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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 05, 1939
Page
7
In Paris and Germany Sarah Lynn embraces flight, reading timetables and airline ads as Sally Ann nudges her toward aviation. Great-granny funds a possible career while Mary Dana cautions the plan, and Gunnar Thorwald seeks reconciliation as Sarah Lynn faces a pivotal moment in her transformation.
Young Van Doren returns from Detroit as Conrad Jordan agrees to meet Thorwald and reveal Ardine's prank details. Sarah Lynn travels via Salzburg and Paris with Sally Ann and receives news she must sail home due to a potential pneumonia risk from her mother.
An advertisement touts clean stainless antiseptic dispensed by chemists at cost to treat itching and eczema. It claims rapid penetration, relief from Barber's Itch and other skin troubles, and notes availability at inextern drug stores with rare failure.
In a tense scene from a Danavale setting, Gunnar Thorvald the famed Norwegian ace asks Sarah Lynn to join him in his plane. Though she fears the danger, she seems to accept as Conrad Jordan and others arrange a swift departure to the airfield. The Hermod awaits ready for takeoff.
The Croydon city council requires written permission for any theatre to stage performances involving wild animals including lions tigers bears and sea lions. The rule is aimed at regulating animal acts and ensuring public safety and welfare.
Read a store window sign in Prague indicating exchange of gas masks for German dictionaries. Mention notes on quarrying in Canada noting good grades of granite marble limestone and sandstone.
South Africa imported American toys valued at 344400 dollars in the previous year. The data highlight trade in consumer goods and cross border toy flows between the United States and South Africa.
Sir Joseph Flavelle disclosed a historic incident in which a senior British observer, Goldwin Smith, reported a letter proposing that the south secede and the north annex all of North America. The idea also touched on Gladstone and Bright as signatories, later burned by Smith.
M W Bartley Ontario Government geologist reported at the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy convention that iron ore beneath Steep Rock Lake 135 miles west of Port Arthur runs high in content. Samples show up to 65 percent iron and ore is described as very good and very pure with potential tonnage and value not yet calculated. Accessibility of the deposits was emphasized in the paper.
The Kong Kong Press reports growing disaffection and hardship in Japan as war costs rise. Industry is subordinated to the war effort, trade declines, and financial experts warn the budget may become unsustainable amid persistent guerrilla pressure in occupied areas.
The text lists figures and aims across places including the sun temperature, English sports fields, a German skyscraper plan, and Pennsylvania state flower. The fragmentary items reference 9000 degrees Fahrenheit, 400 playing fields in England, Hamburg skyscraper plans, and mountain laurel as Pennsylvania’s state flower.
Yeshwant of Indore, 30, announced his marriage to Marguerite Lawlor, a 30-year-old American nurse from Fargo, North Dakota, educated at Oxford, saying the union provides mental peace for his duties. The ceremony occurred recently in Europe, and the ruler noted his lineage as descended from a shepherd, not a high caste dynasty.
A shopping of weight loss tips uses a triple mirror to urge Mrs. Stout to swap fatty meals for low calory dishes. It promotes a 875 calorie lunch and a 170 calorie salad plan, with a 32 page booklet offering two weeks of menus and a three day liquid diet, available for 15 cents at Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
Sir Henry L. French head of the Food Defence Department says plans are complete and ready to activate within 24 hours. Fifteen hundred local food officers are appointed nationwide and eighteen divisional offices opened with a Scottish divisional officer. The plan covers butchers meat bacon butter margarine cooking fats and sugar.
Films brought from Palestine were shown to thousands of worshippers in Westminster Abbey marking the first time movies were exhibited there. Attendees included representatives of the Russian Greek and Syrian Orthodox churches.
On the fifteenth anniversary of the Fascist air force Italy reports 18 000 trained pilots up from 10 000 in 1937 and 6 700 youths in training. Premier Mussolini awards 22 gall medals mainly to families of fallen flyers while Via Dell Aria defends Italy s modern air force and domestic plane needs.
The article notes better radio reception and clearer skies with fewer storms as sun spot activity wanes. It discusses the 11.2 year sun spot cycle, with declines expected to begin this year and reach a minimum about 1945 before rising again, indicating varied solar influence on Earth's atmosphere.
Hon. J. L. Isley, minister of national revenue, urged the Ottawa junior board of trade that this is a time for individual sacrifice and national preparation. He said Canada must spend large sums for defence and warned that appeasement is no longer valid. He cited Mussolini and Hitler as warnings and noted Britain faced a similar peril in the past.
The New York board of education introduces both theoretical and practical bicycle riding instruction after 705 lives lost and 35 000 injuries nationwide last year. In New York 400 young cyclists were seriously injured in 1938, prompting action to teach safety in schools.
The Smithsonian Institution states that there are 300 dialects across 45 stock Indian languages, highlighting linguistic diversity. The remark emphasizes the breadth of regional speech patterns among Native communities.
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