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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 25, 1938
Page
9
Ernest Bingley dons a decoy ghost outfit and confronts a headless rival in a moonlit castle. A midnight chase through corridors ends in a comic boxing clash as both spirits reveal themselves and share a cordial drink. To be continued.
Four more South African police dogs and two detective officers sail to Palestine for one year. The Quagga port depot near Pretoria has seven dogs in service there and two Palestine trainers who studied in South Africa return with the unit. Arabs fear the trained dogs as supernatural and criminals show respect.
Dr. Donald F. MacDonald of St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish N S would accept a U S invitation to conduct preliminary studies on enlarging the Panama Canal. He previously served 1911 to 1913 with the Panama Canal Commission as an advisor on engineering geology. British wages are reported 25 percent higher than German wages, 33 percent higher than French, and 250 percent higher than Russian.
The Woodstock Sentinel Review warns against frantic cramming before exams. A Toronto physician cites memory decay and recommends steady study, note taking, and monthly review of notes rather than late night cramming.
The Sino Japanese conflict disrupts Easter lily shipments to Canada and the United States. War demands repurpose ships from floriculture to supply China while Japanese lack of facilities and growers tightens bulb imports. Lily cultivation spreads in Japan and China as bulbs and seeds become valuable economic goods.
A three member committee will be appointed by the Western Canada Fuel Association to contact the federal Department of Mines research branch and stoker makers to develop stokers suited to Canadian coal. The 18th annual convention at Lethbridge urged cooperation among coal, railways and heating equipment firms to expand Canadian coal use. The association also proposed talks with railways to protect mutual interests and asked governments to conserve western forest wealth amid Winnipeg wood sales competing with coal.
The skipper and engineer swap duties to settle who is better at steering or engine work. After ten minutes the captain admits defeat as the engines fail to start. The engineer reveals they are already aground, explaining the mishap.
Archaeologists uncovered three temples dating to the sixth century B C in the Baharia Oasis of middle Egypt. The site yielded statues and vases with wall drawings and inscriptions that remain well preserved. The temples were closed during the Roman period.
The text lists candidate long words including honorificabilitudinitatibus from Shakespeare Love's Labour Lost, circumscriptibleness from Puritan divine Byfield, and antidisestablishmentarianism attributed to Doctor Benson. It references Ripley’s Big Book as the source for the claim.
A veteran voice recalls starting with twelve hour days, but notes rapid times demand quicker labor and prompt departure for new entrants. The exchange contrasts old grind with contemporary expectations and career pace.
Premier Hepburn cites Professor W. C. Blackwood reporting 250 installations of electric fences in Ontario. A single strand barbed wire with a small battery keeps stock from crossing the line, dramatically reducing fencing costs from about one dollar per rod to a few cents. The device suits pasturing and Hog management as endorsed by agriculture minister Hon. P. M. Dewan.
The first submarine mail operation connects Catalonia with government Spain as Catalonia is cut off by insurgent advances to the Mediterranean. The finance ministry orders a special issue of submarine stamps for the service. The note on courtesy ends with a rusted image of a door and flies. Whales are noted as extinct in waters near Newfoundland Greenland and Spitzbergen where they once thrived.
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