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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 10, 1930
Page
4
For young men and women with a public school education or better seeking a practical program, this notice invites enrollment in a focused curriculum designed to develop useful, real world skills. The offering emphasizes hands on training and immediate applicability.
Poster attributed to John Jarklie, Optometrist, urges the value of vision and eye care. It asserts sight underpins safety and happiness, cites that most knowledge comes from the eyes, and promotes regular eye examinations to prevent cataracts and other conditions.
Bulbs should be potted as soon as received in September or October to ensure a succession of bloom. Hyacinths and early tulips may be ready for Christmas but most supplies arrive in October. Use a soil mix of equal parts loam cow manure and leaf mould with sand. A six inch pot holds six tulips, five inch for six crocus bulbs, and four to five inch pots suit a single hyacinth.
A shipment of about a thousand live muskrats from Oak Lake Manitoba to Hamburg Germany aboard the Canadian Pacific freighter Beaverford sets a record for fur bearing animals moved overseas. Two attendants managed twelve hour days to feed and water the rodents during the weeks long journey in galvanized iron crates with water troughs.
A practical guide explains potting five to six narcissus bulbs in seven to eight inch pots with drainage, level soil, and careful watering. Bulbs start in a cellar at 40 to 50 degrees, may be plunged in sand, then moved to a cool room to bloom for 12 to 14 days. Early tulips can be stored after ripening. other bulbs are usually discarded after bloom due to harsh prairie winters.
The National Air Tour visits Brandon on Monday next with forty to fifty planes of the latest designs. Machines will land at ten in the morning and depart at three for Regina, with five hours for inspection and a focus on the Edsel B. Ford trophy. The event offers $2,500 top prize and $9,500 to other finalists, plus a prize for engines under 310 cubic inches.
A large fleet in Brandon will compete for the Edeel B Ford cup with Captain Frank Hawks directing the event as official referee. Captain Ray Collins serves as tour manager and E W Pop Cleveland assists as scorer while many noted pilots pilot the planes on September 15 in Brandon.
Health guidance from the Canadian Medical Association emphasizes milk as essential for growth, bones, and teeth, noting its calcium and vitamin content and its role in a balanced diet with leafy greens. It highlights milk’s versatility and calls attention to local wheat shipments and a community plan viewing in Hamiota on September 20.
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