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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 30, 1935
Page
2
Dr. Robert A. Millikan argues that genuine advance lies in mental and moral growth rather than transportation outputs or building tallies. He urges humane use of new communications and machines, kindness, fellowship, and self reflection as measures of progress for 1935 and beyond.
Antonio Giovanni Rebagliati, pioneer merchant of the Cariboo, has revisited Lytton British Columbia and attends church as bells donated years ago are finally rung on Sundays. Neighbors supported the revival of the bell sound after complaints about noise. He urged players on a football coach’s phrasing to act with initiative, while mountain goals rise in Mount Rainier National Park Washington.
A vintage health ad claims kidney troubles cause poisons to build up in the system and trigger backache lumbago rheumatism or sciatica. It promotes gin pills as a remedy to restore kidney function and purge the poisons.
An American hotel guest speaking Japanese caused Miss Elizabeth Hett of the Hotel New Yorker to call the Japanese consulate seeking help. The consular attache translated the guest's wish for a laundry pickup on Monday. Separately, Canadians show record demand for graded poultry during the holiday season.
A small child asks a lady helping at a party if she likes toffee. She declines, then the child asks her to look after something for him. The dialogue captures a gentle social moment at a gathering.
Wickham Steed argues in the Fortnightly Review that war is not inevitable but will come without decisive action. He urges leaders of free nations to renounce warfare and treat armaments as a police function, removing neutrality toward aggressor nations under the Briand Kellogg Pact and League obligations.
Superintendent William George Cole retires from Buckingham Palace after 14 years as Police Officer in Attendance on His Majesty the King. He received the Victorian Order at a special audience and will be succeeded by an inspector previously attached to the Queen.
A Winnipeg cleaning house routine uncovers numerous items from pockets and bags daily. One suit brought in by a cattle buyer yielded 900 dollars. The piece notes long term growth in Canadian apple exports from 1900 to 1933 34 and expanding export markets.
Sailors drifted to remote subantarctic islands like Amsterdam St Paul and the Crozets where a French notice on a beach directs castaways to food and clothing. A rough hut holds beef biscuits woollen shirts blankets and matches. Historic notes recall a ship leaving provisions on a Crozet island in 1887 that fed a Norwegian whaling crew decades later.
Vast caribou herds move south of their usual range in the Northwest Territories as pilot Stanley McMillan notes. He reports thousands of caribou drifting from the Barren Lands toward the south, with a notable sighting 480 miles north of Edmonton on Lake Athabaska. Old-time trappers say this southward move is unprecedented in their memory.
The Duke of Gloucester, on a tour of Australia, mixed humor with discretion during a Sydney dinner with local diggers. He recounted a light moment when a farmer, mistaking him for royalty, claimed to have recognized his horse after a casual chat.
Gordon H. Guest summarizes how natural magnets attract iron, indicate direction, and how steel magnets like the bar and horseshoe magnets function. He explains magnetic fields, poles, and the earth’s global magnetic alignment with a compass needle pointing north.
Metropolitan Life Insurance statisticians classify newlyweds as likely to survive fifty years as an absolute probability. For a 22 year old bride and a 25 year old groom the study finds about one in six chance of fifty years together. The silver anniversary probability is about three in four and the tenth anniversary near certainty at 0.927 per 1,000. The bulletin notes rising marriages spur business growth.
Munich decrees replacement of the traditional spike helmet with caps for all police. The move ends the last German city still wearing the spiked headgear and signals a uniform shift across the force.
Vienna enforces a city wide quiet rule using a newly developed unit called a "phone" to quantify vehicle noise. Each transport class has a cap on the number of phones permitted and a fine schedule applies for excess. Police deploy a device that records passing vehicles' sound levels for enforcement.
Henry Dawson of Toronto testifies under oath that after two operations he suffered severe headaches. He says Fruit-a-tives relieved the pain and he cannot recommend them highly enough to others with similar trouble. He notes the product costs 25c and 50c and asks for copies of his sworn statement.
Peter Petrovitch of Belgrade can memorize over 80 figures in ten minutes, surpassing the previous English record of 73. He is a walking calendar, recalling the day of the week for any date. A joke about a doctor and a patient rounds out the note.
Astronomers say two more large sunspots signal the restart of the eleven year solar cycle with effects on radio, crops, lakes, animal life, and even business. Dr. Caldwell notes sun storms cause increased electromagnetic activity reaching Earth, aiding plant growth and tree rings while influencing animal catches, with facts shown by Hudson Bay data. The piece also notes early frozen poultry exports rising, with 2,000 boxes arriving in Britain and a shipment via the Panama Canal.
Sir Charles Lindsay, struck by blindness at nineteen, rose to become a renowned piano tuner and dealer in Montreal. He built a substantial business and amassed wealth, using his fortune for philanthropy that defines his lasting legacy.
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