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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 12, 1937
Page
2
A provincial essay argues Western Canada farm and small towns nurture culture better than cities. It praises rural schools and country life as the true source of talent, influencing provincial awards and shaping broad policy through careful, premeditated farmer deliberation.
Montreal homeowners have the largest shares under the home improvement plan while Toronto shows wider use. Detailed figures released by acting finance minister J. L. Asley show about five months of operation and total loans reaching 2 405 350 dollars by the end of March.
Count Kocho Otani, living Buddha of Japan and head of a major Buddhist sect, wed 19 year old poetess Princess Yoshiko Tokudaiji in Kyoto in a ceremony before about 20,000 guests. The marriage honored ancient rites and the couple shared large gifts including 1.5 million yen to the poor and 1.5 million fans.
In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell patented an apparatus to transmit two or more telegraph signals simultaneously over a single wire, enabling additive telegraphy and advancing communications technology.
Rice paper used by Oriental artists is made from the pith of a tree that grows in For mosa. The description notes the material origin and its traditional use in art.
Vivian T. Bartram, a Toronto sergeant and chief scout to Col. Sam Steele, captured Kruger’s high silk hat and a bullet-scarred flag during the Pretoria campaign. He later donated the relics and other souvenirs to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Mrs Hadjie Edia Manan of Port Elizabeth celebrates her hundredth birthday recalling being guest of Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. Born in Cape Town, she and her husband attended the 1886 Indian and Colonial Exhibition in London and stayed with Victoria and Edward VII. She later migrated to Johannesburg and made a Mecca pilgrimage in 1994, still cooks and sews.
Premier Mussolini inaugurates a modern motion picture city on Rome’s outskirts named Italian Hollywood. The site brings advanced equipment and aims to foster Italian cinema as a serious rival to foreign productions.
London correspondent for the Ottawa Journal reports rumors of an invisible ray tested by military authorities. In Wiltshire near Salisbury Plain, several cars stalled without cause until a police sergeant advised waiting ten minutes, after which the cars started normally.
An old advertisement promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills promising two pounds of bile daily to aid digestion. It asserts the product is harmless, gentle, and free of calomel or mercury, urging readers to ask by name and pay 25 cents.
Italian captain Sorrentino aims to sail around the world aboard a scientifically equipped ketch with an auxiliary motor labs and a library. He seeks to prove a single navigator can traverse stormy seas and gather oceanographic astronomic and other data for Italy. He will film with still and cinema cameras to produce a traveling picture report.
A Saturday event showcased renowned hero dogs from Toronto including Sir Bob of Cluny a collie who saved a man from a street car and Jumbo who pulled children from Lake Ontario. The article notes maple sap is reduced 30 to 40 times to produce maple syrup.
Benito Mussolini as editor of Popolo d Italia orders all Italian papers to print a three line notice announcing an important article. No paper may reproduce the piece until the next day forcing readers to buy his paper to read it.
Dr. H J Cody president of the University of Toronto announced a new zinc protamine insulin developed at Connaught laboratories. The preparation, now sold commercially for two months, reportedly offers longer immunity from diabetes symptoms and reduces injection frequency for most patients.
Two inventive brothers demonstrated a giddyap tractor driven horse fashion for Salt Lake area Latter Day Saint officials. Bert Bonham rode a plough seat and handled leather reins, moving the machine forward, stopping on a pull, and steering backward with a rein pull, claiming the iron box behind the motor controlled it.
Four workers from Britain were among the coronation guests. Lizzie McCulloch, a Glasgow weaver. Doris Griffiths of General Electric in Birmingham. Leslie Pollard, a pit boy near Chesterfield. and Elfred Thomas at a Pontardawe steel and tinplate plant received invitations from the president of the Industrial Welfare Society, Albert Frederick Arthur George, who also heads the British Empire group.
Canada’s Royal Mounted Police were honored in London at the coronation era, linked to the Household Cavalry barracks at Knightsbridge overlooking Hyde Park, a first outside regiment distinction.
The Daily Sketch notes Lady Astor’s blunder at question time in the British House of Commons. After addressing Minister Morrison with no, sir, she corrected herself saying she is not a sir. The mistake highlighted: MPs must address the chair, not one another, across the floor.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates Canada’s 1936 gross value of poultry and eggs at 1,118,000 dollars, highest since 1931 and 3,063,000 more than 1935. Poultry stock on Dec 1 1936 totaled 47,533,700 with 43,491,600 hens and chickens valued at 10,351,000. Egg production reached 219,428,000 dozen, price at 18 cents per dozen, value 40,767,000, up from 37,763,000 in 1935. 1936 value highest since 1930.
Major Dunn can Stuart of Calgary told the Turgeon royal grain commission that Western farmers must adopt better farming methods or risk desertification. He urged soil protection through crop rotation, fertilizers, increased livestock, clover plowing, and tree cultivation as essential for soil fertility, despite being a harder way of life.
Stamp clerk Arthur Clark in Camden DC says weather can be predicted by curled or flat stamps in the cabinet. He explains curling edges signal rain in eight to ten hours and flat stamps indicate clear skies. The piece also notes Greek farmers may have land plowed by the government at a fixed per acre charge.
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