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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 10, 1935
Page
2
A Canadian editorial contrasts the Regina riot with Ontario highway deaths urging strict obedience to traffic laws. It emphasizes individual discipline, vehicle maintenance, and the need for safety thinking to reduce fatalities and injuries on roads nationwide.
Researchers report seaweed forms an effective insulating mat when tightly packed. A half inch thick layer blocks cold, noise, water, and even fire better than a brick wall twelve inches thick, offering a lightweight alternative with high value.
A Plymouth business man constructed a four by two foot miniature city spanning four feet six inches by eighteen inches. It features 150 street lamps from bent pins and glass beads, automatic traffic signals, telegraph poles assembled from pins, and trees crafted from dried sea pinks.
China plans a trial program in six provinces where the tobacco and wine tax bureau will oversee growing American tobacco to reduce imports. The move aims to establish domestic cultivation as a first step in lowering China’s large tobacco imports.
Report from 1931 indicates economic recovery as seventy percent of previously idle men in Birmingham have resumed work. The data shows substantial improvement in employment activity during the period, signaling hopeful trends for the local labor market.
The piece notes police recruits faced rapid questions on science sport and everyday facts in an hour. It hints the Metropolitan force tests included questions on navigation flight engines and drinking habits while referencing a song line about asking a policeman for knowledge.
Astronomer H. S. McClung and visitors glimpse several sun spots marching across the sun’s 50,000 mile disk. A trio or quartet near one edge and a single large spot near the opposite edge mark current activity, with a nine year cycle expected. Some attribute weather effects to sun spots and they may fuel northern lights displays.
The Geological Survey reports a water resources study in southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta. Eighty senior engineering students from Saskatchewan University join 20 sub parties led by Dr. B R MacKay to survey about 100000 square miles from the Manitoba boundary to near Lethbridge and Saskatoon area.
Halifax faces ongoing expense as Manor Heath, a famed former royal residence, has stood empty since city purchase for 92 500 half a decade ago. Estimates peg monthly costs at about 500 due to upkeep and purchase-interest charges.
An advertisement touts D D D antiseptic lotion by Dr D D Dennis for rapid itch relief from eczema pimples mosquito bites and rashes. It promises forty years of worldwide success and claims the liquid soothes inflamed skin with gentle oils and dries clear. A trial bottle is offered at drug stores with a money back pledge.
The Toronto Telegram notes two of Canada’s wealthiest figures, William H. Wright and Harry Oakes, plan to leave the country. Wright will depart in September to the Channel Islands, possibly Bermuda first, while Oakes may settle in England, citing tax losses of nearly 3 million dollars annually from their departures.
Prof T A Kiesselbach of the University of Nebraska cites spring wheat progress and a 3,000,000 acre planting of Ceres spring wheat. He notes the 1935 stem rust threat spurred a long effort to find immune grain varieties and is testing a strain to reduce winter wheat susceptibility.
Walter Sampson of Toronto reeled in a large bass at Lindsay. The fish slipped free after hitting a rock and began dancing toward him. A four foot water snake then carried the fish to the shore where it was released and swam away unharmed.
Veteran Soviet flyer F. M. Kukanov led a three passenger test mission from Moscow toward Wrangel Island covering nearly 11 000 miles. The aim was to assess passenger viability on a long Arctic flight and evaluate polar stations along the Northern Sea Route for the upcoming navigation season.
The Animal Welfare Society of South Africa invites submissions for a booklet to be used on Animal Sunday. Prizes of ten dollars are offered for the best hymns in English and in Afrikaans. Public assistance is requested.
Thousands of Glasgow students collected a mixed bag of coins during a charity day. The total raised was 50 659 dollars with 30 60 in half cents and 27 860 in pennies. The only gold received was a half sovereign worth 2 50 and there was a 10 U for 100 dollars.
Ellen Worth presents a versatile sleeveless dress with a raglan sleeved jacket in sky-blue and navy shantung. The Style No. 938 fits sizes 14 to 40 bust, requires four yards of fabric and one yard contrast for size 16, patterns cost 15 cents, mail orders to Winnipeg Pattern Department. A Summer Fashion Book offers more vacation clothes for 15 cents.
Fast Train Nazis reveal the streamlined Dashing Cologner engine for the Cologne to Berlin route. It covers 355 miles in five hours nine minutes with two coaches for 81 passengers and claims a top speed of 120 miles per hour.
The Michigan fisheries division notes carp can be eaten like gamefish when taken in the cold months and prepared properly.
The Fairey Fantome, claimed to be the heaviest armed air fighter, will be shown from Hendon to the Society of British Aircraft Constructors. It carries four machine guns on wings and fuselage, plus a 20 millimeter quick firing gun with 60 shells. The aircraft aims for 250 mph and is built for the international fighting plane competition in Belgium in July.
Hon. R. B. Hanson explains funds pay for an Australia wide essay contest for secondary pupils on Canada. The winner earns a trip to Canada. A prior Canadian program by Australia produced a winning pupil already visiting the southern dominion.
A description from Human Slate Toronto details John Darch, 17, who can be written on with a stick and leaves visible welts that form under pressure. The writing lasts for a variable time depending on the force used.
A trailer carrying three lions broke loose in Dallas Texas when a circus truck crashed into a ditch. The cage door swung open but police found the lions calmly inside the cage with the door wide. The driver R Thomas sought help after the incident. Sylvania is described as about 100 miles southeast of Prince Albert.
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