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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 06, 1923
Page
3
The Saskatchewan dairy industry, new and growing, shows rapid gains from modern methods. Pasteurization of cream, graded pricing, and government graders stabilize quality and boost profits for producers and creameries alike.
The country house of the late Sarah Bernhardt on Belle Isle Brittany with farm fort and shore is sold for 350 600 francs about $20 000. Buyer plans a summer hotel with a jazz band and dancing on the first floor this season. The Palais mayor hoped for a Bernhardt museum but sale occurred before public discussion.
German coal operators in the Ruhr reach an understanding with Franco-Belgian authorities. They will cease opposing coal shipments on reparations to Italy along lines operated by the Allies, a move seen in French circles as a sign of weakened passive resistance to Allied action.
A dialogue snippet shows a student blaming a father for school trouble. The student recalls a question about a million dollars and remarks that the answer given by the teacher was not correct. The exchange hints at humor and a miscommunication about value.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a mother asking about piano practice and a request to borrow a lawn mower to complete yard work. The exchange hints at domestic routines and neighborly borrowing norms within a quiet afternoon setting.
A new powder for small arms and artillery claims to match driving power of the type pow while being smokeless and flashless. It is described as moisture resistant and impervious to moisture, improving field reliability for weapons crews.
In a London hospital a dying son prompted authorities to broadcast an appeal via wireless to reach his mother in Flitwick Bedfordshire. A Bedford resident heard the car and drove the mother to Luton to catch a train to London. Thirty motor cars offered transportation in response to the appeal.
The Natural Resources Intelligence Service reports 4,366,790 fur pelts taken in 1921 22 across Canada. Manitoba accounted for 1,101,556 Saskatchewan 798,066 and Alberta 682,266 with muskrat making up about 3 060 526 of all pelts. Saskatchewan logged 1 006 197 muskrat taken. Muskrat breeds rapidly so depletion risk is confined to drying swamps.
The Charleston News Courier argues life insurance underpins national prosperity. Premiums from seventy eight million policies are invested across the United States, supporting enterprises and stabilizing government, thrift, enterprise, and progress.
The world’s most dexterous barber retires after thirty seven years in the same St Pancras shop in London. He once shaved eighty men in an hour and often worked three hours nonstop with a steady one-minute rhythm between clients.
The English press notes a plan to replace Dogger Bank due to wartime damage. To restore catches 80 million plaice will be shipped from continental grounds. A proposed closed fishing zone 360 miles off the Dutch and Danish coasts would ban steam trawlers and motors over 50 hp.
The Otira Tunnel, the largest in the British Empire, opened linking the east and west coasts of New Zealand's South Island. It spans five and one third miles through the Southern Alps at Arthur's Pass replacing the dangerous coach route. The electric railway joins the coastal lines with a gradient of one in thirty three. Premier Massey praised British-made machinery used in the project.
Government experts trace a $12500 loss to one barberry bush. Stem rust outbreak spread at least five miles and affected wheat on eighteen farms.
An agitated woman tells a calm companion she has searched for her husband for two hours. The other woman replies she has spent twenty years looking for a husband, turning the moment to a wry joke.
An article argues immigration is essential to Canada’s economic salvation, citing the need for population growth to develop vast lands. It highlights British settlers as favored, notes the potential for industry and railways, and calls for stronger ties with the British Empire to boost manpower and capital.
Tourist traffic on the Banff Windermere highway has exceeded expectations with no accidents reported. Users include visitors from the United States and Canada who praise the new mountain route. The clay base road with hard packed gravel is noted as safe with long straight stretches. Chalets along the route provide gasoline, food, and lodging.
Oscar Beiall, 22, dubbed world’s champion stowaway, completed his sixteenth trip to the United States aboard the President Filmore docking in New York on August 6. He was found two days out from Bremen and jailed for refusing to work more than eight hours daily, and after deportation attempts at Ellis Island for two and a half years.
A deaf and mute peasant uncovered two large brass vases filled with gold pieces believed to date from 200 to 400 BC at Ognina near Mount Etna. Following a quake, officials ordered the artifacts moved to Rome after the finder offered them to collectors.
Two months ago First Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach of the New York City Police Department traveled to Europe for ideas on conduct and returned with a single rule courtesy. He called courtesy the sole virtue the famed London bobbie has over the American policeman.
Laundry proprietors employ scientists to discover a method for washing without starch. The note indicates industrial research efforts to remove starch from laundry processes.
A Black woman brought before a magistrate for cruelty to her boy challenges the judge asking if he has fathered a troublesome Black person. The judge replies he has not, and she retorts that he then knows nothing about them.
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