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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 22, 1925
Page
7
Miss Myrtie A Westover of Bolton Centre Quebec reports pimples on face shoulders festered and burned keeping sleep impossible. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment she says she was completely healed.
The Must Man, Sir George William Buchanan former British ambassador to Britain and Petrograd died in London. Germany continues arming despite peace treaty. Seven women law students to join the English Bar raising total to 41. Molson’s Bank Montreal sale ratified at head office. Montreal firms press for higher shoe tariff. A wireless rocker reportedly transmitted messages using varying currents. Albanian insurrection prompts frontier crossing and disarmament orders. France’s Jules Jesserand bids farewell in Washington. Dolly the leopard makes a theatre appearance causing a dramatic moment.
A double seat aeroplane hooked onto an airship during a test at Scott Field. The Army Breggie 7C-3 used a Sperry engine, with a mechanical hook catching a trapeze under the airship to enable ascent and release at an altitude of 1 506 feet.
The British air ministry plans a vast airship to be built at Cardington Bedfordshire named R-191. It will be the first steel airship with a stallivas steel structure and steel propellers. Capacity about five million cubic feet, carrying up to 100 passengers, likely completion in 1926.
The final Royal Grain Enquiry Commission report is virtually complete and will be revised, printed, and presented to the Federal Government. It is expected to total about five hundred pages and roughly 159,900 words, surveying all phases of grain marketing. The commissioners plan to table the report in the House of Commons when Parliament resumes.
Mrs. Gee of Morrisburg Ontario writes of two years of heart and nerve trouble with palpitations and breathlessness from minor effort. She began taking Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pals and describes improvement after starting the remedy.
Advert says Milburn's Pills rapidly improve heart conditions and are sold by The T Milburn Co Toronto. Westwood California volcano eruption reported as the largest since 1915. Also cites Thomas' Electric Oil as effective for internal and external catarrh treatment with testimonials.
Cancer fatalities in 1923 totaled 86 754 in the census area holding 7.6 percent of the population, up 5 816 from 1922. The cancer rate was 89.4 per 103 000, vs 86.8 in 1922, while tuberculosis deaths reached 90 732, with a rate drop to 3.6 per 160 000 from 7.0.
A broadcast debate idea from McGill University through CHUC Montreal may see United States universities participate. Negotiations are reportedly under way with New England institutions as part of the challenge.
Astronomers say the number of stars in the universe lies between 75 million and 1 billion, a wide estimate reflecting uncertainties in observing distant galaxies and cosmic structures.
Saskatchewan led the Canada wide underwriters with losses of 1.223 million on 2.297 million in premiums for 53 companies in the province. Alberta posted about six cents loss per dollar of premiums while Manitoba saw roughly three cents. The 1924 season was favorable for losses though business volume declined versus 1923.
The National Review in London portrays New York as controlled by Jews across finance, retail, media, real estate, and daily life. It claims Jewish power shapes housing, agents, and urban existence, asserting social ambivalence toward Jewish wealth and influence.
H L Timmins of Montreal, vice president of Hollinger Gold Mining, said the mine will double daily ore treatment to 9,000 tons from 4 000–5 000 as mill and water supplies expand. He noted $85,900,000 in gold produced and urged capital and selective immigration policy for Canada's gold future.
British firm purchases rights to Aero-Dynamo, a German wind powered electric machine. Based on airplane lift principles, it uses air suction above the wing to power a turbine. If successful, it could transform rural economies and instantly ease Germanys coal shortage worldwide.
Due to dictionary demand from the crossword craze the Los Angeles Public Library now limits any reader to five minutes with the dictionary at one time. In case of quarrels those involved are asked to settle differences at the librarian's desk.
Master Roderiquez Madera, famed elementary teacher in Srair, refuses to teach under electric lights claiming glare hurts pupils eyes and distracts from study. He insists candle light be restored in his classrooms.
Four British warships led by a vice-admiral will visit the United States in early January. HM S Calcutta sails with the commander in chief North American and West India station to New Orleans from January 5 to 10. Curlew and Constance will visit Key West from December 31 to January 9. governors of Louisiana and Florida urged to extend usual courtesies.
The U S department of agriculture places this year’s work wheat crop at 2 5 billion bushels, down 116 million from last year with European total about 184 00 000 bushels below prior year. Canada shows a 200 million bushel drop and Argentina 60 6 million lower. Canadian winter wheat seeding reaches 832 000 acres, up 69 600 from 1923.
A conference on medical services recommends extending undergraduate medical study to five years as a minimum. The plan specifies about three years devoted to clinical work and notes disagreement over what constitutes a year's study, with a tentative two week period proposed.
A Geneva sub committee report on cocaine and coca leaves urges strict government control of the traffic through export and import certificates. Experts note coca plants often grow wild and cannot be easily cultivated.
The radio branch of the department of marine and fisheries reports 69 058 licenses issued for radio sets from April 1 to November 30 1924 an increase of 50 848 from the same period previous year. Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil is praised as a fifty year market standby in Canada and abroad.
Prince Yamhito second son of the Japanese emperor will sail for Europe on May 13 to study at Oxford for two years and possibly four years in England. He will focus on social problems as his principal field of study.
Agricultural guidance on two alfalfa cuts per season with timing to maximize growth and leaf retention. Early cutting preserves leaves rich in protein, reduces stemmy hay, and aids drying under varying weather. Curing methods adapt to growth rate, ground conditions, and moisture to maintain feed value.
A proposal from Ottawa backed by Premier Creen field of Alberta seeks to amend the Dominion Bankruptcy Act to create a more favorable condition for former bankrupts, especially regarding percentage payments. The plan aims to allow provincial supplementary legislation to cover local conditions, with federal action expected early in the session and Alberta to follow.
Head nurse at the Radium Institute in London has had a finger amputated after suffering radium exposure. The article notes extreme precautions used by staff to handle radium and mentions the ongoing search for safer preventive measures.
Six livestock judging contests for youths ages ten to seventeen are arranged by the Saskatchewan Livestock Board with the Horse Cattle Sheep Swine Poultry Creeders Associations and provincial breed clubs during the Havestoce convention at Regina.
Andre Nault a former supporter of Louis Riel in the Red River troubles died in Winnipeg on December 17 at age 95. Born 1824 in Point Louis he helped spark the 1870 Red River conflict by informing Riel of surveyors on disputed land and opposed government seizure insisting the rights and consultation with the Dominion Government.
Turkey forms hundreds of small forest reserves as rapid deforestation threatens woodland areas. Officials warn that violations of these safeguards may carry life imprisonment, signaling strict conservation measures.
D Backles, K C of Swift Current was elected president of the Law Society of Saskatchewan during the law society benchers annual convocation in Regina.
The poultry sector in Canada reached an estimated value of 50 million dollars for the previous year. A proverb is quoted about burying animosity and forgetting its location.
Sir William Ingram, son of the Illustrated London News founder, died in London recently.
A historical note explains that carrying enough poison in a hollow ring to destroy an intended victim was among the most common devices used in medieval crime. The claim highlights how ingenuity and disguised tools played a role in ancient criminal methods.
The United States Bureau of Standards tested color signals for motorists. Under daylight, the signals ranked by discernibility from strongest to weakest as red, green, yellow, and blue.
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