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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 28, 1938
Page
7
Jack Hammond tracks Bruce Kenning to a forest cabin after a tense night at the bar. A violent struggle ensues as Kenning resists and Lew Snade intervenes with a deadly blow, leaving Hammond gravely injured and unconscious.
A fragment shows an ad for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound prior to a crime scene. The narrative shifts to a tense image of Jack Hammond and accomplices Lew Snade and Bruce Kenning as a fire starts, grimly foreshadowing more danger. The tale ends with “To Be Continued.”
The Argonaut recalls a boys private school scene where a student unable to translate Greek is spurred by a veteran professor to continue with a forceful exclamation. The moment highlights early familiarity with Greek swearing and the teacher’s stern encouragement.
In California scientists say a battered brass plate set up by Sir Francis Drake in 1579 is genuine, proving his claim to Nova Albion. The piece, found by a picnicker, sits among other relics and contrasts with a Virginia portrait misidentified as Captain John Smith.
The 25-cent shin-plaster notes once sought by children are disappearing as banks report few in use. Tellers note worn notes and the Bank of Canada prepares a standing order to cancel all shin-plasters when they reach banks.
A United States expert argues Germany turned its air force into an instrument of black mail by rapid factory output. George Fielding Eliot claims Hitler bargained at Munich with fewer than 300 frontline planes and questions reports of 10 000 planes. He says Germany can replace losses faster than Britain and France, while Britain may be strongest in Europe but needs controls to match German pace.
Preparations complete for casting a four ton tenor bell at Whitechapel foundry in Whitechapel. A full peal of 13 bells will total nearly 17 tons the heaviest ringing peal in the world. The bourdon bell for Liverpool Cathedral will weigh 14 1 tons and be cast in the same pit as Big Ben.
A Chinese student at the University of Michigan studied American customs and, at a professor's tea, correctly bowed and thanked the guests with "Thank you, sir or madam, as the case may be."
John Cooper of the Navajo sheep experimental lab at Fort Wingate New Mexico reports a black sheep's wool is gray and may brown in rug production. The note comes as controversy and a regional census size statement mentions Romania having the most gypsies of any country.
Vancouver and Cowichan girls submitted the largest maple leaves in a contest by the Canadian Travel Bureau and two railways. The Vancouver leaf measured 249 square inches, Cowichan’s was an inch smaller. British Columbia dominates size but trails in uses and color compared with Eastern Canada and Japan.
Measurements of thousands of schoolchildren show a trend to deeper chests longer limbs and stronger builds in both boys and girls with girls maturing earlier. The shift implies larger clothing hats shoes and desks as hygienic experts link exercise milk rations and healthier clothing to improved physical welfare. Regular censuses are likely with education authorities’ cooperation.
A Wind sor Star piece notes that a king and queen prefer plain cooking over elaborate banquets. Their Majesties favor modest repast with ordinary menus, lunch often featuring salmon or lamb, venison, and seasonal strawberries.
European coloratura Olga Konda kova arrived in Toronto from Italy and praised Canadians for luck and food saying locals laugh at radio officials while in Italy even high officials do not eat as well as the average Canadian worker. The piece notes disparate scenes from Preston meeting 11 brothers after 15 years and mentions English taught in Japan’s high schools.
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