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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 22, 1936
Page
7
Starr Ellison, with six months to live, encounters a stylish stranger in a city street. He taunts her with a playful challenge while she battles inner longing for a world she cannot have. She flees toward a restaurant as memories of past life and doctors’ warnings surface.
Starr Ellison, facing a six month life expectancy, wanders busy Fifth Avenue seeking agency jobs after a doctor visit. She recalls a harsh rooming house keeper demanding three weeks unpaid rent in exchange for her clothes, leaving her with little money and no clear place to sleep.
Trained brok monkeys, from Singapore, pick coconuts up a tall trunk with a rope restraint. They can harvest about 1 000 nuts daily, outperforming human labor and reducing feeding costs. Malay keepers cue the monkeys with rope tugs to control climbing and reaping.
Mrs. Frank Gresham of Wales, a delegate to the Associated Country Women of the World, visits Montreal en route home after a Washington convention. She criticizes English kitchens for relying on old pans and ideas and urges openness to foreign kitchen planning and methods. The French are noted for early airplane use.
Rt Rev John Lyons of Ontario warns the big silver nickel dominates church giving at a tablet unveiling in St James Memorial hall Joyceville near Kingston. He says the nickel is as widespread as sin and questions how parishioners amass so many while noting many contribute without complaint to amusements.
The scarlet fruit of the silver buffalo berry tree adds color to prairie farms where it grows among surrounding shrubs. Native to prairies it is found along hills and streams from Pembina Mountains Manitoba to Bow River in the Rockies. In Manitoba hills the tree reaches 18 feet and is generally armed with thorns.
The National Park Service announced a 2300 mile continuous horseback trail along the coast from Canada to Mexico. It will run through high mountain trails and connect national parks with metal signs for hikers and riders. Most work will be done by the CCC and completion is expected this year.
Census figures show about 2.8 million Canadians born in Ontario with nearly 2.5 million still in Ontario and 257,000 in the West including British Columbia. The Toronto Star notes Quebec-born in Ontario number about 92,500, while Ontario-born contributing 55,000 to Quebec.
The Arch of Triumph, erected by Alexander I to honor Napoleon’s Moscow retreat, will be razed after more than a century. It sits on Gorky street beside the White Russian Railway Station, a hub for arriving and departing tourist trains.
Basil Keys a British Columbia horticulturist builds a tropical canopy around his home with about six species of bamboo. The trees flourish supporting his theory that bamboo can grow in Canada.
The text urges sustaining faith through the Holy Ghost, seeks the Comforter’s constant presence, and urges stillness and meekness to deepen divine life. It warns against scattering desires and notes London’s loss of 309 hours of sunshine yearly and sea lions at the zoo eating 40 pounds of fish daily.
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