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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 01, 1935
Page
2
A newspaper reader argues that persistent calls for government guarantees threaten his four sons by promoting dependence. He urges self discipline, frugality, and hard work to secure a meaningful, useful life, warning against a looming utopian safety net and a state Santa Claus.
A 237 year tradition in Dublin preserves the solid gold Lord Mayor chain valued at $50,000. The outgoing mayor adds a link before passing it to the successor. A separate note lists 14 Canadian breakfast food factories 11 in Ontario two in British Columbia and one in Manitoba with Canada shipping $2,500,000 worth to the United Kingdom.
Montreal harbor commissioners outlined complete rebuilding to move the passenger harbor five miles east and deepen the channel to 40 feet. Eight new piers would host about 40 vessels and shorten the Quebec to Montreal run by roughly one hour as dredging becomes easier in the softer bottom further down the river.
A 75 year old woman reports using Kruschen Salts for nearly two years to ease crippled hands. She played two church organ services last August and plans to play again this August. She says fingers are nearly straight and supple and has recommended the remedy to many. The salts are claimed to act on the bloodstream and eliminatory organs to curb uric acid and prevent poisons.
Sir Herbert Samuel and other speakers push for currency stabilization and a possible conference with the United States. He notes depreciation of the yen and dollar, Belga, and the pound as factors in global economic weakness. Furney Braithwaite agrees on the need to survey this issue.
Japanese expansion in North China now nearly controls the cotton industry with a single mill remaining under Chinese ownership. Observers note the region, once the seat of the Chinese dynasty, faces continued Japanese influence as capitalists diplomats and businessmen replace departing soldiers.
The earliest American cookbook, attributed to Bostonian Eliza Leslie, dates from around 1830. The work is cited as a pioneering collection of American cooking recipes with practical guidance for households.
Since July Canada imported over a million pounds of field seeds and 937000 pounds of garden seeds not counting flowers. Major imports include 464000 pounds alsike seed 89000 blue grass 465000 red clover 722000 sugar beet seed 297000 peas and 125000 vetches. Origins span United States Britain France Holland Denmark Japan and others with substantial shares from Germany Italy and Czechoslovakia.
In England shipbuilding circles a St. Thomas Times-Journal item recalls a British firm once invited by the Japanese admiralty to provide destroyer plans. After delays the plans were rejected, yet later ships mirrored the British design, capsizing upon launch, leading to speculation that Tokyo will not request further blueprints.
At a Nova Scotia meeting of the Potato Marketing Board retail members praised egg grading, begun in 1923 by the Dominion Department of Agriculture, as a model for standardizing a product. Some top supporters had previously been prosecuted for regulating violations.
A local milkman broadens service beyond milk and dairy to include eggs cheese orange juice and now oysters in Providence while continuing deliveries to New York residents.
The text notes the early recognition of blind people's skill in using other senses to guide and inform themselves, highlighting Diderot's 1749 publication.
This article explains commercial soap making from fat or oil and alkali with large kettles and steam heating. It covers salting out to obtain solid soap, crutcher mixing, frame molds, and aging into cakes, plus variations like castile soap and transparent soaps.
Rt. Rev. John Farthing Bishop of Montreal condemned men revealed as tamperers of provincial voters lists as traitors to Canada. He urged the Quebec government to launch a thorough impartial inquiry and have the roll overhauled before the next provincial election, at the current legislative session.
The value of cut flowers sold in Canada during the year ended May 31 1934 was 876 203 dollars. This amount represents 62 percent of the total value of Canada's floricultural and decorative plant production including outdoor roses outdoor trees shrubs plants indoors and flowering bulbs.
The Big Bend area of Texas forms a roughly five thousand square mile triangle bounded by the Rio Grande bend, outlining a distinct geographic region.
At a Philadelphia American Philosophical Society meeting Dr. Oscar Riddle showed prolactin, a hormone from mammal pituitaries, inducing a maternal instinct in a unmated female rat. The ad hoc demonstration included a rat caring for a newborn squab, despite its carnivorous nature. Prolactin, discovered three years ago, prompts milk production and has shown similar effects across species.
Canadian railways announce a one cent per mile excursion from eastern Canada to the Pacific coast. The offer runs May 15 to 28 with stopover privileges in the west on the outbound or return trip or both. Return limit is 30 days.
Imports total 600 187 dollars with the Netherlands supplying 62 percent, the United States 9.7 percent, Belgium about 7 percent, and Great Britain under 5 percent.
The text notes that the tiger and panther imitate the calls of many other animals, a trait shared with the hyena.
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