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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 06, 1927
Page
2
An article extols Western Canada wild life from ducks and geese to deer and moose, stressing hunting season laws, conservation, and responsible sport. It condemns reckless boastful killing as harmful to true sportsmen and urges the public to act as unofficial game guardians and obey regulations.
Seventy one year old triplets Abraham Isaac and Jacob Waggoner live within ten miles of each other, have never needed a doctor, and abstain from smoking chewing or drinking. A French watchmaker invents a hands free watch with a moving dial inside a stationary rim. British researchers say London smoke clouds block about two thirds of beneficial ultraviolet rays.
Dial numbers have been converted into raised digits to help blind persons tune in to different radio stations. The adjustment allows visually impaired users to operate receivers by touch without sighting the dial.
The article notes a country wide air express system inaugurating a new era for aviation moving from risky stunts to safe daily commercial use. R. E. M. Cowie of American Railway Express Company voices the view. It also reports a trend of brides marrying younger while grooms grow older on average.
A humorous exchange has a woman claiming she has married three times and all husbands named Williams. He replies with a witty line calling her a clever Bill collector.
Another experiment tests speedier routes by planes overtaking ships and dropping mail far from land. The method would place mail aboard liners well out to sea, enabling quicker delivery across the Atlantic.
Dr. R. N. R. Brown, president of the Geographical section, told the British Association in Leeds that whites face no solid case for permanent residence in the tropics and that evidence points to colored races occupying warm lands. He warned that white settlement would move northward to Arctic seas, potentially displacing current inhabitants.
An advertisement extols Putnam’s Corn Extractor for removing corns and painful callouses in seconds. It claims the product acts like magic and offers solid comfort, urging buyers to refuse substitutes and purchase from a druggist.
Dr G P Bidder argues in Leeds before the British Association that humans evolved from jelly fish ancestors. He says our sense of dancing poetry and jazz stems from inherited metabolic rhythm, and that we remain flagellates at heart.
A letter from Mrs Zepherin Lavole of Three Rivers Quebec praises Baby's Own Tablets for regulating a baby's stomach and bowels and keeping the child plump and well. The ad claims the tablets ease common childhood ailments, including constipation indigestion colds fevers teething pains and sleep issues. They are sold for 25 cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
French papers portray Edouard Branly as the father of the wireless and a veteran scientist paid about 75 dollars a month. For fifty years he toils in a ramshackle lab with an elderly assistant acting as lab chief while supplementing income as a physician. The piece frames his case as a plea to properly fund science.
Best of all Fly Killers offered at 10c and 25c per packet in this notice. Sold at all druggists grocers and general stores for effective pest control.
The Air Union places a restaurant plane on the Paris to London route with a crew of pilot radio operator cook waiter and ten passengers. A cold luncheon with lobster duck veal ham salad cheese fruits and coffee is served with wine water or tea. An electric stove will soon heat meals. The craft travels about 335 miles in two hours.
The Rt. Rev. Edward Arthur Burroughs proposes a decade long scientific holiday. Sir Daniel Halil compares it to a business man delaying to save money. The Duchess of Atholl calls sustained effort essential while Sir Oliver Lodge warns against halting progress, citing television and aviation.
The article notes wireless promises from 26 years ago proved premature as the first four months of the year show submarine cables earning £315,753, aided by a new permalloy alloy. This material boosts conductive speed, enabling over two thousand letters per minute through trans Atlantic cables versus about three hundred by older cables, helping cables compete with wireless.
Engineers on a survey trip near Honolulu discovered a Japanese hermit worshipping a waterfall god in a stream near Kahuama. They found a bearded man in a tent at the falls waving arms and murmuring. He buys food in town with unexplained funds. locals recall a second hermit once existing.
Mrs. D Leavitt of Back Bay New Brunswick reports her children suffered cholera cramps and stomach pains last summer until they used Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. The remedy, sold by The T Milburn Co Ltd Toronto, is praised for quick relief and summer use. Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil is extolled as a trusted popular oil with wide annual reach and proven quality.
A psychology professor contends brown eyes reflect a weak will while suggesting black eyes show a weak defense. The report notes physicians use Minard's Liniment and cites a Judge. It estimates annual auto theft value in the United States at 306 million dollars.
The piece argues Scots are thick skinned and accept jokes about themselves. Jokes targeting Jews and Irish face organized protest, while Scotch humor continues to circulate. It notes the Scot laughs at penny pinching tales and golf yarns with a single ball in the bag.
In the first six months of 1927 Canada produced 16 519 228 barrels of flour with a little over half exported. For the year ending June 20th 1927 exports reached 65 191 452 barrels valued 191 452. Exports to the United Kingdom grew from 2 219 212 barrels valued 21 693 502 in 1926 to 3 552 755 barrels valued 24 085 189 in 1927.
Alberta Trade Commissioner Howard Stutchbury urged Canadians to adopt a slogan to sell Canada to themselves within ten years, criticizing the habit of labeling goods as Produced in Canada. He spoke at the Ontario Agriculture Department luncheon in Toronto. A light verse note followed on a robin nesting on a mop in Chicago and a remark about Hindu views on the fatted calf.
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