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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 29, 1915
Page
7
Margaret Woodward argues in Countryside Magazine that country living offers health independence and mental vigor, citing cleaner air, abundant nature, and freedom from city toil. She contrasts urban strain with farm life, praising farming ancestry of leaders and noting longevity and well being tied to rural work.
One hundred pioneers in waste material collection and reuse attended the National Association of Waste Material Dealers banquet at the Hotel Astor. Curtis Guild praised dealers for saving raw materials, boosting national wealth, and supporting national industry. He called the dealer the surgeon of industry, noting cotton seed oil, cottonseed, and other salvaged goods now have immense value and export opportunities.
The Roman road is described as fourteen feet wide with seven feet of unpaved margins. Foundations used rubble, rammed earth, and multiple stone and concrete layers, culminating in a polygonal stone surface. The result is durable routes across Europe whose paths remain traceable even when the surface is gone.
A country clergyman oriented program begins August 2 at Manitoba Agriculture College. The course features staff lectures and a conference on the country church and agriculture with talks by nationally renowned social workers. Railways offer special rates. programme is in preparation.
An officer agrees to read a wounded Irish soldier’s letter but asks for ear protection, prompting the soldier Pat to request cotton wool to keep the contents private. The exchange highlights the tension between military discipline and personal communication during hardship.
The Russell Sage Foundation study for the Springfield survey committee finds a fourth of deaths preventable and about 200 yearly deaths. It details tuberculosis, infant mortality, and contagious diseases as major killers and calls targeted city health efforts in high-risk east wards.
The 1910 census counted 32 182 789 horses not on farms and 21 195 000 on farms, totaling over 24 million. Demand will rise after peace, with Russia and the United States holding half the world’s stock. breeding mares to high class stallions is urged to sustain export markets and profits.
The Patriotic Fund is a splendid thing a noble testimonial to Canadian responsibility for soldiers fighting for the British flag and freedom. Across the Dominion families of nearly 100 Canadian soldiers are being helped to live in comfort and decency and thousands will be added. The Fund will continue for a year or more.
A playful exchange reveals a unique marriage proposal idea. One partner asks to add another engagement ring to the collection, framing the proposal as a clever, original gesture.
The American observer notes Paris has shed its vanished gaiety for a new spirit of industry and moral earnestness. Boulevards feel empty as the front lines draw men away while darkness and gloom descend after nightfall.
A memorandum from Hon. Martin Burrell notes widespread cutworm damage across Canada with severe losses in the prairie provinces. It outlines practical poisoned-bait methods tested in Western Canada and emphasizes clean cultivation and weed destruction. Reports identify the red backed cutworm in Saskatchewan and an army cutworm in Southern Alberta as chief offenders. A bulletin titled Cutworms and Their Control is soon issued.
Dr. C. J. Scofield editor of the Scofield Reference Bible writes a six part series History Written in advance. The articles will start appearing toward the end of June in the Sunday School Times a weekly religious paper from Philadelphia. A three weeks free trial is offered upon request while supply lasts if the article is requested.
A farmer praises a hired man as one of the country’s greatest inventors and the city border asks what he invented. The farmer answers with a pun describing “petrified motion.”
Sir Donald Mann of the C N R argues farming must be more profitable to revive prosperity in Canada. He urges national action linking urban growth, immigration, and agricultural rewards, highlighting better primary markets and credit facilities drawn from German French and Danish models.
A Smithsonian zoological article by James Buckland argues humans are not the earths dominant power insects outnumber and prey on most life. It notes amazing multiplication rates for moths caterpillars and other pests while highlighting birds as essential natural controllers and protectors of forests crops and health.
A notice emphasizes the need to prohibit the destruction of certain Egyptian birds that help control insect pests, aiming to protect avian species and support agricultural health.
The article discusses miners recruited from British collieries, totaling over 100,000, to serve in the army. It extols their expertise in entrenchment, sap and mine work, and night vision, claiming they will excel in tunneling and night operations against German forces.
The famous clock in the House of Parliament tower is being overhauled after a period of service. The bell known as Big Ben weighs 124 tons and was named in honor of Sir Benjamin Hall, with hour hands over nine feet long and weighing over two hundredweight.
A concise dialogue fragment about a biblical context and romance. The speaker notes that good ones marry while four others do not stay long enough in one place to develop a romance.
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