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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 26, 1930
Page
2
A column recounts responses to a contest on life lessons. The winner urges living in the present, embracing discipline and effort, and finding happiness despite hardship. Key themes include self-reliance, ongoing growth, and aiding others amid industrial society’s tensions.
The Japan market for asbestos in lump powder fibre and packing grows yearly as industrial plants expand. James A Langley Canadian Legation official notes widespread use of asbestos products in daily life. About 80 percent of Japan's asbestos comes from Canada with small shares from Russia and a few English firms.
The report notes African deposits hold a demand for asbestos powder and fibre reaching about 12,000 tons. It highlights production interest and market scale across the region.
Bal four Technical School Regina to offer first aid classes in cooperation with the St John Ambulance Association. Ottawa issued statement notes growing recognition of first aid in industry as Saskatchewan employers with 25 or more workers must maintain a first aid room under Workmen's Compensation Board rules.
Prominent ranchers send high class range steers to the Old Country. Jack Byers Sr livestock promoter attached to the Dominion Department of Agriculture leads a trainload of two, three and four year olds from Saskatchewan and Alberta. Federal Department of Agriculture supervises loading to market. Byers left Montreal for Manchester on October 30.
Walter Todd, long time clerk of committees for the House of Commons, died in Ottawa after a brief illness in his 70s. He served over 57 years in civil service, succeeding his father in 1874. Both father and son saved Queen Victoria portraits from fires in 1848 and 1916, a family coincidence noted in the obituary.
A provincial convention for editors and reporters of daily and weekly BC papers is planned for a late February weekend. Preliminary arrangements were made by the BC Institute of Journalists in Vancouver. The Vancouver branch dinner will also be held that week, hosting visiting members from across the province.
A doctor links nine tenths of women’s ills to anaemia and low blood. The text urges Dr Williams Pink Pills as the remedy, promising restored blood, strength, and vitality for overworked wives and mothers. Pills sold locally or by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co. Brockville Ont.
Industry may develop as Europe asks about Canadian supply. Calgary hosts a temporary abattoir with Rotterdam as a key customer. if demand persists, permanent plants may be built to fully meet imports. Also includes an ad for Miller's Worm Powders and a quip about fame.
E. W. Beatty of Canadian Pacific Railway spoke at a Pinehurst banquet of the American Institute of Steel Construction. He urged visionaries in the United States to consider economic revival through policy changes while noting Canada’s grain marketing interruptions and the stock market collapse as factors in Canada’s depression. He contrasted U.S. and Canadian population and export growth, calling railroading vital to both nations.
Alberta gas contains a small helium fraction not sufficient for economic extraction. In 1917 Calgary experiments by Prof J C Mc Lennan showed Texas gas had about 3 percent helium, while Alberta’s was under one third of that, with no commercial helium produced.
Volcanic dust is used to make cleansers scouring powders and abrasive soaps and is increasingly mixed in cement and plasters outside Canada. Beds up to thirty feet thick are worked near Swift Current Saskatchewan with additional beds in British Columbia.
A fussy old woman questioned a black porter about the Chicago train time. She then asked a white man, who was told by the porter with a smile that perhaps she would believe it now she has it in black and white.
A brief note asserts the finest diamonds originate in areas surrounding freshwater rivers, emphasizing natural quality linked to riverine geology and prior mining lore.
Dairy Commissioner Dr. J A Ruddick reports an appreciable rise in milk and cream output across Canada. Ontario and Alberta show a 15 per cent gain in butter production for the first half of the production year, while cheese production lags 30,000 boxes behind last year as of October 11, with 97 per cent of cheese coming from Ontario and Quebec. A notable trend is growing demand for dairy stock in the Prairie Provinces.
Growers should note two sections in the wheat classes at Regina's World's Grain Show of 1932. A five class exhibit requires fifty pounds, while a ten bushel exhibit allows broader entry. The smaller sample demands stricter selection and thorough cleaning via machine if used.
Postage stamp changes set a new color scheme by Canada Post. Within a month or sooner, if stocks run out, a new issue up to eight cents will be issued following Universal Postal Union guidelines. The one cent will switch from orange to green, the two cent from green to red, the five cent from mauve to blue, and the eight cent postal carrier from blue to orange.
A new lighting system in London uses concealed electric bulbs behind imitation windows to simulate daylight. Tests show work is easier under this daylight like illumination than under traditional indirect overhead lighting.
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