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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 28, 1933
Page
2
Premier Ramsay MacDonald and King George VI urge nations to unite beyond self interest at the London World Economic Conference. Sixty seven nations attend with plenipotentiaries empowered to commit governments, aiming for interdependent prosperity and international cooperation to avert economic collapse.
Judge F A G Ouseley laments lack of guidance for naturalization applicants in district court. Edmonton Dominion Lab notes brown root rot affecting clover and alfalfa across southern and central Alberta and Saskatchewan, native to prairie black soils and not yet reported elsewhere. Soviet leadership plans at least 15 expeditions to study backward races in Russia for alphabet development.
Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta dairy associations prepare a common effort after the railway board rejected a rates application. They seek a re hearing to lower freight charges from the prairies to Vancouver and eastern Canada where butter still sells around 40 cents per pound. Saskatchewan officials have contacted counterparts in Alberta and Manitoba to arrange a meeting and coordinate the appeal.
Overweight men can learn from G. L. B. who dropped from 227 to 164 pounds in about a year by a daily morning dose of Kruschen Salts for six months and regular walking. He avoided dieting and says energy and ambition increased as weight fell.
The Paris Parisian correspondent reports the Academe de Marine challenges feminine usage for ships. In England objects are genderless but English ships are called she. French masculine ship nouns clash with feminine vessel names like Normandie or Republique, prompting demand to align with feminine ship naming to avoid linguistic or euphonic offences.
Dick Turpin’s coat lining yields money and jewelry once owned by the highwayman. Items including a George I half-crown from 1717, six silver coins, two copper coins, a gold ring, two silver rings, and silver-gilt ear-rings were recovered after Mr. Rutter bought the plum velvet coat and related artifacts tied to Turpin’s 1739 York execution. A separate note reports a Loch Leven Trout record in Saskatchewan, Canada, with a 10 lb 2 oz catch in Cypress Hills.
Statistics and experience indicate that crop yields in Canada are generally well below the possible maximum, reflecting a common gap between potential and actual production across regions. This assessment highlights the need for improved practices and resource use to raise outputs.
Port Rowan News argues that price rises harm widows, retirees, and small earners and warn that universal price inflation could worsen living standards in villages. The piece questions a national fund and suggests letting supply and demand self regulate prices.
An authentic herd of 44 white cattle with red muzzles and black horn tips live on the Earl of Bankerville’s 700 acre Northumberland wood ed demesne. The herd, long kept pure by a stone wall, is said to descend from ancient aurochs and is now protected by the Zoological Society. The animals are shy and costly to maintain, but preservation is assured.
A New York Times wager story recounts a University Club member who boasted of writing a poem and getting it printed. He submitted an eight line verse, sent a signed query, and then provided the completing lines under a new signature. The Times printed both installments and the bet was settled.
The Royal Bank of Canada offers a graduate fellowship worth 1000 dollars to Canadian university students who write the best essay on a Canadian economic problem. Essays due by March 1, 1934, cover topics such as Canadian industry analysis, capital movements, the world economic conference, Canadian agricultural exports, and eastern Canada power using industries.
Amid reports of a low mood, crowded picture shows stand out as valuable during the depression era. They provide a diversion, letting people direct their minds away from personal troubles and toward entertainment and collective distraction.
In a New York grocery store police corner a burglar who shouts I’m shot as they close in. He collapses as if bloodied, but the “blood” is simply egg yolk dripping down his face from a shelf. The officers laugh at the misperception.
American astronomer Dr Charles Abbot predicts the sun will be colder for two years though Earth temperatures depend on many factors besides solar radiation. An engineer in Poland has invented an anti aircraft gun device capable of striking a target at 1200 feet.
French engineer M. Eugene Freyssinet envisions a 10 000 foot hollow concrete tower for the 1937 Paris world exposition. A four mile spiral road would reach a 400 car garage and dining facilities atop a vast structure with a lighthouse at the summit, priced around two million dollars.
First Canadian motion picture produced in Hollywood and the first with a Canada based premise. Damaged Lives, a problem play filmed under the Canadian Social Hygiene Council direction, drew 25 000 Toronto viewers in its first week and will tour the British Empire. England has scheduled screenings under the health ministry sponsorship. Producers call it the most extensive public health education via talking pictures.
A Paradise California family had breakfast interrupted when a grown African lioness appeared at their window. The Associated Press notes such sightings reflect how some people let distractions intrude on daily life. A memorial to Carl Benz, inventor of the motor car, was unveiled in Mannheim Germany.
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