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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 12, 1928
Page
2
A dated exhortation on vehicular growth and road safety urges public reform. It warns that speed, glare from headlights, and reckless driving threaten life and property, calling for citizen vigilance, laws, and roadside etiquette to curb traffic hazards.
The Bible again led global book sales in 1927 with 16,034,797 copies, per the American Bible Society annual report. It appeared in 166 languages and dialects, and the first complete Bible in the Luba Lulua language was issued. There are 150 convicts serving life terms in Canadian prisons.
A Toronto reader praises Vegetable Compound for nerves after taking it regularly for months. She, a mother of seven children, reports better sleep and feeling younger since the first dose.
Winnipeg hosts a major Norse festival July 5 to 11 expected to attract about twenty five thousand attendees from the central western states and western Canada. Governors Christianson and Sorlie will speak, with Norway sending a delegation and government church and civic officials taking part. The festival also includes the annual Norwegian Danish Press convention bringing around fifty editors.
A police officer orders a clearly intoxicated man to move from a street location. The man haltingly retorts that he can stand there and has been for an hour without falling. The exchange captures a humorous, if risky, roadside moment.
A witty exchange features a bride seeking a boneless fatless cut while the butcher counters with a humorous line that she instead wants an egg, capturing a comic moment in a local shop.
May Christie, famed author of North American bestsellers, departs aboard the White Star liner Megantic to England after ten months on the continent during which she wrote two 76,000 word novels and forty five articles. She is now married to J S Mazzavini, a New York broker.
An advertisement promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood enriching tonic to aid indigestion. It cites Mrs George W Johnson of Lequille Nova Scotia describing relief after using the pills and offers a free booklet What To Eat and How To Eat, with pills available from retailers or by mail for 50 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
A 1927 BC hop harvest produced 1,425,875 pounds from 1,937 acres, nearly double 1926 and the largest on record. At 32 cents a pound the crop was worth 456,280 dollars. In 1928 an additional 332 acres bore. The excerpt also notes a humorous exchange and U S land area figures.
A new laboratory and greenhouse at the University of Alberta will support collaboration among the university, the federal department of agriculture, and the national research council to study root-rot diseases. Dr. A W Henry leads plant pathology work. Dr. G B Sanford heads the Dominion Laboratory of Plant Pathology. Dr. O S Aamodt directs cereal breeding. Dr. Fryer continues forage crop breeding.
New town Cranberry Portage near the Flin Flon Railway has risen from railway offices to a population of 100 with two hotels and several thriving businesses. A board of trade forms, a municipal organization looms, and nearby a number of mining claims proceed within a mile of town.
When the Salmon Arm forest fire menace reappears this summer the response will be by specialists. Veterans of fire fighting have reeducated themselves with the latest approved methods for hazard reduction and flame suppression. Daily studies included disposal of slash and practical demonstrations.
A Canadian Pacific vessel Beaverdale carries 149 muskrats in 74 pairs from Lindsay Ontario to Antwerp, claimed as a record consignment and foundation stock for farms in Germany Finland and France. Also ad copy for Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil and a linguistic quip on clocks.
Betty Barclay provides an economical pudding recipe using pearl tapioca brown sugar vanilla and butter. Steps include cooking tapioca in water until translucent then adding remaining ingredients and baking for thirty minutes.
Cream butter with sugar and egg until thick. Dissolve soda in hot water add lemon juice and rind then mix with flour. Drop by spoonfuls onto sheet bake quickly. Use 1.5 cups flour for crisper cookies chill and roll thin. 20 000 passengers carried by one commercial airline company without an accident. Much of a man s experience comes too late to benefit him.
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