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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 19, 1930
Page
6
The Department of National Defence ordered 16 light aircraft for Royal Canadian Air Force training at a total cost of $85,000. Toronto’s annual assessment surpassed one billion dollars for the first time, with population over 600,000.
A marketing report by Mrs. S. M. Loree of Carman at the United Farmers of Manitoba convention says fruit growing in Manitoba should be placed on a profitable basis. Prospective fruit growers will gain accurate yield and hardiness statistics. Demonstration orchards exist. spring reorganization aims for definite results. About a dozen growers now commercially produce apples, plums, strawberries, raspberries and currants.
The Canadian government has awarded a $2,774,000 contract to construct the National Research Laboratories in Ottawa. The project is scheduled to start immediately and be completed in fourteen months.
The Regina Daily Post reports a reportedly fool proof airplane awarded $160,000 after exhaustive tests at Mitchel Field near New York City. The machine claims a minimum 38 mph gliding speed, signaling a major push toward safe high speed flight and potential mass air travel.
Chic dress pattern details a printed sheer velvet tiered dress in Independence blue with a high waist accent and collarless neck line. The Paris model offers sizes 16 to 42 bust, available in velvet, crepe satin, Canton crepe and crepe de chine colors, pattern price 25 cents in stamps or coin.
Winnipeg page lists pattern orders through the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 375 McDermot Ave. The item shows a name and town as potential customers. The fragment provides contact details but lacks a complete ordering procedure.
Visitors to the Max Bine Gallery encountered a display titled Artistic manifestations of the brain-sick featuring works by inmates of asylums. Some pieces bordered madness, others challenged traditional composition as museums of Bedlam, with photographs and engravings supplementing the theme. A three toed mammal drawing, signed by a now sane public figure, asks Where was I On what planet.
A compact dessert style guide describes mixing powdered sugar salt cornstarch with lemon and orange juice. Separate eggs beat yolks and fold in the mixture then beat whites stiff and fold in. Cook in a well oiled omelet pan and garnish with orange slices and extra sugar.
A traditional method cooks onion in soup fat until golden then sweetens with sugar. Add half vinegar, half water, shredded white cabbage, stalks removed, and salt. Simmer tightly for hours, stirring, adding water or broth as needed. Cabbage should be piquant with sweet tang and glossy color. Optionally dust with flour a half hour before serving.
The City of Saskatoon showed substantial progress in 1929 with strong finances and rising tax collection including forfeited properties. Net outstanding taxes stood at 800000, about 1000000 less than in 1925. Enrollment rose by 800 pupils, electrical output up 30 percent, city real estate sales reached 130000, and street railway passengers increased 15 percent.
A light verse contrast shows a speaker facing hardship with grit and a doctor visiting a patient next door. The exchange ends with the doctor humorously noting he has another patient nearby, suggesting a quick, practical takeaway amid stress.
Johns Hopkins chemist Dr J C W Frazer announces a catalyzer method to remove carbon monoxide from motor exhausts making emissions safe. The professor explains the catalyst draws oxygen from air to form carbon dioxide, reducing fatal exposure in cities grappling with deadly air pollution.
A National Museum staff member in Ottawa proposed an outdoor museum along Western Canada rail rights of way. Concrete casts of dinosaur, mammoth, and mastodon skeletons would be displayed as a monument to ancient beasts and to attract railway tourists.
The Gibraltar rock stands as a fortress guarding the Mediterranean. From the harbor deck, the granite walls and massive guns appear impregnable, with the town split into two parts on the western waterfront and civilian residences to the north.
From Doorn Holland ex Kaiser Wilhelm consults a Berlin medium Patter Johannsen about possible return to Germany and whether he will die naturally. Johannsen, sworn to secrecy, says the answers were given under unseen powers while he studied the Kaiser’s handwriting and glimpsed a garment he wore.
More than 300000 receiving set owners in Canada paid the annual one dollar radio license this year. Ontario accounts for about half and Toronto exceeds 40000. Licensed sets by province include Ontario 146662 Quebec 49790 Prince Edward Island 509 Nova Scotia 8893 New Brunswick 6141 Manitoba 18728 Saskatchewan 22467 Alberta 14332 British Columbia 25981.
The passage traces the ancient origin of the English alphabet from early pictorial signs and hieroglyphs, noting gradual development over 2,500 years. It also mentions hybrid uses of shark teeth as money in some Pacific Islands and their mounting in gold for decorative ornaments in China.
Sir John Aird president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce has returned from a four months tour to Egypt the Orient France and Great Britain. He urges sacrifices by all parts of the British empire to realize intra empire trade and calls for boosted trade between Canada and Japan and China noting mutual benefits and that Japan as a wheat market and importer of machinery and clothing is a strong partner. He cites China Japan Manchuria issues and the need to maintain a strong British commercial fleet.
A bronze tablet presented by Toronto editors at Acadia University memorializes Arthur Hunt Chute author soldier and gentleman. It recalls his Canada heritage and empire vision and notes his death September 22 1929 when his plane crashed in Lake Manitoba during a northward flight unveiled by R Napier Moore Toronto magazine editor.
A proposal urges testing a shipment of British Columbia certified potatoes to Buenos Aires to prove good results. If successful, a large market for the province's certified seed potatoes could open in South America, with a quotation already requested for 600 tons of Burbank certified seed.
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