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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 08, 1939
Page
2
The National Safety Council reports a provisional 10 200 accidental deaths in 1938 the lowest since 1933. Home accidents rose two percent while traffic fatalities dropped 19 percent saving 7 640 lives. Train passenger deaths rose after the Montana wreck.
The piece weighs whether Canada will join a future global conflict and how public opinion, especially in the United States, shapes policy. It notes that while Canadians hope to avoid war, external events and national sentiment could force defense action and urges strengthening Canada’s own forces.
At 69 Joseph Doherty of Chicago earns his diploma after finishing high school in the minimum time for evening students. He retired four years ago as a mail carrier and chose to resume learning to escape inactivity.
A brief health note states that Sweden is one of the rare Western countries in which men have longer lifespans than women, highlighting unusual gender longevity dynamics.
A humorous New Yorker anecdote describes a girl who spent months having complex dental bridgework installed. Her dentist invited her to model the work for a clinic audience, where colleagues peered into her mouth with praise, and she found the experience oddly enjoyable.
The excerpt recalls early voting by Greek city states Roman and Germanic peoples and mentions the first lighted beacon on the Pacific coast near San Diego California in 1855.
In Chesterfield a case over a gas mask damaged during the Czech crisis was dismissed as the mask was ruled private property. The magistrate noted damaged masks would likely not be replaced free by the government in wartime. Many masks were damaged by children or taken as souvenirs by tourists.
Delegates at the 10th Alberta Fish and Game Association convention heard that a mysterious illness spreading from ruffled grouse to Hungarian partridge threatens game in western and northern Canada. Dr William Rowan of the University of Alberta cited a disease that killed thousands of ruffled grouse in 10 year cycles and could recur in 1947.
The King approved Rt. Rev. Arthur Winnington-Ingram's resignation as bishop of London, effective Sept. 1 after holding the post since 1901. At 81 he says retirement is to make way for a younger man, not due to fatigue. He remains active, scoring three goals at 75 in a Radley old boys hockey match.
Canadian wheat shipments totaling 1000 tons from Manitoba and 500 tons of amber durum are en route to a Tel Aviv miller in Palestine. Historical data show 1937 exports reaching 442 tons to Palestine with varying yearly imports from 227 tons in 1936 down to 71 tons in 1937 and 102 tons in the seven months to July 31, 1938. Palestine imports wheat and flour under quarterly quotas that apply to quantities rather than nations.
Detroit health officer Dr. Henry F Vaughan says residents of Canada and the United States suffer heart ailments from modern life. He cites daily tensions and traffic frictions as heart strains that wear out the heart over time.
Census figures show 68 Hindus, 22 Mohammedans, 3 Buddhists, 3 tribal followers, 1 Christian and 1 Sikh per 100 persons in the Indian Empire.
Mrs Louisa Allen, aged 60 and a widow, works in the shop of Rochelle Thomas, a famed London antique dealer. Her hands are praised as the safest in the world after twenty years with the firm and over a million pieces of bric a brac passed through without a single break.
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler told the Pilgrims of the United States that New York may become the capital of western civilization in a generation or two. He said New York would replace London as the English metropolis and that London had ceased to be the world’s center of intellectual thought and cultural prestige.
A group of 77 city bred Toronto Royal Canadian Air Force flyers will depart for the North to study practical problems in winter air operations. They will learn zero visibility landings lash down a plane in glare ice and handle adverse weather conditions, transitioning from routine aviation to harsher conditions.
A thought provoking note suggests lunar inhabitants would observe both the sun and the stars in daylight, imagining a sky blending bright solar glare with starry brilliance at once.
An economist for the Canadian National Railways estimates 1937 mining byproduct totals would form mighty freight-car chains from Montreal to Vancouver and beyond. Copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold blocks would span miles in length, with non metals like asbestos and salt forming long strings too.
Early Oriental papermakers viewed the deckle edge as an blemish to be trimmed. Hand made papers carried the deckle edge as a sign of craft, while modern machine-made papers have reversed that perception.
A 39.2 degree Fahrenheit water measure defines one gram. The Gun-Barrel road in Colorado is flat with no curves for 57 miles, noted as an observation.
Farmer Albert Clark of Russellville Kentucky installed electric lights in his hen house. The Rhode Island Red stared at the bulb from her nest and reacted when the light was switched off. She laid an egg shaped like an electric bulb and sent it to Washington farm officials with the tale.
Sir Robert Philip an authority on tuberculosis died in Edinburgh Scotland aged 81. His ideas shaped national tuberculosis campaign administration. He founded the first tuberculosis dispensary fifty years ago and helped establish the Royal Victoria Hospital for Consumption and the Farm Colony at Edinburgh. He served as honorary vice president of the Royal Edward Institute for Tuberculosis in Montreal. A Chicago defendant once pleaded his case with a home made poem and was acquitted on the first offense but jailed on the second.
A Sudbury Ontario court ruled a husband may spank his wife if she refuses to prepare breakfast, upholding the man’s claimed domestic discipline right in the case.
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