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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 20, 1939
Page
7
A Manchester Guardian report details the daily routine of anti aircraft gunners guarding a vital railway hub in France. Observers scan skies for hostile planes while section crews ready fire the instant a target is confirmed, with many alarms being abortive and conditions challenging in mud and cold.
The Civil Service Association of Ottawa at its annual meeting advocated salary increases for civil servants to keep pace with living costs, citing past war-time boosts and the need to avoid a repeat of slow adjustments. The executive report recalled that postwar salaries lagged behind costs, partially relieved by a high cost of living bonus.
A cavalry subaltern in a dance with a haughty young woman announces he is stiff from polo and apologizes for poor dancing. The woman replies with icy indifference, saying she does not care where he was born.
Belfast boasts four of the world’s largest industrial undertakings including the largest ship yard, the biggest linen mill, and the top rope works. The city also claims leading machinery makers for flax and jute, with a firm capable of supplying a complete plant from raw material to finished weaving and finishing machinery.
Women of Horsefly British Columbia step into wartime roles filling gas stations general store post office telephone office and hotel while men serve in mining and front line work. They run key town services and support frontier life during conflict.
The third Reich mobilizes livestock as 2,500,000 cows replace horses in German farms. Cattle now support agricultural work formerly done by horse units conscripted by the army. This shift underscores wartime resource reallocation across agriculture and industry.
A conversation reveals a playwright asking if their work will be produced and the manager responding with a definitive yes and presenting the play. The brief exchange centers on the confirmation of production and delivery.
Artists explore using stainless steel as a ground for oil portraits, aiming for longevity that could reach around 1,000 years. The technique promises durability and a striking, modern finish, attracting interest from contemporary painters and galleries alike.
A note recalls the ancient Roman practice of singing in the bath as part of daily leisure. The fragment cites a cultural belief about Roman bathing rituals and public behavior.
Realism One notes a dinner where lighting altered perception making steaks grey and coffee yellow while guests felt ill though dinner was a success. He cites color preferences linking red to appetite and blue to intellect with personality trends mapping to hues across groups.
Lieut Col Ralph H Webb of Winnipeg, head of Canadian Legion War Services, told a Toronto audience that soldiers in Canada's new army are buying large amounts of milk in dry canteens. He noted milk is favored in RCAF messes across ranks and described it as good for nerves.
A young Swiss inventor demonstrates a device behind cinema screens that releases and neutralizes about 4000 odors. In a test shown to audiences, a rose garden and narcissus field scent the air while a pictured carpenter shop yields the smell of fresh shavings.
A self-styled prince claiming to be the first son of King Edward VII was found dead in a St. Petersburg hotel room. He spent years visiting European courts seeking royal recognition. He alleged his Quaker mother married Edward in 1862 and that Victoria forced a divorce after his birth. His mother later married George Corpus, a Civil War veteran.
A brief item describes Pattern 6529 offering a transfer for two 2% inch and two 14% inch alphabets with stitch illustrations and color schemes. To obtain the pattern, send 20 cents in coins to the Household Arts Department of the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg. It notes there is no Alice Brooks pattern book published.
An eye witness on a British destroyer recalls depth charge attacks on a German submarine and the surrender of its crew. The piece contrasts wartime prize money distribution with ancient riches, recounting 1799 shares and Captain Anson’s 1744 treasure voyage amounting to millions.
German twin engined flying boats are reported by William van Dusen of Pan American Airways to be scouting the South Atlantic as potential whaleing craft. An intermediary quotes a former Lufthansa representative describing whale oil production gains and a joking exchange about butter from whales.
Finnish and Swedish spellings co exist for many places in Finland due to historical language usage. Swedish was once the official language of the region now the Republic of Finland, though both languages are official today with Finnish preferred by most Finns.
St Peter's Episcopal Church in Freehold New Jersey pays one peppercorn per year of its colonial charter in a ceremonial annual tribute to the king. The link to England dates back more than two centuries.
The writer John Howard Payne penned the song Home Sweet Home while living in Paris in 1822 highlighting his creation during his stay in France.
Newsweek reports a secretive project at the Douglas plant in California to build a landplane bomber far larger than the Atlantic Clippers and DC-3. The aircraft features a 220 plus foot wingspan, about 125000 pounds weight, four 2000 horsepower engines, tri cycle landing gear, a 37 millimetre cannon, many machine guns, and roughly 20 tons of bombs with a 6000 mile cruising range. Speed remains undisclosed.
A girl offers a cigarette to an elderly woman while waiting for others. The woman refuses with hot annoyance then jokes she would rather kiss the first man, and the girl quips they could both smoke while waiting.
The ancient Spartans played football on a much larger field with no limit on team size and no fixed equality of players, unlike modern regulation matches.
A bold assertion claims all world diamonds could fit into a box of eight cubic feet. The statement contrasts vast gemstone inventories with a compact container, prompting curiosity about defining diamond sizes and inventory estimates.
The statement notes that over half of the global population resides in Asia, highlighting the continent's large demographic share and concentration of people across its countries and cities.
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