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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1938
Page
2
The article argues that legume family plants such as clovers and alfalfa absorb and fix atmospheric nitrogen, enriching soil for subsequent crops. It urges maximizing legume use in cropping systems while ensuring adequate phosphate and potash to keep the soil nitrogen factory functioning.
An analysis argues democracies depend on public consensus and unity of purpose. It cites R G Menzies on British Empire cooperation and warns against parochialism, isolationism, and narrow nationalism eroding empire security.
Clarence Boner's collie became a local hero after a blaze at the Boner farmyard in Jerseyville Illinois. The dog ran into burning barns and drove two sons and their litters to safety, then guided pigs away from embers toward a pond as $5,000 in property burned.
It is estimated that primitive buffalo herds roaming the American plains numbered about 75,000,000 animals. The figure reflects large-scale wildlife abundance during the frontier era and underscores the vast scale of the bison population at that time.
Holmes asks Gray to recall prewar vote rights for women and Bleriot’s Channel crossing. Gray remembers the relief of Mafeking night and a recent five dollar loan he had forgotten, highlighting their shared memories and banter.
A medieval English baker tracked sales with a notched stick given to each customer, cutting a notch per loaf delivered. weekly payments matched the stick’s notches. A hairless face and leg sheep breed has been developed at South Dakota State College.
An overview notes that current papermaking techniques build on ancient Chinese methods, tracing a lineage from early fibers to modern processes and machinery. It emphasizes continuity in fundamental steps such as pulping, sheet formation, and drying across centuries.
The New York Sun quotes Robert Wilder praising Cunard Line for sentiment behind launches. At the Mauretania's debut a veiled bow plate ceremony preceded the launch and Lady Bates pulled the tassled cord to reveal the brass letters. Cunard cannot locate what happened to the plates and asks for information on their whereabouts.
Dairyman Wm Muir of Oxford County Ontario details a farm method to suppress stubborn mustard. He uses corn in hills to allow two way cultivation, then farms over with fall wheat to harvest before mustard matures. Wheat stubble is plowed, followed by oats or mixed grain with clover, then hand pulled remaining mustard.
In a church magazine, Rev. G R Balleine advises readers on social missteps that alienate others. He warns to belittle rivals, judge opinions, and orchestrate others lives, noting how such behavior erodes goodwill and fosters hostility.
Parks Superintendent Hill of Galt Ontario was asked by telephone from Toronto to locate an abandoned green roadster left after a weekend picnic in Soper Park. The car was recovered from a northern island in the park and handed back to its owner.
A letter in the New York Sun suggests equipping radios with earphone outlets to allow listeners to escape noisy broadcast din. The writer compares loud car horns on Sundays to pests and proposes a be kind to neighbor week to promote radio privacy through headphones.
Recipe combines unsweetened chocolate, Swans Down cake flour, Calumet powder, and butter sugar steps. Prepare double boiler chocolate cream then cool. Make meringue like yolk sugar mixture, fold with flour and chocolate, bake two 9 inch layers, spread Bittersweet Filling and Orange Frosting.
Bittersweet filling uses Baker's Unsweetened chocolate milk eggs and vanilla to create a thick, glossy layer between cake tiers. An extensive search for oil in New Zealand yields drilling licenses and a company preparing to import a $350,000 drilling plant from Australia.
A seven day Hungarian wedding hosted 400 guests who ate four oxen six hogs 1500 eggs and 3000 litres of wine. Theodore Roosevelt became the first US president to fly in an airplane in a craft similar to the Wright brothers’ first flight. The African swamps catfish is the only fish known to swim upside down while other upside down swimmers are dying or dead. The saddest ending is the bank book.
A Natal man living in Harrismith claims to be the hottest man in South Africa. Five years ago doctors first treated fever as flu then removed his appendix and operated on his tonsils. Despite numerous tests and specialist care none found a cause, leaving him labeled a freak with a daily temperature averaging about 99 to 100 degrees.
Harold M. Gulley vice-president of Silverwood's Toronto Dairy Ltd. spoke to Rotary members about advertising. He said it sustains inventory, clears cobwebs from the shop, brightens windows and speeds customer awareness, regardless of whether it is costly or traceable.
A sergeant shouts orders at new recruits. one man Jones admits he was a horse driver before enlisting. The scene includes a cadence cue and a joke about halting the squad. A note states most of Canada's grape crop grows in Niagara Peninsula, Ontario. The piece mentions baseball's early flat bat.
A Le Sorelois correspondent replies to the counterfeit fifty cent piece problem by describing a daytime cashing scenario. A customer buys a 25 cent article with a dollar and the changer uses the bad coin plus 35 cents to make 75 cents change. The customer pockets the excess with the bad coin still in play.
Scotland Yard used a German-styled detective in Tyrolean attire to bait confidence men who targeted visitors with bogus stock schemes. The ruse drew in scammers who mistook the suited tourist for a rich foreigner and ended up being arrested themselves.
During the Armistice Day two minute silence in Manchester England an airplane flew over the city with an advertising trailer reading Eat Blank's Peas. Citizens grew indignant and sales of that brand have since fallen off across England.
The Mont Petee eruption in Martinique in 1902 killed about 30 000 people in roughly 15 minutes and remains one of historys deadliest volcanic disasters.
A woman writer quips that when she feels down she buys a new hat to lift her spirits. The remark ends with a playful question about where people get such uplifting headgear.
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