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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 04, 1931
Page
5
An author argues urban public health advances outpace rural Canada. He explains how typhoid spreads via water milk and person to person and why deep wells and pasteurized milk reduce risk. He urges full time rural health units and stricter quarantine enforcement nationwide.
British radio and allied manufacturers back newspaper advertising as the best medium. From 5 million dollars spent in 1930, returns to retail trade totaled 80 million dollars. Radio dealers studied ad methods and found newspaper spending yields greater returns than other channels. Readers consume both news and ads in daily papers.
An interview in the Daily Princetonian cites Sir Henry Thornton of Canadian National Railways arguing top college success comes from a balanced life. He says men in the middle third academically who engage in sports and activities have a better chance later.
Yale students show 23 percent win special honors for scholarship and 46 percent on the honor roll while 15 of 20 first honors in the last class were self-supporting. The piece contrasts costs with grit amid Yale Harvard routines.
Old-timers claim this winter is the mildest in fifty years. Robert Wiegland recalls 1877 when Thunder Bay stayed ice free all season and a Duluth boat arrived March 1. Ice never fully cleared that year with less than four inches at its thickest.
The world’s oldest seaside resort at Nice, founded by the Phoenicians in 350 B C, with a history spanning over 25 centuries, has drawn unusually large crowds this season. Its climate has attracted Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, and later European nations.
In a contest for best New Year resolution from a Seattle newspaper, first prize went to a set of reforms focusing on productivity cooperation and positive behavior. The winning resolution promotes boosting cooperation, studying, and winning with less crabbing while endorsing constructive effort and courteous, tolerant conduct.
British Columbia will mark its diamond jubilee at the provincial capital on July 20. The date recalls 60 years since the Crown Colony was formally included in Confederation.
A Bordeaux Court ruling grants husbands the right to read their wives letters in their presence stirring discussion in France. The piece contrasts gender roles, noting a wife can control the purse yet lacks voting rights, while husbands operate under strict code and social expectations.
John M. Imrie of Edmonton, chair of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce mission to the Orient, told the Empire Club in Toronto that exports to China and Japan would grow but reaching 100 million bushels is absurd. He warned high estimates sparked false hopes while the delegation expects a gradual rise in Canadian exports to Japan, China and Hong Kong.
The article discusses ancient engraving and notes the first authentic dated engraving on record as that of St Christopher in 1423. It mentions Baron de Reiffenberg claiming an earlier 1418 engraving and a manuscript suggesting England knew the art by 1306, though earlier claims are controversial.
A boy overhears his parents debating war origins. The father presents a hypothetical quarrel between England and France, while the mother objects. The child concludes he understands how wars begin.
The Geographic Board of Canada under the Director General of Surveys decides on all questions about geographic names arising in public service departments.
A chemical plant in Czecho-Slovakia employed three hundred workers for eight years to produce a single ounce of radium. The effort yielded one ounce valued at about twenty million dollars, illustrating the extreme scarcity and value of radium.
A New York exhibit on color science contrasts views from physics chemistry and psychology. It explains color perception color blindness heredity and how light and feather coatings shape what we see, noting tropical birds appear colored without pigment.
Grain expert Herman Trelle argues that condition, not age, governs germination in seed wheat. He cites Egypt’s ancient grain sprouting stories as plausible, noting recent travels with his wife aboard the Empress of France en route to a Mediterranean cruise from New York on February 3.
The government formally approves road and bridge plans to aid unemployed Britons with an estimated £1,852,000 expenditure. Total approved schemes reach £28,000,000, with £26,000,000 more approved in principle. Paris boasts nearly 350 public drinking fountains funded by an English philanthropist.
A brief attributed remark from Kariketuren of Oslo states that no one in the world is perfect and emphasizes humility. The comment reflects a general stance on human imperfection in everyday life.
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