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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 01, 1936
Page
2
An editorial urges public action against speed crazed motorists who endanger others on Canadian roads. It supports reporting dangerous driving to the police, suspending licenses after testimony, and backing the Dominion Automobile Safety Council Inc to reduce the accident toll.
Edmund H and Joseph A Lohbrunner plan a 3000 mile journey through Yukon and Alaska in summer to find rare anemone polemonium and dwarf willows. The note also mentions a claim that the earliest known written psalm was found in a 15 B.C. cuneiform inscription puzzling Syria.
Henry Gingerich of Baden Ontario completes his last run after 16 years on a 28 mile daily route. He completed roughly 140000 miles behind a slow horse with only two missed rounds due to storms. The story contrasts similar note on Anna Sewell earning from Black Beauty.
The London observer notes Britain now has the most densely vehicled roads in the world with 23 vehicles per square mile. Traffic has more than doubled in five years, with 2,581,000 vehicles last year and 178,000 miles of public highways. Plans include 450 million dollars for roads, 230 miles of cycle tracks, and 750 miles of dual carriageways over the next five years. Cyclists resist restricting use of main arteries.
The record notes MPs spoke about 3 240 000 words while senators delivered around 500 000 words. Hansard pages for special committees exceeded 3 000 with about 2 230 000 words. radio hearing about 500 000 words. The Canadian Press sent over 600 000 words via printers and telegraphic wires added well over 1 000 000 words. The Commons sat 90 days.
Westminster Gazette reports Dame of St John Lady Tweedsmuir has been appointed a dame of grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The order honors British subjects who perform or prepare to perform charitable work in ambulance and hospital services under a royal charter from Queen Victoria. The king is sovereign head.
Japanese sponsors of a trans Pacific Zeppelin service pursue three routes: Tokyo to Hsingking, Tokyo to Singapore or Batavia via Shanghai and Hong Kong, and Tokyo to West Coast cities via Honolulu. Plans require multiple German airships. A German expert advised Japan but no agreement reached and Germany offered limited expert time.
Flood waters from the Skeena river damaged the March Memorial church at Usk injuring the interior including an overturned organ and muddy Bible on a table. Chairs scattered as stories from the area emerged. Also a local tale notes three hens nesting in high tree branches and four newly laid eggs found after the floodwaters receded.
The Finance Minister foresees a deficit slightly under 100 million dollars for the current year. The piece notes historic expenditure trends from 36 million in 1896 to 46 million in 1901 and 112 million in 1913, asking if increased taxation is the sole remedy and whether waste has been curbed.
Recipe lists ingredients including shortening sugar eggs sour milk nuts and bran with instructions to cream butter add sugar beat eggs mix in milk soda dry ingredients and nuts then drop on sheets bake at 350 degrees. The text also notes the Gulf Stream near the Florida Keys widens from fifty to one hundred fifty miles.
A system using box-light signals similar to traffic signals was employed at a North American health authorities convention in Vancouver. Five minutes before a speaker’s limit a green light flashed, then a yellow with one minute remaining, and a red when time ended, forcing speakers to sit down. The device enabled the program to run on schedule.
Not giving up flying, Air Commodore Herbert Hollick Kenyon says he must earn a living. He hinted farming prospects on an Okanagan fruit farm were unlikely and returned to Winnipeg for his pilot job with Canadian Airways after a holiday at Ewing's Landing, British Columbia. The note mentions cotton in road building could create a market for two to three million bales annually.
Bible language expert George M. Lamsa argues in Gospel Light that the three day whale tale stems from a translation error. He says fish or whale signifies trouble in Eastern dream interpretation, making Jonah’s captivity a figurative hole rather than a literal event.
A group of aviators in the Irish Free State are preparing a flight to Australia with potential global circumnavigation. The mission aims to test long distance capabilities and showcase aviation progress.
Amatuer astronomer L C Peltier in Delphos Ohio observed a bright new star on June 28 on the Cepheus La Certa boundary. Dr Otto Struve at Yerkes Observatory notes the star has long appeared on maps since 1893 and was not brighter in 1930.
Official orders reveal the Britannia will be sunk in the English Channel rather than sold for scrap. Built in 1893 for the future King Edward VII, the royal cutter amassed 231 first prizes and 129 other awards across 625 races in 43 years of competition.
The Devonshire legend predicted a royal death when the spring fed pool at North Tawton filled. It allegedly marked the deaths of Albert, Victoria and the Duke of Clarence in the past, and King George V died as the pool rose. Three days after his death the water faded and cattle returned to the area.
Rafael Ruesga, the Mexican consul in Tampa, says a Mexican road runner he keeps as a pet can predict rain. The bird’s bones ache in damp weather and it cries sharply before storms, but it disturbs his sleep and he wishes to rid himself of the bird.
A memorial statue to King George V is planned near Westminster Abbey. It is expected to depict the late king in the uniform of an admiral of the fleet.
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