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Hamiota Echo

Location

Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada

Date

Apr 12, 1939

Page

2

Cost Of Government And The Hidden Tax Burden

The article argues that widespread relief and public service demands burden taxpayers through hidden taxes. It cites indirect taxation, growing public debt, and the liability of $28 per person for current relief costs. Captain W C C Innes warns that neglecting work requirements undermines morale and accountability.

Capt W. C.C. Innes Taxpayers’ Association of Canada Labour Review Innes

Toronto Office Staff Help Deaf Colleague With Hearing Device

In Toronto a young office worker who became deaf from mastoiditis caused by diving received a bone conduction hearing aid funded by colleagues. The instrument, unobtrusive and effective, restored his hearing and eased his family’s financial burden, alleviating fears about his future and job performance.

Toronto Toronto Telegram

Napoleon Named Honorary A rts Academy Member After Egyptian Campaign

The 1802 honorary membership at the American Academy of the Arts followed Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign which yielded the Rosetta Stone key to decoding hieroglyphics. The text also notes human growth milestones from birth to adulthood, with height tripling and limb lengths varying.

Napoleon American Academy of the Arts Egypt

Map Changers Slashing British Map Firms Revenue

Five major British map makers lose about 52000 dollars monthly as they republish and destroy up to a million maps in four years. Czech crisis forces widespread changes, including renaming towns to German, with presses halted to reflect Europe shifts. Public map consciousness boosts sales despite disruptions.

Adolf Hitler Britain Asia Ethiopia

Visitors Reach Tristan da Cunha Island

Women visitors landed recently at Tristan da Cunha perhaps for the first time in history. The lonely south Atlantic isle with 130 inhabitants received liner passengers and gifts. The residents subsist on meagre produce, refuse to leave, and ignore a nonfunctional radio.

Tristan da Cunha South Atlantic

Mince Pies Traced Through English Culinary History

The note traces mince pies from England's 1596 mutton pie and Elizabethan minched pies to the 1700 shred pies, highlighting the evolution of a traditional festive treat. The piece links historical pie names to modern mince pie origins.

England Elizabeth

SOS broadcasts aid missing relatives in patients cases

A report states SOS broadcasts help locate missing relatives of sick persons in 54 percent of cases, citing a total of 2302 instances.

SOS

Naval Race Boosts World Battleship Size Debate

President cites Naval Expansion Act to authorize two 45 000 ton battleships costing likely over 100 million each. Analysts compare to Hood and French British ships, while noting Japan and others may pursue larger vessels. Jazz dismissed as cultivated depravity amid contrasting cultural tastes in remarks by Dr James Francis Cook.

Japan Admiralty Hood New York Sun James Francis Cook Orinoco River Jungles Kentucky Harlem

Japan takes Spratley islands as air base threat

Tokyo informs France Japan claims jurisdiction over the Spratly islands in the South China Sea amid strategic value. The seven islets totaling 247 acres have little commercial value but surround lagoons that could host seaplanes subs and small naval craft. France occupied the group in 1933, the first recorded ownership since their discovery in 1867.

Tokyo France Japan Spratley Islands China Sea French Indo-China British North Borneo

Selected Recipes for Cake Flour and Creamed Mixtures

This recipe card lists ingredients: sifted cake flour baking powder salt butter sugar egg milk vanilla. Instructions describe sifting flour three times creaming butter with sugar then beating in egg, alternating flour and milk, then adding vanilla and baking in two greased 8 inch pans at 375 F for about 25 minutes.

Banana Ginger Cream Cake from Butter Cake Recipe

Use Butter Cake as base. Bake in a moderate 350 degree oven in a single 8 by 8 by 2 inch pan for 50 minutes. Split into two layers and fill with whipped cream folded with candied ginger. Layer bananas between and on top as garnish. requires two to three bananas.

Surrealist Painter Dali Weighs In On Meaning

Salvador Dali claims it is enough to create paintings without being asked to interpret them. He says a true surrealist should not concern himself with such a minor matter as meaning.

Saskatchewan Salvador Dali

New Lodestone Claims World’s Strongest Permanent Magnet

A magnet about half the size of a wedding ring was announced that can lift a five pound flatiron. The lodestone is described as the most powerful permanent magnet in the world.

Natural Gas Dynamite Creates Powerful New Explosives

Purdue University chemists led by Professor Henry B. Hass announce two new explosives derived from natural gas components methane and ethane. The process, using air and steam, forms solid precursors that after formaldehyde treatment and nitrogen addition yield substances as destructive as nitroglycerine.

American Chemical Society Purdue University Henry B. Hass

Germany Buys Nicaragua Cotton and Exports Goods

Germany purchases the whole cotton crop of Nicaragua on a barter basis and takes coffee, cottonseed oil, rubber, hides, deerskins and cabinet woods. German tramp ships load at Corinto while Nicaragua will receive barbed wire, nails, diesel trucks, automobiles, hardware and pharmaceuticals. Producers prefer cash sales but other nations cannot buy all exports.

Germany Nicaragua Corinto

Age Limit Raised for Gunner Torpedo Branch Warrant Officers

The Admiralty raises the eligible age to 40 for promotion to warrant rank Gunner (T) torpedo branch due to a shortage of petty officers seeking warrant officer posts. The change is temporary and previously capped at 35.

London Daily Mail Admiralty

Sark Par Lament: Smallest Prison Heads for Roof Repair

The London Times reports Sark Par plans roof repairs on its tiny prison that has housed only three inmates in a century. A past incident recalls a servant girl left in the cell to be cheered by passers-by, with the door left open.

London Times Sark Parlament

Snails Survive Four Months On Tissue Reserves

The Zoological Survey of India reports that snails, when completely starved, can live on reserves of food stored in their tissues for about four months. The finding highlights snail resilience and potential implications for understanding invertebrate starvation tolerance.

The Zoological Survey of India

Canadian research hampered by facilities and skilled help

Dr. Charles D. Ellis of the University of London surveys Canadian research centers at the invite of the Conference of Canadian Universities with Carnegie Foundation support. The Rothschilds founded a premier money-lending network with branches in Vienna Paris London and Naples.

Canada Charles D. Ellis University of London Department of Physics Ellis Carnegie Foundation The House of Rothschild Frankfort-on-the-Main Vienna Paris London Naples

Woman Smuggles Rings Hidden In Bologna Case

An elderly Czecho Slovak woman allegedly smuggled two rings past German officials hidden inside a roll of home made bologna. The meat was seized by customs in Halifax after arrival on a train en route to western Canada aboard the Duchess of Richmond. Dominion agriculture officials confiscated the meat under government rules.

Halifax Canada Dominion Agriculture Department

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