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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 25, 1936
Page
2
The article argues that conflicting European forecasts of war create confusion for readers. It notes widespread preparations across nations, mutual distrust, and the fear driving armament, urging a revised League of Nations to foster frank dialogue and reduce hostilities.
Colonel L P Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Company cites a 1932 to 1936 recovery gap noting Canada has regained 7 percent of losses while the United States has recovered 70 percent. He says US recovery will persist for months and credits elections for growing public demand for active government. Ayres praises Canada’s self reliance and local initiative as key to its strong recovery.
The Bank of England and the Royal Mint consider introducing a nickel valued at threepence into the Edward VIII coinage. The move would align Britain with other nations and greatly cut copper coins, replacing the unpopular threepenny piece with a nickel about the size of a sixpence.
A vintage advertisement touts Carter’s Little Liver Pills as a remedy to stimulate two pounds of bile daily, claim they aid digestion, reduce gas and constipation, and emphasize safe ingredients with no calomel or mercury. It urges readers to ask for the product by name.
Italian school teacher Rita Del Bene rediscovered bissus a fabric fiber dating to biblical times extracted from the Pinna Nobilis shellfish. The new bissus yields a woollike fabric via a simple chemical process while ancient weavers produced a silklike but weaker material from the mollusk.
An ornamental 30 foot high, 11 foot wide memorial tower rises in Kuala Lumpur market place as the empire's first coronation memorial. It surmounts an electrical sub station and will bear a four faced electric clock at the summit with a bronze plate beneath honoring the crowning of King Edward VII.
A proposal argues General Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army should be named among coronation church dignitaries. Her leadership of a mass-reaching agency is cited as the strongest support for the idea.
Preparations for the King's coronation at Westminster Abbey include a 32 page souvenir programme. It features the Royal Coat of Arms, a King photograph, Queen Mary and children images, poems by John Masefield and John Drinkwater, and a Rector Bolitho piece. Proceeds benefit the King George V Jubilee Trust Fund for underprivileged youth. Sale to stationery trades and Canadian Boy Scouts. no copies before April 23.
A recipe set detailing butter sugar eggs and flour with baking powder salt and a mix of raisins almonds cherries and nuts. Includes instruction to cream butter add sugar beat eggs alternate with flour, add fruit, warm milk, and bake in a moderate oven for 134 to 2 hours.
The text explains that members of the deer family such as elk moose and reindeer grow antlers that shed regularly. In contrast cattle buffalo and antelope possess horns.
Mrs. T. W. Sutherland of Wella BC and Ottawa told a Montreal luncheon that unemployed women are harder to place due to lower mobility. She urged reporting potential workers to the National Employment Commission and outlined relief figures and targets. She favored home training and workplace reconditioning to expand women’s job prospects across Canada.
On his 25th birthday the Maharajah of Travancore proclaims no birth or religion based temple restrictions. The decree ends caste based worship barriers in state temples and is praised by Gandhi and Indian reformers. Leaders say the move could influence wider reform in India, Cochin, and Mysore. Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar calls it a historic moment in Hinduism.
A new self service barber shop in Moscow invites customers to sit and shave themselves for a nominal fee. The sole barber, Nina Saveilyeva, acts as instructor guiding patrons to wash hands and use provided supplies.
The Smithsonian Institution reports that the sun is gradually radiating away its substance as light and heat and will shrink to half its present size. It reassures that this process will take about 40 quadrillion years.
Archaeologists report ancient Egypt had harps guitars pipes trumpets and drums. Separately the Hawaiian Islands host an orchid species that can live from fifty to one hundred years.
The report notes that enforcing Prohibition drained federal funds at about one million dollars per month, detailing the high cost of policing, licensing, raids, and enforcement logistics across the nation.
Canary subjects show successful breeding for musical performance with trained birds responding to jazz. Researchers report enhanced activity and rhythm response in tested canaries.
The king's approval of Sir George Broadbridge's election as lord mayor elect of London was signified in a ceremony in the House of Lords Prince's chamber. Lord Hewart and city dignitaries received goblets and toasted the lord mayor elect and the lord chief justice.
Lieut Paul Rohrbeck, former Imperial German Army officer and Iron Cross recipient, was laid to rest in a hillside cemetery at Quesnel BC. British trenches veterans from 1918 formed a guard of honor, and a wreath was placed on the coffin by Mrs Lily McAdam, whose husband died in Flanders. A local report notes a new small car can travel sixty miles per hour and sixty miles per gallon, priced at $660.
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