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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1930
Page
3
An analysis outlines how smut rusts and other plant diseases cost Western Canadian farmers millions annually. It notes oat smuts in Ontario alone totaling about two and a half million, discusses rust resistance breeding and the preventability of many ailments, and compares plant disease losses to national debt.
The opening of a famous New York hotel saw widespread souvenir hunting with silverware salt and pepper sets ash-trays and other service items stolen in large quantities. Towels bedspreads blankets and rugs also disappeared while rooms suffered heavy losses and even telephones and writing tablets were taken.
Germany unveils the Ersatz Princess pocket battleship of 10 000 tons designed as a superior blockade breaker and commerce destroyer. Armed with advanced research and craft, the ship aims to outperform cruisers of double its size, threatening major warships that pursue it.
Chicago city leaders once toyed with keeping a horse at Lincoln Park Zoo for a rare animal. now horses are praised as labor for milk wagons ice vans and fruit trucks with a green field 20 years ahead. in seven months of 1929 ten thousand seven hundred forty one horse drawn vehicles were registered compared to eleven thousand nine hundred eighty six in all of 1928.
A Pattern Department description highlights Pattern No. 3294 a blouse in eggshell crepe satin with a scarf collar and flying ends. It features a flat hipline shirting at center front and long darts below the elbows, offered in sizes 16 through 42.
Saskatchewan ranks third among Canadian provinces in 1928 dairy output with 1,178,703,547 pounds of milk. Ontario leads, followed by Quebec. Saskatchewan also contributed to butter and creamery butter, cheese, and dairy byproducts, while comparisons show Ontario and Quebec leading in certain products.
Captain A A Batchelor of the Soldier Settlement Board outlines a plan for future land settlement before the Royal Commission. A township or more would be selected with 50 acre fields on alternate sections, a main road, barn, water supply, a school and a central hall. Families from Great Britain would receive land at the cost of improvements, with homestead rights forfeited.
Leonard Christie McCunt, an experienced agrarian and livestock affiairs expert who represented Canada on an Imperial committee for the British Empire meat supply, is appointed general agricultural agent of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Born 1892 at St Andrews East Quebec, he earned a BSc in Agriculture from McGill.
Studying cement treatment at the University of Saskatchewan, Prof. Thorvaldson discusses applying Prof. Wilhelm Eitel’s X ray crystallography methods to cement. The visit aims to boost cement quality for local commerce, with Thorvaldson staying three to four months. Tennis by artificial light popularity noted in Australia.
A decade of daily conditions in Canada underpins a major exhibit at the World Poultry Congress in Crystal Palace. Ottawa’s Live Stock Branch leads a national display of live birds and fancy breeds, with provincial groups coordinating efforts to highlight poultry and related dairy achievements and trade data from 1920 to 1929.
E T Maher of Heaton Newcastle asserts he has not slept for 20 years. The store keeper and former York and Lancaster Regiment battalion caller up underwent several operations, but doctors remain baffled and unable to explain or cure his condition.
The Pas Winter Carnival on March 4th will feature a queen crowned from seven Western Canadian contestants listed by name and origin. The photograph sequence presents Miss Laura Robinson, Miss Enid McGregor, Miss Margaret Halliday, Miss Annabelle Halderson, Miss Helen Mulhal, Miss Gladys Chute, and Miss Mabel Milne as contenders. The article also notes the vast Jasper National Park in Alberta with famed canyons, waterways, and cataracts such as Athabasca, Maligne, Rocky River, Fiddle Creek, Ogre, and Snake Indian canyons within its 4521 square mile area.
A young out of town couple settling in the East Nineties bought chintz curtains at Sloane's. They paid the clerk the exact cash amount and he confessed he had never processed a cash sale before and was unsure what to do with the money.
Sir Julien Cahn, renowned philanthropist and sportsman, buys historic Newstead Abbey the ancestral home of Lord Byron to present to the British nation unconditionally. He holds a half share in the Stock Exchange sweep ticket on Trigo and won 310000 dollars last year.
A brief exchange from Munich features Mrs. Newrich thanking Jugend for a New Year message while asserting independence from charity. The quote emphasizes self-reliance amid communal well wishes.
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