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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 26, 1929
Page
3
Canadian mineral output reaches a new peak per Dominion Bureau of Statistics data. The two key facts are the wide variety of minerals and the vast, underexplored territory offering potential for intensified prospecting and future growth.
W M Weall of Surrey reports a trial with 24 pigs split into irradiated and control groups. Pigs treated with ultraviolet light three to twenty minutes daily from 10 to 20 weeks sold higher on the same day, with each irradiated pig bringing about 14 times the lamp cost in extra value.
National Dairy Council reports the camel as the originator of butter. Arabs crossed deserts with sour milk in skin bags and the swaying ride churned it into butter. They later churned by tying bags to racing horses and beating milk on the ground.
The Nationalist Government bans importation of toy pistols and air guns into China. Officials say such toys, though harmless in theory, are used by bandits in the interior to terrorize rural communities. The order prohibits all importation by Chinese or foreign firms.
A quip from Lustige Blatter in Berlin notes that chest exercises have expanded the speaker by two centimetres weekly, joking that a larger house will be needed a year from now.
Advertises dress patterns No 899 127 135 944 948 and 846 with sizes from 6 to 44 inch bust. Lists fabric yardage for 40 and 36 inch materials, contrasting pieces, bindings and ribbons. Notes prices at 25 cents in stamps or coin and wrap coin carefully.
A recruit at the naval training station, after two weeks of digging, chopping, and filling depressions, tells his superior that joining the navy promised travel, not endless rearranging of the world.
Charles Minich, a road patrolman near Cornwall, Wisconsin, suffered a violent rheumatism attack. He tied a note to his Airedale dog and sent it to a neighbor, who carried him to town for medical care.
inspectors in fifty six packing plants reviewed 1 150 000 cattle 610 000 sheep 2 600 000 swine and 208 000 poultry for human consumption Only 1 59 per cent of cattle 0 27 and 0 26 per cent of sheep and swine respectively were condemned Diseased portions were removed and no major outbreak noted The opening of a new Ottawa laboratory will boost eradication research including bovine tuberculosis Calmetto vaccine tests continue with mixed results despite overall healthy meat animal output Abundant livestock health highlights progress and ongoing campaigns to combat disease across Canada.
The article notes that extensive nitrate fields in South Africa historically augmented fertilizer production but modern chemistry allows large synthetic nitrogen production from the atmosphere. It recalls German advances before the war, their air nitrogen process, and how blockades limited their access yet they produced millions of tons for agriculture and explosives. Now, due to discovery, factories can emit vast nitrogen quantities from air.
London chemists and dealers report a sharp rise in chewing gum use after a busy summer. Cleaners in trains, buses, theatres and cinemas complain of wads stuck under seats while dealers attribute much of the demand to touring Americans.
The underground tombs of early Christian martyrs in Rome could form a tunnel chain stretching six hundred miles if galleries were placed end to end. A police officer criticizes a driver for not sounding her horn, while the girl driver explains she did not want to startle the pedestrian.
The piece notes Britain’s resilience with rising education and Empire pride. It cites Lord Wilson in New York praising imperial reach, describes wartime debts and taxes, export/import balances, unemployment patterns, and industrial strains in Wales, Northern England, coal, textiles, shipbuilding, and steel while urging continued consolidation and adaptation.
Seeds entered for the World Grain Exhibition in Regina 1932 will be tested for purity in advance. Exhibits arrive before April for sowing in plots to determine variety purity. Prizes totaling nearly a quarter million dollars will be awarded for grain and seeds, with global entrants expected.
The first shipment of British Columbia purebred poultry to Switzerland was organized by the ROP Poultry Breeders Association. Ten White Leghorn yearling hens, blood-tested with ROP records of 200 to 225 eggs, were bred by N. E. Plaxton in Victoria and shipped aboard the Notre Dame to Havre, France, then by train to Switzerland.
A man advises that avoiding spare bedrooms minimizes uninvited weekend visitors. He says extra bedrooms invite company like a peach tree invites boys, and suggests building fewer bedrooms for a quieter life.
A power station at Karnap Germany will convert Ems River mud into fuel. After drying the mud to a lignite-like heat value it will heat steam to drive engines and dynamos.
Farmworkers bound for the 1929 harvest travel west aboard the Melita. They arrived as the first large group under the ten pound rate and were directed to farm work by representatives of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Newrich remarks in Berlin to Dorfvarbier about using ten brands of hair wash and meticulous grooming. He jokes that if the trend continues he may need both manicured and pedicured features.
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