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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 22, 1939
Page
2
Western Canada confronts a pressing agricultural problem: farmers must cover production and marketing costs while seeking profit in a highly competitive, climate-affected market. The Bracken Manitoba plan seeks a broad, combined reform, exploring subsidies, new markets, and stronger links between farming and manufacturing.
Father John Caulfield has served 25 years as parish priest at Pinner. His annual church fete features the famous Pinner Derby where donkeys carry riders who are top jockeys. He is fondly known as the padre of jockeys and actors and is invited to Buckingham Palace Garden Party. Bristol county Rhode Island is noted as the smallest US county at 24 square miles. It’s joked an airplane could land safely with half a propeller.
The White River Badlands in western South Dakota are proclaimed a national monument, covering 150103 acres within the U S Park System. The area holds ancient geological records and fossils from saber tooth tigers to camels, and has long attracted researchers and tourists alike.
United States Public Health Service reports pneumonia more common in men than women from a 1937 survey. Rate is six per 1000 for males versus 4.9 for females. Higher incidence seen in lower income groups including relief families and those earning under 125 dollars monthly.
The Manchester Guardian notes royalty dislikes long sermons. Queen Victoria avoided issuing orders yet gave the Savoy Chapel a pulpit glass with an 18 minute sand timer. Preachers likely watched the glass nervously as sermons wore on.
The Imperial Economic Committee finds butter consumption per person is higher in empire nations. In 1937 New Zealand 40.7 pounds, Australia 34.2, Canada 32.7, United Kingdom 24.0-something pounds, versus Germany 19.6, Denmark 17.9, Belgium 17.9, and United States 16.7 pounds.
A garage fire in Tillsonburg Ontario consumed a vehicle inside. A local neighbor calmly used a long-handled shovel to scoop coal from the blaze and then returned home to light his kitchen stove.
A warning notes that pressing the starter pedal while the engine is running can cause significant damage to the vehicle.
The Ramsay Company patent attorneys offer a free list of inventions and full information to every inventor. Registered in Ottawa, their address is 273 Bank Street.
The article laments widespread spelling errors among today’s youth while acknowledging overall youth are more advanced in other areas. It argues spelling may lag due to broader knowledge and progress across subjects.
The Buffalo Courier-Express reports a proposed commemoration at Westminster Abbey honoring the Bronte sisters Emily Charlotte and Anne along with English language fiction writers and women in general. It notes Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights as enduring classics read worldwide and highlights the Brontes' lasting influence across literature and media.
Sydney police train Alsations to follow radio commands. Zoe the test dog responds perfectly to a back saddle carried eight pound device with a loud speaker and aerial. Zoe executes orders including fire a revolver climb a trestle fill a water can and replace collar. The duckhawk hunts on the wing, landing near prey to strike and capture it.
A cricket’s song rate offers a rough measure of temperature with faster chirping signaling warmer weather. The method links the insect’s activity to ambient heat, providing a natural heuristic for forecast.
Col. T. C. Newcomen of Ducks Unlimited proposed a multi year project to restore water levels in lakes and marshes across northern Alberta and Saskatchewan. Three large northeastern Alberta areas have been set aside under a pact with the Alberta government with stocking of beavers and possibly muskrats at marsh to river bottlenecks. Trapping supervision to be allowed after five years and local Indigenous and mixed heritage residents to serve as paid game guardians.
A science note explains that most snowflakes have six sides while a minority display three or twelve points. It adds that no two snowflakes are identical, highlighting natural diversity in ice crystals.
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