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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 10, 1938
Page
3
War Secretary Hore-Belisha announced sweeping army reforms in the British House of Commons, signaling faster promotion paths and major modernization. The plan aims to reorganize ranks, streamline advances, and enhance efficiency across the army, with detailed measures expected to follow.
MPs welcomed Hore-Belisha's plan introducing direct commissioning from the ranks and free education at Sandhurst or Woolwich for eligible candidates. The approach would abolish half pay delays, ensure captain and major promotions on a set timetable, and cap costs at £360,000 annually rising to £600,000 over 20–25 years. Perry Burgess urged leprosy segregation and world trade among colonies as a separate note.
Queen Mary received a silver casket for Princess Elizabeth at the Goldsmiths Hall show opened by Lord Baldwin. The event also showcased Catherine Cockerell, London’s sole accepted woman silversmith, with an ivory inlaid toilet set and a tale of how she designed knives after finding forks missing. Nearly six thousand holes were pierced for the silver detailing.
A Sylva North Carolina family celebrates licensure for Noracella McGuire a new dentist. Father Dr Wayne McGuire and mother both practice dentistry while sister studies in Atlanta Georgia. The note adds that the sister's husband is also a dental student. A separate fact notes that sloths cannot support weight upright and move by grasping and pulling themselves along when on the ground.
The 200 ton bell, touted as the heaviest ever made, is now placed at street level in Moscow after experts found its weight prohibitive for building support.
A letter notes the British Mercury seaplane is described as a pick-a-back craft meaning carried on a mother ship. The writer recalls the term piggy-back from youth and argues it should be the American form. Webster cites piggy-back as a variant. Detroit Free Press.
Hon. Mackenzie announces a regular program surveying Anticosti Island in the St Lawrence for seaplane base potential and naval facilities. An RCAF and RCN expedition sails from Halifax to Illis Bay aboard HMC Venture while other officers fly to the island port.
The News of the World reports Joseph Kennedy spoke at Winchester Cathedral unveiling a memorial window for King George V. Kennedy praised the King and Queen for their tireless work for England, saying they do not seek personal comfort or rest and are the only two people who never do as they like.
Industry has expanded slaughtering and meat packing to the province's largest sector with an annual output near $22 million. Flour and grist mill products drop to fourth place with about $7.4 million in output.
W L Clarke notes in the Windsor Star that Canadian officers and nurses during the Great War would say we will have to see Dudley Oliver. Oliver, Bank of Montreal Waterloo Place London branch manager, handled funds for about 22 000 officers and 4 000 nurses. One colonel recalled Oliver allowing a 50 pound overdraw as a friendly farewell gesture.
The article argues Gibraltar’s defense has long been seen as impregnable while noting the Maginot line in France as the nearest modern rival to impregnable works. It suggests both represent formidable wartime implements without asserting a current certainty.
A movement in Japan urges state employees to eat a Rising Sun lunch by a fist sized ball of rice with a pickled plum center. The meal, costing ten sen and centered on Japanese products, aims to thrift and curb foreign imports amid wartime exchange controls, as reported by the London Observer.
Traffic officers on highways eight and 21 in Ontario report that about 90 percent of hundreds of headlights tested on a recent Saturday night were out of focus. The issue, if true, endangers night travelers and may be linked to a large share of nighttime highway accidents. Officers say thorough checks are essential.
A city by law in Vancouver directs traffic to keep to the left, a rule not repealed for 18 years while motorists risk arrest. Meanwhile British scientists are urged to film English folk dances and festivals before these customs fade from memory.
Pattern 6167 offers a dog transfer of 9 by 11 inches with a color chart and stitch illustrations. Suitable for wool silk or cotton, the single stitch embroidery yields a cute gift idea. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union to obtain the pattern.
The piece surveys hyphenated surnames from aristocratic lineages and notes how names like Milborne-Swinerton-Pilkington and Sutherland-Leveson-Gower arose. It then reports Ottawa AAAS scientists urging courage and faith in scientific progress to avert war while promising greater health, food, housing, leisure, and intellectual opportunity in the future.
The Giant's Steps or Giant's Stairway in Paradise Valley Banff National Park is a sequence of rectangular stone blocks forming a natural stairway. Wastach brook cascades over them creating a scenic waterfall. Legend says the steps were the ancient stairway of the Uki spirits. The brook name Wastach means beautiful. Accessible from Lake Louise by motor or saddle-horse.
William Penn advised a drunkard to quit drinking by opening the hand holding the liquor before it reaches the mouth. The man accepted the test and began to follow the simple plan, finding it easy to resist drinking.
Physicist Jean Perrin told the French Academy of Science that collaborators have discovered a possible 93rd chemical element heavier than uranium. He noted the substance is found in stable form in minerals like pitchblende, with 92 elements previously known and isolated on Earth. The claim mentions no other elements found in stars. The text also notes the whale shark as the largest fish known.
English poet Edward Young warned that speed without judgment makes fools of men. The 1937 driving errors listed caused 245 fatalities and 4,518 accidents including speeding for road conditions, improper lane, failing to yield, and reckless passing of streetcars.
The Hitler Youth raised 3200 dollars from selling salvaged war material including old shells and trench tools left by the Allies after the Rhineland occupation ended in 1923 to build a meeting centre near Koblenz Germany.
A reader notes Japan replacing silkworm mulberry trees with apple trees to boost fruit exports. The change appears tied to adjusting agricultural priorities as travel winds down and motorists remark on shorter vacation seasons.
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