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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 12, 1930
Page
5
An article argues plant diseases including smut rust and cankers cost Western Canadian farmers millions annually, rivaling personal medical costs. It notes many losses are preventable, cites oats rust and smut figures, and forecasts breeding disease resistant crops will cut future losses.
The article praises Germany’s new pocket battleship the Ersatz Preussen, a 10,000 ton vessel described as epoch making. It argues the ship, with advanced research and design, could outmatch ships of twice its displacement, serve as blockade breaker and commerce destroyer, and alter the balance between American and British navies.
At the opening of a major New York hotel, souvenir hunters carried off a vast share of silverware, salt and pepper sets, ash-trays, sugar bowls, towels, bedspreads, blankets, rugs, and even telephones and writing tablets. Hundreds participated, with room thefts heavy but towels and tokens most desired.
Chicago city planners weighed Lincoln Park Zoo pasture for horses but now young horses find work as haulers of milk waggons ice vans and fruit trucks. In seven months of 1929 authorities registered 10 741 horse drawn vehicles versus 11 986 for all of 1928.
A fashion pattern description features Style No. 3294 in sizes 16 18 36 38 40 42. It pairs with a black crepe silk skirt, uses flat silk crepe eggshell shade, and offers multiple color options with a 25 cent pattern price.
Pattern orders guide from the Winnipeg paper lists address at 175 McDermot Ave and references Pattern No see. It outlines how readers should request patterns and where to send or email the orders.
Saskatchewan ranks third among Canadian provinces in dairy output for 1928, with total milk production of 1,178,703,547 pounds. Ontario leads in milk and Quebec tops dairy butter production, while Alberta leads in total creamery butter and cheese output.
Captain Batchelor of the Soldier Settlement Board outlines Plan A for future settlement. A township or more of land, 50 acre cleared fields on alternate sections, a main road, barn, water supply, a school and a central hall. British families would settle lands sold at cost of improvements, with homestead rights forfeited. Alternate sections would follow after two years, then opened to Canadians on the same terms.
Leonard Christie McQuat, a prominent agriculturist with fifteen years in livestock affairs, has been named general agricultural agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway. Born 1892 at St. Andrews Post Quebec, he earned a BSc in Agriculture from McGill, served in WWI, and worked as bacon specialist for the Dominion Livestock Branch before joining the Imperial Economic Committee in London 1925.
Professor Thorvaldson of the University of Saskatchewan discusses collaborating with Prof. Wilhelm Eitel of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute to apply X ray crystal research to cement improvement. Thorvaldson plans a three to four month stay to advance practical methods for a vital regional industry. Tennis by artificial light is popular in Australia.
The article reviews a decade of Canadian dairy conditions with emphasis on exhibits for the Works Poultry Congress and provincial displays. It cites work by J F Singleton on production changes from 1920 to 1929, noting more milk producers, rising herd sizes, and altered butter and cheese production. It also reports trade balances, with large butter and cheese imports and exports, and suggests opportunities to boost per capita cheese consumption and optimize importExport timing. It mentions dairy policy framing by Ottawa’s Live Stock Branch and national display plans for Crystal Palace.
The passage lists six candidates for Queen of the Pas Winter Carnival on March 4 including Laura Robgon Flin Flon Mines Enid McGregor Regina Margaret Halliday The Pas Winnipeg Annabelle Haiderson The Pas Helen Muthal The Pas Gladys Chute The Pas and Mabel Milne Saskatoon It notes the Jasper National Park canyons in Alberta with turbulent streams and waterfalls such as Athabaska Maligne Rocky River Fiddle Creek Ogre and Snake Indian canyons in a reserve spanning 4521 square miles.
A young out of town couple settled in the East Nineties visit Sloane's to buy chintz curtains. They pay the full purchase price in cash, astonishing the clerk who admits he has never handled a cash sale before and is at a loss how to handle the money.
Historic estate praised as Byron family home changes hands to Sir Julien Cahn for the nation. The philanthropist and sportsman is noted for a stock market stake in Trigo, the Derby winner, yielding $310,000.
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