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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 20, 1938
Page
7
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In the coastal mining camp Kay Joyce and her mother arrive with Hammond and crew. Tension rises as Bruce Kenning joins, while McKenzie Joe and Hammond debate sharing discoveries. Kay admires a crude frontier eatery, and Jeanne Towers is introduced as the circle gathers for a communal meal.
Joe McKenzie tosses the stick and declines another meeting with Hammond and Kay. Hammond remains optimistic about Sapphire Lake and a future with Kay. Joe’s mood grows quiet and reserved as plans progress without him. Kay greets Hammond on his return from the trail.
French playwright Henry Bernstein protests Mussolini by telegram after returning the insignia of an officer of Saint Maurice and Lazare. He states the honor is no longer fitting as Italy pursues anti-Semitic racial policy and persecutes Italian citizens.
South Africa grape farmers facing over production seek new products grape jelly grape grapes and grape slabs. Jelly resembles red currant jelly and serves same uses. Grape grapes resemble jujubes and use a stiffer mix. Slabs are a semi solid food with juice skins and seeds.
Paris famed Foch Foundation Hospital, endowed partly by Madame Jacques Balsan formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt, is shutting down due to lack of patients. The institution, once among France's most modern, benefited from Balsan's large endowment and ongoing support for equipment and service.
In Barbadoes blind lepers who cannot read Braille due to missing fingers requested talking books from the National Institute. Several phonograph records have been sent in response to provide accessible literature and information.
Rumors say the Mercury seaplane may target the world distance record, proposing a take-off from north of the Firth of Forth to exceed 6,306 miles set by Soviet fliers. Imperial Airways reports progress on the Albatross biplane repairs and long distance tests as it resumes trans Atlantic program. The Heracles airliner is celebrated for 1,250,000 miles flown and 95,000 passengers carried without incident.
A study across ten American states shows agricultural workers aged 15 to 64 have a lower death rate than professionals. The unskilled group bears the highest mortality at 13.1 percent, with tuberculosis and pneumonia the leading causes and factors including diet housing medical care and income.
The Messagero reports Haile Selassie’s golden crown is for sale in London for £500. It is said to be a bargain if the 714 diamonds are real, with a London correspondent noting the risk of glass stones. A swan near Eton College guards her eight cygnets, refusing to abandon the nest amid a rare disease, prompting staff to fence the area for privacy.
East Indian Railway logged major crowds during the Kumbh mela at Hardwar with 347 special trains carrying about 543,755 passengers detrained in the period from March 12 to April 13. Inward traffic peaked at 68,050 passengers with 44 special and 7 regular trains. outward reached 80,000 with 41 special and 7 regular trains.
Marion Beeton Pull, a Maidstone district nurse, traces her unknown Canadian-born father Edwin Pull through a Toronto music publisher. The discovery follows an organ performance of Abide With Me and a letter to the Toronto church organist, leading to plans for a trans Atlantic visit next month. The father, now remarried with two sons, was a church organist in Toronto.
Two men sat at a reserved table in a top London restaurant and refused the headwaiter when asked to move. They read the menu aloud complaining nothing worth eating and walked out claiming a psycho analyst forced them to act to boost self confidence.
In Walcheran Holland women wear gold ornaments on their heads to show their village origin during market days, signaling provenance and local identity.
Two members of the English House of Commons decline to take the 2000 dollar annual salary due them. A walrus reaches a weight of one and a half tons in an unrelated note.
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