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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1932
Page
3
Hope rises for Western Canadian farms as wild oats could be turned into porridge and feed. Saskatoon government elevator to install two wild oat hulling machines enabling tests for a new market. Cuba previously bought Canadian wild oats for mule feed with strong protein content.
An advance in beautification reflects growing interest in parks and gardens as Canada increases plant imports. Over 10 years the Plant Inspection Service examined 900,000 plants in 1919 and more than 48 million last year at ports including Halifax St Johns Quebec City Montreal Ottawa Toronto Niagara Falls Windsor Winnipeg Estevan and Vancouver to prevent pests and diseases.
A British Columbia creamery has won a Hong Kong provision firm contract to ship 80 boxes of butter monthly. For eight years BC butter has already been sent to Japan where it commands a premium in the market.
Pine Bluff Arkansas readers are told in a front page editorial that terms such as financial low mood business depressions hard times and other phrases describing economic hardship will be banned by the Commercial Daily henceforth.
A Lustige Kolner Zeitung joke notes displeasure when a wife plays piano and adds that she sings as well, reflecting humorous marital banter from Cologne.
All Tingey patterns are sketched in Paris and made in New York. The scarlet red wool jersey dress with black fur trim features a narrow belt and black buckle. Described as chic and sleek with circular godets and slender neckline fur, available in sizes 14 to 20 and 36 to 40. Ready for delivery, hand cut. Send 25 cents to Fashion Bureau with name address and pattern number.
Pattern ordering guide from Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg outlines pattern numbers and sizing with Size-Name details.
R G Connelly Newark New Jersey extension dairyman argues common grain for lactating cows overfeeds low producers and underfeeds high producers. Trials show Jerseys and Holsteins on high roughage and no grain maintain milk without grain and that grain amounts should scale with actual output for efficiency.
Milton Ganshorn a fifteen year old from Grand Coulee Saskatchewan placed 41st in the Chicago International Hay and Grain show hard red spring wheat contest. He previously won Kiwanis wheat prize money and placed second in Regina Board of Trade and Sherwood contests, earning about 75 dollars while commuting eight miles daily to high school.
Rear Admiral Blount described a German electrically driven crewless launch at a Missions to Seamen Exhibition in Leeds. The craft, controlled from shore, carried 500 pounds of gun cotton, rammed targets, and could maneuver quickly. Warships could sink it with gunfire, but merchant ships were vulnerable.
The Neptune sailed April 2, 1881 as the first steamer to carry apples direct from Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia to London England. It shipped 6 800 barrels and reached London in 14 days. The venture proved fairly successful and the business has since grown.
The piece notes that industrial leaders social workers and politicians have prepared ahead for a hard winter during an economic crisis. It praises intelligent thinking about causes of depression and plans to prevent recurrence. It emphasizes a shift to shorter hours without wage cuts as the logical remedy.
Canada has long led in aerial photography and surveying. The program last season kept the nation at the forefront as the world’s largest aerial photographic fleet remained engaged, preserving its preeminence.
A Washington survey notes nearly 500 individuals in the United States report incomes at or above one million dollars. The data highlights growing wealth concentration and the profile of top earners across industries.
A board hearing in Ottawa reviewed proposed higher egg transport rates tied to crate weight standards. Western crates used half inch wood at about 11 pounds, Eastern crates about 16.25 pounds, with a 1923 regulation setting 58 pounds as the rail and air freight standard. A Montreal January produce convention will discuss crate standardization. The report also notes Canada carried over 380,000 pounds by air mail in the first nine months of 1930, with expanding routes from Ames to Liscoe and Peace River to North Vermilion, and 72 air harbours along with 717 pilots and 500 aircraft nationwide.
The Ottawa Journal examines a troubling shift in Canadian farming as pork exports fall from 1927 highs of 25 million to 8.35 million last year and under 5 million projected this year. Canada also imports pork and lard despite abundant land and feed, raising questions about agricultural policy.
Young Angus returns with his lass and the exchange with his father settles on the price of the evening. The father asks if he has been out with his girl and notes the cost, to which Angus replies it costs half a croon and the girl paid it all.
Dr. Frank E. Simpson describes a radium operated clock in his Chicago office that has run for four years without winding. He says an invisible speck of radium powers it and could drive the mechanism for thousands of years until its energy wanes.
The silver fox is a colour phase of the red fox and the blue fox a phase of the polar fox. They are now established breeds through experiments by early Canadian fox farmers. Enthusiasm to a man is what steam is to an engine.
A trial shipment of Douglas fir railway ties from British Columbia to the British Isles was tested by the Forest Products Laboratories in London and declared highly satisfactory. British inquiries for about 300 000 ties are under consideration, with large orders possible if pricing and quantities align.
Bournemouth postal officials fitted a dozen public pens with non corrosive near unbreakable nibs to improve service. Public response was strong and by day one only two nibs remained intact.
A study of 850 meteorites by Dr. George Frederick Kunz of the American Museum of Natural History concludes no life forms exist beyond Earth. He presented findings to the New York Academy of Science. The report is quoted alongside a Cologne joke about an arranged marriage and debt.
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