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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 13, 1932
Page
3
The Dominion Department of Fisheries enforces rules to keep streams frequented by fish free from mill refuse and sawdust. Sawdust harms by covering spawning beds and entering fish gills. industrial seepage also injures aquatic life. Prosecutions under the Fisheries Act can follow if operators fail to remedy pollution.
Jamaica aims to produce a variety of orange to offer a year round supply. F E Holloway president of Mutual Brokers Montreal says Jamaica can market oranges beyond October to March and could become the Empire orange supplying Canada and the Dominion.
Field Museum displays a prayer from an Egyptian lady's tomb asking for 1,000 loaves of bread, 1,000 jars of beer, 1,000 ointment vases, and 1,000 garments. The item is quoted amid a column of quips about husbands and fashions.
The piece argues firms should use newspapers to attract customers and boost sales. It highlights steady circulation, targeted markets, and cost effective reach for serious selling using fact and reason. It urges mobilizing ad dollars in newspapers for better business this year.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police reach about 2100 personnel, the highest since 1873. In recent months they gained nearly 800 from absorbing the customs preventive service and provincial police of Alberta Manitoba and the three Maritime provinces. BC Ontario and Quebec maintain separate forces with potential agreement to unify.
George Warner, caretaker of the Grimsby Post Office, residents above the building, solved a garden problem by placing a barrel filled with earth behind the post office. He drilled holes around a sugar barrel, planted strawberries, and now has 26 plants with as many as 20 berries each.
The article argues Britain is crowded while Canada has vast unoccupied land. It laments the loss of the old pioneering spirit that drew settlers to Ontario from the Ottawa River to the St. Clair and laid the Dominion’s foundations. It questions attracting unemployed men to rural Canada.
The article claims scarecrows grew from grim rites in which a life was sacrificed at ships’ launches and buildings’ starts, symbolized by wine breaking and foundation stones. Farmers kept the practice as superstition faded, leading to the effigy in fields to appease weather gods for crops.
Big Jackson, Micousukee and Tamonia form a triangle along the Georgia Florida line and share a habit of disappearing into subterranean channels. Jackson, the largest, vanishes about every few years leaving mud. the others follow in turn. When water returns, fish become unusually abundant. The cause and exact route remain unknown.
A mechanically operated rubber-tired runner moves around the outside of Oxford University track to pace varsity men. The four wheel device helps distance runners train by judging pace and reserving strength for the final sprint.
A cataract removal was performed on the right eye of Princess Beatrice, aunt of the king, at Kensington Palace. She is the daughter of Queen Victoria and mother of former Queen Victoria of Spain, aged 75 in April. The note adds Swiss cheese consumption and global broadcasting figures for context.
The Zuider Zee ends as a lake as the eighteen mile dike between Wieringen and Friesland closes. The waterlogged area may be reclaimed for 500000 acres under Queen Wilhelmina's domain, transforming the landscape and future plans for Holland.
Thirty three public schoolboys of England have returned after a three and a half months trip to South Africa. They traveled 12000 miles by sea, 6000 miles by train, and 2000 miles by automobile.
A call for driver education to reduce accidents notes many licenses issued to unsafe operators. The piece argues cars are costly property and drivers must learn driving rules, warning against absent-minded behavior like a dentist’s risky remark during restraint.
Bolton England footwear makers see their noiseless clogs attract buyers abroad while domestic demand remains tepid. The article notes rising export interest and emerging markets as local sales lag behind international demand.
Brazil intends to spend 2 646 000 dollars on new public works including railway and port improvements. The move aims to boost infrastructure and economic activity across key transportation hubs.
A report shows animal diseases cost English farmers about 100 million dollars in the last year. The data highlights the impact on livestock sectors and farm incomes across regions.
Canada’s Dominion experimental farms evaluate wild and cultivated grasses for hay and pastures. Not all wild plants become field crops. only those with yield, seed production, feeding quality, disease resistance, weed competitiveness, winter hardiness, and drought tolerance survive. Breeders seek new varieties like Crested Wheat grass and Reed Canary grass to improve standards such as sweet clover, western rye grass and brome grass, notes L. FE. Kirk, Dominion Agrostologist.
The Ottawa Journal cites an Alberta weekly asserting 25 years of progress since 1906, noting rises in agricultural output from 20 to 161 million, dairy from 2 to 13 million, land cultivated from 1 to 16 million acres, and mining from 1 to 16 million dollars, with Canada’s gains echoed and future prospects bright.
A gold and amethyst seal valued at 500 pounds was found by a Portsmouth teamster on a refuse dump and returned to Mrs. Margaret Carey of London who identified it as stolen thirty years earlier. A diner quips about a hair in soup while a Pittsburgh station uses power to move two street cars up a steep grade.
The article outlines staggered plantings for continuous vegetable harvests with early, medium, and late varieties. It covers fertilizing practices, use of chemical weed destroyers, and safe application, plus tips for potatoes tomatoes corn and leafy greens to maximize fresh produce.
The London general post office faces anxious Indian letter writers who watch the Air Mails box to ensure letters to India are correctly dispatched. A separate Japan note mentions 35 million rural residents in 13,000 villages and a medical quip about lung trouble.
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