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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 21, 1940
Page
4
An article discusses mites as a seasonal issue in poultry houses, noting their nocturnal bloodsucking and grey turning red after feeding. It recommends a kerosene to engine oil mix sprayed on roosts and crevices, with two to three treatments a week apart, as an effective control method.
A call to customers to purchase brooms produced by blind workers at the Red and White Store in Hamiota. The notice directs readers to examine the label on the brooms for origin and maker information.
A devotional collection of aphorisms and biblical verses emphasizes spiritual unity, inner clarity, and moral illumination. Notable lines compare light to righteousness and truth, urging personal virtue and the visible witness of faith through deeds.
The Boy Scouts Association expands to Manitoba with Lone Scout Troops led by Ken Jordan. Boys aged 12 to 16 living far from local troops can join by contacting the Scoutmaster at 242 Somerset Building, Winnipeg. The program teaches knots, fires, shelters, first aid and secret codes in an outdoors oriented plan. Memorial notices and cards of thanks appear at 50c per insertion.
In Britain Lord Woolton says beer brewing will continue in wartime and J R Clynes supports this stance noting beer is part food for workers. He warns against using war powers for social reforms and highlights beer tax as a major Exchequer source. Canada is also cited as weighing wartime prohibition demands by church ministers.
Farmers weigh storage choices from open bunks to stacked grain with fire guards and insulation. Global factors shown: Australia and Yugoslavia yields down, Italian crop near 403 million bushels, Canada wheat carryover high, U S surplus about 370 million bushels.
The gross revenues of the all inclusive Canadian National Railway for the week ending August 1940 were 4 464 381 dollars, compared with 3 405 571 dollars for the same week in 1939, a rise of 1 058 810 dollars.
Decker and Orrwold united churches hold services at Lavinia 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. McConnell schedules 7 p.m. events.
The snippet lists United Church services at OARNER Scotia Chumah with times for services and Sunday School. It also advertises wood working and furniture repair, novelty furniture making by Wilshire Hamida, wedding stationery offerings, a Bride's Book free with orders, and Echo Office phone 18 for quick service.
Freeman Bros offer a Brandon based service buying and selling school books for all grades. Contact information lines include 13 10th Street Brandon.
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