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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 17, 1939
Page
2
An essay on how parenting shapes a child’s turn toward adolescence and adulthood. It argues training should start early, respect individuality, and balance guidance with reasonable discipline, noting corporal punishment can be avoided though occasional spanking may ease tensions.
John Omwake former president and chairman of the United States Playing Card Company died in Cincinnati at 85. Though described as the world’s largest card maker he knew no card tricks and had little skill with playing cards. Also noted in the clipping is a brief, jumbled line about animal rankings in the United States with Pennsylvania second and California third.
The excerpt outlines long writing arcs by Milton sonnet poetique passages spanning his years from 32 to 50 and seven years of blindness, Gray’s eight year Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Dante’s Divine Comedy from age 35 to death at 66, and Goethe’s Faust begun at 20 with a final form later in life.
Senator Key Pittman reports the State Department is examining a proposal to extend the territorial sea from three to twelve miles. He notes naval and peacetime benefits including better control of Alaskan fishing banks and conflicts with Japanese fishermen. No legislation is planned without a state department request.
A baker's notes two recipes include Butter Scotch Pudge Cake using Swans Down flour and Baker's chocolate with successive flour additions and a Butter Scotch Fudge Frosting. Also a Shredded Wheat stuffing mix with oysters and lemon juice to use for roasting chicken or turkey. recipe scales for larger pans.
The piece traces time standardization from ancient clocks to Sir Sanford Fleming who proposed multiple zones in 1878 and the 1884 conference that adopted them. It notes William Willett's daylight saving idea, promoted in 1908, made compulsory during WWI with May 21 1916 inauguration. It claims annual savings of 15 million dollars plus added health benefits.
The Dominion commission reports 1930 to March 31 total unemployment relief 345 861 70 exclusive of loans with grants by provinces led by Ontario 91 212 025 Quebec 56 837 334 Saskatchewan 52 791 144 Alberta 16 684 811 Manitoba 24 134 629 Nova Scotia 7 553 963 New Brunswick 5 221 544 Prince Edward Island 1 261 116 and agriculture funds 28 026 087 since 1930 including drought year 1937. A note mentions a poultry food source from shark flesh.
Ottawa approves Alberta expenditures totaling 625000 this season for main highways. A 550000 share will be split evenly between Alberta and the Dominion for central and southern district highway improvements. An additional 75000 funds two thirds by Dominion and one third by Alberta for mining road developments.
Zane Grey’s fishing zeal led him to spend $3,000 on a single reel weighing 37 pounds with a 15 inch diameter and 2,000 yards of line. He seeks 40 foot sharks in Australian waters, asserting such giants exist beyond the usual catch. A speculative aside notes the earth’s material weight as 55 pounds per gallon.
Paris marks the Eiffel Tower anniversary with a flag raised at the summit. The flag is the same one hoisted 50 years ago by M. Francois Carnot, who led the original inauguration ceremony at the tower.
Canada supplied about half of Belgiums asbestos imports, making Belgium the fourth largest market for the product.
A seven member crew will operate the Trans Atlantic chopper not counting stewards. The crew includes a captain first officer pilot second officer pilot third officer pilot navigator engineer officer radio officer and a junior flight officer. Canada has 74,000,000 acres cultivated with 55,700,000 in the Prairie Provinces. Range and unimproved pasture totals 40,000,000 acres with 33,000,000 in the Prairie Provinces.
Report says Germany plans to buy horses for its cavalry amid dissatisfaction with mechanized transport. Authorities seek traditional mobility as a reliable force, signaling a pivot from armor and vehicles to mounted units.
A peat fire has burned continuously at a Dartmoor wayside inn since 1808. The blaze reportedly started decades ago and has persisted through the years, drawing curiosity from visitors and locals.
Royal Canadian Humane Association awards parchment certificates to two Manitoban rescuers for saving lives. Annie Margaret Elviss of Swan River saved Richard W. Zinger at Swan River on August 10, 1938. Joseph H. Hall of Selkirk rescued Rosie Rifkin in the Red River at Selkirk on July 16, 1938. Allison Clifford Fawcett of Rainy River Ontario also received for saving Clifford van Norman at Rainy River on October 2.
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