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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 19, 1928
Page
2
Promotes daily use of Cuticura Loop and ointment to prevent blackheads pimples and unsightly eruptions and to promote permanent skin health. Mentions Cuticura Shaving Stick 25¢ and Canadian Depot Pewhoase Ltd with a vote note.
The Saskatchewan Department of Education warns parents and teachers to keep children home in blizzards and severe cold or detain them at school until safe. It praises rural telephones to coordinate safety and notes increased fire hazards at night from tightly stoked stoves.
Baldwin praised the Empire Parliamentary Association at its fourteenth UK branch meeting in Westminster Hall. He urged frequent visits between Dominion and home branches to foster understanding and clear Empire policy, citing Canada last summer. He noted a proposed UK branch delegation to Canada next September and hoped the Speaker of the House would lead a broadly representative group.
The United States leads with 635 broadcasting stations followed by Canada with 57 and 1 116 total stations worldwide. Other nations listed include Guba Russia Sweden Australia Germany Argentina United Kingdom France and Spain with smaller counts. The text notes 1 000 40 cable feet of logs rafted from Russia to Astonias and ends with an unclear sentence about a man who apologizes when he does you a favor.
Dr Louis Sambon, a leading cancer expert, will conduct an island wide study once ministry sanction is received. Under the British School of Tropical Medicine he plans a thorough district by district check of cancer deaths and living victims over fifty years, with tests on vermin and local flora and fauna to test a cancer origin theory. Old malaria and pelagia work noted.
The regime deems turbaned ecclesiastics riding donkeys undignified and bans such parade through towns. Clerics in robes are similarly restricted from donkey rides while priests are prohibited from playing cards in coffee houses. A light exchange notes foreign dishes as a humorous aside.
Porter Adams president of the National Aeronautics Association recommends Charles A Lindbergh for the Grand Gold Medal of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. The award would be presented by world airmen at a Federation meeting in Paris soon, based on Adams letter to Paul Tissandier.
The Imperial Government invites representatives from the British Dominions and India to attend a London conference on cable and wireless communications. Postmaster-General Sir Williams Mitchell Thompson announced in the House of Commons that the conference will be convened as soon as practicable.
Mrs. David Logan of Thetford Mines Quebec praises Dr Williams Pink Pills for family health gains. She cites recovery from typhoid weakness, daughter’s growth issues, and a son’s adenoids operation followed by renewed vigor. Pills aid digestion nerves and pallor from thin blood. Available from dealers or by mail for 50 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
Dominion meteorological headquarters develops an advisory weather service for aviators. A network of observatories from Newfoundland to British Columbia is planned to serve air mail routes via the Gulf of St Lawrence and aid the 4-100 dirigible from England terminating in Montreal next summer. Worms in children are addressed by Milter's Worm Powders that destroy worms and restore health.
Eastern capitalists purchase 980 acres of land and swamp at Oak Lake Man for a muskrat farm. The cash price is not disclosed but fencing is expected to cost about 20 000 dollars.
A thousand men have been placed on western farms this year by the Hudson's Bay Company overseas settlement board, according to F. H. Gambie of Winnipeg, manager of that organization.
Sir Alfred Mond argues the British Empire should be self sufficient like Chamberlain’s Zollverein He asserts the empire holds vast natural resources and should trade within itself with tariffs that link Britain to South Africa Canada New Zealand and Australia to spur economic growth and population.
Baron Hisaya Iwasaki heads Japan’s richest with $2,154,000 income and $621,000 tax. Baron Mitsui closely follows with $1,696,000 income and $465,000 tax. The ten richest include two Iwasakis, seven Mitsuis, and Baron Obara. M Hiattori leads as the top company president with $467,000. Marquis Hosokawa is the wealthiest peer with $289,000. Dr Day, Mitsui director, earns $291,000. In Tokyo and Yokohama 738 individuals report incomes over $25,000.
Professor R H A Plimmer of the University of London debunked slim figure myths at a New Health Society talk at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He argued toast is worse for fattening than bread, noting steamed bread concentrates when toasted and could lead to greater intake.
E M Moody aged eighty eight resigns as postmaster of Moodyville Kansas ending the town’s post office. He was its first postmaster and his departure leads to official discontinuance of the office in Pottawatomie County.
The article outlines French savings restrictions including 12 000 francs for individuals and 50 000 francs for mutual societies and unions. It notes single pass books, penalties for infringements, limits on married women with no income, minors needing authorization to withdraw, and 50 francs fortnightly withdrawal cap.
Peel and slice oranges and grapefruit, remove all white membranes and skin. Cut red apples into wedges, arrange alternately with orange slices on lettuce plates. Create a circle of orange segments on a lettuce plate and fill the center with grapefruit segments.
Wash pound mushrooms. Remove stems, scrape and cut in pieces. Melt butter, add mushrooms, cook covered two minutes. Sprinkle salt and pepper, dredge with flour, add cream and cook slowly five minutes. Grate a little nutmeg, spoon over buttered toast strips, garnish with toast points and parsley.
Make a firm cranberry jelly and fill dessert glasses halfway. When set, top with plain junket and cool. Serve plain or with whipped cream and a small cranberry jelly dot for color.
The Wester Can ada Dairy Association will hold its convention in Regina from February 7 to 10. Many of the Dominion's leading dairy authorities will address the gathering. Eastern and Western dairy representatives are expected to attend.
A man bought a cheap car and returned it for examination. He explains that every part of the car makes a noise except the horn.
Western Canada reports a record hay yield with 2,544,000 tons of hay and clover across four provinces versus 1,984,000 tons last year and 235,700 tons of alfalfa against 220,000 tons in 1926, according to Federal estimates.
Saskatchewan accounts for over half of Canada’s wheat crop with 26 264 640 acres under cultivation in 1926 and 13 496 457 acres sown to wheat. The arable land area is listed as 53 008 000 acres, urging continued use of Minard's Liniment.
Dr. H. M. Ami of the Canadian School of Prehistory reports a 5000 specimen collection from Moustierian deposits near Bordeaux. He asserts man has been an intelligent creature for 450,000 years and that tools show industrious activity in the glacial age rather than constant fighting.
June mortality figures show infant death rate at 77.2 per thousand, down from 89.5 in 1926. Quebec records the highest rate at 106.1 but shows the greatest yearly improvement. Manitoba has the lowest at 49.0. Dominion birth rate stands at 25.1 per thousand with a death rate of 10.16.
A collage of sayings on gender roles and childhood plus brief notes on health and invention. The piece critiques boys and praises girls while mentioning Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator and a new rubber pavement crossing in Racine Wisconsin alongside a nod to machines solving algebra problems.
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