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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 26, 1928
Page
5
The Buffalo Courier Express reports Edison proposing farms as industrial adjuncts, growing rubber from native plants like goldenrod to supplement food output. He notes 1600 wild plant samples, 80 show rubber potential, with 12 likely frost-t hardy on southern cotton lands.
Government returns show tourist revenue rising from 53.7 million in 1920 to 190.5 million in 1926 with 1927 estimates near 260 million. The 1925 favorable travel balance reached 100.4 million, an invisible export second only to wheat and newsprint, and provinces all posted travel gains. Regina Leader.
Carved wooden toys from Prague arrive at Regina Red Cross HQ for the Bazaar of Nations to be held next autumn. The consignment includes ducks turtles rabbits fish and tiny wooden ladybugs with a Czech invoice explaining shunecka for ladybug and dreveny kun for wooden horse.
An article notes the Chinese fascination with insects, especially crickets, cicadas, and mantises, shaping religious and poetic imagery. It contrasts Chinese insect nomenclature with limited terms for other animals and highlights the Illustration Stations program increasing seed grain, potatoes, livestock, and clover seed production in 1927–28.
A lecturer in a dime museum presents the ossified man as a science marvel. A spectator asks how he became stone, and the lecturer reveals a sensational, fictional tale: love drove him to solidify, but he overdid it.
Canada plans its first aircraft show at the Canadian National Exhibition this fall. Officials say the event will resemble a propaganda effort to demonstrate that aircraft are and can be used in Canada, differing from a recent Detroit exhibition.
A mistress questions memory trained maid Sarah who claims honesty keeps recall sharp. Cadgett and Jones discuss a birthday gift for Mabel, with a puppy proposed as a lasting reminder. The narrator recalls an old hometown acquaintance named Cadgett.
The Dominion Department of Agriculture works with honey handlers to establish grades for standardizing honey mainly for export. Canada ships honey to the United Kingdom France Belgium Denmark Germany Holland Norway Sweden and the United States. Last year exports reached 1 568 712 pounds an increase of over 200 percent in four years. Beekeeping is expanding rapidly on a national commercial basis. The 1927 honey crop rose 77 percent from 1926 to 25 647 268 pounds valued at 3 660 629 dollars. Ottawa Publications Branch offers beekeeping pamphlets on application.
In Alberta progress in cattle farming is noted as two hundred head were shipped to Edmonton from the Pouce Coupe country at top prices. The cattle traveled at least 100 miles to be loaded at Wembley, with one lot coming from 40 miles beyond Dawson Creek and moving 130 miles by trail.
John Mond a Chinese man with fifteen years in a local restaurant dishwasher role was sentenced to two months for shoplifting. Police when taking fingerprint records found he had none due to the miles of grime erasing all fingertip markings. The tale ends with a moral about judgment and faults.
The article lists historic aviation milestones from the first woman across the Atlantic Amelia Earhart to successors in distance duration and speed. It notes 15 pilots crossing similarly since 1919, 78 airship flights with 29 crew, and the R-34 round trip in five days. It also mentions Lindbergh and other early nonstop aviators, and Portugal’s 1922 Lisbon to Rio voyage using four planes.
The Ottawa Department of Agriculture published Bulletin No 99 by A Gibson Dominion Entomologist outlining two insect classes by mouth parts and detailing injurious versus beneficial species. It covers control methods including arsenical sprays for the rose bud worm and nicotine sprays for aphids, aiding rosarians this season.
The Fort McMurray Board of Trade calls for an ichthyological and hydrographic survey of Great Slave Lake Lake Athabasca and connecting waters. It notes limited northern fish data though legends report land-locked salmon in Legend Lake and six trout and three whitefish species in Lake Athabasca.
The article honors anonymous scientists whose risk and dedication rarely receive public praise. It contrasts glamorous explorers and aviators with lab workers who face dangers away from dramatic settings, describing their daily journeys and quiet acts of bravery as noble yet underrecognized contributions to science.
A dinner scene unfolds as a family serves oyster soup as a grand gesture of hospitality. Little Lucy, told she and her mother must have only oyster soup, is given one oyster by mistake and asks softly if Mrs Mop should also receive the single oyster, revealing her considerate concern.
A survey of Juan Fernandez Island notes its fertility and lush plant life. It recalls Alexander Selkirk, long seen as the model for Robinson Crusoe, who lived there four years. A French shipwreck survivor on the island refuses to leave after forty years.
The article extols flower throwing and flower exhibits of all kinds as vital to community life. It argues they spur development of lawns and gardens and with thousands of citizens involved, overall local appearance improves noticeably.
Dr C M Hicks medical director of the Canadian National committee for mental hygiene cites Canada’s 24 000 hospitalized mentally ill and 60 000 more with mental disorders scattered in communities. Annual upkeep runs about nine million dollars, roughly one dollar per person. He condemns stigma and urges treatment, noting delusions reflect societal prejudices and negativism mirrors stubbornness.
Odd artifact at Oxford museum, a massive stone sack with rope marks and sacking texture. Fished from the Thames near London Bridge, it hardened into cement after centuries submerged, a Roman era curiosity preserved by time.
Experiments under government direction on rubber trees in Haiti reveal a wide range of yields. Some trees produced less than a thousand cubic centimeters of sap in a period while others exceeded 10 000 cubic centimeters.
A colored preacher addresses his congregation about the fury of hell. He compares molten iron running from a furnace to the ice cream they eat, saying the same stuff is used in the dessert. The crowd reacts with disapproval to the comparison.
Six hundred Panama chauffeurs organize to form a tourist agency. A nervous speaker seeks a quiet companion and mentions a former telephone operator as a match. Ruy Las, Paris.
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