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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 20, 1938
Page
9
Ernest Bingley receives unexpected praise as guests hail him at the castle ball after a daring rescue. Rosa and the earl show approval while Duff Hooper stays distant as Ernest plans a dance with Rosa and discovers visitors from America awaiting him.
Major J. B. Glubb leads the Arab Legion's Desert Patrol in Trans-Jordan, a Bedouin force formed in 1930 to halt tribal raids protect the oil pipeline and gather desert intelligence. He aims to triple the force to about 2,500, reporting to Peake Pasha with Amman as headquarters.
A Dublin controversy rages over preferring the Irish word Eire to Ireland in official language. Critics argue misunderstandings persist as six counties remain UK, while headline writers cheer the government for acting.
The British royal household reports Queen Mary plans to step back from public engagements and retire further from court life. She will devote time to family and grandchildren while George VI and Queen Elizabeth are solidly established in public favor.
Crocodiles in Africa and India wrecked red rubber mooring buoys for Imperial Airways flying boats. Research dept. developed a new steel cylinder buoy with a semi pneumatic fender to resist crocodile bites at Malakal Kampala Kisumu Raj Samand and other ports.
A South African farmer was fined $200 after court proceedings over the shooting of a white rhino on his farm near Babangan go. He claimed natives alerted him and that two rhinos approached as he fired 10 shots, the bigger one falling. The white rhino ranks second in rarity after the okapi and is native to Zululand.
Chairman William C. McBrien announced the TTC will purchase 140 streamlined street cars for 3,000,000 dollars to be built by Canadian Car and Foundry Company and delivered next August. The cars, based on American Transit Association designs, will be nearly noiseless. Eventually 300 wooden cars will be replaced by the new models.
Exiled Austrians in Paris establish the Austrian Aid Association to seek legal status from the French government. They refuse to become German and promise to refrain from politics while hoping Austria may be revived someday.
Durban reports a 60 year old prospector identified as A M Burnett struck gold in Devil's Reef near Pigg's Peak Swaziland. He banked about 90000 within two months while still digging. He found the roof pocket after clues in the shaft and started a second shaft higher to extract gold.
Dr. E. J. Dyce of the Ontario Agricultural College told Windsor service club that a calm presence around bees reduces stings. He cautioned that fluttering eyelashes can provoke a bee to land on a face and warned against grasping the stinger which squeezes more poison into the flesh. Snipping the stinger end fixes the problem by limiting poison injection.
Marion jokes about being detained at the office and promises to make dinner hot when her fiancé gets home. The dialogue shifts to a theft claim about a cashier absconding with the wife, prompting a quip about the value taken.
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