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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 08, 1938
Page
9
Ernest Bingley faces a week to raise twenty thousand with Punder threatening eviction. The earl fears ruin as Punder hatches a plan to seize Bingley Castle, prompting Ernest to seek Otis Wyncoop in London for a massive loan while Rosa offers hope.
London report: 13 year old Mervin Wyncoop, son of wealthy American parents, attempted to steal the crown jewels at the Tower of London yesterday morning. He threw a brick at the glass case and triggered about fifty alarms before being stopped.
A City man reports three years of lower back and knee pain eased after taking Kruschen Salts. He started with a coffee spoonful each morning and names relief from rheumatic aches, allowing daily office attendance. The ad notes rheumatic conditions stem from uric acid and cites ingredients dissolving crystals and aiding natural expulsion.
In Marlborough street police court a youth named Wyncoop is fined fifty pounds by Magistrate J. G. B. Morris for air rifle possession and mischief, paid by his father who promises a severe thrashing and travel abroad to finish the matter. The scene shifts to Ernest on a dreary train to London as he wrestles his uncertain future with a brief encounter with the Earl of Bingley, who reveals a lucky bet and departs. Ernest contemplates his path with a wry remark on travel and fate as the chapter closes with a tease of the continuing adventures.
The United Kingdom and Turkey signed three agreements to provide £10,000,000 ($50,000,000) of UK manufactured goods to Turkey on export credits. Turkey may place orders for warships and other war material in Britain on credit, with government guarantees from His Majesty's Government.
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce told the Rowell commission that the voice of Canadians is national not provincial. It urged centralization and a broad program including dominion control of insurance labor laws pensions and tax collection, plus a national loan council and immigration plan.
Forest Products Laboratories advises treating fence posts to extend life. Cedar lasts longer naturally, but non durable woods decay in soil. Creosote oil in hot and cold tank or dipping methods can add years. Salt preservatives offer another option for seasoned posts.
A New York businessman claims Americans lack sharp business minds in London. The Londoner counters that such men are in prison in his country. The item concludes with a note: there are nine automobile manufacturing companies in Canada.
Experimental use of music in British factories suggests a 10 percent rise in production but a drop in office efficiency. A Wembley plant saw 10 percent more output by women workers yet office staff found music intrusive. In Scotland, workers laundering shirts and collars listened to martial music with astonishing output. Scottish workers avoid jazz while English plants favor it. experts urge case by case evaluation before broad conclusions.
San Francisco’s famed builder of bridges, Joseph Baermann Strauss, who died recently in Los Angeles, planned many structures and valued beauty in design. His best-known feat was the $35,000,000 two mile Golden Gate Bridge spanning San Francisco Harbor.
Dr E Wallace MacAdam of New York told the 72nd annual Indiana Institute of Homeopathy in Indianapolis that the average business man works too hard rests too little and eats too much. He urged maintaining thinness and a brief siesta each afternoon.
In Tilbury Ontario 79 year old Israel Brus of Townline Tilbury East hunts fur pelts and wild game to satisfy a long running hobby. He boasts of eating muskrats skunk meat and other species noting musk rats are especially tasty and clean and that skunk meat is white tender and good for colds and rheumatism.
In Montreal a jubilee marked fifty years since McGill University granted bachelor of arts degrees to its first women. Five of the eight alumni attended the event led by valedictorian Dr Grace Ritchie England. She recalled past doubts about women’s higher education and noted seven of the eight remain alive, their ages totaling over five hundred years.
In Canada's busiest bird sanctuary Point Pelee National Park migratory birds drew concern from the Harrison Lewis project group led by J. M. Spiers of the Toronto University staff. They recorded flocks over Lake Erie moving south toward Pelee Island with indigo buntings and barn swallows prominent among the reverse direction flocks.
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