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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 02, 1926
Page
2
A reflective column argues there is always time for duty and healthful activity while warning against wasting time on sorrow worry and trivial concerns. It urges arranging days with purpose and evaluating how we spend our precious hours.
Plans for the British cruiser Suffolk under construction at Portsmouth remain secret as details of its armament vanish. The text notes past submarine K-2 plans were also lost, though the report briefly diverges into unrelated mentions of a religious argument and a palmist business.
Mr and Mrs John A Stundebeck from Minnesota settle in the Humboldt district with nine children aged two to nineteen. They purchase 960 acres of land and bring several thousand dollars in cash and farm equipment worth 5500 dollars. They traveled by motor car and motor truck carrying a house large enough for the family, illustrating a modern prairie schooner migration.
The League of Nations announces a specially constructed radio equipped Pullman car. It will be used to transport members to troubled areas in time of need for emergency operations.
Exports from Canada to Australia rose in March to 2,498,752 dollars with about half the value for automobiles and parts. A separate note mentions a tame elephant consuming over 1,000 pounds of green fodder and twenty five pounds of unhusked rice daily.
An old advertisement touts Minard's Liniment as a remedy for insect bites. The copy emphasizes quick comfort and topical application, linking relief to this patent medicine popular in earlier decades.
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool now manages the Saskatchewan Co operative Elevator Company Ltd forming the world’s largest wheat handling group. A first payment of 1.5 million dollars by certified cheque accompanied the transfer, following a 500 dollar deposit prior to the April meeting where sale terms were approved. The total price for the elevator system stands at 11,059,310.47 dollars under the arbitrators’ award.
An old liniment called Nerviline is advertised as a fast-acting remedy for lumbago rheumatic pains. It claims rapid penetration to the pain source, drawing blood from the area to ease stiffness swelling and rheumatic conditions. Priced at 35 cents at all dealers.
A recent experiment produced a female cricket call through a telephone and a male cricket at the other end showed excitement upon hearing the note. The test suggests cricket vocalizations may function as a form of communication.
An ad extols Dr Williams Pink Pills for anemia and general vitality loss. It cites Mrs Herbert Nagle of Ludlow New Brunswick reporting relief after taking the pills, and notes availability from druggists or by mail for 50 cents a box. Also mentions Regina building permits totaling 1 728 619 for the first half of 1926 and Chinese generals issuing edicts demanding death for soldiers who smoke opium.
Kathryn Newell Adams, president of Constantinople Women's College, reports Turkish women run a vigorous suffrage movement and reform effort. They clear beggars from streets, clean red light districts, push prohibition, open trade schools, use mosques as centers, organize mothers' clubs clinics milk stations and child health centers, and run homes for beggars to learn honest trades.
A London United Empire notice argues Britain cannot feed itself beyond two-fifths of demand and warns a global food shortage would hit Britain first. It points to neglected imperial beef from Australia and South Africa, Caribbean sugar, and Canadian wheat diverted to the United States, urging empire resources be kept for Britain.
Miss Yoneko Yama leas artist, armless since an accident, won honors at the Peeresses' School exhibition in Tokio. Using brushes between her teeth she painted works sold as high as 500 dollars. Her life story includes tragedy after her father killed her siblings and maimed her arms. She had been set to become a geisha girl before the family catastrophe.
Gloucester blacksmith J C Price known as the strong man of the west bends a four inch horse shoe nail double and, with a bar in his teeth, loops the steel bar. He recently lifted 430 pounds from ground to knee. Price is 43, blacksmith 30 years, 5 ft 10 in, 224 pounds, chest 30 inches. Also advertises Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for neuralgia and back pain relief.
Romania's Queen Marie economizes by wearing Rumanian peasant dress in daily life and public appearances. She only dons European silks or satins at court ceremonies and state occasions, while strolling Bucharest streets in hand embroidered linen and a head kerchief.
Research shows ultraviolet rays can induce different tints in materials and may produce vitamins in recent work. The display in New York traces back to Professor R W Wood and 1921 lectures, with use in deciphering palimpsests and stage effects. Dr Thomas Electric Oil touted as a remedy for scalds burns cuts bruises and sprains, claiming quick relief and reduced medical costs.
A patient admits to the dentist that he lacks excuses for neglecting his teeth. He cites time, no illness, no business pressure, and money, but confesses he is a plain miserable coward. The quip appears in Life.
Controversy grows over a new British American rum agreement kept secret by both governments. Kellogg says the pact is neither treaty nor convention, so it would avoid Senate ratification and formal public disclosure, risking US opposition if the plan endures.
Brighton announces England's first flats built exclusively for women with Lady Emmett dedicating the first block. Each flat is self contained and accommodates children or a female companion, not husbands. Rent runs about 1 75 weekly. A bachelor quips men should test the net of connubial bliss before marriage.
Nineteen year old Jack Cooper from Calgary rode a horse named Dynamite to win the Major Fred Brewster challenge trophy in the bucking horse contest at the Jasper Horsemen's Association first annual show on Henry House Flats in the Athabasca Valley.
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