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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 29, 1930
Page
2
An essay notes that climate and prosperity often reflect attitude more than reality. People misperceive times as hard due to fear, while minds shaped by optimism or pessimism influence daily behavior and community life. It argues for cultivating goodwill and confidence to uplift society.
Kingston business figure L. T. Kennedy says Jamaica shows gratitude to Canada for tariff preferences. He reports Jamaica diverts millions of dollars in business, including flour and other fruit and vegetable imports, from the U.S. to Canada.
Toronto trustees announce a new permanent building for the Canadian National Exhibition to cost 1,000,000 dollars. The existing exhibition park structures are valued at over 20,000,000 dollars. The new building will display horses and cattle.
The minister asks Mrs. Smith if her husband shares his business worries. She replies that he confides every time she buys something, revealing a humorous domestic dynamic in the exchange.
A witty remark notes that a woman may perform any task a man can, yet the cleverest often enlists a man to do it for her.
A separate unit will administer a 20 million dollar unemployment relief fund under the Minister of Labor. The unit will work with the Minister of Railways and Minister of Public Works, led by Harry Hereford of Ottawa as Director of Unemployment Relief, former Labor registrar under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act.
Miss Maiken Borring a Copenhagen medical student spent one day in Berlin as a paper funded millionaire. The Danish Politiken prize paid all expenses within one day, with the condition she could not acquire lasting value. She visited Einstein aboard an airplane spin a costly limousine rides deluxe meals and a theatre attendance as her extravagances.
An advertising note promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a remedy for pale nervous conditions. It claims the pills restore red blood and strengthen nerves and cites a Toronto testimonial from Mrs G Cook. Pills available from dealers or by mail for 50 cents a box from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ontario.
Louis McDonald of Vancouver, a 35 year rail laying expert, sails to Bermuda aboard the Lady Somers after hiring ten Montreal workers to join him. He has wartime service with the 12th Railway Troops under General J. W. Stewart and now works with Belfour Beatty and Co. in London on the new line. The piece also touts Miller's Worm Powders with testimonials from mothers and claims rapid, thorough relief for children.
Canada produced maple syrup and maple sugar in 1930 valued at 5 250 620 dollars. Syrup accounted for 3 869 107 dollars from 2 185 379 gallons at 1.77 dollars per gallon. Sugar accounted for 1 381 513 dollars from 8 208 276 pounds at 0.17 dollars per pound.
A Vancouver British Columbia shipment moved six crates of pedi greed white leghorn hens and cockerels to the Philippines as foundation stock. The text also includes a quoted dialogue about ego and egotism between a father and son.
Ottawa department cancels all imports of cattle sheep goats and swine from Great Britain to Canada due to foot and mouth disease confirmed near Leeds England. The order dated September 8 1930 allows only shipments already embarked en route to Canada.
A claimed vermitige remedy named Mother Graves Worm Ex terminator is promoted as an effective pre paration. The maker asserts it can be given to the most delicate child without risk to the constitution.
A weight and height measuring device in a slot machine at the International Hygiene exhibition in Dresden outputs a diet card with daily calorie guidance. Americans reportedly spend about $1,000,000 daily on ice cream. Minard's Liniment is claimed to have a hundred uses.
Ad copy touts Carter's Little Liver Pills as relief for dangerous indigestion. It claims after meals use neutralizes gas sweetens sour stomach relieves pain cleanses stomach liver and bowels with a tonic effect and urges asking a druggist for a 25 cent package.
An enormous iron foundry dating 3 000 to 4 000 years old was found at Mum Bwa in Northern Rhodesia. Three distinct races used the site, the last being an intelligent people who selected stones and mixed them with bone and quartz to create moulds, heated them to high temperatures, poured molten lead, and forged remarkable cutting and piercing implements.
A simple pickle recipe layering sliced green tomatoes and onions with sugar vinegar and spices. After overnight standing drain and simmer 30 minutes then jar and store in a cool dry place.
A home canning recipe for Pennsylvania chili sauce using tomatoes onions peppers sugar salt cider vinegar and spices. The ad promotes Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy claiming help for women with asthma with testimonials.
William Albee and his wife, aged 24 and 22, left Fort George in June with heavy packs and a dog, marching toward Liard Post. Nine weeks later they reached their destination, surviving on moose meat after provisions ran out. They plan to winter in Dawson and may cross Alaska next summer toward Siberia.
Recent photographs of Mars Jupiter and Venus support the idea that they have atmospheres like Earth. In Italy piano keys are being produced from zeolite in plastic.
Dr J T Parr of Oakland California designs a parachute for aeroplanes. A lever releases a trap door in the upper wing and the parachute deploys, allowing the plane and pilot to descend slowly at about 15 miles per hour.
A chauffeur repeated a chilling nightly message on the funeral wreath of Sir J Bickerstaffe. It claimed the fire was dying the water hot and all doors bolted with mouse traps set and no mice. The note ends with good night Sir John.
A marble fountain designed by Gertrude V Whitney will be presented to McGill University in Montreal by a United States goodwill committee. Dr John H Finley of the New York Times will deliver the presentation address and Lord Willingdon will present the fountain through McGills chancellor E W Beatty and vice chancellor Sir Arthur Currie. A London bookseller has assembled over 400 editions of Robinson Crusoe in various languages.
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