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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 21, 1938
Page
8
London faces yearly black fogs that dump soot on Britain, with chimneys and streets choked by smoke. Health costs rise as fogs trigger sore throats and eye irritation, while Glasgow data show respiratory deaths surging during heavy fog spells. Authorities urge shifting to electricity gas and coke and condensing coal waste.
The London Free Press notes Ottawa’s political lull while The Ottawa Journal shifts to word lore. A new dictionary’s appendix showcases American slang and British terms, with entries like nappo napu and Nazi, revealing a mix of old and modern usage and confusing spellings.
Mount Wilson Observatory researchers use red sensitive photographic film to study the Galaxy’s centre. Dr. Walter Baade notes the film reveals dense star concentration in the nucleus, obscured by dust clouds. Astronomers compare the Milky Way to a thin watch, placing the Sun well out from the centre, while they seek what drives its motion.
The League of Nations Society of Canada sent via cable 1100 dollars to Prague to relieve distress among refugees in Czecho Slovakia. This is the first contribution from the National Aid Czecho Slovak fund established by the society.
A claim states a Jovian year lasts 10000 days, prompting discussion among astronomers about orbital periods and planetary rotation. Experts caution that current measurements place Jupiter’s orbital period at about 12 Earth years, with days on Jupiter far shorter than the proposed figure.
Canada faces a large butter surplus with about 15 million pounds excess. AC Fraser of the national dairy council appeals to 2 million Canadian households to cook with butter this winter to ease the stockpile by spring. Domestic production rises while overseas demand falls, prompting a shift toward more cheese production.
A Canadian Pacific Bulletin notes two high bred Japanese spaniels visiting Sudbury drew attention at a regal dinner. Ordered from Winnipeg by wire, the meal included mutton broth boneless fresh fish and a pint milk costing 1.10. The two spaniels valued at 300 each traveled from Kobe to New York by ship and rail.
The Royal Society of Canada offers ten $1 500 scholarships for literature or science study in European or other foreign universities. Open to MA graduates or equivalent from universities or colleges. The annual meeting in Montreal will align with the royal visit, and officials hope the King and Queen attend a session.
The Canadian defence committee urges 10 centres for vocational training and military prep for unemployed youth to aid national defense. It blames failed apprenticeships and low relief camps, warning of moral and security risks, and calls for federal action including a youth workforce plan. Within 20 miles of St Pauls cathedral London 171 wild bird species noted.
At the State Horticultural Fair in Grand Rapids Michigan a bushel of McIntosh apples sold for 21 dollars the highest price in United States history. The buyer an equipment maker plans to exhibit the fruit. All prize fruit will be sold at public auction next year. The note mentions a ptarmigan turning white in winter and 6000 tin can sizes and shapes.
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution of Washington warned at their annual exhibition that a star in the Milky Way could explode as a nova or supernova, releasing light equal to 100 moons and possibly turning Earth night into day for weeks or months, with no reliable forecast for when it may happen.
Researchers find 11.5 year sunspot cycle reflected in long tree growth histories. Ancient timber reveals periodic climate signals and solar activity captured over millennia, offering insights into past solar influence on weather patterns.
The Sunday Chronicle reports the King will spend the next months studying political industrial and diplomatic conditions so that, on his next year's trip to the United States after visiting Canada, he can speak to President Roosevelt with first hand knowledge.
A London police unit for women comprises one superintendent three inspectors eleven sergeants and sixty patrolwomen forming a dedicated force led by rank and file officers.
The Queen Marys rudder weighs 140 tons, a massive steering component integral to the liner held in maritime records.
The Port of London Authority outlines diverse containers from cases and chests to bales and demijohns. It notes wine in bottles cases, quicksilver in iron bottles, iodine in goatskin kegs, civet in cow horns, and a wide range of packing forms shaping transit charges.
Johns Hopkins professor Raymond Pear told the Population Association of America that women are 1% ahead evolutionarily due to more generations since women marry younger. Alfred Lotka cited figures: generation gaps of 28 years for mother to daughter versus 32 years for father to son, yielding eight female ancestors but seven male in 224 years. Pear added women show lower infant mortality, better health, and longer lives.
Mayor J. W. Fry officiated the official opening of Canada's first mosque in Edmonton at a simple ceremony attended by over 100 persons. The mosque named Rashid Mosque honors the Prophet Muhammad and was dedicated by scholar Abdullah Yusuf Ali, with dignitaries and visitors present.
A standard gallon of the earth’s average material weighs about 55 pounds. This figure reflects common soil and mineral composition used in historical mining and geology references.
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