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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 12, 1930
Page
6
A newspaper ad touts Kruschen as a vital salts remedy claimed to boost energy and health. It asserts six natural body salts sustain life and promises renewed activity, with one bottle enough to prove effectiveness. It targets older readers seeking vitality and digestive benefits.
Forty nations will send delegates to the first International Air Security Congress in Paris from December 10 to 23. Other items note Britain’s census on April 24, possible U S tariff changes on Canadian maple sugar, a root crops prize winner Miss L R Purser of Maidenhead, a crash involving Felix Lajero near Orshi, a Manitoba legislator death, and a libel appeal ruling in Toronto. Also reported are a bank robbery near Lac Frontière, bread prices at Halifax, and falling wheat prices lowering loaf costs.
A public statement by Hon. Howard McConnell details provincial and municipal relief funding for drought hit Saskatchewan. It notes $919,000 state relief cost last year plus $1.954 million in municipal aid, rail freight subsidies, road camps, and federal matches totaling several millions to assist farmers and unemployed residents.
Manitoba farmers abandon selling to large millers and haul grain to local mills at Holmfield Somerset Wawanesa and Morden. A bushel of No 1 Northern 60 pounds yields 40 pounds flour 15 pounds bran and three pounds shorts with two pounds waste. Grist charge is 20 cents per bushel. Farmers gather with wagons and chat on daily topics.
The invention by Dr Philip Drinker of Harvard School of Public Health offers a scientific lung that can keep people alive for weeks when their breathing apparatus fails. The device supports those with lung trouble by restoring respiration during critical failure periods.
Under the Migratory Birds Act no person may operate a taxidermy business without a license from the Minister of the Interior. Taxidermists must avoid handling illegally killed birds and file annual returns as required. Cuba plans to establish its first national park to protect native plants and trees.
Nine out of ten inventions save time and energy and Naples station launches a walking telephone. Uniformed boys carry a neck hanging phone with a reel of flex, plugged into the wall, ready for use. After a brief call the rider pays a small fee and departs to serve another customer.
All Tingey models are created and sketched in Paris and patterns made in New York. The dress features a crossover roll collar, waist sash, wrapover skirt, and self material bow. Patterns available in sizes 14 to 20 and 34 to 44, ready for immediate delivery. Send 25 cents with name, address, pattern number and size to Fashion Bureau.
Instructions from the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg outline how readers may order sewing patterns. The notice provides steps, contact details, and payment methods for obtaining pattern catalogs and delivery.
The American Federation of Labor convention in Boston endorsed a five day work week, deferring action on a five hour day. Over 500,000 members already work five days, with strongest gains seen in building trades. The executive council will study the full work day issue and report next year.
The government begins the most exhaustive census in Canada to map irrigated land in the Okanagan Valley and collect detailed data on crop yields since 1925. Results will set future water rates based on each farm’s productive value.
A Chiswick bus driver, A. E. Jackman, has perfected a non dazzling automobile headlight. He did all experimental work on his kitchen table using affordable bits of metal and simple tools. The light has been tested for over a year and deemed successful.
A tablet in the chapel of New College Oxford lists three graduates and memorializes men from the college who came from foreign lands and fought and died for their country in World War I 1914 1918.
The 1929 export of Canadian live foxes to Germany rose to 892 animals valued at 259 552 dollars, up from 375 animals worth 105 360 dollars the previous year.
The annual output of natural and artificial gas would fill a balloon 1 mile in diameter and 20 miles long, powerful enough to lift the Egyptian pyramids.
F G Neate secretary of the Dominion Fuel Board states Manitoba purchased 135000 tons of Alberta and Saskatchewan coal from June 15 to September 25. The deal covers western coal supplied to Manitoba during the period.
An elderly woman asks the ship’s captain to inspect her stateroom where the space reports violent movement. The call suggesting a possible mechanical or structural disturbance prompts a crew investigation aboard the vessel. The exchange highlights onboard safety concerns in a maritime setting.
The Incas of Peru built remarkable stone houses and seemingly did not use tables or chairs, highlighting their distinctive everyday furnishings and domestic arrangement.
The ship's company of H M C S Armentieres based at Esquimalt will spend Christmas and New Year at sea. The vessel will perform life saving duties off Bamfield Barclay Sound and the Vancouver Island coast. The patrol is an annual winter feature shared with Fisheries ships and defence forces. This year Armentieres will be at sea December 15 to January 14 1931 and February 6 to 28.
An old advertisement promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as a safe remedy for headaches. It critiques quick relief drugs, claims digestive issues cause headaches, and urges using the pill to stimulate the liver and bowels to remove decayed food waste.
A. G. Williams from New York or Osaka notes that major Japanese cities employ two chauffeurs per taxi: one to drive and one to watch the road, as crowds flood the highways without regard for danger.
A returned soldier farmer near Chilliwack British Columbia has developed a white tomato after years of experiments. The fruit is non acidic and bred specifically for medicinal purposes.
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