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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 20, 1938
Page
9
In a London fog Rosa Bingley searches for Ernest among dim benches and stray footprints. She finds him on a bench, confesses love, and amid cautious jokes they admit feelings before a wary constable breaks up their midnight rendezvous.
W J Sisler retires after 34 years as Isaac Newton High School principal in Winnipeg. He taught hundreds of new Canadians English and developed a language approach based on daily life topics, training 200 teachers and running a night school for older pupils.
Thomas Hardys birthplace Dorchester Rockhampton Farm has been sold to P F Parsons, an income tax official who has rented the farm for 13 years. The thatched cottage where he wrote Far From the Madding Crowd and Under the Greenwood Tree is part of the property. A granite memorial was placed in 1931 by American admirers. Hardys dying wish was to avoid turning the estate into a tourist show place and to keep the cottage lived in by a local worker with little notice from visitors.
Statistics show the Bible led Germany's book market with over a million copies sold, among three major distributors, marking a 165000 increase from 1936. Notes on carrot cultivation history and fashion quirks accompany the quirky factoid.
More than 1900 letters by Charles Dickens were sold in London for £3687 with a large portion from his time as a press gallery reporter to Thomas Beard of the Morning Chronicle. A 175 letter group to Beard and a letter to Sir Joseph Paxton drew strong sums as collectors preserved Dickens's critical view of government.
Rev J S Harrington district secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society said in Toronto that Canada speaks 110 languages and dialects. He cited English and French as official languages while Eskimo and Indian dialects plus immigrant tongues push the total well beyond four. He had just returned from a London meeting aboard the Montclare.
Heat cramps affect workers in hot occupations like steel mills and mines. J S Haldane linked cramps to salt loss in sweat. trials with salty water reduced cramps and fatigue. Salt tablets with dextrose eased taste while salt with water prevented days lost, notably in a 3500-man steel plant from 1928 to 1930.
The Calgary Herald argues that the fruit called strawberry is not a true berry botanically and did not get its name from straw mulching between rows. It traces origins to Anglo-Saxon term ystræa berries and notes historical popularity before cultivated straw-lying gardens, a fact once heard by London fruit sellers.
United States firms sold over 20.5 million dollars in war supplies to China and Japan in the first year of conflict. China bought 12,559,741 dollars and Japan 7,664,415 dollars with Japan’s purchases rising faster in the last six months. Items sent included airplanes motors and accessories. Most shipments to China moved through Hong Kong, a British port, for interior distribution.
A confused woman at the Waldorf-Astoria asks a staffer for the main dining room. He replies with a gentle rebuke that the hotel has three main dining rooms. In London a musician plays a brass violin likely unique, crafted from empty French shell cases.
Bees showed the Indians where to obtain wax for sealing canoe seams as the red men watched bees seal their hives with wax from balsam poplar buds.
Dr. M. B. Greene reported to the AAAS that venom from bees lizards salamanders rattlesnakes and cobras is now being used on a large scale to block nerves and relieve pain in palsy paralysis and spinal disturbances. The poisons prove more effective than opium or morphine though previously used to ease end stages of incurable diseases.
A South American Djuka superstition holds that once food touches a Djuka mouth it must not be spit out. An evil spirit is believed to search for the excreted food and endanger the drinker’s life if found.
The aircraft of Imperial Airways and its associated companies operate about 28 thousand miles each day as part of a vast early global air transport network.
Londoners will see cardboard cottage models by J A Davidson tracing English rural housing from 1300 to present. The London County Council acquired the five inch high displays to create a permanent record of vanished cottages and windmills across various regions.
Thousands blocked the streets around Sacred Heart church in Blackpool during the Tiny Town nuptials. Bride Anne Kneps stands 42 inches tall, groom Herman Retter two inches taller, with Henry Glover the town mayor officiating. The event caused injuries as onlookers fainted or were trampled. Also noted a Trinidad oil export high of 15,502,785 barrels and near two thirds of export value.
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