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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 05, 1937
Page
5
Secretary of State Cordell Hull warns that postwar trade distortions threaten global prosperity and peace. He argues for coordinated action to rebuild international relations on cooperative, fair dealing, and free exchange of goods and services.
A Halifax Herald reader cites sayings on worrying from a connoisseur of pulchritude and a carving on a mantel to claim avoiding worry improves beauty, health, work, sleep, and longevity. The piece notes many fret over nothing and that others’ troubles dwarf our own.
Birds possess highly developed vision enabling sharp focus at close range and from great heights. Species such as buzzards condors and hawks excel in altitude based acuity and precise distance perception.
Observers will watch Black Bass in Lake Waskesiea and Heart Lakes in Prince Albert National Park this summer to gauge the success of last year's introduction. The Dominion Department of Fisheries transported 298 adult black bass from Georgian Bay Ontario to establish a stock boosting the park’s angling appeal.
An observable trend in life expectancy shows average spans rising from about 40 to 62 years over 80 years, with experts like a Columbia investigator predicting a future rise to 77. The article notes uncertainty, yet highlights gains in early life and differing outlooks across generations.
Rail ticket agents report varying fare payments with the rise of notes from five to ten pounds for business passengers to London. Irish Free State notes circulate at Fishguard and threepence coins dominate Wales while English offices see few. Annual threepenny bits total seven and a half million, most go to Scotland and Wales, England receiving a small share. The shilling remains common in England along with growing half crowns and older crowns and double florins used on some lines.
Dr Richard Cox and Mrs Cox and Robert Matthews from the American Museum of Natural History reported discovering large electric eels in Brazil a journey through Trinidad to New York followed. They measured voltages with instruments noting some specimens can discharge 500 volts capable of killing a man instantly.
In Toronto Regular Health Examination comments by Hon. Dr. W. F. Roberts New Brunswick health and labor minister call for leaders to celebrate birthdays with full medical checks. He discusses Ottawa conference questions with health leaders and aims to influence provincial policy in June.
The Ottawa Journal notes two years ago dictatorial regimes claimed quick economic security but failed, harming human values. It praises England’s parliamentary system proving freedom can deliver prosperity without tyranny.
Dr Paul B Sears Oklahoma soil conservationist argues droughts should be treated as normal hazards for insurers. He describes due provisions such as strip planting to shield moisture, regular soil moisture tests, avoiding crops in dry spells, and leaving land fallow in dry years to reduce risk. He seeks a middle ground between optimistic and pessimistic views.
Inspector Roy Andress of the United States border patrol states that the once thriving alien smuggling business at Niagara Falls New York has been wiped out in recent years. He notes that since 1931 immigration authorities have not nabbed any alien runners.
Embroidered flowers promise to be the life of a frock. The pattern 5853 offers transfer motifs and border strips with color suggestions. Send 20 cents to the Household Arts Dept. Winnipeg Newspaper Union for this pattern. No Alice Brooks pattern book published.
Exploration and survey parties will start from Ottawa this spring to map northern regions and study geology for potential mineral discoveries. Forty to fifty parties led by geologists with mining students will operate across thousands of unmapped square miles aided by aeroplanes and ground surveys. Canada’s gold output reached 112 million dollars last year, with government funding approved for surveys and road construction to mining centers.
London starlings studied by Professor William Rowan of University College show little sleep due to west end traffic. Offspring of sleepy birds prove stronger than country cousins, contesting the need for rest. Crescent moon tilt fails to predict weather. Mushroom lifting power clocks in at 27 pounds on average.
Oshawa Ontario leads in per capita egg consumption with 26 dozen eggs per person, ahead of Calgary 24, Saint John and Quebec City tied at 17, Montreal 16, with Chinese Canadians at 12 and Japanese at 16 dozen eggs per person.
Ian Mackenzie outlines mechanization of Canadian land forces and more aeroplanes for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Canada contracts for plane building already. four minesweepers contracts to be set May 29. Tanks and Bren guns likely produced in England as units convert from Lewis gun. The article also notes ice field patrols and a quip about a funeral and umpire, ending with a remark that Gulfstream is misnamed with most volume not from the Gulf of Mexico.
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