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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 03, 1935
Page
2
The piece extols Fish and Game clubs across provinces as nonpartisan supporters of wildlife research, water preservation, and law adherence. It argues Canadians should join or back these groups to sustain wildlife, natural habitats, and the country’s productive landscape.
Manchuria faces drought and possible crop failure as millet and kaoliang harvests shrink. The government has arranged to import 50,000 tons of rice from Saigon Rangoon and Bangkok with further purchases expected. Local diets rely on millet and kaoliang rather than rice.
The British army will recruit shorter men with new rules fixing the infantry minimum at five feet two inches, two inches below the former standard. Cavalry tank corps Royal Engineers and other corps may admit recruits one inch below prior minimum if fit. War Office seeks to raise full establishment amid recruit shortage. The larger a bird happens to be, the longer its life span.
A new fingerprint method used by the New York Police Department detects prints on cloth by chemical baths and transforms body salts in the wax to reveal marks. Developed from the Hauptmann case, it preserves original prints and can uncover age-old impressions, surpassing powder dusting which only works on fresh wax.
At the 14th annual national inventors congress in Chicago spectators saw 700 inventors and 3,500 manufacturers and distributors showcase oddities. A lullaby bassinet a pneumatic ladder and a nest that separates layers attracted attention while Albert G Burns praised nuts as idea generators. The home life sector featured a remote controlled lullaby bassinet though some devices raised questions about safety and practicality.
A supplementary estimate in the House of Commons includes 1 500 000 to indemnify grain elevators against losses from Garnet wheat grading. The August 1 1935 enforcement date follows an amendment to the Canada Grain Act passed last year. Finance Minister Rhodes presents supplementary estimates totaling 16 362 978 with national defence receiving over 3 million.
Lawrence T. Griswold, noted theropologist and head of expeditions for the Smithsonian and National Zoological Park, arrived in Victoria with a king cobra over 10 feet long that nearly cost him his life in the Philippine Islands when a guard against strike was dispersed by a blanket and his party killed the reptile.
The Cummings museum in London presents an elaborate display of witches remedies gathered from Londoners over the past few years. The exhibit highlights traditional lore and local cures collected from residents.
Improvements and extensions costing thousands of dollars are under way at Croydon Aerodrome to accommodate a traffic boom. Since 1928 the main airport cost 1.5 million and now traffic has risen over 300 percent. Plans include building alterations to speed baggage and passport checks and to streamline loading and unloading from coaches.
A Saint John transportation exposition highlights land sea and air progress with hundreds of working models. It features a miniature Saint John river harbor scene with 74 historic sailing vessels and displays of modern steam locomotives at Union Station and Canada's fastest aero planes at the city airport.
The South Pole region near Erebus and Terror is imagined as a future winter sports site for Australians. It envisions long distance air travel, penguin watching, kayaking among bergs, sledges on blue mornings, and Mawson’s ideas on seal fur trade penguin egg canning and a winter sports ground.
Wireless messages were received in a glider over Dunstable for the first time in England during mail week. Mr. G. E. Collins, holder of the British distance gliding record, conducted the experiment and called it highly satisfactory.
In a dialogue from a vintage scene Mr. Isaacs tells his son Solomon he plans to insure his life. Solomon responds with distress and a cryptic plea about fodder and burning as he weighs the implications of the decision.
Amey Gravelle of Nashin sing seeks compensation from the Ontario government after a bull moose in Glendale Crown game reserve north of Sault Ste. Marie damaged his car by ripping off the radiator shell and a headlight rim. Gravelle filed a formal claim with the department of game and fisheries after the incident last fall.
The London Registrar vaults hold older testaments but Henry Croker’s 1573 will draws annual readings at St Magnus the Martyr Lower Thames Street. Descendants of original beneficiaries may dispose of inherited property, with executors the Worshipful Company of Coopers and the Master and Wardens required to attend each reading.
A German optical firm announces a new panoramic aerial camera with eight lenses. It claims to photograph the full terrain at all compass points from 15,000 feet, covering about 220 square miles in a single view.
President Roosevelt first designated the residence as the White House on official stationery noting most states used executive mansion and the home should bear a more distinctive name. He argued the term White House better fit the president’s official home.
An Egyptologist notes the 354 day Mohammedan lunar year aligns with no natural cycle yet has been used for 1313 years or 1354 in Mohammedan counting, highlighting its historical persistence despite its irregularities.
R. D. Kirkham of Saltcoats Saskatchewan and W. D. Lang of Cawston British Columbia were named honorary life members of the Canadian Seed Growers Association at the Edmonton convention. They were also named Robertson associates in honor of James W. Robertson. Lang has 19 years in the association and Kirkham 20, with Kirkham's work focusing on Marquis wheat purification. Bronze medals will be awarded later.
Passengers may bring dogs cats small animals or birds in suitable containers on sleeping car drawing rooms or compartments of Canadian National Railways Canadian Pacific and Pullman trains. Body of car passengers and pets not allowed outside of masters rooms.
A barrister once engaged to plead an offender began by calling the prisoner a consummate impudent scoundrel. He then learned the man was his client and asked what great man has never been calumniated by contemporaries. The passage notes a song sparrow has about 2,500 feathers.
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