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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1925
Page
2
The 1925 immigration season opens as Canada seeks a larger, permanent population. Emphasizing entry only of physically fit and morally sound applicants, the piece argues provinces and local communities must ensure newcomers stay, with robust housing, medical, church, and educational support to prevent drift and foster lasting settlement.
Primitive North Greenland is described as a land without laws within twelve miles of the North Pole. Men have only hunting knives and women hold household utensils. Property rights are absent and stone houses belong to no one until an Eskimo family occupies them, after which they become theirs until they vacate.
The Taber irrigation district annual report shows a surplus of 26000 for the year. In the prior year surplus enabled the district to reduce rates from 2.00 to 1.50, reflecting financial relief for patrons.
Jonkhead A J A van Panhuys attached to the Netherlands Legation in Paris, six feet seven inches tall, married Miss Vera Craven of Hastbourne at the Chapel Royal Strand England. The bridegroom’s father is a lord-in-waiting to the Queen of the Netherlands. The couple stood amid bay trees. the bridegroom was described as very tall and the bride of medium height.
Immigration circles rumor that the Canadian Government will ease entry for continental newcomers with about 4000 people allowed to enter starting in March.
Leipsic welfare officials expose lucrative begging rings. A blind woman nets about 1000 marks weekly while brothers sing for alms and a trained school teaches children to solicit. Children are then hired to beg and share proceeds with the school director.
Mothers applaud Baby's Own Tablets for children as an effective remedy for minor stomach and bowel issues. Advertisers claim the laxative relieves constipation, aids digestion, helps teething, and even fights colds, with sales through druggists or by mail from The Br Williams' Medicine Co. Brockville Ontario.
The Associated Growers of British Columbia announce the creation of a sales agency to handle all their fruits and vegetables. They will sell directly to wholesalers through new branches to be opened in Vancouver Edmonton Calgary Saskatoon Regina and Winnipeg.
Dr. W. T. Grenfell plans a 2500 mile Atlantic voyage in a steel yacht to Labrador. The Strathcona H will carry necessities to Grenfell's stations and patients, replacing a vessel lost in ice and bypassing the lack of sea transport to Labrador via an Azores refueling stop.
Kevin O'Higgins, vice-president of the Irish Dail Eireann, moved the second reading of the treasonable and seditious offences bill. It would make permanent the law against rebellion in Ireland and replace the expired Public Safety Act. The measure is not retrospective and aims to punish future trouble and any usurpation of government functions or rival titles to the state.
Russia has placed large orders for Napier-Fokker fighters with Fokker in Holland and seeks over a hundred latest Napier-Fokker aeroplanes. Despite design and build in Holland, each air fighter will carry a 150 horsepower Napier engine, highlighting Britain s lead in aero engine design and construction.
In some factories carbolic acid is kept to cauterize wounds. Dr. Thomas Electric Oil offers quicker action without skin scarring or flesh burning, and is recommended for workmen’s injuries.
The Canadian National Railways reported net earnings of 17,244,251 dollars for 1924 after operating expenses. Sir Henry Thornton announced the final results showing reduced gross receipts by 17,547,305 dollars year over year and 14,360,000 dollars in economies, yielding the net figure.
Dread of asthma causes ongoing misery as attacks recur and fear of future episodes haunts sufferers. Dr J K Kellogg's Asthma Remedy claims to relieve attacks instantly and ward off future episodes, leaving the afflicted in peace and happiness. It is advertised as inexpensive and widely sold.
Dr Wilder B Bancroft of Cornell University spoke to the Rotary Club in Ahhaca New York on chemistry and service noting wireless progress makes fog dispersal and rain making plausible in the future.
Prince George sails for China with the Eastern Squadron aboard ship to be stationed there for about two years. He will likely be promoted earlier than planned, possibly bringing an earlier return so he could be back in a little over a year.
A statistician warns the art of penmanship could vanish in 50 years if the current rate of typewriter adoption continues. He argues time, patience, and eyesight will be saved, values he deems greater than penmanship itself.
Advertising blurb for Sore Feet Minard’s Liniment published under UC 1566 announces relief for tired feet. Product claims include soothing warmth and rapid comfort for walkers and laborers, positioning the liniment as a daily remedy.
City councilman S R Lewin proposes a bobbing tax on bobbed heads to aid Bath’s finances. He notes a parallel with a historic powdered hair tax and suggests the funds could be seen as a kind of ped tax.
P. E. Cameron imports six Quebec mink and raises them at Eagle Heights in British Columbia. He maintains a pair of Alaskan silver foxes on the same ranch as part of his fur farming operation.
Millions of British workers are paid on a sliding scale with wages rising and falling as the retail price index moves, linking earnings to inflation and cost of living changes.
The United States naval dirigible will undertake a round trip cruise to England this summer carrying mail, according to navy department officials.
The British army report for the year ending September 30 shows 30 000 total enlistments with an 18 percent drop in intake from the prior year. Northern Ireland remains a strong recruiting field while emigration to dominions and unemployment benefits reduce regular army enlistments and morale. The regular army stands at 215 343 and the territorial reserve at 44 809.
Copper remains in strong demand as essential to mining prosperity in British Columbia. C P Browning Britannia Mine manager told the Vancouver convention of the British Columbia division Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy that new electrical uses for copper will keep demand high, challenging copper mining companies worldwide.
The Sunshine Trail, Montana's premier auto highway from Butte to Alberta, is being extended to Edmonton, making it the future northern terminus of the renowned road.
Three Swiss alpinists marooned eight days in a Barma Mountains hut were saved after fliersCould not land due to heavy snow they dropped corned beef and hard tack from airplanes each night until storms eased.
Mrs Nellie Bagan describes seven years of suffering with kidney trouble and hospital care without relief. She credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with rapid improvement and urges others to try them for pervasive fatigue and poor kidney function.
A classroom dialogue unfolds as Oh, All Right asserts Tam and Lis, while the teacher corrects and identifies the speaker as the ninth letter of the alphabet, Tommy continuing the exchange about names and order.
The passage notes that claiming foresight a hundred years ahead can build a modern reputation for accuracy. It hints at the public appetite for bold forecasts and suggests caution about the reliability of long-range prophecies.
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