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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 19, 1939
Page
2
A six year study proposes triangular glass mirrors on hill crests to reveal oncoming traffic beyond the rise. The device aims to cut accidents where vision is blocked, with demonstrations suggested on principal highways if trials prove worthwhile.
Country Home praises a cafe known as the Milk Jug where customers order cold milk creamy cheese sandwiches and buttered toast. Cows are milked in view in a sanitary parlor and dairy products are made on site. In its second year the inn reports up to 310 dollars in daily sales. An inventor unveils wood plastic interior finishing with moisture proof permanent finish that can be cut with hand tools. European geography shifts like the ocean.
Florida residents marvel as white fluff appears in a downtown store window in St Petersburg. The snow, seen by many locals for the first time, was air shipped from Cannon Mountain New Hampshire and placed on public display for a holiday party.
Henry Ford purchases the 140-foot J. T. Wing the largest sailing vessel on the Great Lakes. The ship will be overhauled and used as a training boat for young men interested in sailing, with operations likely this summer under Sea Scouts.
Australia tops world wool production with 1,000,000,000 pounds last year but imports coarser grades for blending. Eighty percent of flocks are Merino. London February wool sales reached 1,920,219 bales, up from 1938. Despite wealth, per capita sav ings steadies near 175 dollars.
Pineapple drained and juice reserved. Biscuits split with butter and pineapple juice. Bake 375 for 10 minutes. Mix pineapple bananas lemon juice vanilla and two teaspoons sugar with whipped cream. Fill biscuits and top with remaining mixture. Serve with sweetened pineapple juice cream. Serves six. Fruit shortcake option uses berries peaches or cooked fruit puree.
Prepare by sifting one egg egg substitute Swans Down Cake Flour with Calumet Baking Powder and salt. Cream butter and sugar, beat in egg, then alternately add flour and milk until smooth. Add vanilla. Bake two 8 inch pans at 375 degrees for 25 minutes. Assemble with fudge frosting and coconut topping.
Science Service highlights international weather reports as a world problem and credits Canada United States with the strongest cooperative weather services. It also mentions thousands of disabled Great War soldiers receiving care in Britain and four thousand artificial limbs provided to pensioners annually.
A historical remark notes that about half the diamond's mass is cut away to reveal the stone's true gem quality, illustrating the transformative process in gem cutting and valued sparkle.
An Ottawa digest reports a prospective London mansion deal with a heavy annual cost, a York lease snag, and a No 29 Hyde Park Square listing from Frederick Millar’s former residence. Also in Ottawa, Carnegie-funded Royal Society of Canada fellowships total 1500 dollars each for eight Canadian graduates, to study under supervision. William Fishman from Winnipeg heads to Edinburgh to study enzymes with hormones.
George G. Wakeman of Trans-Canada Airlines reports airline passenger numbers in the United States rising to 1,500,000 last year, up 200 percent in five years. He notes 1937 total air travellers at 5,078,199 worldwide and outlines Canada’s increases in air mail and freight from 1934 to 1938, with mail revenue around 505,593 dollars.
Sir Kingsley Wood told the House of Commons that 517 candidates from Overseas Dominions and colonies were accepted as commissioned pilots in the Royal Air Force in the past year. A later note recalls that 40 years ago a sea flood in Essex killed earthworms, which did not return until two years later.
Dr. J. S. Thomson of the University of Saskatchewan told Manitoba Education Association in Winnipeg that Canada must take the lead to revive the League of Nations as the only sane basis for civilization. He warned against staying on the sidelines while Britain France Germany and Italy contend for power and urged renewed focus on foreign affairs and global cooperation. The speech linked international policy to domestic stability and farm prices, noting broader economic implications.
Vice-Admiral J. E. T. Harper warns against overemphasis on air attack and air funk. He argues that general defence cannot be shared among nations while local defence against mines or raiders must be the responsibility of each Dominion.
Internationally known biologist Dr Charles R Stockard died at age 60 after a six month illness. He led the Rockefeller Institute Board and headed anatomy at Cornell Medical College. In 1928 he told the Old Age Congress that a man could be kept youthful for hundreds of years through science.
Britain and the United States together account for 28 percent of all world exports. The first American almanac was published by William Pierce of Cambridge Massachusetts in 1620.
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