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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 08, 1937
Page
7
The Earl of Bingley convenes a family council with Esme Rosa and Duff Hooper to discuss a crisis over a thousand pounds owed to creditors. The note lenders threaten “steps” to seize Bingley, and solicitor MacKlintock confirms a legal right to take over the estate.
In a social drama, the Earl and Rosa debate losing their home to new occupants. Legal talk of liens and rates clouds the issue while peers offer scant aid. Rosa mourns the family seat, and the Earl recalls lifelong ties, seeking a glimmer of hope as an odd Batcatcher letter is read aloud.
A New York charity thrift shop uncovered an early Whistler etching in a donated bundle. The work portrays the Thames Embankment in London, likely one of 16 scenes from 1859. An art dealer estimated the piece at over $100, donor identity remains unknown.
The Biological Survey reports migratory birds seldom exceed 3000 feet in flight, averaging around 1000 feet. The piece also notes that gold, platinum and silver are termed precious metals, with mercury sometimes classified as such.
Prices listed for turkeys geese ducks and spring chickens with weights ranging from 3 to over 5 pounds. All figures shown in cents per pound with Grade B and C discounts and F.O.B. Winnipeg. Also notes a four money order service on express shipments guaranteed.
Transport Minister Howe says Moncton will be the terminus for the maritime leg and feeder flights will connect to Saint John Charlottetown Halifax and Sydney. Western Vancouver to Montreal service expected by July 1 with eastern start not before spring 1939. Montreal Shediac link planned for trans Atlantic service with Shediac as emergency junction.
Anne Guigot de Mishaegen, Belgian baroness and travel writer, left The Pas Manitoba to Granville Lake for a Manitoba winter. She plans a French travel book from her north life and has already penned two similar works. Her travels include Africa with Sahara crossing and big game hunts.
The great London silence on Nov 11 was tested by Sir Christopher Robinson of the Anti-Noise League in the Strand. A sound meter showed 72 decibels before, 32 during, and 75 after the quiet period, compared to 25 to 30 decibels in fields and 45 decibels for ordinary conversation.
Sir Charles Bright, a leading authority on cable communications, died at Bishop Stratford, England, aged 73. He is credited with persuading the British Government in 1914 of the potential for wireless in airplanes. A bizarre closing note warns to use a flashlight for hunting in dark closets while advising against lighted tapers or matches.
Scribners magazine in circulation about 150 000 offered a 200 reward for the issue that contains the original pastel The Sleeping Girl by Isabel Bishop bound into one copy by mistake The pastel on brown paper was mistakenly bound into the Philadelphia bindery and is believed lost The original belongs to Miss Bishop.
Canadian 1937 tobacco harvest nets over 15 million dollars for 1700 growers on 50 500 acres with an average return near 300 dollars per acre. Industry operates under a marketing association budgeting plantings and fixing minimum prices with buyers. Some labor agitation occurred but failed to gain sustained support.
An 18 year old Chippewa youth Earl Beauregard gets lost for 20 hours in Bad River reserve near Ashland Wisconsin. He does not seek guidance from moss or stars but follows a white man’s electric power line into the village.
A religious reflection on enduring chastening and trials as divine guidance. It urges humility and faith, noting God’s presence in sorrow and joy, the separation of true believers through tribulation, and the value of gratitude and contentment in all circumstances.
Ralph E. Collins, 23, Alberta bachelor’s 1935 and master 1936, receives the Rhodes Award for Alberta and will study at the University of California Berkeley. He is the son of a China missionary and the late F B Collins, with his mother now married to Rev W T Haggith of Jasper United Church. Robert Lloyd Fenerty of Calgary previously won the Alberta Rhodes Prize in 1935.
Jasper National Park winner Hamilton H Jones of Toronto wins the Amateur Cinema League prize for the best non theatrical motion picture of 1937. His film Western Holiday records Mount Robson Berg Lake Tumbling Glacier and journeys through Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Provincial Park. It earns the Hiram Percy Maxim plaque and a $100 prize. An incidental note states average human heat radiates enough to raise 30 cubic feet of air by nine degrees Fahrenheit per minute.
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