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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 17, 1940
Page
7
John and Alan pan river bars for coarse gold with Aleck Drummond's tale proven. They dream of a two month season and a possible bar sluice, while Heather, Napayo, Noel and others debate supplies, meat, and a river trek as salmon timing looms uncertain and danger grows.
Noel and Napayo return westward with long faces after finding no Geer. They have not seen Geer despite following old trails, a bear escaped into a creek bottom, and nets yielded only small trout. Dogs are on short rations and sea trout or salmon are needed soon to feed the party and avoid using emergency rations.
Alan Cameron faces a looming food crisis as Heather hints at a split between desire and duty. The group plans to reach safety while the barrens hold unknown risks and a migration may pass afar. Heather urges caution over the gold fever and the emergency supplies for the return journey.
The Hamilton Spectator calls driving with insufficient means a public menace as accidents flood hospitals and damage property. It argues expensive lawsuits fail to deter financially unable offenders and urges firmer accountability to protect law abiding citizens.
The Chinese claim Japan suffered 100000 casualties in December while Japan cites Chinese losses of 1218000 since the war began. A Will Rogers story from Shanghai is recounted where Rogers jokes on casualty ratios and a Chinese man’s stoic reply. The note adds that Paradise Valley in Mount Rainier National Park experiences annual snowfalls of 100 feet.
An old advertisement promotes Fruit-a-tives as a liver remedy. It claims the liver’s health affects digestion and energy, warning of constipation and fatigue when out of order. The ad touts 35 years of sales in Canada and urges purchase at druggists for 25 or 50 cents.
A carrier pigeon that saved Major J J O Venter’s life is buried at Johannesburg with military honors. Venter, then a young lieutenant, released three birds to find his way home across the northern Transvaal bushveld. After two failed chances, the last pigeon led him to the Pienaar’s River and his bearings, and Venter tended the bird thereafter.
The AP editors pick the year’s 10 major events without ranking. Squalus sinking, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s U.S. visit, Pope Pius XI death and Pius XII elevation, the Russo German non aggression pact, Germany’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France declare war on Germany, Sinking of Athenia and torpedoing of Royal Oak, Hitler’s Munich beer hall escape, Russia’s invasion of Finland, and the Graf Spee destruction at Montevideo.
The Niagara Falls Review endorses Crown Attorney Ballard at Hamilton for severe penalties against offences violating the defence of Canada regulations. It warns that during war time loose-tongued critics who malign the armed forces undermine the national effort.
An old superstition spread myths that toads caused warts, hid jewels in their heads, poisoned infants with breath, possessed medicinal powers, caused rain when stepped on, and that killing a toad would spoil a cow’s milk.
Scotland Yard in London announces a growing fingerprint registry now exceeds 600000 records with the claim that no two prints are alike. The police say the expanding database aids identifications and forensic work across cases.
A local toastmasters club announces a speaking class aimed at women. The note playfully mentions a future project teaching a swimming class for ducks while highlighting Florida’s soil diversity noted by a state experiment station chemist.
Engineers report British industry adapts across sectors to meet wartime needs. Spiders are employed as delicate graticule makers for optics, while gramophone and sugar machinery, electrical sectors, knitting firms, and agricultural machinery all contribute to guns, shells, and armaments alongside civilian production.
Fun party ideas from toy mouse hunts to Who Am I and Magic Writing. Includes 32 page booklet with ice-breakers, team games, fortune contests and more. Send 15c for copy to Home Service Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Additional booklets on poetry, skiing, budgeting offered at 15c.
In the New York Past Neal O Hara notes that from the moon earth would appear far brighter than the moon does from earth about 250 000 miles away. He cites oceans and polar regions as the main sources of earths radiance and adds a quip about vanity in authors.
An average farmer yields about 40 bushels of oats per acre while the world record stands at 187 bushels per acre, illustrating the gap between typical production and peak performance.
The South Alberta Water Conservation Council pushes a long term program to add up to 500000 irrigated acres, backed by farmers and businessmen seeking up to 10000000 from the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration. A $3500000 dam on the St Marys river at Spring Coulee near Lethbridge would trap flood waters over three years, using eastern slope runoff to relieve parched farms.
Canada sends ten ambulances from the British army to Finland as a gift from the Canadian Red Cross Society. Donations to Finland relief total 50000 dollars with 3500 set for Finnish child refugees. Six ambulances will be staffed by women of the first aid nursing yeomanry under Mary Runciman, joined by Lilian Kras. four join the Friends' Ambulance unit led by Paul Cadbury.
Abbe Theodore Moreux, director of Bourges Observatory, predicts peace in 1940 based on diminishing sun spot activity, noting an 11 year cycle and parallels to the end of World War I. He likens conflicts to a magnetic disturbance and cautions against false hope.
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