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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1930
Page
5
An editorial urges improving housing conditions for workers in mines and cities, linking overcrowding and poor ventilation to rickets, anemia, and tooth decay. It notes sunlight and fresh air as preventive and cites Australia and South Africa with open spaces as contrasts. The piece calls for broad legislation and public effort.
Veteran Gloucester fishermen explain halibut behavior and the role of skill in landing the sea’s fighting fish. The long cautious approach followed by a strike prompts the angler to time fights, sometimes letting a stubborn fish run before a surface dash. Dorymen off New England shores treat 75 to 100 pound halibuts with caution, risking capsize to avoid loss.
Prominent author Louis Latzaras notes France seems gloomy as gaiety fades. He observes fewer smiles in cafes stages and homes, despite more money and less worry about public affairs. He cites widespread lugubrious mood in books and speech.
Dr Innocencio Galindo of Panama, just entering his eighty first year, wagers on life expectancy. He paid 17000 dollars at age 78 for a policy that pays 1000 dollars quarterly for life, with full return if alive on March 23, 1932. His grandmother lived to 113, other relatives average 97.
The line reflects a general claim that anyone can have a friend who itself knows how to be a friend, emphasizing reciprocal and aspirational qualities in friendship dynamics. No specific individuals or concrete events are provided.
As summer visitors depart Banff, winter guests arrive in the form of deer. By December they roam streets and yards, rummage through garbage, stamp doorsteps, and become part of daily life. Children befriend them and even name them. Dearie the deer greets a young woman as she feeds him.
Canada imported about thirty million pounds of butter in 1929 while Denmark Holland and Sweden used Canadian grain. Skim milk and butter milk from these streams fed hogs, enabling 657000 hogs and keeping Britain well supplied. Canada eyes eighty million pounds of bacon for Britain as butter imports rise to an estimated fifty million pounds this year.
A Philadelphia doctor declares baldness cannot be cured once present. The piece riffs on baldness as noble and a sign of civilization, then ends with schoolyard jokes about orators and odors. The tone is satirical and lighthearted.
Experimental Farm Note explains seed grain prep before harvest to avoid impurities, selective saving of best grain, careful threshing to prevent kernel damage, clean storage to avoid moisture and heating, and smut treatment using formalin copper carbonate or hot water for loose smut.
Radio has become a key tool for hundreds of generals directing troops in China’s large scale civil war. Marshal Feng Yu-sing, based 80 miles from Taiyuan, maintains hourly contact with distant forces via two wireless stations, speeding instructions beyond front lines. Critics warn wireless use creates air confusion and urge central regulation while businessmen welcome unrestricted military wireless.
After 1928 planning, Canada announces a national World Grain Exhibition and Conference to be held in Regina from July 25 to August 6 1932. Prizes total over 200000 dollars across wheat oats barley and other seeds with top wheat prizes 2500 dollars. The event combines show competitions with a full conference featuring global agricultural experts addressing soils genetics milling and more.
Britain’s national treasures valued at 250 million dollars lie unins ured and unsecured in the century old British Museum. An official committee led by Sir Richard Glaze Brook recommends immediate fire patrol strengthening and structural fixes as rebuilding is impracticable. The government carries no insurance against fire for its property.
Banks offer safekeeping for deposits and prudent investment guidance. Avoid securities with abnormal returns and high risk. seek advice from bank managers who favor sound options. Banks exist for public use and should be utilized more, not less.
The dialogue shows a classroom moment about arithmetic with Mary Small and Josephine Little, ending with a correct guess. A report notes 10,000 German colonists living in Russia for two centuries seek new homes in Canada and Europe, signaling a broad migration trend.
The piece argues that wealth should bear public obligations through heavy taxes during life and death duties after death. It critiques South African fortunes for failing to repay the debt owed to the country, noting Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Bell as exceptions among those who grew very rich there.
Sir Ernest Benn reports a Canadian style column of sorrowful ads from a tradesman named Pohl. Relatives staff associates and suppliers publish grief notices in one newspaper page. The piece questions the spread of mourning ads in Canada.
Photomicrography captures house-fly eggs stinging nettle hairs eel scales with annual growth zones. Other micro subjects include a honey bee tongue pollen grains pearls and water-lily leaf buds.
Mr. Lloyd George stated at the Welsh National Festival in Liverpool that the famous eis teddfod is older than Britain's throne. He noted Welsh competitions in their language date back more than 700 years and mocked modern entertainment as mere radio tricks.
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