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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 02, 1933
Page
2
A column urges readers to accept change as life’s essential engine. Change fuels growth and freedom, while seeking permanent security misreads reality. Prepare for change, value spiritual gains over material, and live boldly with hope.
Bronx Zoo officials prepared a four course birthday dinner for hippo Peter the Great who turns 30. The appetizer featured a bushel basket of mangels followed by a corn stalks soup course, two loaves of brown raisin bread for entrée, and 100 pounds of hay as the main course. Drought threatens crops in parts of Honduras.
The Prince of Wales, landlord of the Duchy of Lancaster estate in the Garw Valley Glamorgan, lets a colliery to unemployed men at a nominal 150 dollars rent to obtain coal for their households. Four hours of work per week at the colliery. A twenty mile straight fence along the Kingsville ranch boundary has been finished.
Botanists track a musk plant reportedly found on Texada Island British Columbia by the Stanley Boys. Dr Arthur W. Hill of Kew Gardens requests seed or plants for verification and notes the plant once scented English homes and perfume trade. Potential commercial and scientific significance cited with ties to Douglas fir origins.
Peter Christopolis, a 13 year old from Omaha, finds a home with Mr and Mrs Streng in Paterson New Jersey after a photo linked him to their deceased son Henry. The Strengs offered him opportunities including a college education and a future with their family. The move echoes a modern Cinderella tale with Father Flanagan's Boys Home in Nebraska arranging the connection.
The Brockville Recorder and Times notes a shift from mass, large scale farming as the cure for agricultural woes toward acceptance of small scale farming. Large operators have gone broke or closed, while many small holders manage to muddle through.
Dominion Government data show prairie wheat marketings for the week ending June 23 up 2,651,379 bushels from the year before. Year to date totals reach 356,742,219 bushels, versus 259,022,190 a year ago, with Saskatchewan sales at 180,485,507 compared with 115,863,839.
Sir Murchison Fletcher, Western Pacific High Commissioner, visiting London, traveled to Tonga Island last September to present the Queen with the D.B.E. awarded by King George. He reported meeting a tortoise on the beach that Captain Cook gave to the Queen's ancestor in 1773, and that the tortoise is alive and fed bananas.
A survey shows U S airline passenger income up about one third amid renewed business and easing air anxiety. United adopts soundproof cabs American offers overnight berths Northwest plans 215 mph jets Pan American eyes Alaska to Asia Chicago airport reports 6927 June passengers up 100 percent from last year. over 200 daily flights between Chicago and New York with four to five and a half hour schedules.
Recovery program aims to mobilize almost 1,000,000 mill workers and the public behind higher pay. Hugh S. Johnson leads secret preparations modeled on the World War Liberty Loan drives to urge voluntary wage hikes and shorter hours. A potential presidential appeal could center the drive and suggest minimum wages.
Strat ford D. Jolly leads a yearlong expedition from Brixham aboard a converted steam trawler seeking sunken Spanish galleons sunk in 1797. Frank Cooper, once a Yeovil glove worker, locates ships with a gramophone spring and tracing soundings confirm ships lie in seven fathoms of sheltered water near Trinidad.
The future monarch, amid a gray suited crowd, climbed the webbed scaffolding around Big Ben in the House of Commons. He reached the highest point after joining two workers and then slid along to the gallery with the bells. The ascent spanned 180 feet up steep ladders with narrow planks as the path.
An official Russian transport scientist, S S Waldner, unveils an aero train using airplane style propulsion. The engine reportedly runs stably above 150 miles per hour, though it does not fly.
Savers in Japan are shifting funds from postal banks to commercial banks and other lenders offering higher interest rates. The migration reflects demand for better returns as financial institutions compete for deposits.
Avardia Mehta of Colombo becomes the first woman to pass call for the English Bar in Ceylon. A 19 year old Parsee graduate of Maria Grey College London she reads for the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn and plans to practice first in India before Colombo. Her father is a marine superintendent in Colombo.
A planned train ferry between Sweden and Britain could begin if plans proceed. Half a million kronor has been subscribed, with drawings done and an estimated cost of 3.5 million kronor. The vessel would carry 54 refrigerator cars 10 freight cars and 430 first class passengers. The Swedish terminal is Varberg with a possible summer stop at Copenhagen.
In an era of wary international feeling, the author argues that ultra fast trains and planes may serve to separate nations further, suggesting that progress in communication is used to enable quicker departures rather than closer ties.
Canada produced 39,416,009 cwt of potatoes in 1932, the smallest yield since 1916, reflecting a prolonged drop in output for that year.
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