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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 27, 1932
Page
5
Irene Rich, proud mother of two grown daughters, discusses aging in Hollywood. She praises Lux Toilet Soap as a daily beauty aid and explains how stars guard their complexion, endorsing the fragrant French soap as a cost effective luxury.
In a London theatre box Burke joins Jean and Lady Anne as conversation circles a flirtatious chase. Madame de Varigny steers intrigue toward a rival love triangle involving Mees Peterson and Blaise Tormarin, urging Burke to win Jean before Tormarin acts.
Pearl Penny eighteen who had suffered infantile paralysis for thirteen years received limb reconstruction. Bones from her own body augmented ankles and the wrist muscle was transplanted to restore the hand. After two years in hospital she can stand unaided and awaits one more operation to regain normal life.
A Paris police test introduces an attachment for a pistol that releases incapacitating gas. The cone chamber fits over the muzzle and fires with blank cartridges, rendering a target unconscious for ten minutes and blind for ten more after waking. Inventor Professor Dion touts riot control potential.
A 10 by 12 inch oak panel portrait, long kept by a County Cork family, is claimed by experts to be a work of Richard Burbage depicting Shakespeare when he was 38. The owners believed it showed Sir Walter Raleigh. The panel is well preserved.
A historical note places Saskatchewan south of latitude 53 as a region where the land yields enough food to sustain a sizable population, reflecting agricultural capacity and settlement patterns in the province.
Aline Michael writes of life as a solitary task with moments of laughter or sorrow. Even with help offered by loved ones, each person must fight their battles alone and persevere through trouble to claim their path.
Alberta relief grants will be confined to married men and held in trust by the province. Each eligible family receives 600, funded by Dominion, provincial, and municipal governments, for sustenance and development. Funds cannot be paid in cash or used to buy land, pay taxes, or cover rentals.
The Chinese ministry of communications signs an agreement with Imperial and International Communications Ltd and the Marconi Company to install a beam wireless station on Shanghai's outskirts, outlining collaboration and technical deployment details.
The Economic Annalist notes that brands of smoking tobacco and cigarettes made wholly from Canadian grown tobacco were introduced in Great Britain during 1931 and met with fair success. Canadian makers led with a Canadian pipe tobacco and recently offered a cigarette made entirely from Canadian bright leaf.
In the Nuka Bay district 60 miles southwest of Seward Alaska prospectors Dave Downey and Tom Babcock reported a fresh gold strike. They displayed a fifteen pound sample of gold quartz thought to assay about 50000 dollars per ton and veteran prospectors called it the richest specimen from the district.
Patients suffer nocturnal asthma attacks that ruin sleep and hamper the next day’s work. The remedy advertised is Dr. J. D. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy, claimed to drive away attacks with prompt use.
Forecasters project a massive Alberta wheat crop near 150 million bushels though harvest may not begin until August 20. If prices rise with yields, it could lift overall sentiment. A worm exterminator product is advertised as affordable at druggists.
The quotation presents a humorous private newspaper note where Quillen defines radio as an expensive home appliance used so someone may lecture you about toothpaste. It frames the device as entertainment rather than practical media.
Japan relies on imports for roughly 1.5 million tons of rice each year. The note points to ongoing import dependence and market scale with no further details.
A reflective weekly piece on reliance and faith cites Psalm and Quarles to contrast human and divine guidance. It links a nurse guiding a child with the idea that, when faith wavers, God lifts and strengthens. Henry Ward Beecher echoes the theme of guided strength through grace.
John Michaels president of the Contact Lake Mining Company and Walter Hale district postal inspector returned by air to Edmonton. They visited the Great Bear Lake region where rich mineral prospects include blocks of silver tons of pitchblende and eggs at $1.50 a dozen.
The article reports that the words with my worldly goods I thee endow disappeared from the American Methodist marriage rite mirroring the decline of material possessions. It also mentions a $250,000 hotel project under construction in Edmonton Alberta indicating growth in western Canada.
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