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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 25, 1931
Page
4
Mrs S A Solomon shares a weight loss account after nearly three months on Kraschen Salts. She notes starting at 217 pounds with pains in the neck back and sides, and reaching 170 pounds while claiming strength and improved looks. She praises daily use and recommends the product highly.
France feels the world low mood as revenues drop and a 40 million dollar deficit looms. Lord Cecil cites a peace desire in disarmament debate in the House of Lords. A. F. Ewing named trial division judge of Alberta Supreme Court. Frederick Hale, 66, Hale bomb inventor, dies in London. British manufacturers adapt to Canadian tastes. BC salmon pack rises to 2,221,819 cases. Pacific Chamber of Commerce plan gains support. Ottawa urged to expedite US award payments to Victoria sealers.
Liverpool education authority announced plans to send 40 boys to Canada with 1 300 boys available from Great Britain and guaranteed farm placements. The move followed Ottawa conference. London provincial representatives reportedly received no instructions yet.
Canadian Pacific Railway will receive 400 barrels of crude oil daily from Ribstone Oils Limited Calgary. A 14 mile pipeline to McLaughlin station will transport the oil for main line locomotives through the mountains between Calgary and Vancouver. Total McLaughlin developments estimated at 30 000 to 50 000 dollars. Col J H Woods of Calgary presides Ribstone Oils Limited.
Peter Weidert farms 6000 to 7000 acres in Umatilla County Oregon and uses threshed wheat as fuel. He notes wheat at 16 dollars per ton is cheaper than coal at 20 dollars laid down at his ranch and provides a hot even fire good for overnight banking. He says wheat helps reduce surplus while aiding wheat growers.
All Tingey models are created and sketched in Paris and the patterns are made in New York. The dress features a stitched scarf effect that stays put, with crepe de chine in browns beiges and oranges set against plain tweed or wool. Sizes 14 to 20 and 34 to 40 ready for immediate delivery. send 25 cents to Fashion Bureau with name address and pattern number.
A distinctly Canadian radio program titled Canada on Parade is being arranged for Dominion-wide broadcast in a few months. It will feature the best Canadian musical and acting talent and brief addresses by nationally prominent public officials.
A fragment quotes a dialogue with a deaf and mute man and a person named Pele Mele in a cryptic exchange. The lines imply silence despite hearing, reflecting a dramatic or allegorical tone from an old text.
Pattern ordering notice from Winnipeg printing office shows address at 175 McDermot Ave and lists pattern number name size requirements for patrons.
The London Morning Post cites a commissioner's oath and statements from three escaped prisoners detailing forced labor in Soviet convict timber camps. They describe starvation, harsh climate, disease, and brutal control by the secret police affecting 135,000 workers.
Canute Svennes, who turned 85 on January 27, homesteads in the Olga district of Saskatchewan with his son. He earns sustenance by physical labor using a pick and crowbar to dig stones, started in 1930 on a quarter section, earning a cord to the acre, then harvesting and brushing bluffs. He remains in good health and awaits spring to begin another stone-digging contract on a new quarter section.
Charles A. Gill, consulting engineer and head of motive power for the Baltimore and Ohio eastern lines, will direct a Soviet project to overhaul Russian railways. He has been granted a year’s leave of absence as the Soviet Union allocates 1.7 billion dollars for the program.
William Green of the AFL reports unemployment worsening with 5,700,000 wage earners out of work in early January, up from 5,500,000 in December, not counting former labor or office workers. Presidents and Col Woods are cited as efforts to cut joblessness continue amid the labor troubles.
Vancouver Merc hants Exchange reports 1930 deep sea arrivals reached 1,195 ships totaling 4,500,802 net tons, down from 1929 when arrivals were 1,284 and tonnage reached 4,627,000.
An explosion of unknown origin wrecked the X-1 submarine's internal combustion engine injuring twelve crew members, one critically. The vessel returned to Chatham on one engine after leaving Sheerness for a test near the Thames estuary. The X-1 is a large, deep-diving craft of about 2,800 tons with four 5.2 inch guns, six torpedo tubes, and a crew of 110. commander E M C Barraclough is listed in navy records.
A compact historic recipe lists dates chopped fine and nut meats ground, with beaten eggs and honey. Flour and baking powder are folded in, plus bran, then baked twenty minutes at 375 degrees. Yield twelve servings. serve with cream or whipped or plain. optional powdered sugar coating.
Mix 2 cups cooked rice 1 cup grated cheese 1 egg 1 teaspoon salt 14 cup nuts chopped 14 cup bread crumbs 2 cups tomato sauce. Stir adding enough milk to moisten. Shape roll in crumbs. Bake moderately 20 minutes until golden brown. Slice and serve with tomato sauce.
Eleven countries have accepted invitations to participate in the World's Grain Exhibition and Conference to be held in Regina from July 25 to August 6, 1932. Italy Peru Yugoslavia Guatemala New Zealand Czecho Slovakia Netherlands Belgium Poland Siam and India will send representatives. about 50 countries are expected to participate.
An old advertisement explains that excess stomach acid causes headaches and poor digestion. It recommends Phillips Milk of Magnesia as an instant neutralizer and gentle laxative, endorsed by physicians for 50 years and available in liquid form only.
A Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners report urges greater caution at railway crossings after 161 accidents occurred in the last four months of 1930. It cites driver carelessness as the main factor and details causes such as gates down, not noticing approaching trains, faulty brakes, stalled cars, ignoring whistles and bells, skidding, late train sighting, and attempts to beat trains to crossings.
The four year effort shows progress as a framework for the World Disarmament Conference emerges. While rapid results were not expected, the commission’s work provides a basis to build a more secure and substantial edifice at the upcoming meeting.
Elmer A Sperry the Iron Mike Gyro wizard died recently afterIncomplete trials of his electrical detector for invisible rail cracks. Harcourt Drake of Sperry Products describes transverse interior fissures that grow like living things and cause sudden rail breakage unseen until failure.
It is gratifying to note that the execrable practice of abbreviating the spelling of the word Christmas is passing into disuse. In its etymology, its associations, its priceless content, the name Christmas is well worth the time and space taken to spell it out.
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