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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 08, 1935
Page
2
An international exhibition opened in Brussels on April 27 aiming to foster peace and European unity. It spans 400 acres with 150 palaces, hosting most hemispheric nations and highlighting science, technology, and industrial progress. The event marks transport advances and Congo’s founding era.
The essay argues confidence underpins home life, business, community, and national strength. It warns that losing confidence in institutions, others, or oneself leads to ruin, while confidence fuels action, growth, and resilience across individuals and societies.
The largest shark ever caught in South African waters was trapped in a fisherman's net at Hout Bay near Capetown. It measured 27 feet 6 inches long with a 12 foot girth and weighed five tons. After a two hour struggle it was hauled into shallow water and finally killed with 14 bullets.
The ancient church Bel varosi Tempiom in Budapest will be relocated 16 yards uphill to a position eight yards higher. Engineer Lajos Fridrich has developed special machinery for the move. The operation is estimated to cost $250,000.
New statistics reveal Canada's railways carried 66.6 million tons of freight and 17.95 million passengers last year. Payroll reached 141.1 million dollars to about 119 thousand workers. Fuel and water costs totaled 14.7 million and 0.89 million dollars, with labor comprising roughly 60 percent of expenses. Revenue tonnage was led by mining products at 32.7 percent, followed by agricultural 23.1 percent, forest 12.2 percent, animal 2.7 percent, and miscellaneous 29.8 percent.
G H Dickinson of Central High School of Commerce Toronto says a survey of 16 000 Canadian children shows girls are better spellers than boys probably because they work harder. Bourgeois was hardest, accord ance easiest. commercial school pupils excel over academic and technical students.
February bacon shipments from Canada to Great Britain reached 14,765,200 pounds, nearly double February 1934. January and February 1935 exports totaled 28,370,600 pounds, up 9,823,600 pounds from 1934.
The anecdote notes Aristotle’s count of teeth in a housekeeper and a male servant showing the woman with four fewer teeth. It highlights a historic assumption that men have four more teeth than women, persisted for centuries.
A fragment notes a 1000 pounds shelled popcorn and recalls Mount Ararat, cited as the Ark’s landing site after the flood, described as over three miles above sea level. The text ends with the number 2097.
A woman writes that three years of winter neuritis confined her to bed for months. After taking Kruschen Salts she was not bedridden this winter, with the writer noting relief from the first dose. The ad attributes neuritis to impure blood and promotes Kruschen as restoring health.
Lucille Lemp a blind and crippled child from Tavistock Ontario impressed delegates at the Ontario Education Association convention in Toronto. She performed harp, recited her poem, typed a letter on a Braille keyboard, and demonstrated a geography lesson using a relief map, showcasing home instruction for physically handicapped children.
Sir Josiah Stamp, British economist and railway chairman, spoke in Montreal on the need for Canada and other dominions to regulate and control wheat exports to Great Britain. He noted Britain’s population and wheat demand are stationary and warned against assuming permanent gains from U S dust storms.
Popcorn seed imported into Canada from July 1 1934 to March 1 1935 amounted to two pounds only. During the past winter local growers at Magrath Alberta marketed over two hundred bushels of popcorn to nearby markets.
A Labrador coastline region lies far south of the Arctic Circle yet experiences Arctic-like temperatures due to surrounding cold ocean currents. The local climate is described as unusually chilly despite its southern latitude, with persistent frigid seas influencing seasonal patterns.
The Mauretania, Cunard liner retired after a 22 year record era. Built at Swan Hunter Wallsend she introduced quadruple propellers and began service with a New York voyage in 1907. She completed about 1.5 million miles and carried 250000 passengers and 70000 soldiers during wartime.
Grading of print butter will become law in Western Canada with Manitoba announcing June 1 as the start date. Regulations already in effect in British Columbia and Alberta on May 1 and in Saskatchewan on June 1, under the Federal Dairy Industry Act all butter must be graded. The new law moves beyond export or storage grading to compulsory print grading across the region.
Franklin asserts time is the most precious resource and wasted time cannot be recovered. He urges active, purposeful effort to accomplish more with less confusion through steady diligence.
Professor Vinogradov of the Tiflis forestry institute reports the discovery of a petrified forest dating to a prehistoric age on the Adshar mountains slopes near Teflis Russia. He says trunks from many tree species were found, some of gigantic size.
Chlorophyll is described as the sole means by which solar energy becomes available to plants, enabling photosynthesis and energy capture in leaves.
Captain T Campbell Black plans a weekend long range flight to Canada as the second of four proposed weekend flights. The series also includes trips to Capetown and the Orient with one destination remaining unknown.
A Royal Air Force plane door that came off during a stunt over Grays England was recovered on Purfleet Rifle Range. Earlier finds in Grays police books include washing for a week, a goat, a parrot, women's dresses, a cockerel and a swan.
The American Chemical Society plans a chemistry course aimed at housewives to detect adulterated foods. The program seeks practical methods and simple tests that homemakers can use to identify compromised products.
Aberdeen Scotland announces the completion of its first automatic telephone system installation in a historic move that modernizes communications for residents and businesses.
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