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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 23, 1926
Page
6
A Canadian outlook notes towns slowly reviving as highways and autos reshape farming commerce. Higher education expansion and new services keep locals home, while rail and industry move to smaller points, urging immigration to rebalance rural and urban populations.
A fragmented line depicts a boastful exchange and a claim that King Victor Emmanuel of Iuly is the wealthiest reigning sovereign. The text mixes informal taunts with references to food and a dramatic boast.
Delegates from twenty three nations at the International Congress for Peace voted unanimously to require conscientious objectors in compulsory military countries to perform equally hard labor for the same period as soldiers. The meeting emphasized equal educational opportunities for poorer youths and heard veterans speak on war experiences to urge international peace.
A Tokyo foreign office spokesman announces Japan will end emigration to Canada Australia and other countries. The policy shift aims to boost trade with South Pacific nations and curb excess population movement, with plans for a South Pacific trade conference in October.
The advertisement presents a simple overblouse and softly flaring skirt for various figures. Pattern Nos. 1044 and 1298 specify sizes 34 through 42 inches bust, material yardage, and construction details with a price of 20 cents each. a pattern book costs 10 cents.
Police estimate 200 crippled and blind beggars collect pennies, nickels and dimes daily. Annual take reaches a million and a half dollars, with Wall Street and Fifth Avenue cited as prime districts. Dunn notes an average cripple could pay about 7000 in income tax, and a good day can bring 40 dollars.
A bronze tablet weighing 100 pounds and three silk flags were presented to Beppu by passengers on the Empress of Scotland on its world cruise. Mayor Kanzawa Mataichuro accepted, thanking Commander Latta and promising a warm reception on future visits. The tablet will be placed in a main square to honor the city.
Professor McDougall of Harvard discussed rat experiments at the British Association meeting in Oxford. Professor Myers praised the work as reviving Darwin era ideas that mental attitude and breeding can influence physical traits, with implications for education and future outcomes for young men.
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North American churchmen gave 648 million dollars to religion last year. Dr. Luther E. Lovejoy, president of the United Stewardship Council, cites figures from Protestant boards and estimates for Catholic and Jewish faiths. The council reports 88.8 million to benevolences, 332.6 million to congregational expenses, totaling 451 million, with Jews at 18.5 million, Roman Catholics at 168.1 million, and miscellaneous groups at 10.5 million.
General Sir George Higginson, the mounted officer in Lady Butler's The Roll Call After Balaclava, celebrated his 100th birthday and remains hale as Britain's oldest living soldier. Francis Wood, age 83, finished a 700 mile London to Coleraine and back trek sparked by a regimental dinner challenge.
Canadian criminal statistics reveal 10 685 more cases in the year ended September 30 1925 than the previous year. Total cases reached 182 593 with 171 908 convictions and 3 810 acquittals. Murder charges numbered 54 with 36 acquittals and 18 convictions. 64 murder charges and 21 convictions were recorded in 1924.
Mrs A D Montagne of Cincinnati was cut on the head by a glass bottle dropped from an airplane while riding in an automobile with her family. The bottle shattered the car roof and caused a severe scalp wound.
A memorial in Parliament Buildings Ottawa honors Canada’s nurses killed in the Great War 1914 to 1918. The base inscription notes nurses who served across the seas and upheld a noble tradition linking old world and new. W L Mackenzie King, then premier, organized the memorial’s erection.
A Rotterdam shipping magnate says Germany’s trade is rising rapidly and Dutch exports through Holland already exceed 1912 levels. The ports along the Rhine and Maas are crowded with ships, aided by England's coal strike pushing volume to the Ruhr and Rotterdam. Canadian and Russian grain arrivals bolster the surge.
Dr Wallace Brown Croskery of London left just over 9000 pounds with unusual terms that no debts be collected or sold. He earmarked 50 pounds for the maintenance of his parrot and dog.
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