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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 25, 1935
Page
6
Bold note on a historic moment as the Bombay high court chamber receives a microphone and amplifier for the first time. The report also lists disparate world happenings from finance and crime to notable birthdays and local police modernization.
Mrs. J. Schofield of Heswall England refuses a legacy from her mother, dedicating funds to a religious cause to break a feared ancestral curse said to stem from an 1844 land grant near a temple. She cites a chain of tragic deaths on December 13 and 15 linked to the curse.
A deer swam in Vancouver harbor drawing a police launch and halting several vessels including the Empress of Japan and the S S Princess Marguerite. A longshoreman alerted crews, HMS Danae sounded its siren, and the weary buck was lassoed and later released on the north shore.
A coal wall portrait of King Edward VII, carved over 25 years ago by engine driver John Campbell of Westville Nova Scotia, was found well preserved during mine dewatering by Greenwood Coal Company preparing to access new coal areas.
The United Kingdom subsidy on beet sugar unsettles cane growers in the British West Indies and British Guiana. Barbados fears ruin as 100000 acres under cane sustain 120000 workers while taxes depend on planters. Grenada shifts to bananas under a Canadian supply contract amid sugar losses.
William King of Edmonton, a WWI veteran, taught Maurice Chevalier to speak English while held at Alten Grabow in Germany. King, captured during the first gas attack, spent time in a German hospital before joining Chevalier and staging a musical show in the camp.
Col Roscoe Turner warns stratosphere flying is a practical impossibility during a Toronto visit. He says thinning air requires supercharged engines and airtight cabins making costs prohibitive, with commercial flight expected only in a mid atmosphere band where economies are better.
The News of the World describes a man employed by Fry’s chocolate makers as a wasp catcher. In May and June he kills queen wasps to stop breeding, then from July surveys fields to destroy nests. A rare slip forced him to divest his shirt after insects invaded it.
Canadian flour often loses its origin in Haiti trade as most imports come from Canada yet are billed as American product when shipped through U.S. ports. This reflects how origin labels blur in transit and affects Haiti’s flour supply channels.
The Winnipeg Free Press estimates Western Canada's 1935 grain crop will be worth 241,381,000 dollars at current prices. Wheat alone should reach 156,615,000 dollars, based on 74 cents a bushel at Fort William less 17 cents for hauling. The paper says 1935 total surpasses 1931 by 82,186,000 dollars and tops 1932, 1933, and 1934 by varying margins, ending at 223,055,000 dollars.
Acting Premier Manning announces that after a fifteen year struggle the Edmonton to Jasper highway will use the abandoned railway grade. Funds are secured to guarantee construction focused on widening the grade and taking over the route.
The statement estimates annual speech output for an average man at about 11.9 million words. It frames speaking volume as a measurable daily or yearly activity and invites consideration of communication rate and linguistic productivity.
A writer recalls early female yachting in British waters, noting six women racing in the Solent during Queen Victoria's era and the 1889 first of the ladies races. The 1890 setback faded, then early 1900s saw women again owning metre boats and competing with men, wearing long skirts and veils, a style unthinkable in 1935.
The article notes a general pattern in which larger bird species tend to have longer lifespans than smaller ones. It discusses longevity differences across varieties and implications for avian biology without citing specific species or studies.
Nursery favorites come to life from calico scraps in pattern 5255. Transfer pattern and making directions allow quick stitched toys Peter Rabbit terrier and elephant. Send 20 cents to Household Arts Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for the pattern.
A summary notes France owns numerous small islands in the Atlantic Pacific and Indian oceans along with continental territories across Africa South America and Asia.
The lesson centers on first John urging believers to imitate good and shun evil. It emphasizes that doing good shows fellowship with God while doing evil separates one from God. Devotional readings focus on first John 4 7 21 and the broader biblical exhortation to love and righteousness.
John the elder writes to Gaius praising his faithful life and support for itinerant missionaries. He notes joy from church reports of Gaius’s hospitality and generosity, and urges Christians to aid missionaries to prove themselves allies of the truth.
Three tiny frogs from the American Museum of Natural History wowed visitors at the Aquarium Society show. The eleutherodactylus johnsoni species lacks a tadpole stage and develops directly from egg to miniature frog, a change explained by Dr. G Kingsley Noble as an ancient adaptation.
Colonel Mackintosh says future vacations may be in the stratosphere as Prof Piccard’s gondola arrives at the South Kensington Science Museum. The craft traveled 12 hours from Dubendorf near Zurich and landed on Lake Garda reaching about ten and a half miles high. The report notes eccentricShanghai bird contests and mentions ancient roads and heat loss figures.
Harold J. Shepstone surveys Abyssinia’s antiquity and isolation. Emperor Haile Selassie’s royal pedigree, enduring customs, and the land’s rugged independence are described. Addis Ababa’s railway, Danakil tribal influence, traditional dress, street corner courts, and primitive literacy limits are noted alongside Amharic script complexities.
A monument to the Unknown War Horse was unveiled in the courtyard of the Francis Joseph Cavalry Barracks in Budapest Hungary initiated by General Stephen Horthy. After the ceremony the Hussars riders led a past of the regiment’s horses past the statue.
A wreath of bananas marked the grave of Samuel Davenport known as the banana king of Walworth London at his burial in Nunhead England.
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