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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1935
Page
6
An advertisement extolls Saskasal Salts as a natural mineral product from Canada refined by chemists. It claims benefits for constipation indigestion rheumatism and mild kidney or liver trouble and urges purchase at drug stores for six to ten cents.
In Jijiga region the Ethiopian emperor condemned a chieftain to flogging after a failed battle. Troops under his command and his property were handed to another Ethiopian commander as punishment and reassignment.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police adopt a law study program under Commissioner Sir James MacBrien. Five members, including H. Perlson and Lance Corporal James MacBrien, attend courses at Dalhousie Halifax Saint John McGill Saskatoon and Edmonton universities to enhance operations and ensure more members are trained in law.
In Mount Auburn cemetery Chicago diggers exhumed 400 bodies under the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. The group had pledged to insure their final interment in China upon payment of a stipulated fee. The article notes a pouch of a full grown pelican holds seven quarts of water.
National Museum Ottawa curator P. A. Taverner reports birds kill their own kind. Incidents include a gull brood attacked on a lake island, a hawk mobbed by gulls, a red tailed hawk and raven death duel, and a gull slain in the St Lawrence gallery.
William Buchan Reid of Buffalo travels to Ottawa to meet John Buchan now Lord Tweedsmuir governor-general of Canada. They last met in Aberdeenshire four decades ago. Reid, four years older, recalls their school days on a farm and a manse childhood and notes Buchan was a lifelong bookworm and politician.
A vintage cookie recipe describes melting chocolate with shortening and sugar then adding corn syrup eggs flour and cornstarch. The batter is spread on oiled sheets topped with chopped nuts and baked at a high temperature then cut while warm to yield very crisp cookies.
A New York Herald Tribune report notes miners in Illinois and Indiana use compressed air blasts at up to 15 000 psi to dislodge coal. Cylinders release air via remote valve, pushing coal out in larger chunks for higher value while improving miner safety. Americans allegedly buy fraudulent stocks worth 30 million dollars weekly.
A Virginia university team reports a larger count of sunlike stars using a new census method. The study, presented to the National Academy of Sciences in Charlottesville, suggests more potential places for planet systems like Earth. The work by P. Van de Kamp and A. N. Vyssotsky at Leaner McCormick Observatory reclassifies dwarf and giant stars, increasing estimated sites where identical stellar families might exist.
The British National Debt Commissioners announce nearly 20 million dollars in unclaimed government securities and dividends. One Consols holding is worth almost 1 million dollars, and an English woman in Marseilles unknowingly holds 230,000 dollars with about 100,000 dollars in dividends.
Hon. Ian Mackenzie announced at the Canadian Legion birthday banquet that Canada’s national memorial on Vimy Ridge would be unveiled Sunday July 26, 1936. Brigadier General Alex Ross chaired the event with 1,200 veterans, wives, and friends attending.
Frank T. Sharpe secretary of the Big Brother Movement died recently and was buried in Toronto. The funeral included a Jewish rabbi a Roman Catholic priest a United Church minister a juvenile court judge and a domestic relations court judge. Rabbi Sachs read Psalms Fathers McGraw and Agar led prayers Gowans spoke on religious life Mott praised his youth work Hosking read the Scripture.
A ferret escaped from its cage in Mansfield England and killed 497 chickens before being recaptured. Reports note the incident underscores dangers from escaped small predators in rural poultry farms.
Dressy sweater blouse rises in fashion for day wear with fanlike knitted pleats and a self pattern in the body. Pattern 5484 offers directions for blouse and plain skirt in sizes 16 18 and 38 40 with illustration and stitch details. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern.
The lesson centers on Nehemiah 4 6 as the people unite with purpose. It surveys Nehemiah 2 7 4 and connects the devotional reading Psalm 4 6 to faith and collective effort in rebuilding.
Nehemiah faces Sanballat and Tobiah as enemies mock the workers who press on with the wall. The people, united in purpose, finish the project in 52 days despite threats, with sentinels and prayer guiding victory. The message urges a steadfast mind to work for God's kingdom.
A sergeant halts a marching squad to question a recruit, Jones, who reveals he was a horse driver before enlisting. The sergeant repeats orders as the unit continues.
Precious stones indicate rank among Chinese mandarins. The highest rank wears a red ruby or pink tourmaline, the next rank uses coral or garnet, the third rank displays beryl or lapis lazuli, and the lowest rank uses white rock or crystal.
The assertion locates the birthplace of the skyscraper in Chicago rather than New York, signaling an architectural history claim tied to the city. The statement emphasizes Chicago's historic role in vertical building design.
Alan Priest of the Metropolitan Museum will be buried in the Buddhist Monastery of Chief Tai Ssu near Peiping. Priest, a Harvard graduate and sinologist, earned the favor of the chief abbot and joined the monastic community. The tomb, dating to the Ming dynasty graveyard, is a gray brick shrine rising ten feet under a pagoda, with ancient trees shading it.
A grand, ornate cabinet once given to Lucrezia Borgia by Caesar is on sale at Selfridge's London. It allegedly houses secret drawers for liqueurs and a poison needle in its handle. The piece passed to Cardinal de Medici then to Czar Alexander I and the Romanoffs, later admired by Rasputin, now owned by Baron von Landauer and priced at £3000.
Captain Gustaf Erikson of Marienhamn Finland owner of the largest windjammer fleet sails five of his ships to Australia. On arrival they will be loaded with grain and merchandise for Britain. His fleet totals 26 vessels with a gross tonnage of 68679.
Polynesian boys undergo a traditional rite to prove manhood. The tests are painful and culminate in shark tooth tattoos on their backs. Any sign of resistance triggers banishment from the tribe.
A fragment notes a proposal in a car followed by a patient’s refusal in a hospital setting. The text centers on a rejected marriage proposal amid medical surroundings. No additional context or names are provided.
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