia rose to 61 million dollars in 1929, up 5 million from 1928 and spread across all agricultural sectors. The fruit industry centered in the Okanagan Valley produced about 8.25 million, dairying reached 12.5 million, and poultry returns surpassed 6 million with a modest gain.
The article describes a heated Commons clash over divorce bills led by J. S. Woodsworth. Premier Mackenzie King signals no immediate solution, urging cross‑party talks and a possible future arrangement to grant divorces in Ontario without a mass bill approach.
A March Ottawa conference of livestock interests will explore production increases. Minister W R Motherwell planned an earlier call but was ill with pneumonia. Dr Grisdale may preside. The remark about many ways to spend money and one to earn it frames the note, followed by a joke about a tooth extraction.
The Royal Bank of Canada reports a record 60th annual balance sheet ending November 30 with total assets at 1,001,442,741 and deposits at 772,067,768. Sir Herbert Holt warns of a moderate 1930 recession while urging a nonpartisan advisory council to align government, industry and labor. Neill touts Canada’s tourist influx of about 15 million yearly potential trade gains.
The New York World notes that 200 million people now speak English, a rise from 12 million 175 years ago. It states English influence spans Australia, North America, Africa, and Asia, with Canada, Australia, and South Africa en route to power, and calls for a duty matching growing influence.
Professor Hans Friedenthal of Berlin University announces metaiodin a new antiseptic that combines iodine with oxygen and aims to be less painful on open wounds. Initial tests suggest effective antiseptic properties without stinging.
A wedding report notes the bridegroom fainted but the ceremony continued after a twenty minute delay. A cynical observer quips the groom has not learned how to faint thoroughly.
Land values inquiry into security for farmer debt obligations is announced by Canada Gazette. L J Howe deputy commissioner of lands Manitoba and R Matheson assistant Dominion lands commissioner are designated investigators. L P O Noel replaces Matheson as agent at Winnipeg in specific cases.
The city’s population, per the assessment commissioner, reaches 20092, up 730 from the previous year.
General Smuts praised Africans as the only happy, good-tempered people he met at Oxford. He contrasted their contentment with other races and noted progress in industrial shoe production after the sewing machine's introduction, enabling one man to do the work of sixty by hand.
Sir Albert Kitson told that a Gold Coast prospector missed a fortune by ignoring geology. A hole dug for iron ore yielded manganese ore later identified as a huge deposit, making the site one of the world’s richest manganese locations.
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