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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 17, 1924
Page
2
An article urges annual personal balance sheets for 1923 covering health and finances. It warnings that carrying dead stock such as bad habits and prejudices harms progress, while genuine assets include health, knowledge, and community service. It compares personal stock taking to business inventories and stresses honest appraisal.
The Uhe Aerial League of America and the American Radio Relay League report experiments show daylight may dissipate radio waves or be absorbed by earth crust. They aimed to resolve why Arctic daylight blocked communication with Bowdoin, Donald MacMillan's ship frozen north of Greenland. After daylight ended, Prince Rupert station 3400 miles away connected with Bowdoin. They cite magnetic basalt in southern Greenland and magnetic iron in New York and Canada as the likely cause.
The strongest tire should stay on the car’s most stressed position at the right rear. As tires wear, move the newest to the left rear then to the right front and left front. With all new tires the right rear bears the most wear, then left rear, and so on. When rear tires wear, swap them with the front tires and continue the sequence.
Do minion Experimental Farms advise keeping cabbage mangels or sugar beets for winter green feed. Feed at about nine a.m. daily to regulate digestion and maintain high egg production. Sprouted cat seeds and cured alfalfa or clover leaves also serve as good substitutes for root crops.
Directors of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce report U S auto production for eleven months at 3,717,709 cars with November output at 325,125. The year’s high was May with 392,409 vehicles, indicating a 60 percent rise over 1922.
Story traces a cursed Indian statuette from Gustave Lebon to Sadie Carnot and M. Carnot, then to M. Poincare. It allegedly presaged danger for presidents, with Mme Carnot ordering disposal and secret service fearing the curse remains active on current leadership.
British engineers mount a light engine in a small aircraft, enabling double the distance and triple speed with the same gasoline. Canadian aviation circles note De Haviland trials from Croydon to Brussels, 180 miles on three gallons, with potential forest patrols and low costs if mass produced.
Painful sprains bruises and rheumatic pains are said to ease with Nerviline a remedy famous for nearly fifty years. It supposedly sinks in deeply penetrates fast and relieves aching muscles joints and neuralgia whether pain is internal or external. A 35 cent bottle is advertised.
Provincial government supporters in Winnipeg held a caucus outlining legislation to establish a voluntary wheat marketing organization. Some members backed a compulsory wheat board, which was rejected previously, but opposition to compulsion emerged. A private member may introduce the bill rather than a government member.
A reader from Demain Que reports her child found relief from constipation and indigestion using Baby's Own Tablets. The mild laxative promises to regulate bowels and stomach, with sales at 25 cts a box via medicine dealers or by mail from The Dr. Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
A Welsh contributor in John Bull mocks Lloyd George noting shifts in policy on Europe and reparations. He accuses the former prime minister of changing stance from demanding harsh German reparations to urging peace and European settlement, questioning public understanding of his foreign policy.
Over 106000 radio users exist in Canada with 28 receiving sets in use now. The Department of Marine oversees this service and considers ways to assist stations. Investments in receiving sets exceed 2 million dollars, a profitable industry. Manitoba funds broadcasting via telephone, and the Dominion refunds half of license fees to the province.
A London market letter to the Ontario Department of Agriculture dated December 1 says Britain faces a cattle crisis due to widespread foot and mouth disease. Cattle movement is halted in many districts and many herds have been destroyed. From January to October Britain imported 362,802 cattle from the Irish Free State while Canada sent 38,246 cattle, highlighting the scale of adjustment needed for Canada to win the British market.
Divers use an invention called the exy torch that burns metal under water. The torch flame is surrounded by an air jet that blows water away, allowing intense localized heat to melt iron and heat steel.
Express traffic between Canada and the Old Country is rapidly expanding according to Mr. Fita Salter foreign traffic manager of the Canadian National Express Company who recently passed through Winnipeg. He notes that better exchange rates will boost business and was accompanied by Mr. H. G. Waring of London European agent for the CN Express Company.
In Solo Mon Islands a tribesman death leads to exposure of the body until the head drops. The skull is then placed in the native skull house to remain for all time.
Britain reports 1,245 foot and mouth outbreaks to the Board of Agriculture with 41,183 cattle 20,014 sheep 22,125 pigs and 34 goats slaughtered. The government paid 1,246,000 pounds in compensation while salvage from carcasses may yield 234,020 pounds.
Capt H T Munn returns to Winnipeg from Baffin Land recounting three new Royal Canadian Mounted Police posts to be built in Ellesmere Land and likely west of Pond s Inlet along Lancaster Sound and at Lake Harbor in Hudson Straits. He notes fur trading since 1912, a Cumberland Gulf fox crop around 1 000 animals valued at 124 000, and a 360 000 sale to the Hudson s Bay Company including his schooner and trading stations. Miller s Worm Powders advertised as safe for children with pleasant taste and non injurious composition.
The Liverpool Weekly Post cites M Edouard Belin of France noting tele vision as possible and soon real. It reports wireless transmission of photographs drawings handwriting and other signals via telegraphy with postal stations being prepared for this purpose and wonders what future generations will enjoy or fear.
A Canada Magazine piece profiles a young English worker in western Canadian harvest fields. It stresses hard starts with aching muscles yet notes sympathetic farmers and quick skill gains. He promises about 250 dollars in three months, urging fit men to seek work in Canada or stay home if they cannot measure up.
Frost bite and chilblains arise from cold and slush exposure. The advertisement promotes Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil as an effective treatment that counteracts inflammation, relieves pain, and offers prompt action with simple application.
Peter Petroff, former Bolshevist foreign affairs head and now linked to the Soviet commercial mission in Berlin, warns Germany not to repeat Russia's mistake of confiscating food. He says Rusela’s sale of foodstuffs set back farming for years and will cause farmers to plant only for self use if surpluses are seized without compensation.
International Institute of Agriculture Rome reports world wheat output excluding Russia at 3.4619 billion bushels. This marks a rise of 51 million bushels from the prior year and 558 million above the five year average.
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