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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 16, 1938
Page
7
Jack Hammond and Around the World Annie traverse a snowbound railway journey toward a new frontier community. In crowded cars they glimpse a growing dream of wealth and survival while Annie aids a struggling girl and Hammond debates loyalties with a stern sergeant at the border.
In a tense frontier scene Sergeant Hubert Terry coordinates a move into the Stikine as Jack Hammond and others prepare to depart. Cold weather, packed trails, and a hint of romance mingle with the looming choice to let Around the World Annie go.
Annie greets arriving soldiers and orders women to clear space on cots. The sergeant declines extra time while the contingent is shown in. Hammond moves to a stove as the scene shifts toward a continuation.
Off Victoria Pacific coal defence units from Britain and Canada staged manoeuvres with gunfire torpedo attack and aircraft observation. Premier Pattullo and cabinet observed from HMS York as Canadian Pacific defence potential was tested. Participants included Major Andrew McGavin Brigadier J Stewart and officers from Esquimalt dockyard and militia. HMS York led the exercise with St Laurent Fraser and Armentiers.
Export of Blueberries Canada virtually monopolizes the import trade of fresh blueberries into the United States while Newfoundland controls frozen shipments. Canada also supplies a substantial amount of frozen berries, with the bulk going to piemak.
Paper money in one two and five dollar denominations usually becomes worn and ready for retirement after being in circulation from six to nine months. Some species of bats feed on insects some on fruit some catch fish some are bloodsuckers and some are carnivorous.
In Bewdley Worcestershire a thousand friends present Lord Baldwin with tapestry and an illuminated address. He recalls a boyhood wish to be a blacksmith and compares Ephraim the smith to his career in the iron and steel industry leading to three terms as Prime Minister. He notes the contrast between a manual trade and his patience in politics.
John G. Sullivan a renowned civil engineer died suddenly at his Winnipeg home at age 75. A Bushnell's Basin New York native and Cornell graduate, he worked with several railways before joining Canadian Pacific Railway in 1900. He served as engineer for the western division then all of Canada and finally as consulting engineer. He helped build the Panama Canal's assistant chief engineer period from 1905 to 1907 and the five mile Connaught tunnel in the Canadian Rockies. He retired three years ago.
The Manchester Guardian notes a German journal suggestion that given names be limited to two. It recalls a past American claim of a 16 name baby and a 1882 English case assigning a name for every alphabet letter to a girl, ending with Zeus.
An Alton Illinois gas station operator B H Weston loses 50 dollars after a man robs him following 14 gallons of gas for a car driven by a pretty woman. A 13 year old boy yanks the phone from the wall during the incident.
A reflective line notes the enduring challenge of supporting a wife and children while fulfilling duties to government. It frames family responsibility as central to civic life and personal duty.
The article notes that plans for a Panama canal were prepared as early as 1513 by Cortez, indicating long-standing ambitions for a water passage.
The piece traces the paper industry from Tsai Lun in 75 AD to its spread from China to the Arabs, Samarkand, and Europe, noting centuries of secrecy, later mills in Italy, and China’s current imports, as summarized in China Digest.
The Detroit Free Press notes that the Toledo News-Bee will end print due to mounting labor and newsprint costs. It argues publishers cannot sustain loss from circulation and advertising revenue and may merge or close, while stressing the cost to deliver world news to readers at three cents.
Nurse Jenny Balcourt of Fort Vermilion hospital says northern Indians are pretty good patients though taciturn. She flew three patients to Edmonton, including Peter Beachman 28 who was dumbfounded by city sights and reluctant to stay in bed. Balcourt speaks Cree and notes most patients are Indians.
Canadian visitors to London will see Miss Avril Coleridge- Taylor conduct an open-air orchestra in Hyde Park. She may be England s first woman to lead municipal or military bands and began her career by accident when she conducted a rehearsal at a seaside resort and impressed the guest conductor.
The International Bureau for the Protection of Industrial Property functions like a league of nations for patent systems. About 52 countries and territories, including the United States, are members, allowing cooperation to protect inventors worldwide.
In 1874 Australian pearl fishers retrieved an oyster containing nine pearls arranged in the shape of a perfect cross. The find highlights early pearl industry activity along Australian waters and the rarity of such a symmetrical pearl set.
A concise note states that beet and cane sugar share chemical likeness, highlighting their identical sweetness and composition features. The remark emphasizes practical equivalence in sugar production and culinary use, with no noted distinctions in composition beyond origin.
Lord Tweedsmuir, known as John Buchan, was installed as Chancellor of Edinburgh University. His convocation address mixed gravity and wit, praising higher mathematics and defending the vigor of the current generation against attacks from critics. He emphasized enterprise, stamina, and fortitude, reflecting on undergraduate parallels and robust storytelling.
The Halifax Herald notes a Berlin announcement demanding students master two miles in 13 minutes to jump 13 feet 6 inches throw 161 weight eight yards and swim 54 yards in 60 seconds. The piece mocks the idea, comparing it to Goethe Handel and Beethoven while labeling it an absurd aspect of Nazism.
In July Christine Jean Powell of Trenton and Raymond MacDonald of Trenton married in Sutherland's River near New Glasgow Nova Scotia. Reverend Alexander Mills of Thornburn officiated marking the district's first recorded wedding in more than a century.
A meteorite fell near Santa Cruz in Mexico causing a strong quake like shock that unsettled train passengers bound for Mexico City who feared a rebel attempt to blow the railway line.
A claim asserts Florida's average annual temperature is 708 degrees, a figure far above realistic measurements and not corroborated by meteorological data.
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