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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 28, 1938
Page
2
Stratford resident Joseph Festoso returns from three months in Italy as a naturalized Canadian citizen. He contrasts freedoms and taxation, notes bread and beef prices in Italy, says Canadians can mind their own business, and comments on postwar Britain and South Africa spending.
The article notes annual prairie fire losses near a million dollars per province from 1935 to 1937 with Alberta at 1.5 million in 1937 and Manitoba about 0.9 million. It cites per capita losses and identifies four main causes cigarettes, chimneys, overheated stoves, and flammable liquids, urging inspections, chimney cleaning, safe stove placement, weed removal, and proper fireguards to cut losses and save lives.
The census shows over 8 000 persons listed as lawyers and 544 as justices and magistrates, not all law graduates. There is one lawyer for every 1 200 people and one doctor for every 1 000, implying bodily ills may demand more attention than social rules. Kitchener Record.
A skating rink has been carved inside a glacier near the Jungfrau summit. Reports claim successful disease vaccinations have been performed on silk worms.
Dr G G Moe of the University of British Columbia notes alfalfa yields a product useful in surgery. He says the product staunches blood by coagulation during a farmers field day talk. The piece also warns that spring water purity depends on the ground it seeps through.
The Alberta wheat pool plans to lease extra terminal elevators in Vancouver to boost coast storage to 6.6 million bushels, possibly taking over the Vancouver harbor board No. 2 elevator of 1.6 million bushels. Negotiations with federal authorities are under way, and the pool’s Vancouver terminal capacity would rise from 5.5 million to about 11.6 million bushels. Meanwhile a U S forestry official tells of extending forest land to better prevent flood erosion, noting well kept forests absorb rainfall and control run-off, with economic limits guiding practical action.
A National Fascist Federation circular bans foreign origin restaurant names and Anglicised forms. Nightclubs must be renamed Nights or Villa d Este, while staff language duties remain strict. The article also notes 1937 Canadian apple exports to Belgium at 10 505 quintals, and odd facts about animal digestion and porpoise money in South Sea islands.
The Montreal Star recalls Prince Arthur of Connaught as a model public servant who prioritized state duties over personal indulgence. Despite health struggles and years out of sight, his slim figure and limp were seen as he mingled with all ranks, earning affection from army and navy and triggering heartfelt regret at his passing. Some say progress is marred by such figures.
Dr. Wellington Koo told the League of Nations that at least 1,000,000 Chinese have been killed since July 7, 1937, with 30,000,000 wounded or homeless. He cited 2,204 Japanese air raids on Chinese civilians and more than 1,000,000 Japanese troops on Chinese soil. China seeks mediation under Article XVII, an embargo on arms and resources, and new steps to deter gas use and civilian bombing.
J R Webster of St Helens in West Wa wanosh Ontario marks his 75th year as a self described low mood beater. He took up knitting for income and now ships all wool socks to lumber and pulp camps where workers praise his handiwork. He rejects the idea knitting is a woman’s job and jokes about knotting threads.
The Detroit Free Press calls Sept 1 1923 a catastrophe worse than the typhoon it followed, noting an earthquake tidal wave and fire that virtually destroyed Tokyo. It cites property loss at 2.5 billion dollars and a casualty roll of 99,321 dead, 43,476 missing, and 103,733 injured.
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