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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 12, 1939
Page
6
A reader recalls years of dizzy spells hot flashes and indigestion. After three weeks on Kruschen Salts she reports improvement and after 18 months she says she would not miss them, claiming better health and energy.
Government authorities in Russia plan to train 100000 girls as tractor drivers to replace men in wartime. Britain reduces parade drill to three movements. Hitler appoints Raeder grand admiral as Germany builds a larger fleet. Jan Masaryk predicts Czechs will remain indestructible. Shao-Ying Shih arrives in Ottawa as Chinese consul general. Vancouver to begin a new 200000 Indian residential school at Port Alberni. Baron Rudolf von Moreau dies in a test flight crash. Canadian radio receiving set production and sales fall from 1937. Two armed men rob 20 Chinese lottery players in Winnipeg, taking about 35.
In Rock Hill, South Carolina, Southern Railway general manager G. W. Adams rode into town hitchhiking after an engine failure stranded a Southern passenger train. He ordered a second engine to pull the stranded train into Rock Hill.
The hummingbird’s tongue is a long pipe used to extract nectar from blossoms. Woodpeckers’ tongues have tiny sharp projections to seize insect life and even pick tiny eggs from bark and other places.
The Silver Jubilee operates from King's Cross to Darlington England covering 232 miles in 198 minutes making it the world's fastest long distance train.
Advice for women aged about 34 to 82 on maintaining appeal to men. Recommends fresh air five hours sleep and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a tonic for vitality, nerves, and mood to help enjoy life with more vivacity.
Pearl fisher Mrs Edwards of Darwin oversees three pearling boats with crews of four, aided by her son. She learned the trade from her late husband who ran a schooner and a 20-boat fleet, once dressing her children in bright red to keep them visible overboard.
A boarding house operator baked a pie for dinner but the crust broke. She served the damaged pie claiming it was a new recipe called the spring break up, as a boarder questioned the unfamiliar filling and name.
A Chinese resident of Lindsay explains beaver tail as a delicacy and notes it can fetch up to five dollars in New York markets. He reveals meat lies under the tail’s hard epidermis once scraped, and says both Chinese and many white Americans find it palatable.
A Berlin telephone operator questioned whether a call to Prague counted as German or foreign and finally affirmed it as a foreign call, highlighting Prague's status as a foreign capital to Berlin.
The article outlines sun loving and shade tolerant plants for warm walls and dry spells, stressing hardy species like coreopsis and morning glories, and the better performance of certain annuals in partial shade. It warns to buy nursery stock from reputable sources familiar with Canadian conditions and notes improvements in vegetables and new varieties.
Dr. George Crile of Cleveland told the American College of Surgeons that his research found Eskimos Indians and Orientals with a non worrying life attitude did not suffer nervous diseases from excessive brain work.
Anne Adams presents pattern 4065 for a spring dress and cape for children ages 4 to 12. two dress versions include a front button opening and a seam closing option, both with cherry appliques on the bodice. cape in pastel wool. fabric needs listed. pattern price 20 cents. order via Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
Public works plans allocate 200000 dollars for permanent RCMP buildings. Ottawa projects total 146900 for barracks an aeroplane hangar and stables. Regina funds include 49600 to finish gymnasium rifle range and 3500 for a lecture hall completion.
A flock of about 2000 exhausted birds boarded the Santa Rosa in West Indian waters, entering cabins and lounges and feeding aboard passengers. The birds, later identified as possibly warblers or wild canaries, rested through the night and headed toward Crooked Island at daylight.
The New York Post notes that the Geological Society of America warned that melting 6,000,000 square miles of ice could raise the world sea level about 150 feet affecting major ports including New York City, though the scenario is regarded as remote.
The fashion began in 11th century Europe after Domenigo Salva, Doge of Venice, wed the emperor of Constantinople’s daughter. Ladies wore scented gloves in public, and the trend moved to France and Spain. The text notes about 20,000 separate uses for gas.
C. M. Adcock of Roxboro, B C, found a wrens nest with four eggs inside his coat retrieved from a tree. He planned to leave the coat as is until the family hatched their brood.
Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus accidentally while stargazing with a telescope in 1781. The planet appeared during routine observations, marking a landmark moment in astronomy.
Instructs on crocheting 10 inch mercerized string squares with a grape motif for a dinner cloth and scarf. Pattern 6307 includes stitch charts, materials, and illustrations. Send 20 cents in coin to the Household Arts Department, Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. Winipeg. No Alice Brooks pattern book exists.
Trade records show that Britain imports roughly 225000 eggs each year from Poland, reflecting ongoing agricultural exchange and supply chain links between the two countries.
A devotional note centers on 1 Corinthians 3 10 about laying a foundation and others building on it. It links the golden text to Acts 14 and readings from Second Corinthians 3 6 11, inviting reflection on spiritual construction and growth.
After a year of hardship in Derbe and other Galatian cities the apostles retrace their steps to strengthen churches at Lystr a Iconium and Antioch of Pisidia. They exhort new converts to endure persecution and report their work opening the door of faith to the Gentiles in Syria.
Sir Edward Beatty, president of Canadian Pacific Railway, told graduates of the University of Toronto Athleta Society that youth must resist despair. He praised their faith and courage, urging them to view Canada as a land blessed by Providence with vast natural wealth and a harsh, healthy climate fit for virile men.
United States government chemists described a method to spin wool from skim milk to aid the poor. The process starts with sour milk dried and dissolved in alkali, then forced through a platinum disc to form fibers. Milk wool is weaker when wet but resists shrinking compared with real wool.
The Conte Grande relayed a rescue of British subject Michelli Formosa stranded on an uninhabited Atlantic rock while attempting a solo circumnavigation. Port authorities at Recife received the message and noted he left Malta on October 3, 1938, after wrecking near Sao Pedro Island.
New York toy makers unveil a doll priced at 200 dollars prompting concerns that the high cost of playthings may require guardianship against possible kidnapper threats.
Suffering from low blood count can leave you tired and weak with little energy. The ad promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills claiming to increase red blood cells and blood oxygen, giving renewed energy and stamina. It urges asking a druggist for the pills today.
The Glimmer racket once prospered in the United States and Canada as itinerant eye doctors promised cures for vision and eye troubles. Modern quacks used frames, prisms, radium, belts and other devices to dupe victims. 235 impostors are jailed with 177 years in sentences and millions in fines collected.
Readers may obtain the complete set of Dr McCullough cancer articles by writing to The Health League of Canada at 105 Bond St Toronto Ontario.
Mike Jagoda, born in Austria and raised under changing regimes, told magistrate C W Hawkshaw his nationality as European before being booked as Czech. The case notes his hesitation over shifting national borders during the 20th century.
Golden bee figures were found among relics in Childeric's tomb in Belgium dating to 655 and used as decoration on Napoleon's coronation mantle.
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