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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
6
The article urges provincial and municipal authorities to promote organized spring clean-ups to remove filth and rubbish, reduce disease and fire risks, and boost civic pride. It emphasizes home and farm efforts, including outbuildings, for healthier, safer communities and neater appearances.
A Canadian safety speech links high fire losses to preventable causes and the rubbish habit. It urges ongoing personal and communal cleanup, noting insurers raise Gre premiums due to carelessness and urging cleanliness as the best fire prevention measure.
An advertisement promotes Baby's Own Tablets as a mood lifting remedy for fretful babies. It claims the tablets gently regulate bowels and stomach to relieve constipation indigestion colds and fevers, then restore happiness. Sold by medicine dealers or mail order from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont at 25 cents a box.
Little Irene rushes in breathless to tell her mother that a supposed horse doctor was sent for after a horse fell, but the visitor turned out to be just a man.
Dominion entomologist Dr. A. E. Cameron reports ongoing work at the University of Saskatchewan on internal parasites to exterminate grasshoppers. He says current methods will be used again this year but hopes parasite development will curb any further plagues by 1921.
The Saskatchewan government sold one million dollars of four year bonds at 102 20 yielding a net cost of 5.37 percent. Announcement came from Hon. Charles A. Dunning provincial treasurer. Europe has about 100 Universities.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports Canada wide declines in wheat and oats totaling 760 988 and 737 085 bushels respectively, with barley up 3 665. Western elevators fall 2 503 535 bushels while public terminal gains 1 666 280. East public elevators drop due to shipments. U S Atlantic ports fall 232 069. 64 percent of wheat graded No 3 Northern or better.
A saying notes that deception is tolerable only when the bluffer can convincingly mislead others. It emphasizes the craft of illusion and the ethics of truth versus performance in social interactions.
Norman Criddie’s timely publication outlines locust control in prairie provinces. It details preparation and application of poison baits and the recommended eradication method for pellucid locusts, native to the area, with free access from the Ottawa department publications branch.
An advertisement touts Danderine as a hair beautifier that can restore life, color, and vitality. It claims the tonic strengthens hair, fights dandruff, and reduces thinning, offering a 35 cent bottle at drug or toilet counters.
At the Brandon experimental farm the Manitoba egg laying contest shows W. H. Howe of Winnipeg leading with 882 eggs from ten pullets in 26 weeks in a pen of single comb Anconas. G. F. Thompson of Minnedosa owns the second place white Wyandottes and T. Lund of Stonewall holds third. A white Wyandotte owned by Thompson has laid 120 eggs since the start, while Symington's Rhode Island Reds set the best weekly total at 59 eggs.
The text asserts a farmer’s moral duty to sustain and improve soil fertility for posterity. It argues that current farmers must leave fields in better condition than they received, and that neglecting this duty equates to robbing future generations. The emphasis is on responsible agricultural stewardship and long term productivity.
Miss Eva P. Yateman of Krugersdorf Ontario relates four years of severe heart and nerve trouble with fainting spells. After unsuccessful doctor visits she used Milburns Heart and Nerve Pills, noting improvement after two boxes and near cure after ten. She urges others with heart troubles to try them. Pills sold 50c a box or by mail from The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ont.
Hundreds of settlers are expected to enter the Nechacko Valley in spring. Several interests controlling thousands of acres have pooled their resources and aim to have many acres under crop next season.
A discussion on the British monarchy as the axis of the empire and commonwealth. It argues the crown sustains political institutions unlike American presidential autocracy and notes a paradoxical truth about royal continuity. The piece references sovereignty in Britain and its Dominions and mentions a European river name Aa.
Owners of 160000 acres in Colsa Francois and Stuart Lakes districts in British Columbia sold out to 12 prairie farmers to run sheep. A Manitoba rancher bought 3200 acres near Stuart Lake and has option on 5000 more. A Victoria resident purchased 2040 acres on the Necesse river. Swiss graduates from Zurich agricultural college plan to settle in the province mainly for dairy farming.
The Medicine Hat Board of Trade advances two new irrigation districts south and east of the town comprising about 15000 irrigable acres. Surveys are complete, plans prepared, and projects submitted to the provincial government.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer publicly acknowledges fifty pounds sent as conscience money from S.O.S. The note calls the sum a grain of sand compared with what individuals owe the government, implying larger sums are due from those untroubled by their consciences. The fragment ends with a reference to CO.S. as a lonely fellow or a she from the Montreal Gazette.
The report notes over 300 bombing raids by Handley Page squadrons with no aircraft lost to enemy action due to engine or airframe failure. Many planes returned riddled with shrapnel and torn fabric yet landed safely thanks to their noted design stability.
Winnipeg has secured coal storage with 10 000 ton capacity to be expanded to 20 000 tons for coal shipped from Drumheller Alberta. This marks the first time Drumheller mine coal will be stored in Winnipeg.
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