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Newspaper
Roblin Review
Location
Roblin, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1930
Page
2
A Christmas message urging endurance during hard times. It contrasts peaceful politics with global trade struggles and warns of widespread unemployment and excess production. The piece urges families to cultivate gentleness, love, and stronger character to endure adversity and find happiness this season.
Broadcast propaganda from Moscow drawn rebuke in Britain as Canada’s National Railways exhibit wins the Grand Prix at Antwerp. A 200 foot panorama highlights Canadian life and development including wheat production stages and a model of locomotive 6100, drawing thousands of visitors in Winnipeg.
A Hudson Bay Railway station at Mileage 250.1 will be named Boyd after Captain J Errol Boyd of Toronto who was the first Canadian to fly solo across the Atlantic. The name Linklater was changed to avoid confusion with a Saskatchewan station and post office. Minister KR Manion announced the honoring of the aviator.
The chief source of Canada’s gold is the gold-bearing quartz deposits of the Porcupine and Kirkland Lake districts in Ontario, contributing more than 3 percent of the output. Bones consist of proteins and minerals.
Rev Edward Gordon Selwyn named to replace the late Rev Dr Hutton as dean of Winchester England. Selwyn, 45, has been rector at Redhill Havant Hampshire for 11 years and served as chaplain to the forces in 1918. He is noted classical scholar and editor of Theology and has been select preacher at Cambridge and Oxford.
The United States Bureau of Education found college graduates earn from 56 000 to 112 000 more by age sixty than peers who enter the workforce after high school. A four year college course equates to a value of 77 to 155 dollars per day, highlighting the payoff of higher education.
A report notes experiments led by Professor J. C. McLennan at Blacksmith Rapids Ontario with Mines Department co operation to discover a new radio medium. Northern Lights are being photographed to study static effects on reception as a base for reducing it.
The Australian cabinet discussed a Vancouver report claiming Canada would be flooded with Australian butter. Although no official declaration was made, political circles expect the situation will be controlled. Trade Commissioner L R McGregor said there is absolutely no danger of a Canadian butter flood.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics creates a monthly wheat bulletin to inform Canadians about the world wheat situation. Hon. H. H. Stevens, minister of Trade and Commerce, unveils the publication and notes plans for a cable service with Canadian trade commissioners abroad to keep the public in touch with developments in production and consumption globally.
Commissioner Peter White states the question of imported films containing propaganda may be investigated during the inquiry into Famous Players Corporation and 22 distributor and theatre companies. No evidence was offered at the opening Toronto session ordered by Labor Minister Gideon Robertson after a preliminary Combines Act inquiry. Millers Worm Powders claim to clear worms from child stomachs and bowels, are sweet tasting and non injurious, with possible vomiting not a sign of nausea.
A new camera enables accurate copying of whole newspaper pages on small photographic paper. A roll under three feet long can photograph an entire newspaper. A special projector by Dr. Thomas P. Martin of the Library of Congress displays the newspaper at natural size.
Over 80 farmers in the North Okanagan district applied to the British Columbia Department of Agriculture for crop inspection to prepare seed for exhibit at the World's Grain Exhibition and Conference in Regina in 1922.
Saskatoon radio announcer Geoffrey Bartlett was describing a stolen car when a 12 inch steel bolt crashed through a ground floor window and struck the wall beside him. He yelled for Stan to call the police and fled shooter vanished before officers arrived.
The Vancouver Star argues for a simple act to deem British-born residents who become Canadian citizens as full Canadians with identical rights. Until then no English Scottish or Australian citizen in Canada can be sure of reentry as of right after leaving the country.
Joseph Sekulich of Jugo Slavia and Miss Pearl Dudley of Bangor Maine arrived in Saint John. They left Washington on September 8 and expect to complete one eighth of their four year journey at Halifax before sailing to Glasgow. They will traverse Scotland Ireland England and continental Europe.
A pure bred Jersey herd at the New York state experimental station in Geneva has been milked by machine for 23 years, claimed as the longest continuous milking by machine. The herd’s average yearly production stands at 7,300 pounds of milk and 400 pounds of fat, calculated for the calendar year and including all cattle over two years old. Persian Balm Beauty Product Promoted For Skin Tone And Youthful Appearance. It claims to preserve and enhance beauty, tone and rejuvenate skin, leaving it smooth and velvety, with a delicate fragrance and hand-softening properties.
Katherine Morgan teaches in New Albin Iowa with 20 students all sharing the same surname Hammel except one. Nineteen pupils are cousins, creating a unique family cluster in the classroom.
Bank of Montreal holds annual meeting with Sir Charles Gordon citing no losses from depreciation and careful investments. Bog and Dodds report the past fiscal year shows ample provisions for losses, a strong liquid position, and growth in small accounts as Canada’s economy faces a slow path to recovery amid wheat-driven trade fluctuations.
Canada’s Hon. H. H. Stevens said France will buy a minimum of seven to nine million bushels of Canadian wheat within four months. Negotiations began in Paris after the Imperial Conference. France may raise foreign wheat blend limits to 15 per cent, boosting demand for Canadian grain amid a 1930 crop surplus.
The Norwegian vessel Vigidis sails from Cardiff with 835,200 gallons of drinking water and 1,615 tons of potatoes for Antarctic provisioning. It will support 20 whalers in the southern voyage, covering about 1,000 miles.
A Department of Agriculture report estimates per capita beef consumption in Canada at about 60 pounds yearly. For Montreal, with 1.25 million people, about 37,500 tons are needed annually, equating to 125,000 cattle. Toronto, with 750,000 people, requires 22,500 tons, about 75,000 cattle. Only 30 percent meet government quality grading.
The 1930 salmon pack in British Columbia nears 100,000 cases above the 1926 record, totaling 2,163,712 for the year. Previous years show 1929 at 1,389,476 and 1928 at 2,035,629 with 1927 at 1,360,634 and 1926 at 2,065,451.
At the Kimberley diamond mine in Africa diamonds have been brought from a depth of 2600 feet highlighting ongoing mining operations.
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