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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1934
Page
2
The article lauds the unfortified border between Canada and the United States as a global example of goodwill. It notes long standing peace, strong cross border investment and population movement, and cites the Carnegie Endowment study on factors behind this harmony.
A University of California psychologist described using high radio currents to temporarily disable small brain areas without affecting others to study brain center functions. Dr. Clarence W. Brown of the psychology department led the method, which aims to solve anatomical and psychological problems requiring controlled function elimination.
Imperial Tobacco Company of Canada president Gray Miller states Ontario flue cured tobacco growers are practically assured of 27c per lb for the 1934 crop. The firm commits in writing to this average price if other manufacturers agree to pay the same, though no guarantee from others is yet assured.
Miss Isabel McConnell, missionary, spoke in Montreal at a Presbyterian Woman’s Missionary Society meeting about surgery among the natives of Jabat India. She noted fear still exists around anesthesia, with the first patient jumping from the table, but others show progress such as a blind man who traveled to the hospital and left home able to go unaided after cataract removal. The patients’ gratitude was moving.
The sacred Arapahoe pipe, kept in cloth and skins, was unwrapped at Wind River reservation near Lander for Bishop Elmer Schmuck his son Gordon and Thomas E. Brown of New York during Schmuck’s annual Wyoming visit.
The Detroit News reports Britain is installing a 15 millimeter automatic gun in larger fighter planes, claiming a tremendous advantage over aircraft with standard machine guns. The heavy gun fires at five rounds per minute, but each 1.5 pound shell promises decisive damage at 2000 yards, signaling an arms race as other nations may develop similar devices.
Dr. J. R. Mott told Highclere women’s meeting that missions transformed women’s lives and spurred medical work. He praised Christian women for leading relief efforts, hospitals, and nursing services across heathen lands, noting missions helped create Asia’s medical profession.
Mrs. R. Zarah of London offers 100000 pounds to Gallagher if he marries and settles by December 25, 1938. She issues the public appeal to Winnipeg’s Acting Mayor after losing track of him since a Carbon Alberta address and Prince Albert Saskatchewan delivery. If not found and wed, the aunt will leave all property to church and charity.
The Dupont Company and Dayton Rubber Manufacturing announce first American synthetic rubber tires that look and wear like real rubber. They cost about 1 dollar per pound versus foreign rubber at 15 cents to over a dollar, with ingredients sourced from home products. Dayton president J A MacMillan says tests prove tires equal to natural rubber and rigorously road tested.
Dr. Earle E. Shepley of the Saskatchewan Cancer Commission told CMA delegates in Calgary that radiotherapy now covers a large part of cancer treatment. He noted limited curative success, with perhaps one third of treated cases cured, and emphasized palliative radiotherapy to ease patient suffering.
Dr. James T. Shotwell urged that giving the president authority to require tariffs would smooth tariff questions between Canada and the United States. He spoke to the Ottawa Canadian Club before PM R. B. Bennett, Sir Robert Borden, and Mackenzie King, noting executive decree would curb political prejudice.
The Department of Mines Ottawa states gold is found in every province except Prince Edward Island and ranks with coal as the two leading mineral products of the Dominion. Minnow submarines of 12 tons and 29 feet length have passed successful undersea tests in Japan. In English law bailiwick denotes the sheriff's district of jurisdiction.
Central Methodist Episcopal Church in India treasurer Reverend Elbert Moffatt faced a pistol dilemma from Bombay to New York. The 45 caliber revolver, kept by a bishop's sister for protection, could not be registered in India and violated New York State law, prompting Moffatt to surrender it to a police station.
A building in London hosts nineteen girls at nineteen tables under a moving conveyor. Each worker handles a single operation from cuffs to collars to buttonholes as shirts pass through. At full pressure the minute can drop to fifty five seconds.
A half section grain farm in the prairie provinces run by one man and seven horses could produce wheat at 79.5 cents per bushel, while using a 10 hp tractor and two horses would raise the cost to 85 cents per bushel.
Remarkably vigorous tomato plants grown in Fairbanks Alaska endured six weeks of continuous daylight without artificial plus daylight exposure limits harming them. The report counters claims that 17 hours or more of daily exposure injures tomatoes.
Obligate plants are species that can grow only under a specific life condition. They require unique environmental factors such as constant temperature or humidity to survive and reproduce, making them highly sensitive to habitat changes. Their specialized needs limit where they can thrive.
Charles Courtney a master locksmith arrived in London from the United States and said he would present to the Admiralty rings and wearing apparel belonging to the late Lord Kitchener. Courtney salved the items from HMS Hampshire the ship that carried Lord Kitchener to his death on an official wartime mission.
Judge James Austin grants a divorce in Toledo Ohio claiming it was given as a favor to the husband. Mrs Norberto V Mueller begins a domestic recital as attorneys bailiff and court officers struggle to restrain her. The husband did not contest the action.
The 1931 census reports India at 353 million, an increase of about 34 million since 1921, nearly matching France or Italy in ten-year growth. Experts note potential rise toward 400 million by 1941 amid differing governance between India and China.
Three men Earl E. Anderson of El Centro H H Bromley of Denver and F A Donk of Rocky Ford entered a Denver newspaper office at 11 o clock to keep a rendezvous arranged twenty years earlier. They recalled meeting in 1914 while all residents of Denver to plan the long delayed reunion.
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