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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 26, 1937
Page
2
The piece argues residents of the prairie provinces should support federal rehabilitation schemes to conserve moisture and restore soil fertility. It notes benefits vary by district, costs are high, and success will take five to ten years, with diversification and better farming methods as possible paths.
The New Orleans Item-Tribune book reviewer Mrs Clark Salmon recalls flying with famed pilots. She asked Wiley Post about his best landing and he answered that the best landing is the one you can walk away from. A reader jokes about travel choices.
Turkey plans to mobilize 70,000 men to adapt to a new law banning heavy porters. About 5,000 form a motorized transport company while others buy barrows. Chinese authorities back a rayon industry expansion. August cited as prime for road accidents. 2204.
An appeal to the Chinese National Government at Nankin seeks urgent leprosy education in all medical colleges after delegates to the Third National Leprosy Conference estimate 1.9 million lepers in China with capacity to treat only 2,000. The report cites 2,600 lepers confined in Shanghai and a Shanghai leprosarium lacking funds to treat more than 75 patients.
George VI entered naval service as a 14 year old cadet and served on the battleship Collingwood during the Great War. He fought at Jutland in 1916, was mentioned in despatches, then moved to the Royal Air Force in 1917 rising to squadron leader and wing commander before the Armistice. He endured illnesses including an appendicitis operation in 1914 and later returned to sea and air duties.
The Montreal Star notes that despite recent air crash fears the aviation industry carries daily passengers coast to coast and builds new air routes. It compares past reactions to steam and cars with future young people possibly mocking current safety doubts.
The German dirigible builders have advanced since Count Zeppelin's early airships and they profit from past misfortunes. They will continue, driven by real progress, as quoted by the Detroit Free Press.
Report notes a factory device breaks and separates 3600 eggs an hour, a task that would take skilled workers 640 hours by hand. A visitor asks if the village is lit by electricity and the replying yokel quips that lighting comes only during thunderstorms.
A Wisconsin woman asks Windsor Chamber of Commerce for a butcher shop address to order Canadian bacon. She holidayed in Ontario last summer and craved the bacon again. The piece argues good food draws tourists and boosts a country’s appeal.
Eastern potentates travel to London for the coronation ceremonies sending heavy luggage to English railway porters. The Sultan of Terengganu arrives with 20 boxes of headgear while the Maharajah of Dhardaanga travels with 16 companions, including eight tall bodyguards in white turbans red jackets and white jodhpurs.
Former Kaiser Wilhelm sent a message of sympathy to the zeppelin works saying he was deeply grieved by the loss of the Hindenburg and that airship building must continue. The widow of a Hindenburg victim mailed her golden wedding ring to the zeppelin works to aid in building a new Hindenburg.
An old tale recalls a man bob-sleighing the Cresta Run who admits fear mid descent, and the pilot confesses equal inexperience. The anecdote sits alongside a remark that Jupiter’s size would occupy a third of the Earth Moon space, and notes Peru’s sweeping new highway program as a major effort.
The fourth annual report of the International Cancer Research Foundation cites Dr. Robert Chambers and colleagues at NYU injecting corn starch into tumor bearing mice, yielding 30 day cures rather than death in two weeks. Oil of wintergreen showed similar results though marked as experimental. They warn patients against quack cures. Royal Cancer Hospital researchers in London studied body chemistry and found chiefly cholanthrene compounds potent for cancer but not tumor producing on mice.
A dessert method using milk sugar salt Benson's Corn Starch cocoa Crown Brand Syrup and cold milk. Combine into a paste then whisk into hot milk and cook until thick. Chill in moulds and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
The News of the World reports Professor F A Lindemann conducted spin tests as an experimental Farnborough pilot during the war. He devised a theory on nose-dives, tested it in flight, and his conclusions matched results. Lindemann also advocates air defence to keep enemy aircraft from Britain.
The head of the largest resident college for women in the United States, President W. A. Neilson of Smith College, marks twenty years in office. A train conversation reveals his humorous line about his career being skirts, exchanged with a fellow traveler.
The sudden desire of Australians to talk to one another has started an unprecedented telephone boom. Connections at the rate of 1,000 a month are being made and rush orders for equipment have been sent to England and America.
Halifax Herald argues to authorities that the famous Bluenose fishing schooner should be taken over as a national or provincial memorial. The piece warns other historic vessels may vanish and stresses the ship's sentimental value surpasses monetary worth.
Right Hon. Stanley Melbourne Bruce aged 51, high commissioner in London, born name marks birthplace, educated in England, rowed in Cambridge boat that beat Oxford in 1904. After wartime service he entered politics in 1918 and became prime minister within five years, heading a continuous federal government for over five years.
The article states that Honolulu, as the largest city in geographic area, was defined to include all unassigned islands of the group under its jurisdiction when the islands became an American territory. The boundary extended to Palmyra Island 900 miles south and Ocean or Kure Island about 1,700 miles northwest.
The Boston Newsletter was the first newspaper in America founded by John Campbell of Boston in 1704 and published regularly for over 70 years.
The United States must produce about 500000000 pounds of honey annually for its own use, focusing on domestic beekeeping and consumption within the industry.
Announcer promotes Hemroid as a simple internal remedy for itching rectal soreness. Claims quick relief from itching and sore passages without surgery, urging purchase from any druggist. Describes easy use and low cost as preferable to operations.
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