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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 24, 1940
Page
2
A board report on railway level crossing safety cites 546 observed violations in April to September 1939 across Canada. Drivers ignore bells gates and watchmen, risking death and injury while facing warnings at crossings.
A general explains to troops that rehearsals lack an enemy and hinge on the presence of leadership. The sergeant major adds the second difference is the presence of the general, highlighting the gap between practice and real combat.
The text notes landing speed varies with altitude as air density decreases at higher levels, making landing faster or slower depending on altitude.
A newspaper column mocks Hitler and Stalin noting that their friendship is "cemented by blood" after Von Ribbentrop's birthday salutation. It accuses both sides of denying wartime losses and promotes a harsh view of the German Soviet alliance amid wartime tensions. Also mentions Afrikander cattle in Texas from 1932 showing drought resistance.
A report notes bamboo can grow as much as a foot in a single day during the rainy season. This rapid growth is tied to warm, wet conditions that stimulate new shoots.
Basilisk lizards in Central America display the ability to run erect on the surface of streams. The remarkable adaptation enables quick movement across water with balance and speed, signaling unique locomotion among reptile species.
Paris correspondent William Gwin Jr reports that Nazi prisoners show a hollow esprit de corps, unresponsive to humanity and driven by a machine-like will for conquest. He argues German youth shaped in Nazi camps remains bent on victory, predicting destruction for Germany without Hitler and warning against sentimental endings to the war.
The piece argues Germany’s weakness to wage war, its navy battered by raids and submarines, and the frailty of Nazi leadership. Britain and France resist, while German demands threaten Europe. At home rationing worsens, supplies falter, and the gold reserve wanes, signaling a dangerous misread of strength by Berlin.
The text ranks pearls by value with black pearls highest followed by pink white and yellow. It also states that 1940 is a leap year and warns bachelors they proceed at their own risk.
A public campaign in England targets fashion wearers and retailers to avoid furs sourced from trapped animals. The effort emphasizes animal welfare, urging alternatives and urging policy review to curb trapping-based fur products.
Japanese cherry trees are cultivated for beauty rather than harvest. They serve as ornamental plantings in parks and streets, offering seasonal blossoms while producing little to no edible fruit.
The narrator recalls a salesman who, after a costly journey and a dust storm, lands a trial order of 1000 dozen in Chicago, then travels to Toronto. The lesson: true selling is a matter of spirit and self belief, not mere routine.
The Royal Clockmaker, known as Frodsham, tends to clocks in Buckingham Palace. Many precious pieces have been moved for safety during wartime, leaving about 200 clocks, including the King's favorite plain mahogany desk clock. The long-serving official, famed for discreet entry and adjustments, moves quietly with his ladder to regulate the palace time.
The Round Table argues for a just peace that respects victims including Germans, Czechs and Poles, and must be accepted by a liberal German government. It stresses broad neutral support and links the settlement to global freedom, requiring cooperation of all freedom-loving nations.
A brief historical note lists dates when Germany invaded neighboring states from 1864 through 1939 including Denmark Austria France Belgium Czechoslovakia Poland and Austria again. The piece credits French and British resolve along the Franco German frontier for deterring a new French invasion.
Morris W. Wilson praises Canada’s post 1914 economic transformation and war potential at the Royal Bank of Canada seventy first annual meeting. He notes rising production in metals, gold, nickel, copper, zinc and aluminum and urges thrift. export expansion and tourism growth to bolster foreign exchange.
The U S Department of Agriculture calls the custom of beating on pans to swarm bees useless and questions whether bees can hear. In fifty years Canada has avoided major livestock plagues like Foot and Mouth disease, rinderpest, or pleuro-pneumonia.
An authority on color lighting recalls a dinner where he altered the lights to make steaks appear gray celery pink and coffee yellow. Guests lost appetite some fell ill while the experiment was deemed a scientific success by the host and his peers.
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