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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 08, 1930
Page
5
Historical overview traces diphtheria from ancient descriptions to modern vaccines. It explains anti toxin production in horses, the shift to toxoid for active immunity, and the Schick skin test to gauge susceptibility, emphasizing immunization as the path to eliminating diphtheria.
Dominion Bacteriologist reports several yeast varieties cause fermentation in honey. Bees acquire yeasts from flowers. cleanliness during extraction and sterile containers can partly prevent contamination, though some factors remain beyond beekeeper control.
East Aurora New York published a list of the hundred most useful people. Among the two Canadians named are E. W. Beatty described as Canadian Railroad Magnate and youngest railroad president, and Jack Miner hailed as wizard of wild birds, highlighting their contributions to industry and nature.
In six months of 1929 Vancouver sent 1,508,730 barrels of flour and 30,742,945 bushels of grain to the Orient, out of totals of 1,592,830 barrels and 95,000,000 bushels respectively. Logs and lumber shipments to the Orient are five times those to the United Kingdom and Europe.
League of Nations figures show over 1,400 journalists have attended Geneva since the League’s creation. They represent more than 1,000 newspapers from 52 countries, with 109 correspondents permanently based in Geneva. Auntie heads home Sunday as Willie laments the end of her visit.
Commander MacMillan reports an island off the Labrador coast swarming with puffins that breed there each season. The birds nest underground about three feet, allowing researchers to reach nests for specimen eggs. The puffin is known as a sea parrot for its bright red nose. A separate note mentions a black oak boat unearthed at Llandrindod Wells sent to the Welsh National Museum, followed by a remark on resistive people.
The Zeppelin Works in Germany announced ten more passenger flights over Germany this autumn and another Mediterranean flight is planned for winter. A larger Zeppelin is expected to be completed by autumn 1930.
E R Vipond recalls Jack London and a companion failing at timber work in a tie camp near Lardo British Columbia. Vipond fired them after two weeks noting they spent more time writing letters than cutting timber and a constable questioned their innocence before dismissal. Twenty years later London had become famous.
The Saskatchewan farmer emphasizes constant culling to remove inferior ideas, livestock, and equipment. He notes one third of dairy cows on farms are unprofitable and many poultry flocks include culls. Changes in farming require replacing worn equipment with faster cheaper and better machines.
The Department of Commerce says Canadian imports of gasoline marine engines and motor boats from the United States totaled about 571 thousand dollars for 1928. U.S. goods accounted for about 16 percent of all motor boats sold in Canada and 76 percent of gasoline marine engines marketed there.
A compact social note observes that affluence often comes with rigidity in character, suggesting that wealthier men may be less easy to relate to in personal dealings and daily interactions.
A concise reflection on personal power noting that external statements reflect inner drives. It suggests the way others respond mirrors one’s own attitudes and actions rather than dictating outcomes.
The map details inspection trips and patrols by officials including O S Finnie W H B Hoare L T Burwash and RCMP patrols in Arctic regions. It notes the Boothic voyage 7800 miles and Melville Island 1800 miles by A H Joy plus other investigations totaling about 49645 miles completed in 1929.
Officials at the Swift Current Experimental Station study the combined reaper thresher and windrow harvester in Saskatchewan. Bulletin No. 118 from Ottawa explains usage from Winnipeg to the Rockies, methods of drying and threshing, moisture testing, and economic questions for harvesting with a straight combine.
Five powerful searchlights mounted on a streamlined automobile aid an Indian rajah in spotting big game. An extension light behind the driver and four lights along the front help spot or confound tigers and other game during the rajah’s hunt.
A landlady asks the young bride about holiday plans. The bride replies that their plans are only tentative, and the landlady, delighted, assumes they will enjoy camping out more than anything else.
A fragment quotes a speaker asking if someone is alone and replying they have never been with her when she is alone, mentioning Moustigue and Charleroi as contextual details.
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