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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 08, 1923
Page
5
Alesis Carrel reports to the Academy of Medicine that an isolated animal heart kept alive and beating for months, suggesting aging and death may be external to cells. Skeptics remained, but the piece argues modern hygiene could extend lifespans and challenge the inevitability of aging.
The Agassiz Dominion Experimental Farm in British Columbia outlines annual 1922 care and feeding for Barred Plymouth Rocks. Birds receive straw litter, a twice daily equal mix of cracked corn wheat and oats, a dry mash with bran shorts oats corn meat beef scrap and char coal, plus grit and oyster shell from a two‑compartment hopper. Green feed kale chard clover or mangels and skim milk supplement water and shelter near each pen.
Schoolhouse project friction ends when a plasterer from union headquarters refuses a foreman's offer citing lack of parking. The foreman quips that only plasterers who employ their own chauffeurs are hired, highlighting odd hiring rules in a Boston Poet anecdote.
Joseph C. Beck served 36 years as a railway mail clerk on the Chicago to Cleveland line of the New York Central. He logged 2,997,000 miles, endured several wrecks without injury, and now plans retirement.
The ancient Greeks practiced planting mallow and asphodel around graves, believing the seeds would nourish the dead in the afterlife.
The Western provinces push corn farming as a major crop with Alberta leading promotion through the Alberta Corn Growers' Association and seed shipments. Saskatchewan and Manitoba follow, with new provincial shows planned at Maple Creek and rising yields and values per acre, making corn rival wheat in profitability.
A Canadian newspaper essay argues for forest conservation to secure newsprint supply. It warns that fires and overharvesting threaten timber, pulp wood, and price stability. It calls publishers and government to lead a campaign for sustainable forest policy.
A recent estimate indicates that about one half of cooking in the United States is done with gas. The finding highlights the significant role of natural gas in daily food preparation nationwide.
In a playful tale a Brownie child named Chuckles learns to ride a bicycle after a cobbler lesson. Queen Loylines orders him to scout a possible Brownie invasion from Cruel Brownies, believing a bicycle will keep him unseen and swift. The scene blends whimsy with a hero’s outing and camp intrigue.
A Philadelphia Record reprint notes Dr. William Held of Chicago on glandular science slowing aging and disease. It cites Evanston wages over $100 weekly for plasterers drawing students away from ministry, and a civil engineer with many degrees refusing professorship for higher pay in plastering.
Columbia University tops enrollment with 27 339 resident students followed by California with 206 983. The University of Pennsylvania holds 14 534, College of the City of New York 14 067, and New York University 12 336 in the latest counts.
Professor Ruby Green Smith of Cornell University estimates the farm wife would earn at least 3800 dollars annually if paid for all roles she fills including seamstress laundress cook nurse assistant hired man and general manager.
Banff Park saw record August visitor traffic with 3 652 autos through the East Gate and 1 945 via Windermere Road, bringing the season total to 7 197 cars since the auto park opened June 14.
In Northern India the African marigold is held as a sacred flower, reflecting cultural and ceremonial importance. The plant is described as a symbol of reverence, frequently used in religious rituals and offerings.
The story traces Mike Dowling born in Chicago who went to Minnesota as a fourteen year old herder and froze his hands and feet in a blizzard. After a year of schooling he became a country schoolteacher then a city school superintendent and later bank president. He rose to roles including speaker of the Minnesota House and helped crippled children while supporting them and sending boys to school.
The article explains how jaw bones are shaped to fit chewing stress and describes the muco periosteum and alveolar sockets that cushion and nourish roots. It notes that chewing can exert up to 250 psi, and loss of teeth overburdens remaining ones, risking jaw bone inflammation and loss.
A Rosthern Saskatchewan study shows seven to eight year profits from buying steers in fall for winter feeding and selling in spring, despite higher feed costs. Cattle sourced from oats and barley rich districts, with prairie hay cheaper, yield profits. winter feeding also provides off season work, reduces rough feeds, and recycles straw and grain. An earlier 1921-22 test found turnip and sunflower silage offer nearly equal feeding value with full ration.
Major-General MacBrien returned to London after touring Canadian battlefields in France and Belgium. He praised rapid postwar construction and noted little remained of the old fields aside from Vimy Ridge. He praised the chosen sites for the St Julien memorial and other commemorations.
The article argues that many cities keep low poultry death rates through sanitation, water supply, and citizen common sense. It describes a poultry farm as a small chicken city and assigns responsibility for sanitation and water to the owner, who must apply common sense in management.
The Canadian National Railways will erect a 90 by 110 foot classic style building next to the Canadian Government structure at the British Empire Exhibition. Contracts are signed and work starts immediately. Exhibits cover agriculture horticulture milling industry and tourism with a 250 seat cinematograph hall showing new Canada films. Architect is Eustache G Bird of Toronto.
A reader questions how a shelf five feet two inches long and ten inches wide could replace the hammock in sleeping berths. The note argues shelf space may aid storage but worries about access for non-acrobatic travelers to remove and neatly arrange clothes at night.
The proposal by Sir Walter de Frece extends England's cruelty to animals act to include insects reptiles and fish. He originally urged adding insects but agreed to drop it after critics argued convicting cruelty to a flea would be hard.
Weyerhauser interests prepare to build a large lumber mill on Vancouver Island at Chemainus. The project, estimated at 1.5 million dollars, will form one of the province’s largest lumbering operations with extensive timber holdings in the area.
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