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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 21, 1938
Page
8
The Aquitania carried 380 boxes of gold worth 21 million dollars from Southampton to New York while passengers and their baggage formed the real cargo. The captain worries more for the passengers than the gold, and the ship’s safety remains paramount even with such riches aboard.
Sir Ernest MacMillan head of the Toronto Conservatory of Music urges Canada to rely on its own musical development and nourish its culture without US influence. He cites small support for music and calls music a unifying force for nation building and peace through cross national exchange.
Mrs. Jessie Graham, 79, claims the original Gretna Green anvil priestess role and returns to work after 30 years. The Scottish border village continues to rely on declarations before witnesses as runaways drive the revival of the custom.
The provincial accident and prevention bureau reports 8 114 Manitoba vehicles tested in safety lanes in 1938, 4 892 or over 60 percent failed to reach safe condition. Of these 38 percent had defective brakes. A writer notes public statues could suffer in an air raid, yet the piece expresses support for peace.
A shortage of native labor limits mining output in South Africa as companies struggle to recruit workers. Industry analysts warn persistent wage pressures and immigration controls may worsen hiring gaps, impacting production schedules and regional export flows.
Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare unveils sweeping prison reforms in Parliament, aiming to close famous jails including Pentonville Reading and Holloway. Holloway will become a country camp for women, while others convert to housing and colleges. New measures promise hot meals, self help clothes, in-prison privileges and better fitness programs.
The blue air mail posting boxes in London and provincial towns will disappear as air mail carriage becomes routine. Early on the boxes helped popularize air letters to overseas destinations with a special fee. Now posting in blue boxes for all up overseas routes causes delays and is being phased out amid rising tonnage from 40 tons in 1930 to about 2,000 tons today with plans to reach 2,200 tons.
Amid Scapa Flow salvage operations four German battleships and four cruisers remain sunken after the surrender. British crews are gradually raising them for scrap metal, recovering each vessel one by one.
Seventeen plants reported processed cheese production in Ontario and Quebec with additional activity in Manitoba and Alberta. Ontario had eleven plants, Quebec six, Manitoba one, and Alberta one.
The planet Neptune remains vastly cold far from the sun with surface temperatures around 400 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. This extreme cold underscores Neptune's distant position in the solar system and its icy atmosphere.
A New Zealand buttermaker devised a vacuum based method called vacreation. Now about 75 percent of Dominion butter uses the process with Auckland factories widely adopting it. In the Dominion, feed flavors are largely removed improving quality and value, as one small factory moved from second to finest grade butter this season using a tandem vacreator.
Dr. Edward A. Doisy, a St. Louis University research chemist, announced the complete isolation of vitamin K, a diet factor necessary for blood coagulation. The pure, colorless crystals were obtained from alfalfa meal oil. Doisy is also known for isolating the elin hormone.
The text notes a tortoise lifespan of about one hundred years and cites estimates that one million tons of steel are nickel plated annually in the United States.
Australian farms yielded about 20 000 tons of currants in the current year marking a strong grape-like harvest for growers. The output reflects robust demand and favorable growing conditions across key currant producing regions.
An Ontario city pedestrians notice a Boston bull terrier with amber sun glasses on a car window. The dog recently had eye surgery and the vet advised glasses to prevent rubbing the injured eye. The owner says the dog now insists on wearing them during trips.
In Milwaukee a 25 year old husband, after losing his job and welcoming a second daughter, chose self reliance over relief. He canvassed neighbors, built a washing service, and supports his family with pride in initiative.
Swiss importers contacted the Canadian Trade Commissioner at Rotterdam about Canadian hay and straw, but the low price offered could not be entertained as ocean freight costs render the trade impractical. No imports have occurred.
Captain F. Dis more has completed twenty five years as an airplane pilot with Imperial Airways, a record noted for continuous flying across all aircraft since the early days, regarded as unique in aviation annals.
E. F. Kohman of Camden New Jersey tells the American Chemical Society that onions contain an aldehyde that is a strong destroyer of bacteria. The claim notes onions as a home remedy noting Grandma’s cautionary wisdom on cold cures.
Salem city council outlaws nighttime rooster crowing as a public nuisance. Owners face a 25 dollar fine and up to 10 days in jail for lawbreaking roosters.
The sentence lists the beech family members chestnuts and oaks as belonging to the same family. It identifies beech as the parent group and places chestnuts and oaks within that classification.
Dr J F Booth’s article in the Economic Annalist traces the formation and growth of the Dominion Department of Agriculture's Marketing Service. It covers how farmers shifted from independence to market reliance, the rise of agricultural economics, and the service’s roles in research, co operation, farm management, land economics, dairy surveys, marketing, taxation, and credit.
The Ottawa Journal reports a plan presented to the British Minister of Transport to classify licenses by safety records. Six months without accidents would earn a B, then A with cheaper insurance and plates. repeated faults drop through C and D to possible suspension.
A hand made chair carved from a bulging cedar attracts visitors in the Edmundston hotel lobby. Solomon Levesque built it twenty years ago, selling to J. L. Boudreau who refused a $700 offer. The chair now sits in another Edmundston hotel after multiple refusals and a later sale for 150.
Mitchell South Dakota pays ten thousand dollars annually to redecorate the interior of the Corn Palace, a 275000 dollar auditorium famed for murals of corn, grains and grasses created each fall by skilled decorators.
The bamboo plant is noted for a reported surge of sixteen inches in a single day and a final height of about 116 feet. In Sydney area golf courses land crabs emerge from holes to steal golf balls.
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