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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1938
Page
2
An editorial urges heightened water safety across the prairie provinces noting increasing drownings due to rain and rising waters. It emphasizes swimming, canoe handling, and life saving training for children and youth, plus supervised public swimming and school based teaching to reduce fatalities.
Morristown New Jersey sees the death of Buddy the first Seeing Eye dog to serve the blind. The female German shepherd aged and tired ends ten years of training with Morris 8 Frank the blind globe trotter and Seeing Eye vice president recalls how Buddy saved his life in 1932 and guided him 150000 miles before dying at the Seeing Eye kennels after a private funeral.
In the Commons Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett criticizes a North Bay interview in which Vincent Scappatura, an Italian‑born naturalized Canadian, mocked Canadian institutions and praised Italy. Bennett calls for revoking naturalization for disloyal speech or actions. Ernest Lapointe says he will raise the matter with Fernand Rinfret.
Five of six Toronto women interviewed oppose required hat removal as a display of manners for a lady passenger. In Arkansas a house at Pasan was built around a tree stump serving as table and kitchen cabinet with compartments hewn from the stump.
Two young children work in a garden when the older boy bosses the younger. The younger child cries out to mother to speak to Jones who is described as thinking he is a woman. The exchange reveals a domestic moment in a simple, sharp vignette.
At a state dinner Mrs. William H. Taft agreed with a foreign visitor that Americans are polite. A separate remark notes a lion’s tail spur, once thought to spur the animal into action.
A recent report states that in the Yangtze valley of China rice remains a semi luxury for about 150 million poor people who eat it only on festive occasions.
In Kashau Czechoslovakia Andreas Kopeon faced a deadly scheme when 47 tenants could not raise rent. He planned to explode a cellar device with gunpowder gasoline and a clock connected machine. He began seven years hard labor.
The Health League of Canada warned that 600 million dollars per year are wasted by illness and premature deaths. About two percent of Canadians are chronically ill and unable to work, with half of that illness preventable. They urged a nationwide health education campaign and stronger preventive measures including toxoid vaccination, milk pasteurization, periodic health exams, and expanded, well staffed health departments across levels of government.
A New York expedition headed by W A Rockefeller arrives in Winnipeg en route to Churchill Manitoba to collect bird life for the American Museum of Natural History. Raymond Potter handles specimen mounting while Fred S Scherer photographs and paints bird habitats for a permanent New York exhibit.
A Florida woman visited President Wilson and asked what he could do for her. He replied that she came to see a live President, and laughed, noting Northerners also travel to Florida to see live alligators.
A sailor atop a steamship’s topmast in Nagoya bay was killed when a passenger plane taxiing for a landing struck the mast. The plane plunged into the sea. five aboard the aircraft were rescued.
A collection of dessert and savory jelly based dishes. Orange jelly with pineapple, strawberry jelly whip like cream folding in bananas and pineapple, plus a lemon jelly with beets and bacon served with toast and lettuce. Makes eight to ten servings.
A Kraljev club in Jugoslavia labeled itself unique in Europe for disillusioned bachelors. Its rules ban any pursuit of solace in female company with heavy fines like expulsion. A manifesto denounces flippant relationships and urges men to be tough in dealings with women, seeking a national movement from Jugoslavian bachelors.
Workmen digging foundations for a building in Chiswick, England uncover a giant eight inch long, five inch high and three and a half inch wide prehistoric elephant tooth weighing nearly four pounds. A stray quoted line in dialect is included.
Britain steadily builds its food and oil reserves during wartime. A Norwegian whale oil sale of 34 000 tons for prompt Holland delivery followed a 20 000 ton shipment to Denmark three weeks earlier, worth about £458 000. In Parliament Oliver Stanley signals moves on the essential commodities reserve bill authorizing stockpiling and purchases. Some MPs propose storing fuel in disused coal mines or limestone caves in central England for protection against air raids.
Msgr. T. W. Morton told 200 guests at a Winnipeg banquet of the Boy Scouts Association of Canada that scouting is wholesome and differs from other youth movements. He argued that total citizenship requires full development and cited Hitler’s move against scouts in Austria. He urged Canadian businessmen to hire scouts recognizing a Scout badge proves trade groundwork.
The article notes Elizabeth as the most common name for girls in Edinburgh schools, usually shortened to Betty with occasional Lizzie. It lists Margaret Mary Catherine Annie Jessie Jean Janet Helen Chrissie and Agnes as other frequent names, with Cathie as the usual form of Catherine rather than Kate.
A French chemist accidentally discovered iodine in 1811 while testing calcium nitrate with seaweed ashes as part of research into a new gunpowder form for Napoleon. The finding arose from a seaweed-derived reagent during early experiments in chemistry.
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