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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 24, 1941
Page
7
A three year effort yields 14 jade pieces valued at $25,000, crafted as dressing table set items and mounted in 18 karat gold in America. The artisans work under harsh conditions on the Burma Road, with Fei Ts'ui kingfisher feather green jade prized for its emerald hue and translucency.
Sergeant W. Y. Searles, a six foot Canadian, visits the new Halifax YMCA Centre for tea. The Princess Royal arrives and they share a long chat about his World War I service. He remarks that democracy is shown by dropping in for tea and meeting a Princess.
A fragmented note recalls locked salt cellars as feared poisoning receptacles among nobles. It mentions a farmer near Cooksville Ontario claiming two horses were shot by pheasant hunters. It also notes Marble North Carolina sidewalks carved from local quarries and hints at the phrase high C's for wartime leaders Cunningham Cunningham and Cunningham.
Lieut K Douglas of Napier New Zealand volunteers as a human guinea pig for venom antidote research in Egypt. He endures bites from fleas mosquitoes and sandflies with no ill effects and his blood is collected for study. He may endure a scorpion sting if immunity holds.
A government order issued by Lord Leathers aims to economize railway transport. Cocoa produced in one English area will not be sold in areas served by a different company. The Dominion Tariff on coal imports from the US raises Alberta mine shipments this year. Canada builds two tank types the Valentine Infantry Mark II and the M-3 Cruiser.
A Toronto and Ottawa debate ties a Japanese embassy letter to Pearl Harbor timing. Nelson family pension saga ends with a complex title chain and annuity, linking Trafalgar heritage to present heirs. Over 45,000 campers used Western Canada public parks in July and August 1941.
A historical note explains that England's prime minister Winston Spencer Churchill used his full name at birth but his father Lord Randolph Churchill dropped the Spencer, deeming it too clumsy. The change impacted his formal presentation in early years.
The Royal post office serves Buckingham Palace and other royal residences with teletype, telegraph, and teleprinter circuits. Staff manage wartime duties, air raid alarms, and secrecy while handling King and Queen communications and vast jubilee mail.
Gardener J G Allaway explains how to encourage winter bloom in perennial flowering house plants. Resting and cutting back in late summer, proper soil mix and drainage, maximum light for flowering plants, cool indoor temperatures, and humid air via pebble trays all help reduce pests and promote bloom. Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded a spy.
The Dominion bureau of statistics puts this year’s gross value of principal field crops at 649,058,000, down 33,308,000 from 1940. Wheat led the decline, dropping to 160,953,000 from 287,620,000. Other crops rose except buckwheat, grain, hay and sugar beets. California and Florida orange trees tally matches one per U.S. family per the 1940 census.
Admirers of Joseph Stalin flood Great Britain’s post office with thousands of letters weekly. The ministry of information declines to disclose how the correspondence is routed to the Soviet leader.
Each dish at Frederick the Great's table was made by a different cook who had his own private kitchen to prepare his signature offering.
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