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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 23, 1938
Page
8
The Sault Ste. Marie Star urges readers to examine personal responsibility in taxes bills honesty and fairness. It questions speeding and duty in office and appeals for contributing time and effort to improve the town. It asks how much would be missed if one passed away tonight.
Fifty boys and girls completed a three month short course in Bolton Ontario focusing on agricultural and home economics training. Anne Roden praised the program for new confidence and practical skill, noting early morning farm tasks before travel to class.
The Salisbury painting of the Westminster Abbey Coronation will finish by summer for presentation to the King by overseas delegates. The Dominion Governments fund the work, joining prior Abbey ceremony pictures. The Queen and King sit for a royal portrait. 35 to 40 figures may appear, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury and senior royal officials.
A Berkeley realtor created a stir by advertising an apartment with the line For Rent, Children Preferred. He argued children are less destructive than adults and cited damages to a sinkboard from an icepick as his example.
The Law Club of the University of Toronto held its eighth annual Hart House dinner commemorating Lord Durham as the first Governor-General of British North America. Lord Tweedsmuir praised Durham's legacy while Dr. W. P. M Kennedy outlined his enduring principles for self-government and responsible governance.
The New York Herald Tribune recounts how Joe Hess, a generous Danville Indiana merchant, was ruined by charity and loans, then saved by friends who declared a Joe Hess Day, bought stock, and sought to repay him. The tale highlights his trusted but troubled generosity.
W L Clark explains that at 120 mph a man leaning from a train adds 15 horsepower to maintain speed. The article, based on English railway tests for a London Paris tunnel, notes the need for streamlining to achieve planned high speed runs.
Discreet luxury venue for kings princes and millionaires sold in 1920 by Luigi Navitre who borrowed funds from a Greek ship-owner and repaid in six months Mayfair lore recalls a Maharajah who tried to “do away with the balcony” after paying £1000 royalty and many royal guests dined there including the King of Spain and the Duke of Windsor with brothers.
The widow notes her son studies molecule position at a fine school. A clerkly quip about his late father’ s eye mirrors humor and family pride. In Benoni South Africa natives fear houses are bewitched by electric shocks from taps stoves fridges and gates. A verdict of Not Guilty is imagined as what brings comfort in trial.
Mrs Edith Manby of Codsall Staffordshire, with 497 knitters, produced 1525 scarves for lifeboat crews in under a year. From 330 miles of wool 1,525 scarves nearly two yards long were made, weighing over half a hundredweight and bearing more than 4,550 initials. The project required 15,250 hours and earned the Royal National Lifeboat Institution gold badge for distinguished service.
Utica inventor Lynde Hoberk patents a soap ball with a neck string to thwart loss in baths. The New York Sun notes Democrats may finally help the country. A lamprey bores inside prey, leaving only skin and bones. Professor Karl Ritter von Frisch trains fish to respond to a dinner bell.
A report to the Lethbridge Board of Trade outlines Alberta beet yields in 1937 at 235 481 tons from 19 819 acres. Beet tops yield 11–13 tons per acre, dry digestible nutrients around 1 2 tons per acre, wet beet pulp tops 10–15 percent dry matter with 40 000 tons available for farms, and about 4 000 tons of beet molasses produced for livestock feed.
The King toured the Canadian section of the British Industries Fair and praised curly birch furniture as restful for libraries. He was greeted by Hon. Vincent Massey, Canada’s high commissioner, and learned the Canadian display, including 39 exhibitors and the Government Exhibition Commission, was the largest Dominion exhibit.
A Washington issued Public Health Service report estimates Canada’s illness and premature death at one billion dollars annually and the US cost at ten billion, urging a national preventive health program. It notes poverty-linked sickness, potential reductions in maternal and infant mortality, and calls for 500 new hospitals in rural areas to ease care shortages. The committee urges broad systematic warfare against disease and cites declining overall death rates but stagnant mortality among the elderly.
The Scilly Isles villagers turned to daffodil farming and ship their blooms to London under cooperative plans. A Greenland halibut cargo, the Steady, arrived at Fresh Wharf in November as the first of its kind, aiming to prove Greenland fish can regularly feed London markets alongside Dutch bulbs and North Sea catch.
A prisoner bursts into tears as the judge orders imprisonment, lamenting it’s his first time inside. The judge tells him not to cry and proceeds with the sentence.
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