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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 03, 1940
Page
7
Detective Jim and Mrs. Gibbins fears deepen as the case centers on a murdered woman found in Regent's Canal. Aileen debates with serious worry while officials probe Edgware Road and Regent's Park clues. The landlady notes an missing quarterly allowance letter.
In a tense office setting, Aileen Rivers resents not seeing Mr. James Carlton while law firm partner Mr. Stebbings frets over atmosphere. A probate case reveals Mercy Harlow related entries and large sums to L. Edwins, hinting at family connections as Aileen probes further.
Aileen Rivers, entangled in social pressure and a wary relationship, battles propriety and desire after her donor-like suitor courts her with dinners and casual calls. He expresses concern over her welfare as they walk through Bloomsbury, while she weighs duty against personal longing in a charged, secretive courtship.
Jim withheld crucial evidence about Annie Maud Gibbins after an inquest returned an open verdict. He sought suppression of his information, and the inquiry proceeded with public prosecutor involvement, leaving the cause of Mrs. Gibbins death undetermined by the jury.
Town Clerk M B Williams announces Cape Town will be spelled as one word Capetown officially. City holds large stationery stock bearing Capetown spelling. Buenos Aires markets sold over 400 million eggs last year. The term torpedo was first used to describe a war invention by Robert Fulton.
The Toronto Public Library repairs over 200 books yearly using the Toronto method restoring manuscripts and old volumes with handwork and light tools. Agnes Clark introduced the method from Liverpool about 20 years ago. In color, Margaret Hayden Rork leads the Textile Color Card Association guiding a rise from 92 to about 200 hues across fashion cosmetics and industry.
In a London address on the Magna Carta anniversary, AMS Amery warned that Hitler’s onslaught on an ill prepared world would end the Magna Carta and its ideals across the Atlantic. He urged victory, calling for no compromise and highlighting Dominions as partners in liberty within the Commonwealth.
A Brantford woman studying in a mechanic course helps an older man whose car tire is flat. With a goat in the back seat the driver, recently bereaved and seeking new plans, is assisted by the young fixer who changes the tire and gets him back on the road.
W. L. Clark argues loyalty to Canada is proven by deeds not by naturalization papers. He warns traitors to expect no mercy while urging Canadians to avoid fear and uphold duty amid wartime strain. Britain warns citizens to cut bread waste to save wheat supplies.
Early Earth formed as a gas sphere and, under rapid spin and solar tides, distorted into a pear shape. A colossal convulsion shed vast matter, creating the moon and leaving the Pacific basin as a possible scar of that event.
Dr. Fred Routley, Canadian Red Cross national commissioner, says a new England hospital will not display Red Cross signs due to Nazi air attack ruthlessness. He calls the facility a premier military hospital and foresees evacuations to Canada if Britain cannot safely hospitalize wounded. Guild and health officials give $5,543 for three ambulances.
Botanically the tomato is a true fruit and also used as a vegetable in cookery. The term vegetable describes plant parts used in meals such as broccoli florets peas cabbage potatoes carrots marrows and similar produce.
W L Clark of the Wind sor Daily Star urges readers to remember those who are asked to donate for the cause. The piece notes women cattle owners exhibited at the All Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow in August 1939.
D Bruce Shaw of Winnipeg told the Investment Dealers Association that the prairie provinces now hold a stronger position to support wartime needs. He cited record oil and gas output and a thriving wheat season, plus growing industry and rising revenues in Manitoba and Saskatchewan though debt retirement remains insufficient.
A collection of concise reflections on courage from Cicero Sir Thomas Browne Mary Baker Eddy Epictetus and Bayard Taylor. The selections emphasize virtue fortitude loyalty friendship fidelity and inner strength guiding life and character.
Canada displays an ultra tiny nickel tube at the New York exposition. The tube has an outside diameter of 19 ten-thousandths of an inch and a thickness near 75 to 100 thousandths of an inch. If unraveled, one pound of tubing would stretch over 18 miles. About 27 tubes stacked equal the thickness of a dime. Sudbury nickel output yields 150 to 200 miles of this tubing each second.
Air conditioned coaches were first introduced in 1938 on the Bombay Calcutta line and then on the Bombay Delhi route. Now plans extend cooling to the Delhi Peshawar and Karachi Lahore lines with consideration for Delhi Calcutta and Bombay Madras services.
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