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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1937
Page
2
The text argues that responsibility to others defines progress for employees and bosses alike, and that independence is illusory. It stresses self mastery, training, and service to customers and nature as keys to lasting success in business and farming. Without character and morale, capital and effort fail against an exacting clientele.
A Nancy France stonecutter Murys, fourth cousin to the Garrets of Philadelphia, may inherit part of the Garret estate worth about 420,000,000 francs. His wife and 25-year-old son live in France. Murys would stay at his stonecutter job unless funds are received to aid distress. Also noted: London has 64 Albert named streets in honor of Prince Albert.
Hon. W. N. Chant announced Alberta will offer 26 scholarships to farm boys and girls to study at provincial agricultural schools or the University of Alberta faculty. Funds come from surplus of the defunct Canada wheat board. The passage also notes the Bible's frequent early printing as a success catalyst.
A concise reflection equates speaking without thought to firing a gun without aiming, underscoring the risks of impulsive words. The saying highlights the need for restraint and consideration before speaking.
Prices for potatoes eggs butter bacon and pork have surged about six percent in six months across 70 Canadian cities. Food costs now run about 25 percent above 1933 lows yet remain 25 percent below pre depression levels. Rising food prices burden consumers but may boost farm prosperity and overall income.
The Japanese army and navy back a $30,000,000 project to produce 1,500,000 tons of oil annually from coal over five years, sourcing coal from Japan and territories under its control. Japan seeks reliable shale and coal supplies, especially in Manchuria, to meet oil needs amid war readiness, facing strategic risks against the Soviet Union.
John H. Blackmore of Lethbridge, Social Credit leader in the House, pledges strong support for the King government on expanded defence. He argues Canada should spend per capita like Britain and the United States and stresses air defence as the key feature for North American protection.
An old advertisement promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as a gentle remedy to stimulate bile flow and relieve gas bloating. It claims the product works on the liver without mercury, urging readers to buy for 25 cents and to ask for the pills by name.
The New York Herald Tribune states Albert Einstein and Dr N Rosen have mathematically proven a new radiation realm beyond light heat and sound. Called gravitational waves, they parallel electromagnetic waves in size though with different properties. The paper notes the effect could alter celestial motion. Rosen is in Russia and Einstein’s mourning period limits official comment.
A recipe card lists baking steps for a butter sugar cake with meringue topping and a coconut meringue spread. It specifies temperatures and times and includes ingredients such as butter sugar yolks milk flour baking powder corn starch egg whites and cocoanut. The card credits Mildred Mae MacKenzie and notes a copyright.
A quick layered scalloped corn dish combines 112 cups corn 1 small green pepper 1 cup celery 15 wafer crackers salt pepper butter and hot milk layered and baked at 425 degrees for 25 minutes yields six portions A friendly home cooking guide passes along this easy side dish with simple steps and measurements.
A Chinese inspector on a steamer to the national capital urged “More pigs, less illiteracy” and explained Hupeh province imposes a 29 cent tax on every pig marketed with proceeds directed to mass education.
A commercial traveller boasted he could identify married employees. He proved it at the office by observing who wiped their shoes on the mat on return from lunch. Married men did so, while single men did not.
Italian engineer Mario Mancini of Milan announces an electro optical apparatus said to render a person invisible under its rays. The device allegedly adjusts current intensity and frequency to produce Mancini rays that supposedly penetrate all parts of the body. Reports say tests at Mancini's home show subjects becoming invisible while chairs remain visible, with few substances stopping the rays and observers noting a progression to ghost like form.
Germany lowers import duties effective Jan 1 with wheat from 94 to 12 cents a bushel rye from 61 to 10 and barley from 52 to nine cents Berlin questions if the move signals a surge in imports amid a grain shortage and potential world price impacts.
Dr. George W. Crile and Prof. Daniel Zuiring conduct live dissections of marine life near a palm thatched cabana in Key West Florida weighing hearts brains livers and lungs while noting observations. They explore origins of human energy hoping for a synthetic life breakthrough as they work barefoot in shallow water. The passage notes butterfly eggs laid in columns on leaves with last laid hatching first to keep the chain unbroken.
A duck shows resilience by continuing to breathe after a wingbone fracture. The incident highlights avian recovery in compromised mobility and raises questions about healing in wing injuries.
In a light exchange Mrs. Higgs complains about shifting weather while noting the Queen Mary liner’s curious construction. The ship is described as two vessels in one, separated by a six foot gap between outer and inner hulls.
William Dow a Ruddel Saskatchewan resident and veteran of two Canadian armed conflicts died in a Saskatoon hospital. A Riel rebellion dispatch rider captured by Louis Riel he hid his dispatches and escaped. Dow also took part in Fenian raids and helped in Manitoba surveys before homesteading near Lilac Saskatchewan in 1904.
The Peterborough Examiner notes that Dr. A P Coleman professor emeritus of the University of Toronto has received the 1936 Penrose Medal from the Geological Society of America. The story suggests this honor promotes Canadian achievements beyond police and hockey players.
The Griffith observatory hosts a giant moon model built by Roger Hayward. It matches exact scale to photographs from the Mount Wilson 100 inch telescope, offering an accurate lunar representation for visitors.
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