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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 04, 1936
Page
2
Analyzes wheat as the dominant Western Canadian farmer’s dilemma amid diverse forecasts and risks. Describes factory farming concepts like cabinet culture and their potential to replace soil farming, noting uncertainty about commercial viability and impact on prairie grain.
Victor Hugo praises mercy in Les Miserables and extols a humane life for children. The text urges avoiding cruelty to creatures while allowing necessary harm done with minimal suffering. It notes superstition about peacock feathers and mentions the Queen Mary ship with 528 electric motors.
The Chicago Herald and Examiner notes Belgium considers dispatching a full minister to Canada in addition to its consul. It speculates Canada may become the real British Empire’s Europe headquarter in time. Also mentions Diocletian Baths could hold 3,200 bathers and Westmorland, England paints telephone booths red.
A Sydney Nova Scotia feature profiles Stirling Wilkinson known as the dual brain man able to write and draw with both hands simultaneously and even reverse writing. He learned to do two tasks at once as a child and later served as a bookkeeper with rapid two handed entry skills.
The national employment commission proposes a home improvement plan to broaden work for unemployed building trades workers. It allows out of work union members to find homes needing repairs, estimate costs, and guide owners on financing. Farmers may borrow to buy materials and do the work themselves or hire labor, with loans based on character and income.
George Osborne and his brother James were convicted at the Old Bailey of stealing the wandering trawler Girl Pat. George received 18 months and James 12 months. The vessel sailed from Grimsby last April for a fishing expedition, traveled to the Canary Islands West Africa French Guiana, and was captured off British Guiana in June.
The World's Dairy Congress will be officially represented by Canada at the 11th congress in Berlin from August 22 to 28, 1937. The event, held every three years, is the premier global dairy industry gathering, with an international exhibition showcasing the latest dairy developments.
Ontario Welfare Minister Croll announced nearly $8 580 in provincial relief grants to Hawkesbury will be cut after an investigation found misused funds and unneeded aid. The town allegedly ran relief with easy taxpayer footing and some recipients used relief to run own businesses and even drive their own cars. Several cases saw people closing bank accounts to obtain relief.
A 30 000 head roundup, among the largest in Alaskan history, will be organized by a U S official. Great corrals will be built fifty miles inland from Point Barrow for slaughter, earmarking, and health checks. Deer will be counted and marked after being herded by Eskimo from the Arctic plains. yearlings and fawns will be ear marked with shapes and knife nicks instead of branding.
Morley receives a cradle bought in Morley England 84 years ago for Herbert Henry Asquith the wartime prime minister later Lord Oxford and Asquith. Henry Asquith presents it to the town with three generations rocking in it. The mayor accepts the gift. A 35-year-ago Brantford Expositor note reports August outlay of 24.72 for relief officer expenses.
At Geneva the Polish delegate urged the League of Nations to provide asylum for 3,500,000 Jews in Central and Eastern Europe, despite Palestine being the natural homeland. In Jerusalem the government arrested 36 Arabs and accused 15 more of damaging the Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline amid ongoing sabotage.
This vintage cookie recipe combines eggs sugar thick cream flour coconut baking powder and salt. The dough chills and rolls to half inch, then coconut is sprinkled before a final roll and baking on a buttered sheet in a moderate oven.
The Royal Canadian Air Force takes delivery of seven Shark bombing planes bought in England for over $500,000. Two arrive and are being assembled at Rockcliffe. five more are en route. Each costs 64,890. These era war machines can reach 175 mph and fly seven hours. Ten training planes at Fort Erie, costing about $6,000 each, are also being produced for beginner training.
Dr Agnes Fay Morgan and Bessie Cook report in a Society for Experimental Biology paper that lactose or galactose presence in the intestine and vitamin G deficiency may link to cataract development. Tests showed a hundred percent incidence with lactose and about sixty percent with cornstarch controls, suggesting a possible preventive path though causes remain uncertain.
Ninety years ago the first telegraph company in Canada was formed at Toronto and started building the pioneer wire line to Hamilton. By January the line reached Queenston and later the Montreal Telegraph Company linked Montreal with Toronto, purchasing the initial Toronto firm in 1852.
The Niagara Falls Review notes two expert stenographers in a local office. One earns $10 more weekly for proficiency in both French and English, and the piece advocates bilingual schooling for Canadian children to gain such language skills early.
The article states January serves as the official birthday for all thoroughbred horses, establishing a universal age reference for racing and breeding records.
Lieut Col George A Drew told the Electric Club in Toronto that an immediate transcontinental air route is essential for Canada to secure its place in the world. He said aviation is Canada’s best contribution to empire defence and stressed its importance.
The text notes that a rice flower completes its opening in about 30 seconds and its bloom lasts two to three hours.
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