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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 26, 1939
Page
5
British researchers report Arctic warming near Spitsbergen at about one degree every two years since 1910. They note receding ice fields, thawing permafrost, and expanding open water in the Barents Sea, with icebreakers now reaching regions once inaccessible.
The Chillingham herd in Northumberland is saved by the Chillingham Wild Cattle Association with a maintenance fund for years. J Russell Goddard notes the herd’s ancient origin, wild behavior, and unique, all white cattle with red ears and black muzzles. The herd now numbers 40, generally healthy and undomesticated. London Listener.
Brazilian lyric soprano Miss Bidu Saya of the Metropolitan Opera Company counsels aspiring singers to abandon dreams of opera for marriage. She notes hardship in touring life with frequent loneliness and hotels, though she acknowledges monetary rewards and wide audience approval.
In Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, Izzo an elderly Italian immigrant receiving 3.60 weekly relief began sweeping streets six hours daily six days a week. Neighbors plan to move Mari’s body from Potter’s Field and erect a tombstone, praising his honest labor as a response to kindness from the country. A New York Herald Tribune note highlights a 1938 law on cherry can pit limits.
A rare document from Thurston Provost of Beverley later Archbishop of York is recovered after 300 years. The deed, dated around 1114, comes from a collection on East Riding properties and is now housed with the Yorkshire Archaeological Society in Leeds.
Do hunten post offices department announced a reduction of postal rates on books mailed to non profit circulating libraries. The current Canada mail rate is one cent per two ounces. the new April 24 rate is five cents for the first pound and one cent for each extra pound.
W. L. Clark argues in the Windsor Star that Australia should retain British New Guinea as a price of victory in World War I and warns that handing it back to Germany could invite renewed German threats. Hughes notes the island’s strategic value as a potential German base.
The Earl of Clarendon as Lord Chamberlain barred a London revue song titled Even Hitler Had a Mother. He said no one may hold up a state's head to ridicule as the production opened.
The text explains that coral consists mainly of lime carbonate and forms from hard skeletal structures of various organisms. It notes that most corals are valuable primarily as sources of lime, with red coral historically prized for jewelry since ancient times.
The Clive Alberta village company of three, led by a farmer, captures interest at the Dominion Drama Festival in London. The piece shows rural Ontario can host amateur drama, with broader calls to support village theatre across towns like Ailsa Craig Komoka Hyde Park and others.
A village schoolroom concert committee chose Bill Johnson as doorkeeper and general treasurer. While most favored him, Brown doubted since he also employed Bill as laborer and worried who would hold Bill. World population at 1937 year end was about 2.13 billion, up 18 million.
The Memel region long contested at Europe's frontiers sits along the East Prussian border near the Polish Corridor. Once ceded to Lithuania under League of Nations oversight, Memel is now occupied by Germany as a Baltic port hub with a complex history of imperialclaims and local autonomy under international pact but volatile politics in the 1930s.
The Baltimore Sun notes a waterfront brawl in Shanghai between Scots Highlanders and Italian marines. American sailors join in, mocking Senator Nye and the Ludlow amendment as Italian officers quell the disturbance, illustrating a return to familiar street battles abroad.
E Cockburn Kyte of Queen’s University Kingston Ont warns that without a Dominion government national library Canada’s future history risks being written by Americans.
The Brantford Expositor argues for teaching history through daily newspaper records. It notes rapid events render standard textbooks outdated and cites Dean Ackerman of Columbia, favoring Fourth Estate records as a basis for future chronicles. It praises Canadian newspapers for providing reliable news rather than propaganda.
On April 14 an Atlantic swell wins across the Grand Banks as a Coast Guard cutter pauses to honor the 1517 dead of the Titanic disaster. Officers and crew in dress line the quarterdeck as the burial service is read, rifle volleys fire, and a wreath drifts over the wrecked hull.
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