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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 18, 1933
Page
2
Parliament reopens in Ottawa after holidays as Western Legislatures begin annual sessions. The piece urges constructive cooperation, warns against selfish demands, and calls citizens to support representatives for national solutions amid tough times and the Duff Commission railway report.
Campbeltown town council considers a plan to build and equip fishing boats locally. Unemployed fishermen would man the boats on loan to the town and share in the catch.
An archaeological report to the American Association for the Advancement of Science suggests Garden of Eden ideas may trace to over 250000 years ago. Entitled Latest Old World Discoveries of Fossil Man, the study is by Dr. George Grant MacCurdy of Yale University.
Dean Inge spoke in London about England in a millennium, predicting a population around 20 million living mostly in villages and questioning human likeness in the distant future. He warned of rising seas, an upcoming ice age, and limited prospects for Mars or Venus colonization. He argued humans show little progress since tool discovery, with degenerative trends in jaws, hair, and senses.
In New South Wales tenants unable to pay cash rent offer produce and livestock instead. Householders accept potatoes turnips melons pumpkins for huts and land. one tenant sent 100 cases of fruit weekly. A Parramatta man pays with poultry eggs. another keeps milk eggs for car upkeep. A dairyman offers calves and heifers while a War Service House Commission balks at hundreds of pounds in pumpkins.
The Swedish cruiser Gotland, under construction, features its own landing field aft. A wide canvas strip rests on crosswise pontoons to receive seaplanes at full speed, which are hauled to the deck by a crane. A rotating catapult launches aircraft against wind.
Imperial Airways has flown about 10 million miles and carried over 200000 passengers along with more than 6000 tons of mails parcels and urgent freight since inception. The on schedule flight reliability rose from 75.3 percent in 1924 to 96.16 percent in 1932.
Comfort versus necessity drives bigger women's feet. A. F. Genting of Philadelphia, president of the National Shoe Retailers' Association, notes a trend toward larger shoe sizes in recent years.
Description of Australia referred to as the shadeless land notes trees with leaves arranged to keep their edges exposed to the sky, creating a stark, sunward canopy effect.
A reader claims chronic rheumatism eased after taking Kruschen in hot water each morning. She describes earlier numb hands and foot pain and says the mineral salts improve liver kidney and stomach function and purify the blood resulting in renewed vitality.
Paris papers charge the United States leads in military outlays, contrasting President Hoover and officials with the World War era rise. Le Temps notes U S expenditure grew from 267 million in 1916 to 700 million in 1930, amid budgets and credit concerns and naval parity aims with Britain.
Cape Town Cape Peninsula is praised for scenery climate and verdure with Table Mountain and Table Bay. The text journeys readers from the bay to sunsets over orchids in fynbos, notes parasitic Harveya and sundew plants, and mentions Cape Town’s latitude near Montevideo and Sydney. It cites Carinthia cruises arriving April 18.
Cash is scarce in Central Europe driving barter. In Jugoslavia Kragujevac authorities lease 100 carloads of brass parts from Austria, paid by 10,000 Jugoslavian hogs delivered to Austria. Negotiations proceed between Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary over rail mileage payments with a 1 million Czech crown monthly deficit settled in pigs.
The Ministry of Agriculture reports a nationwide campaign against an estimated 40 million rats. While half of the local authorities lag in destroying rodents, the official warns hesitation could undermine progress, though renewed coordinated action is expected to yield gains.
A light exchange notes the boarding house offers three distinct meal names. The remark hints at small, humorous routines in everyday domestic life.
Scientists Dr. L S Russell and Dr. R T Wickenden report a new fossil locality near Swift Current in Saskatchewan. They describe teeth from rhinoceros titanotheres three toed horse and early rabbit among others dating to late eocene, with beds spanning Cypress Hills region and suggesting varied elevations in early Saskatchewan mammals.
Berlin statistics show the average German man consumes 156.9 pounds of meat and 216 pints of beer annually while drinking slightly over a third of a pint of milk daily. The city has one beer house and one telephone booth per 271 inhabitants, one lawsuit per two citizens, one policeman per 250, and one municipal official per 100.
The French liner Normandie offers a theatre, a church, a street of shops, cafe, dance salon, winter garden and a garage for passengers. The ship also features six separate wireless installations on board.
During the year ending December 31 1931 Saskatchewan shipped 267 869 tons of lignite coal from local mines to supply fuel needs in Manitoba.
Miss McFarlane and most dietitians in public institutions endorse Magic baking powder for light tender results. It is cited as uniform dependable and preferred by Canadian housewives, outselling rivals. A free Magic Cook Book offers dozens of home baking recipes from Standard Brands Ltd in Toronto.
Toy industry revival in Germany centers on the Yo-Yo. Nuremberg, once a world supplier, faced 20 years of hardship amid tariff barriers and shrinking exports. The Yo-Yo boom has filled plants and revived production, transforming the city’s factories into busy workshops again.
A new motorist tells the agent the car doesn’t suit them because the fiancee cannot reach the brakes and steering simultaneously. The agent replies the car is perfect and suggests a new girl as a solution.
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