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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 07, 1931
Page
6
An elderly woman describes crawling to bed due to knee and joint pain worsened by uric acid crystals. The ad claims Kruschen Salts dissolve uric acid, improve elimination, and restore energy, urging readers to buy a bottle to prove its effects.
Lime production in Canada for 1930 reached 490802 tons valued at 4038698 dollars. Miss Ruth Nichols of Rye aviatrix abandoned trans Atlantic flight plans this year. Fort William to host an experimental farm under provincial agriculture. A Canadian delegation led by Vincent Massey sailed on the Empress of Canada to Hangchow for Pacific relations talks. Edward Miles, 52, circled the globe solo in a 37 foot boat, arriving safely in Honolulu from Yokohama after leaving July 14. Britain and Brazil signed a commercial treaty in Rio de Janeiro with Afranio Mello Franco and Keeling. Naval ship contracts worth over 200 million dollars to build 11 destroyers totaling 50 million. The US will suspend Germany’s payments for a year under the mixed claims awards. Manitoba to ship potatoes to southwestern counties to ease shortages, funded by state transport costs. China and Panama elected to the League of Nations council, replacing Persia and Venezuela. Spain re elected. Mexico and Hungary each got two votes. British Foreign Office announces no delay to next year’s disarmament conference set for February 2.
T Ross Moulton of Vancouver B C is named first customs and excise officer for the new Churchill port. He will supervise vessel entering and clearing during the Wheat export from Canada’s grain port and has 30 years in service including Yukon duties. Frozen lard in 28 pound cakes sealed in wax paper is exported from Brazil to European markets.
Saskatchewan unveils a novel fire prevention scheme led by Hon. J. F. Bryant to distribute a hazard chart to every school. Pupils will discuss hazards at home, complete a questionnaire, and compete for prizes culminating in a province wide effort to cut fire losses and insurance costs.
The Canadian National lines end the Vancouver Victoria Seattle service on September 15 and will not operate the tri city run next season due to insufficient business. CN will keep Vancouver to Prince Rupert service and shift two 6,000 ton ships from the Pacific to the Atlantic with one heading to Boston Bermuda service.
A Vatican Observatory astronomer estimates counting all stars would take 700 years at 25 per second. Separately a new popcorn strain pops unusually large kernels.
Two independent operators Fuller and Nuert struck pay dirt a mile and a half south of Brock Sask after digging 85 feet, uncovering coal of fair quality said to rival Estevan fields. They plan to speed up work and drive a shaft to 150 feet to hit an eight to twelve foot seam, aided by Estevan miners. The report also recalls the World War I German raider Emden and its 1914 operations.
Vancouver Harbour records show 81 ocean going ships totaling 321 755 net tons entered inward and 81 ships totaling 518 672 net tons given clearance in July. A stray line about an Eskimo who saw his first movie and went insane appears as unrelated text.
The Daily Mail reports a new stamping and pressure machine that could revolutionize British industry. It claims applicability to stampings from watch mechanisms to motor car bodies and could be used for nails bricks and composite materials.
The Alaskan brown bear is the largest on the American continent, surpassing even the famed grizzly in size and stature.
Three Scandinavian families from Finmark in Norway travel through Winnipeg en route to the Mackenzie River mouth to train Eskimos in reindeer herding. They join A. F. Porsild of Canada's Natural Resources Department, who helped plan a 3000 head herd to be established there. Mrs. Porsild is noted as the first woman to fly over the Arctic Circle in 1929.
Word from Toronto says a Detroit sportsman has offered 100000 to purchase a boat for Kaye Don to challenge for the Harmsworth trophy next year if Lord Wakefield does not enter England II. It notes Wakefield spent 250000 to enter this year’s race.
Manitoba led the Prairie provinces in 1929 manufacturing output with goods valued at 164.9 million dollars from 2,501 plants. Alberta and Saskatchewan followed with 107.6 million and 80.5 million respectively. Capital investment reached 339.678 million and employment totaled 48,113.
A report notes Saturn has at least ten satellites and that air mail collection boxes will be installed in Glasgow Scotland alongside the planet’s famous rings.
Secret Farman works project for the French Government promises a monoplane capable of nearly 500 miles per hour and altitudes of 12 to 15 miles. The craft includes an airtight metal cockpit with oxygen tubes, heated by the engine, and airtight controls to keep pilot and mechanic safe at extreme heights.
A young man with visionary card sense joins a bridge four. He misplays by laying a king on a trick already won by the opponent's ace. His partner rages, noting a king rarely beats an ace, while the beginner admits his hope to try and win.
Light travels about a million times faster than sound so we see lightning before thunder yet they are simultaneous. Seventeen palm types grow naturally in the United States.
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