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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 23, 1929
Page
6
The article surveys Pacific character in British Columbia Indigenous arts, noting totem poles, canoes, and South Seas echoes, with hints of Easter Island carvings. It cites Mongolian influence in some carvings and Scythian affinities from early Russian visitors, while pottery is absent and basket weaving dominates with geometric and natural forms.
Winnipeg Premier John Bracken announced Manitoba will celebrate its diamond jubilee on July 15 1930. Other world items note opposition leader MacDonald denying Trotzky entry to Britain and Japanese naval cruisers Ahama and Iwate to visit Vancouver August 10 12.
Deschimag engineers introduce a new bow and stern shape to press water downward and reduce friction, claiming the design cuts fuel use by 25 percent on vessels of the same size. Three high seas trawlers built under the principle reportedly show improved steering and reduced rolling and pitching in heavy seas.
Printed blue crepe blouse pattern features shirring at shoulders and a bow trim. Available in bust sizes 16 to 42 inches, uses 40 inch fabric with contrasting 36 inch fabric, price 25 cents plus 10 cents for Spring Fashion Magazine copy.
An instructional fragment argues prosperity comes from individuals doing their work right and well, noting no such thing as Jack and stressing personal responsibility for a city's success.
The Jungfraujoch hotel sits 114860 feet above sea level in the Bernese Alps, welded into the rock and reachable by funicular from Interlaken. Surrounded by snow, it ferries climbers and tourists who endure blizzards and sometimes ski to civilization when winter blocks other routes. The hotel grew from a shelter hut built in 1912 during funicular construction, now a unique mountaineering hub with staff seasoned in mountaineering.
A vintage recipe for Boston steamed brown bread using graham flour corn meal and all purpose flour with sorghum or molasses and sour milk. Mix dry ingredients then wet mix with molasses and milk, fill buttered molds steam three hours unmold bake briefly and serve hot or cold.
Recipe describes beating yolks with sugar flour and salt then cooking with milk to thicken. Cool and fold in vanilla into a dish of peeled sliced oranges. Beat egg whites with sugar and mound atop the custard before serving.
J. H. Woods of the Calgary Herald sails for London to meet the Imperial Press Union council. Canada will send 20 delegates to the conference, the largest Empire representation. The Imperial Press Conference will be held in London in June next year.
Earbdpe from Europa in Greek myth describes a woman seized by Jupiter in a white bull and taken to Crete. Asia may derive from a Semitic word meaning going forth or rise of the sun.
Trail riding is a favored activity in national parks of the Canadian Rockies offering views of major points of interest. In Paris visitors may take trail trips of ten twenty five or fifty miles on horses trained for reliability and safety.
Le Devoir highlights the Hudson Bay Railway as a valuable addition to Canada smoothing transport and expanding export routes. It notes rich regional resources, predicts mineral, pulp and paper and metallurgical activity along the line, and commends government data gathering on Bay navigability.
Walter W. Lang of Milwaukee returns from the Canoe River country near Mount Robson British Columbia with one grizzly hide and two brown bears. The hunter says spring grizzly chasing is good sport in the Rockies. Lang is in his fourth year in the region and was accompanied by Richard Lace of Milwaukee.
Oblique aerial photographs by the Royal Canadian Air Force covered thirty three thousand eight hundred square miles across Canada during the 1928 season for the Topographical Survey of the Department of the Interior.
A 184 foot long timber, 34 inch base diameter and 10 inch top diameter, loaded on the Canadian Ranger at Burrard Drydock, will be shipped to Toronto via Montreal and a Canadas Steamship Line steamer. Donated by Timberland Lumber on Vancouver Island, it serves as BCs timber advertisement. The log will season a year before being trimmed and erected as a Union Jack flagpole at the Canadian National Exhibition.
The idea is often credited to Beaumur of France, but Englishman Dr. Robert Hook first suggested mechanical silk production in 1664. The first artificial thread machine appeared in England in 1840 with Louis Schwabe's patent and Manchester machine. Schwabe later committed suicide, but spinnerettes became widespread and England now invests about £135 million in the industry.
The University of Alberta celebrated its twenty first birthday with participation from its first president Dr. H. M. Tory who later led the National Research Council of Canada and the province's first premier Hon. A. C. Rutherford who attended the anniversary ceremonies.
A statistician argues unemployment in Europe stems from longer working lives. He notes the old cry of being too old at forty has shifted as people now work into 60s and 70s.
The Senate has approved a 50 million dollar Canadian National Railways plan for a Montreal terminal to rival New York's Grand Central. The underground facility will be built below St. Catherine Street with overhead viaducts and a double lane subway, with electric power and potential joint operation with the Canadian Pacific.
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