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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 07, 1935
Page
2
A reflective column urges readers to ask whither in personal and public life. The author compares life choices to a sailor’s voyage and an explorer’s quest, urging deliberate goals, purposeful work, and civic progress. It questions moral trends, community growth, and the direction of nations amid looming war.
An oak ox-yoke made in 1882 by George Cross of Inchkeith Sask is shown as a relic of the 1885 Riel rebellion. The piece has endured over 40 years outdoors and remains in good condition. Mrs Cross donates it to the Regina museum as a souvenir of early Saskatchewan days.
A black walnut stump near Smithfield Virginia sold for 3800 dollars. Black walnut once grew abundantly in the United States but is now America's most valuable wood with the butt of the trunk considered the most precious portion.
Miss M T Talbot, granddaughter of W H Fox Talbot, has found his first photograph and plans to show it to the Royal Photographic Society at Lacock Abbey. She spent three months and six hours daily sorting papers and documents left by her grandfather.
The sun is roughly 400 times wider than the moon and about 400 times farther away, creating an optical balance where their apparent sizes match from Earth. This perspective explains why solar eclipses occur with the sun and moon aligning in the sky.
The Coun try Home editors use slow motion cameras to measure lightning and estimate energy. A thundercloud stores about the energy of a household bulb per minute for five minutes, then releases it in a flash of five billion volts. Ground tongues extend tens of yards before the main stroke, with a brief, rapid return flame from ground to cloud.
Irish Freemasons adopt Patrick Ruttledge suggestion to omit God Save the King at dinners. A Cork lodge dinner attack sparked the move but protection was deemed unnecessary. Toasts will be in silence to avoid extremist breaches of the peace.
Albert P. Beck and Mahlon B. Kemmerer, amateur airmen from Salt Lake City and Princeton University graduate, landed at Halifax after 4,600 miles of an 11,000 mile continent journey in a Fairchild 71 monoplane named Gray Ghost. They recovered from a Waco derailment at Pendleton Ore before adopting the Fairchild for the rest of the trip. The craft, a Pratt and Whitney Wasp powered unit with 2,000 pound fuel capacity, cruises at 110 mph.
Madame Vera Lombardi, sister of Captain Esme Arkwright, displayed plaster horse sculptures at Londonderry House in London. The work traveled from Rome. Lombardi, a former businesswoman, learned art without formal training and balances an eight hour office day. She rose after wartime hospital duty and later managed Chanel’s productions expanding from 200 to 2,400 workers.
Adolf Johnson of Calgary has designed a bank burglar trap with steel plates that spring over windows and the revolving door to block robbers. He built a working model at home and patented the contrivance in 1922, while continuing work on additional features and other inventions including semaphore signals, a parachute plane without landing gear or wings, and automatic gates.
A Pan Pacific Press Bureau bulletin discusses the Hawaiian term tabu as a contribution to American folk words. It notes ancient Polynesian tabus including prohibitions on women eating in front of men and limits on women cooking under the same roof.
A 15-year-old student at a Moscow technical school created the world’s smallest electric motor weighing 13 grams and balanceable on a single finger tip. He plans to fit it to a saw designed to cut matches.
A London expert asserts oaks are more prone to lightning strikes than any other tree. Since 1932 no birch beech holly or horse chestnut in England has been struck as often.
In Woodley near Reading a groom refused to have church bells for his wedding as they sounded mournful. To replace them he played a gramophone record of a joyous wedding peal as he and his bride left the church.
Quick relief for pimples bites eczema rashes and skin eruptions with Dr Dennis pure cooling liquid antiseptic D D D Prescription. Forty years of success penetrates skin calms inflamed tissue dries clear grease free in minutes. 35c trial bottle at drug stores or money back. Made by Italian Bata owners.
Ellen Worth highlights a versatile shirtwaist dress with feminine lines and practical features. The maize and white checked silk gingham model with inverted front plaits and a slimming back yoke suits ages and sizes from 14 to 40 inch bust. Pattern No. 321 requires yardage for size 16 and costs 15c patterns to Winnipeg Pattern Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Summer Fashion Book offers more vacation styles at 15c.
Crowds gathered nightly in the French concession of Shanghai worshipping a red glow seen in a school window. Believers thought it a Chinese deity, but investigators found the reflection came from an illuminated theatre sign across the street.
Miss Frances B. Clapp, a Congregational missionary returning from Kyoto, reports that fuel shortages in Japan push breakfast in bed as a cost cutting measure, with heating costs around 50 cents to build a fire.
The famed violin maker Antonio Stradivari passed nearly two centuries ago, yet the exceptional quality of the varnish on his instruments remains unmatched by modern craftsmanship.
The New York Sun notes the Huang He or Hwang Ho river’s reputation as uncontrollable and dangerous. It has shifted its bed, flooding and burying silt, threatening a densely populated agricultural plain and challenging efforts to confine or straighten its course.
Garnet wheat will be marketed as a separate grade with No 1 Garnet and No 2 Garnet divisions starting August 1. Price set by open market. existing channels used. Government provided 1.5 million dollars at the last parliament session to compensate Garnet holders during the transition. Previous practice graded Garnet as No. 2 Northern. Unrelated note cites Piron the French author being arraigned after a witty courtroom exchange.
A Turkestan field reports a grass variety that uproots during storms and then anchors itself again. Farmers note its self reseeding habit and potential for erosion control in windy conditions.
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