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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 27, 1938
Page
8
Tokyo correspondent notes that Japan abandons large scale conquest in China. Emphasizing economic pressure and political maneuvering, Tokyo sees Chinese nationalism as resilient. Chiang Kai-shek and allied leaders retain influence, while Chinese public opinion tightens control over policy.
A. C. Ace Williams reports Egyptian women bake bread on camels with one grinding grain, another forming dough, and a third baking the loaves over coal brazier. He notes sun baked bread and a Czechoslovak wedding rite distributing bread to show plenty.
A traveler recalls meeting a West of America piano tuner who thrives by tuning barbed wire fences in a wild unsettled region. He argues that with adaptable skills most men can find work, even if piano tuning is scarce.
The Federal Office of Education identifies twelve frequently mispronounced English words. The list includes words such as again toward accept interesting address preferable drowned perform automobile attacked and demonstrative.
English institution Eton College plans to auction off war trophies and scrap items kept from past conflicts. The sale aims to raise funds with proceeds directed to campus restoration and scholarship support.
The text recounts Thomas A. Edison s 1880 electric railway experiments at Menlo Park and afterwards a two and a half mile line with trestles and turns. It notes the crude rolling stock a small locomotive and two flat coach cars the 20 mile per hour test and the later 40 mile per hour freight and passenger locomotives and Henry Villard s financial backing.
The Burden Mental Research Trust of Bristol England will undertake a five year study costing 50000 pounds to find causes of mental differences. It will examine 3400 children, compile records of 1000 defective mental patients, and form a brain collection of 130 defective and 90 normal brains to identify physical differences.
Dr W W Swanson head of the University of Saskatchewan economics department argues at a dinner that more wealth should stay with agriculture and producers. He stresses seeking truth in economics, avoiding overemphasis by the public, and making agriculture the first consideration of economic policy.
Dr. Robert C. Wallace principal of Queen's University and former head of the University of Alberta urged Canada to establish a wide system of competitive scholarships based on ability to aid able students in attending university. He lamented the lack of scholarships as a major educational weakness and compared Canada unfavorably with other nations. The closing note mentions a peach symbol in China meaning long life.
A 107 year old Indigenous man, Mista Jim, recalls Fort Edmonton and the Louis Riel era. He recalls surviving freezing and his father’s death in a Blackfeet war, spoke during an interview at the Winterburn Indian reservation near Edmonton.
S K Wolf of New York City demonstrated stop and go lights for public speakers at the New York Electrical Society, indicating when voices are too soft or loud. The report notes that eighty percent of Eskimos still live in snow houses and records a Calgary speech by Right Rev A L Fleming known as the Flying Bishop of the Church of England.
Purdue University researchers in Indiana describe Spring Fever as a disease caused by lime deficiency rather than laziness. The remedy involves consuming more milk eggs fruit and fresh vegetables, not building material, as the Portland Oregonian notes.
Frank J. Malina and three aeronautical students work in Pasadena California to test stratosphere rocket motors. They seek weather forecasting, cosmic radiation data, and astronomical information. The rocket uses gaseous oxygen and ethylene at 5000 degrees Fahrenheit and could reach 11000 miles per hour.
Col George A. Drew warns in the Financial Post that Canada is vulnerable to European or Japanese air attacks. He notes long-range bombers could refuel in Iceland or Greenland and reach Montreal with full military loads, while the U S lacks effective anti aircraft defense and modern fighters.
The poem d’Annunzio mused on dramatic endings but died a conventional death weeks ago. The piece notes German bee farms producing bee venom for rheumatism cures and mentions exotic death plans.
Britain unveils a defense network protecting the east and southeast coasts centered on a powerful dismountable anti air gun. The system uses observers and searchlights, mechanical predictors, and fast firing guns to target enemy aircraft, with cadet programs for youths to train in air raid duties and aviation before joining the RAF or auxiliary forces.
British Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare proposes a Borstal university in Suffolk on 1300 acres at Hollesey Bay. Five colleges would house 300 boys, with open grounds, emphasis on exercise and work, and relaxed supervision. Foster care for children from broken homes to replace institutional placement.
A British sailor walking a New York street is challenged by lively American naval cadets who boast they could capture his fleet and bring it to the harbor in 24 hours. The Brit answers that locating America would require a smarter man than Columbus.
A speaker at a public dinner spoke for half an hour and seemed set for another 30 minutes. A guest asked a nearby woman if anything could curb the talk, and she replied with frank humor that she has cried for 15 years, prompting amused reaction.
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