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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 15, 1939
Page
8
Debate grows over the value of steel family shelters after a test buried a 500 pound bomb near conical and kennel style refuges. Critics question whether the tests prove real protection and warn about concussion risks to occupants.
In wartime preparations Britain proposes using grand homes as hospitals or refuges for children. Stanmer Park near Lewes in Sussex, Stanmer House, Leeds Castle, and other estates such as Cliveden and Blenheim are mentioned as possible wartime shelters or storage sites.
The writer notes worry over soil drifting in prairie regions across borders and suggests lessons from China and Ukraine. Historical wind patterns created fertile lands elsewhere, implying current drift could yield future benefits.
Approximately 1.5 million people fled Russia amid the 1917 to 1920 turmoil and war. The exodus reflects massive disruption across regions and subsequent resettlements in neighboring lands and beyond.
Suttons Farm at Hornchurch the London 61st air defence station is to be demolished and absorbed by the nearby aero drome. The site aided WWI Zeppelin interceptions from Suttons Farm Flight Station and inspired Wil liam Leefe Robinson to defeat the first Zeppelin. Owner T Crawford loses land as Air Ministry enlarges Hornchurch station.
John Chester of Fernie British Columbia received a bravery medal from the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy at its Quebec meeting. He was the fourth Canadian honored for rescuing workers after a mine bump at Coal Creek five miles from Fernie last September 20. Chester aided 12 entering miners then helped seven trapped colleagues for eight hours with rescuers. James Dickson BC inspector of mines praised his great fortitude.
Mrs. Leo D Erlanger returns to London after a Sahara overland journey with two companions. She met Tuareg women at Hoggar claiming they are the most beautiful in the world and fiercely independent, able to choose husbands or seek divorce by returning to their mothers.
Thirteen year old Harold Garro y of Timmins Ontario is hailed by his father as possibly the world's strongest boy. The family doctor Dr E A F Day calls him an almost perfect human specimen with prodigious strength for his age able to hold 163 pounds at arm's length and lift 10 pounds with one hand.
Reports from Marseilles describe the finest and costliest gloves made from hair-like excrescence of a shell fish caught in the Mediterranean. Projections by which the creature clings and crawls are used in glove manufacture. The article notes hail formation involves upward air currents, and that Jupiter and Venus appear starless due to their opaque atmospheres.
Vancouver visitors report Mrs Chao She a 75 year old Chinese guerrilla leader clad in uniform who feeds her 300-strong force and captures Japanese supplies. The tale links wartime bravado with a Christmas gift request amid Sino Japanese conflict. The story sits beside plans for a national Canadian youth administration to integrate youth into the economy and society. A separate note reveals Dr Paul Zahl finding a lost world near Mt Roraima with ideal villagers and giant ants, plus the George VI falls and untouched Indian community.
Scientists describe a fault running down much of the Pacific coast of this hemisphere. A slip resembles a mountain slide on the surface magnified greatly. Apparently similar events occurred in Chile, distinct from volcanic disturbances.
Five thousand Canada geese spent winter at the Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary where food and shelter preserve breeding stock. The sanctuary protects bird life from extermination and benefits the public by overflow. Also notes sacred lakes near Egypt’s temples held ritual pools for water and model boats.
The remark suggests that shrinking flats will force residents to rely on limited food supplies like condensed milk and shortbread for sustenance.
A new telephone type installed in London offices uses a highly sensitive membrane that only allows low tone speech. Angered callers, such as a wife scolding her husband, hear only muffled sounds until voice volume is lowered. The piece cites it as a lesson in self control.
An artist ponders 1934 era fashion as his wife retorts. The piece notes a London to country nurse ratio of one in 90 versus one in 24 and mentions mammal milk producing butter.
The passage contrasts a bargaining scene about dogs with a sweeping claim that all coffee worldwide originated from Yemen until the 17th century, noting the true mecha is still produced there. The text juxtaposes commerce with a historic claim about Yemen's coffee heritage.
The early efforts toward a lace making device began in 1768 with Englishman Hammond and his partner Crane. This pair initiated trial designs that laid groundwork for later machine development in textile craft.
About 100000 Britons are involved in aircraft construction projects across the country. Families, hobbyists, and small workshops contribute to a broad effort to produce model and functional aircraft amid shortages and interest in domestic aviation skills.
L W Brockington chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation warned a parliamentary radio committee that Canada risks losing early action on short wave development as frequencies are claimed by others. He cited wartime-like delays and noted Germany’s new 417 station occupying former Austrian spectrum, calling it a warning for Canada’s future.
The article recounts Austin H. Clarke's National Geographic perspective on wasps and hornets. It notes their high educational value and warns readers to respect them while avoiding fear. It highlights diverse clever adaptations and digger wasps that burrow and store food for their young.
Four motorists on a coastal road between Odense and Kenteminde report their cars losing lights and electrical transmission after a doctor, en route to an urgent case, was stranded. A mysterious man, linked to recent electrical experiments and a claimed death ray, is being investigated.
Workmen digging a Winnipeg sewer tunnel in St James uncovered a hard eight foot layer of giant stones after 16 feet of digging. Over 1,000 boulders were raised, some limestone others red gray and blue granite. The largest weighed about 5,000 pounds. Prof J S DeLury says the boulders were deposited by retreating ice from distant districts.
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