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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 26, 1935
Page
2
The essay notes that heavy rains in southern Saskatchewan revive soil moisture and promise a normal to above normal harvest. It urges prudent planning to conserve surpluses, build reserves, and prepare for future droughts, stressing prudence, self reliance, and learning from past droughts.
The total Canadian certified potato seed shipments in 1934 reached 1,328,745 bushels with 728,582 sent January through May and 600,163 from fall to December 31. Canadian canned fruit exports to Great Britain rose 28 percent from January 1 to March 16, 1935 versus 1934, led by apples pears and peaches.
A giant dome of black material near Vermette Lake, four miles southwest of Lac ILa Crosse, Saskatchewan, bubbles a salt spring and may indicate oil or natural gas. Attorney General T C Davis returned from a northern flight with samples to be analyzed. origin attributed to Indigenous observers.
George E Hay aged 81 has retired as a proofreader for a London firm specializing in foreign publications. He claims to know about 500 languages chiefly Oriental tongues and corrected Sanskrit Sindhi Pushtu Panjabi Gujarati Marathi Urdu Hindi Bengali Oriya Tamil Telugu Kanarese Malayalam Sinhalese Burmese Siamese Laos Tibetan Arabic Coptic Armenian Ethiopic Ancient Egyptian Chinese Syrian Greek Hebrew. He learned mostly via evening classes in museums and the London School of Oriental Languages aided by a prodigious memory. He continues to study languages in retirement and notes many people have only one language working.
A report quotes a science service noting Lake Superior exceeds Africa's Lake Victoria Nyanza by about a thousand square miles in area. The note revisits the debate sparked by teachers and pupils and affirms Superior as the world’s largest freshwater lake based on available data.
A Bolton police officer has devised a speed ball device to halt speeding criminals. The device bursts into six feet of spiked arms when deployed in front of a car, designed to tear tires and slow suspects.
A Swedish geologist concludes the South Island of New Zealand hosted a warm subtropical climate not later than about 1000 B C, followed by a shift to a much colder climate for reasons not fully understood.
A woman recalls nearly losing use of her right hand due to rheumatism. She credits Kruschen Salts with rapid improvement after about three weeks, noting better sleep and restored hand function. The ad claims two ingredients dissolve uric acid crystals causing pain and help expel them naturally.
The North German Lloyd liners Bremen and Europa may challenge the Nor mandie for the Atlantic speed record. A Hamburg dispatch reported by the Boerzen Zeitung says Rex or Bremen or Europa may still unleash top speeds to surprise the Normandie. Germans have long believed the two ships held back for such competition, awaiting a true test against the Cunard White Star Queen Mary.
Monkeys at the London Zoo are trained to dine at a table with tin plates and mugs and pass dishes politely. Polar bears amuse crews by play fighting on ice, pushing each other to the water and scrambling back for another round. The bears’ game ends when one exits the ice and the tussle restarts.
Long Beach California held a twin contest drawing 500 pairs of twins. The youngest entrants were Patricia Gale and Gale Patricia La Forte at 11 weeks, while the oldest were H E and A L McArden at 85. A twin judge presided over a twin marriage ceremony with one pair serving as bridesmaids and another as flower girl and ring bearer. The town remains doubled in effect.
A Manchester Guardian piece portrays Queen Mary as reserved yet kind with a strong memory for those she helps. It highlights her ease in chatting, humor, and deep fondness for the young Princess Elizabeth, praising her unspoiled nature despite high status.
The Italian press bureau expels David Darrah and his wife from Rome for anti Italian articles. Copies of the New York Times are banned in Italy after an editorial linking Baldwin and Mussolini. Affected papers include Manchester Guardian and Voelkischer Beobachter.
In Mayo Yukon Territory oldtimers and newcomers crowd back to the silver camp as prices rise. Every available house cabin and shack is filled with influx of miners. Large operators ready equipment while individual claim owners begin shipping ore for summer.
D Read of Bashaw district fosters a clutch of hawk youngsters by placing eggs under a turkey hen after raiding nests. The hatched birds are cared for as if their own. In England, researchers unveil an extendable keyboard over a bed and a piano operable by an ill person.
W A Stark of Cleveland described a low cost air conditioner to the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers in Toronto. The device uses silica gel to absorb water vapors and toxins from the air, an action linked to human systems. The article adds trivia about scalp hair counts, noting about 1000 hairs per square inch and an average of 110000 hairs on the head, with women averaging more than men and red heads around 90000.
A reflective line champions friendship, noting that being a friend surpasses simply having one. It emphasizes reciprocal loyalty and the value of companionship in daily life.
A dynamic spinning device tests each auto wheel without removing the car from the shop. It mounts a spinner wheel on a motor shaft carried on a dolly, with speed controlled via a tubular handle. The wheel is spun while jacked up, accelerating to eighty to one hundred mph to reveal shimmy by a violent car shake, indicating imbalance and need for truing.
Twelve London choir school choristers returning from Canada and the United States recall their trip in epigrammatic fashion with food the dominant note. A boy says chocolate milkshake is a marvelous drink and laments it may be unavailable at home.
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