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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 01, 1931
Page
3
Soviet estimates show about 353 million acres to be brought under cultivation next season, up 39 million from 1906 and 67 million from 1979. State farms and collective farming drive the five year plan with large new grain factories in the northern Caucasus and mass peasant consolidation.
A New York Evening Post report shows Great Britain leading in cigarette consumption with 1 220 cigarettes per person in 1930 versus 972 in the United States. The shift marks cigarettes as English favorite smoke, overtaking pipes and cigars.
An Australian inventor unveils a tailing back mounted apparatus that allows a person to leap about 11 feet high up to eight feet and cover a mile in five minutes with minimal effort. The winged device opens outward with the sun bright and promises easy travel.
The Ymuiden lock in the Netherlands, opened by Queen Wilhelmina, is 1,312 feet long and 164 feet wide, surpassing Panama’s Gatun lock at 1,000 by 110 feet. The article notes historic origins of locks and compares dimensions and engineering challenges, with other major locks listed.
Poultryman advice urges using large eggs for incubation to improve pullet egg size and future industry prospects. Eggs should be graded like top market eggs to ensure better quality and higher per capita egg consumption, citing Harry R. Lewis in Country Gentleman.
In a London circus parade a line of cars led by a miniature car blocked an elephant. The small vehicle tried to advance but was crushed when an elephant sat down on it. The two men escaped as the radiator burned hot, and the following cars laughed unable to help.
Little Johnny asks for an apple and learns proper phrasing. His mother corrects his grammar guiding him to say please and may I have an apple. The story ends with the apples gone.
A dialogue pits a suitor and the father of a beloved daughter over marriage. The suitor vows extreme devotion while the father feigns consent, declaring he cannot approve the union, citing a belief that one liar in the family suffices. An economy view notes money as a servant of the people, here transient in value.
The federal government barred entry of meat from a country where foot and mouth disease was present in the prior year. Montreal seized a shipment of 2000 pounds and anticipated more as the Danish Co-Operative Ltd began selling bacon at not less than 27 cents a pound, despite a 10 cent duty.
A traveller recalls paying a rupee to enter a Colombo temple where women and children prayed while visitors walked shoeless. He notes the oil for the lamp came from a dented tin labeled for infant food and a battered sardine tin lies on the shrine floor, its hieroglyphic legend oddly familiar.
Workmen digging for a new central fire alarm station at Fletcher Field unearthed two old cannons about 10 feet below the surface. They are being cleaned for experts to determine whether the pieces were used by English French or American forces.
A passenger asks to see the captain and is told he is forward. The woman, fearless, mentions she has traveled with hospital students, implying prior shipboard experience.
The Dominion Forest Service reports paper birch seeds are extremely tiny with over seven hundred thousand seeds per pound. The Interior Department notes the statistic reflects seed density for planting and forestry planning.
In Pheasant Forks eight miles north of Lemberg Sask a small red brick schoolhouse and a wooden church share a fenced area now fronted by a monument to Great War dead. The church has served since 1882 and preserves an old minute book from July 1883 with pioneer era minutes and frugal records.
Five members of the Royal Canadian Air Force flew from Fitzgerald to photograph buffalo herds for a census in Wood Buffalo Park. The Survey Bureau of the Northwest Territories and Yukon Department will use the images to count animals between Peace River and Lake Claire, west of Lake Athabasca.
Thirty eight British Columbia poultry hatcheries have applied and been inspected under the Dominion Government policy. They hold a combined capacity of 350000 eggs and will incubate about 120000 hatching eggs weekly during the spring season. Approximately 1000000 Government approved chicks will be produced.
Thirteen years after World War I Arthur W Hanson of Minneapolis lost a soldier’s kit on a French battlefield. Dr Charles W Olsen of Chicago later found the kit during his battlefield tour and read the owner’s name. Hanson recovered the kit a few weeks after Olsen located it.
The Port of New Westminster, noted for growing deep sea traffic, reported a rise in its import and export activity during the previous year, signaling improved trade activity and regional economic momentum.
The piece argues California’s drought history and growth hinge on vast irrigation efforts and reclamation projects. It notes that only a fraction of arable land is irrigated, yet that 5 to 6 million acres supply domestic needs and export fruit and vegetables to distant markets.
A Harper’s Magazine piece narrated by Sarah Comstock catalogs the social menace of ill health boasting. Hypochondriacs mock rivals illness while feigning pain to secure sympathy and advantage.
A plumber’s apprentice on his first day protests unpaid time yet the master keeps him busy by a candlelit trick. With minutes left in the shift the journeyman offers the unburned candle as proof of effort and challenges the helper to blow it out.
A correspondent urges quick thermometer purchases before prices rise, noting that counting aloud when angry may avert trouble. The piece emphasizes imminent price increases and urges readers to act now.
Experimental Farm Note explains why weeds resist control. It outlines seven factors: adaptation to cultivated settings, prolific seed production, perennial root systems, dispersal adaptations, seed contamination in crop seed, partial killing and neglect, and lack of neighbor cooperation.
A Aberdeen visitor in London resists temptations but learns all hats in a milliner shop are 25 shillings. She connects the price to known kin, quipping about the shopkeeper’s wife and her clan before asking again about the hats.
A popular site in Banff National Park Alberta is Hector Lake, near Bow River headquarters. The camp ground sits at 5704 feet altitude with vivid blue waters and lush shores framed by encircling peaks, creating a striking scenic panorama.
Two spinsters discuss marriage options. When asked which trait they value most wealth ability or appearance they both choose appearance. The second woman adds the sooner the better in seeking a husband with good looks.
The fragment shows a plea from a person to a mother to behave so her husband will not recognize the speaker. Location attributed to Travaso, Rome, with a line promising amiability to the husband. Readable context is sparse and identities are unclear.
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