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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 09, 1931
Page
7
The page presents a chapter header for Parmenter’s The Dusty Highway featuring Christine Whiting as author or subject for Chapter XXVIII.
Nick returns to a cautious Welcome as Gay lies in a hospital room dreaming of a child. John and Sim Maxwell reveal Gay’s fragile mind and fear she may not recognize him. Nick insists she will know him and searches for a path to wake her memory. The scene ends with Gay waking guardedly and Nick fearing she may not see him as she once did.
The U S Government plans to report on the commercial feasibility of straw destructive distillation to produce gas and chemicals within 12 to 18 months. The Bureau of Chemistry and Soils co-operates at a St Paul plant and a second full-size commercial setup at a new site to study the project scientifically.
An American staying with a tea planter in Assam tries to cable home All well staying on borders of Mongolia The hostess notes Mongolia is far away The American insists his people know where Mongolia is but not Assam They go to the telegraph office A clerk misreads and asks if New York is part of Canada The exchange ends with a puzzled correction and a笑
A neighbour found Mrs C away milking cows while Mr C warmed himself by the kitchen stove. He explains they were sawing wood and sent Mary after runaway cows to clear her head. He notes she looked pale. The piece also notes the Great Wall of China as a monumental structure by volume.
The St Thomas Times Journal notes Lindbergh’s caution in aviation stressing meticulous preflight checks and weather readiness. It contrasts his disciplined approach with aviators who gamble with faulty gear, citing war ace Billy Bishop’s aim to live longer than fame. Constant vigilance, the piece says, is the price of safety in flight.
Very Rev J J Callahan president of Duquesne University Pittsburgh announces solution to the ancient problem of trisecting the angle a feat long deemed impossible. The same release cites two other famed geometric problems the duplication of the cube and the squaring of the circle. Hippias of Elis is noted as an early challenger of this issue.
Coal from Britain to Montreal totals 110526 tons this month, down nearly 12000 from last year. Season total British anthracite shipments reach 400806 tons, up 41803 from 1930. British bituminous imports drop to 7694 tons vs 21151. no Russian coal due to embargo. Germany ships 15783 tons hard coal this year.
C E Skinner of Westinghouse told the Saskatchewan branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers that the next fifty years would bring major development as electricity shapes the machine age. He noted the industry is only 50 years old but has already transformed progress far beyond past eras. Norm an Bubels welcomed him for the Saskatchewan branch and Hon J A Merkley greeted him for the provincial government. Skinner warned the coming decade would demand adaptation to new needs and ideals of electricity.
In absence the speaker recalls a vanished beloved with lingering thoughts like lingering perfume. Morning songs renew hope that the loved one will return, and the day that brings them back will thrill the speaker with music.
In July 331 Alberta women filed homestead entries as new land laws took effect. Across the month 1,114 entries were registered, many farmers from drought regions relocated to southern Alberta. Nearly half of the filers were unmarried women.
The United States Children's Bureau warns against teaching children to hoard pennies in a savings bank that disappears with no use. While urging guidance, the piece argues that Bunny Bank teaches both saving and spending as kids learn money management through practical use.
Pioneer Grain Company begins construction of a 40000 bushel grain elevator in Gadsby Alberta. The facility will be ready to handle this year’s harvest. Ocean liners now floodlight funnels at night to guide aircraft and ships.
A devotional excerpt quotes 1 John iv 18 urging trust in God and love for neighbors to cast out fear and strengthen faith amid darkness. It emphasizes the Spirit’s power and ends with an advertisement for Douglas' Egyptian Liniment promising quick relief from soft coins and warts.
August 7 despatch from the Soviet ice breaker Maligin describes four previously unrecorded islands in the far north. Three unnamed islands lie at 81.12 N, 30.55 E southwest of Karl Alexander Island, and a small hilly landform is in the Straits of Baxa. The Arctic Institute plans formal Soviet claims and naming in the near future.
A city transit update notes the Soviet Government is operating 3600 auto buses. The exchange about marital roles appears in a quippy domestic aside preceding the transport item.
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