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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 25, 1927
Page
5
The Kingstoe Standard notes a revolution on Canatian farms as modern tools and methods replace old toil. It argues many embrace labor-saving devices while some farmers resist. The piece highlights autos tractors telephones electric lights milking and planting machines, radio and urban comforts reshaping rural life. Moose Jaw Times
A Dominion pamphlet by counsel for swine breeders outlines feeding and management from weaning to four and a half months. Emphasizes lean frame over fat, gradual ration changes, cleanliness, and nutrition balance with barley and corn. Highlights growth of frame for breeders and finish for market hogs, with prudence in rations and exercise.
The long-standing origin debate over the name Dominion for Canada is revived in a letter to the Ottawa Journal by historian R E Oswell. He cites Lord Derby as proposing Dominion to avoid republican tension, noting Sir John A Macdonald backed the substitution. He also recalls Virginia as the Old Dominion and Canada being called the new Dominion in early Confederation.
Prince Edward Island, the smallest Canadian province, is recognized across the United States as the center of pure seed potatoes. About 35,600 acres are devoted to potatoes with Cobblers and Green Mountains as leading varieties. Initiatives by the Federal Division of Botany in 1916 spurred white variety production, spraying, and inspection. The first certified seed car left in 1918, and Island seed potatoes soon exported of high quality. Inspection is free to applicants, under federal Botany Division control.
Officials urge a hardline view on crime arguing most offenders are lazy and seek easy wealth. They say criminals choose crime for short term gains and punishments are too lenient when they are apprehended and convicted.
Four English firms now offer movable tops for cars enabling the roof to roll back for sun and scenery. The feature lets passengers enjoy open air travel while preserving the car’s enclosed design when needed.
Dr. Robert Moore aged 57 a medical practitioner of Mawney Road Romford appeared at Bow Street police court after being found drunk in charge of a motor car. He was fined £20 and £7 costs and banned from holding a license for twelve months.
A guest in a Roman toga at a fancy-dress carnival is mistaken for Titus Andronicus. The response shows the comic misunderstanding as the attendee asks where the bar is, highlighting the playful chaos of costume events.
A terse exchange between friends shows the artist insisting the painting cannot be bought for any price while a companion and others banter about punishment and hangings in a loaded jest. The dialogue hints at pride and folly in a humorous regional voice.
The article stresses using relatively pure seed to ensure uniform ripening and high yield. Mixed varieties can reduce crop value, especially in milling wheat, where small maturity differences affect grade. Absolute purity is hard on large scales, but honest effort to select pure seed avoids losses.
The Making the Lakes Safe crew operates two U S lighthouse tenders Amaranth and Marg oxus on Lake Superior. They carry buoys and crew to stations in spring and return in fall, keeping navigation aids ready as storms drive ships to port.
The 3,645 buffalo moved from Wainwright National Park Alberta to Fort Vermilion Northwest Territories roam freely and thrive. A further 1,800 are being shipped this year. From 716 bought in 1907, the herd grows to about 11,500 at Wainwright and 5,445 at large in the Territories, suggesting no extinction danger.
Fred W. Yenney of Nome Alaska plans a 1500 mile skin boat voyage powered by an outboard motor in August. The dangerous trip would set a long distance record for a voyage in a Eskimo skin canoe and if completed he may continue to New York via the Panama Canal with an Eskimo reindeer herder aboard.
Gordon Dallyn of the Canadian Forestry Association oversees three new films for the association. The first portrays cooperation in Quebec forest protection through a graphic story of two settlers. The second explains common forest-fire causes and prevention. The third frames the Fire Ranger to inspire public respect and cooperation.
Linet.Col. G. P. Henderson opens an air taxi garage at Brooklands England offering two seated taxiplanes at a shilling per mile. pilots may fly solo at the same rate. The report ends with a wry remark about life being a burden to some and others being a burden to life.
The Rev. D. W. Fallis led the New Outlook Confederation tour through the west and piloted the engine hauling the Canadian Pacific special train into Winnipeg. The group traveled from Toronto June 12 to Fort William before returning via the Great Lakes, ending in Toronto July 18.
Frank Vincent of Richmond, aged about four feet tall, left London to sail as a bell boy aboard the Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Australia. He sought the sea life after portraying London’s smallest page boy, meeting Mr. D. J. Allan who promised a midget uniform and a voyage.
The massed Scottish nobility staged a three day pageant at Craig Miller Castle near Edinburgh before the King Queen and Prince of Wales. Three thousand performers with hounds falcons stags and horses trained by Sir Frank Henson. Armor proved too small as mankind grew since the sixteenth century, swords barely fit. A scene showed James IV and Princess Margaret Tudor after proxy marriage leading to the crown union. Six hundred girls danced in the chorus and jousting was reproduced.
A columnist argues that living 200 to 300 years ahead would shock a present day citizen more than it would please them. The piece notes Haldane and America’s Pilgrim Fathers would fare worse under kings in earlier centuries than under modern presidents, and Catholic ancestors would similarly be horrified by seven teenth century England.
President von Hindenburg toured the zoo and focused on a large herd of deer rather than the Zebras sent by the Regent of Abyssinia. An American trader shook his hand and declared I’m from America, to which the Soldier-President replied Inder s0ts.
The act outlines open seasons in Saskatchewan and Alberta for ducks geese and other species with specified dates and bag limits. It prohibits killing capturing injuring or molesting migratory game birds during closed seasons and bans sale of these birds. Penalties include fines up to 300 dollars and imprisonment up to six months.
A colored woman in Florida presenting as a candidate for confirmation bungled the Ten Commandments during the creed and Lord’s Prayer exercises. She quipped in a confidential tone to the officiating clergyman that Ab hasn’t been practising the Ten Commandments lately.
A wedding occurred quietly with the bride tfanbradnach and groom joined by the deaf bridegroom best man bridesmaid and officiating minister all deaf and the ceremony attended by twelve deaf and dumb guests at the reception following the marriage.
A customer requests a quarter pound of Sarah Ammoniac and the chemist clarifies the substance is sal ammoniac, noting a vulgar nickname. The exchange highlights terminology in a chemistry shop dialogue.
Fragmentary line argues skepticism toward labeling a man as fogish for assuming others lack common sense. The wording hints at dialogue about judgment and perception without clear context or attribution.
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