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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 16, 1922
Page
3
Article by JG Rutherford on wind protection through shelter belts for farms in western prairies. Discusses evidence from Brandon Farm and others showing wind breaks boost livestock finishing, crop yields, garden vitality, and reduce snowdrift. Notes sunflowers as effective shelter alongside Manitoba Maple and Russian Willow.
A new machine from the United States Department of Agriculture removes weed seeds from wheat. The device uses 15 aluminum disks with underslash pockets on a shaft turning 60 rpm to separate weed seeds from the grain. In tests grain with up to 38 percent weed seed reappeared as cleaned wheat with no foreign traces.
Letters from Toronto and Alberta praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for strength and endurance during hardship. Respondents claim improved backache weakness and energy enabling work and urge publication of their letters as testimonials.
Captain Edward A. Salisbury sails toward the Malay peninsula to probe legends of wild men with vestigial tails and receding foreheads. His expedition aims to uncover evidence of mankind in its most primitive form.
All Russian scrap heap machinery has deteriorated under the Soviet regime. Strines and German ironmen arrange to obtain millions of tons of iron scrap from Russia. The material includes outdated guns and weapons, rails, bridges, ships, locomotives, and factory machinery that were in good order at the revolution but have deteriorated to uselessness except as raw material.
Age counts for less than a generation ago. People resist aging and value youth as a state of mind. New psychology links wealth work, cheerful thinking, and useful life interests to fitness and freshness of body and mind.
In 1867 cabinet debates on uniting Canada led Sir Samuel L. Tilley to the eighth verse of the 2nd Psalm. He read it and tied Canada’s geography sea to sea and river to ends of the earth to a new name. The nation adopted Dominion of Canada, honoring the Psalm.
The American Society for the Control of Cancer promotes National Cancer Week to educate the public on initial cancer symptoms and the value of detecting the disease in curable stages. Statistics show high mortality for women over 44, with varying gender ratios by age.
Mrs Roy Keith of Charlton Mont writes her two children suffered diarrhoea with vomiting and blood but Dr Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry stopped the diarrhoea after one bottle. The product priced 50c a bottle and sold by The T Milburn Co Limited Toronto Ont.
A four-wheeled pedal fire engine with two front and two rear seats was shown in Paris. Riders pedal to drive a rotary pump and unroll a hose reel when reaching a fire scene. The machine aims to outrun horse-drawn engines and claims comparable pump power to hand engines in use in many towns.
A toad eats food equal to four times its stomach capacity in a day. The second fact notes that Mexico once claimed land from Panama to Vancouver Island.
A Buffalo NY physician Dr. Pierce is famed for his Golden Medical Discovery, a blood tonic from a root extract with no alcohol. The ad touts benefits for complexion digestion and vitality and invites readers to consult Dr. Pierce’s Hotel in Buffalo for medical advice.
A Boston Transcript remark notes Mrs White was late to church and lacked new attire prompting curiosity from a spectator who questions the reason and appearance. The brief reflects small town etiquette and social curiosity.
A call goes out to residents and shoppers to support local merchants by buying locally. The message stresses community benefits, sustaining jobs, and keeping money within the town as small businesses seek repeat customers.
A lake in Ireland reportedly petrifies any object placed in it forming a stone shell. An English cutlery firm tested wood samples sunk with weights and buoyed, finding ones petrified to hard flint like material. They concluded at a certain stage petrification yields workable razor bone.
Edison and his associates first designed lamps with bulbs upright as gas lamp familiarity favored upward flame. His pioneering electric light could be used in any position, but early chandeliers kept bulbs vertical due to accustomed gas jet design.
Minnesota reserves of unmined iron are estimated at 32,000,906,000 tons according to the reported ore stock data, signaling vast mineral wealth and potential future production.
Faris B. Russell argues Canada’s vast resources and close cultural ties make it a vital yet neglected partner for U S trade. He highlights Canada’s rich nickel reserves, fisheries, timber, and land, plus the shared border, urging free trade over medieval protectionism to unlock mutual prosperity.
The passage describes Fijian customs of mutual aid and shared work. It notes absence of private property, communal division of outcomes, and clan chiefs coordinating rebuilding and labor. It also explains the chief’s traditional authority over members and possessions, now tempered by British rule.
A courtroom exchange captures the counsel asking the woman her age and the witness replying she has seen twenty three summers. The dialogue then questions the duration of her blindness.
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