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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 04, 1939
Page
2
The article argues war offers short term relief to unemployment in urban areas and boosts railway earnings through increased output, while potentially curbing public social spending and delaying education and health investments. It urges broad citizen effort and wartime unity to hasten victory and minimize postwar sacrifices.
The Brandon Sun notes European engineers devise a lighting scheme for cities to foil air raids. Blue glass windows paired with orange lamps render light invisible to night bombers while still passing daylight.
About 100 men have sent offers to the Voluntary Service Registration Bureau in Ottawa to serve without remuneration in any capacity the government may need. One retiree from a $50 000 yearly post offers to serve on a dollar a year basis. Also notes Maine’s coastline exceeds Florida’s by more than a factor if indentations counted. Turtle racing is popular in Maidenhead England with a ten yard race lasting about an hour.
E W Cleveland known as Pop, a famed flying salesman of airplane struts, travels the United States and Canada in a plane that tops 187 mph and cruises at 165 mph. He has flown his territory since 1927 and admits hitchhikers for air routes plus a willingness to land for trout fishing when schedules allow.
Dr. C H Best head of physiology at University of Toronto becomes the first Canadian awarded the Baly Medal by the Royal College of Physicians of England. The $100 honor is usually presented at the Harveyian Oration on October 18 and he was invited to attend. He also earns the John Mallett Purser Lectureship from Trinity College Dublin and hopes to deliver the lecture later.
One-armed George Martin of Cop Thorn England can use a wheel barrow and motor mower dig cut turf prune hedges fell trees drive a three horse team and catch four bricks at a time. Martin also plays golf cricket and billiards and is a good shot.
Prof Sigmund Freud aged 83 died at his Hampstead London home. He fled Vienna after the 1938 German annexation arriving June 6 seeking peace, study, and work. He left behind his manuscript on the Bible and papers while his wife and children accompanied him.
Neville Chamberlain appears healthier and happier in wartime mood. At seventy-one he works at least sixteen hours daily and keeps a peace-time routine. He walks with a light step and military air, reads flowers and birds in the garden before breakfast, then strolls with Mrs. Chamberlain in the park, and his gout has vanished.
A message from Marlborough House by Queen Mary expresses admiration for British women aiding wartime emergencies. She extends greetings to nurses of Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service Territorial Army Nursing Service and Princess Mary's Air Force Nursing Service and prays for God's blessing on nursing efforts across the empire.
Postmaster General Nor man L McLarty announced reduced air mail rates for newspapers and periodicals to distant northern points including Northwest Territories British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Ontario Telegraph Creek B C. Second class mail after posting costs one cent per four ounces while four cents a pound from publishers or newsdealers. Standard air mail charges remain six cents for the first ounce and five cents for each additional ounce.
A Winnipeg Free Press essay notes World War I spurred chemistry, synthetic materials, radio, aviation, and medical advances, mostly at human cost. It contrasts brutal European gains with American efforts to pursue research for lasting good, suggesting future European progress may come at a price while the U.S. bears the torch of pure science.
The piece notes that indigenous New Zealand moas vanished centuries ago while highlighting the annual direct losses from rust and corrosion that exceed those from fire and flood combined.
The weeping willow reportedly originated in Smyrna and reached North America through English poet Alexander Pope. George A. Stevenson, a garden researcher in Rosthern Saskatchewan, notes a box of Smyrna fruit revealed a sprig that grew into a widely planted willow. Linnaeus named it Salix Babylonica, referencing Psalm 137 and the riverbank harps of the exiled Israelites.
At Dundee the British Association meeting heard Mr. H. E. Wimperis propose a 600 mph cap for military aircraft noting natural law imposes a limit and that rapid manoeuvres require speed to fit conditions. He urged civil services to find an economical speed between 200 and 300 mph.
Wartime policy requires licenses from Hon. J. L. Asley minister of revenue for exporting copper nickel and other key metals from Canada. Licenses for exports to the United States are being issued freely and the system is designed to limit enemy trade and conserve domestic supplies while imposing little interference on normal business.
A homing pigeon’s route is interrupted by a death, ending its longstanding homing attempt. Albania announces plans to reconstruct 750 miles of centuries-old roads to improve transport and infrastructure across the country.
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