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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 03, 1930
Page
6
The Valve World feature quotes a short piece where a widow grateful for her husband’s long life learns happiness comes from perspective. Life yields much or little by viewpoint, not circumstance, urging readers to be thankful, hopeful, and purposeful each day. Clip and reread for comfort.
An 18 foot star of yellow bulbs lined with red and green initials glows beneath five inches of ice at Lake Placid Club rink. The display, created from mooded club courts, reflects light like glass. An octagonal nine story tower in Nanking once faced the world.
Sir Alfred Yarrow, famed shipbuilder, claims to have used Britain’s first typewriter. He recalls receiving Remington machines in 1876 after a dock accident, buying one for a few shillings, and hiring a clever shorthand writer who could play the piano to operate it.
Cabled news reports the Southern Railway has secured stock in and arranged with Imperial Airways to maintain an air service. The move aims to avoid wasteful competition in air transportation and follows London’s ban on flags and banners in streets.
Canada leads with eight national parks covering over 12,000 square miles, mostly in the Rockies. Jasper Park in Alberta is the largest at 4 517 square miles. New Zealand hosts Tongariro and Fiordland National Parks, Fiordland offering lakes sounds and the famed World Wonder Walk from Lake Te Anau to Milford Sound.
Mrs Leo Bedard recalls three years of weakness and dizziness after childbirth. A friend recommended Dr Williams Pink Pills, leading to a marked health and strength boost after ten boxes. The drug is advertised as aiding poor blood and weak nerves and is sold by dealers or mailed from Brockville Ontario at 50 cents a box.
Sugar is now delivered in liquid form through pipes in Washington to speed delivery. A gravity pipe moves the syrup from the refinery to a tank car or truck, then to the buyer’s plant where it is pumped into a distributing tank. The method derives from a high purity carbon enabling a white syrup refined directly from the raw material.
Many have been relieved of corns by Holloway's Corn Remover. It has a power of its own that will be found effective.
The text describes multiple practical uses for common laundry soap. It suggests applying soap to bureau drawers and windows to prevent sticking, rubbing into nails to prevent splitting, mixing with stove blacking to ease application and improve results, and rubbing around fingernails before using blacking to keep nails clean.
A fragment from Birchtown Quebec describes a resident living thirteen miles from town on a farm. The note mentions daily chores and a sense of distance from nearby services, reflecting rural life and self reliance on the land.
The Vatican mosaic works, among Rome’s oldest studios, sign a production bequest to the Catholic University in Washington DC. A copy of Murillo’s Immaculate Conception, valued at 25 000 dollars, will join the university’s collection. The plant showcases master craftsmen, some pieces taking two to ten years, with 27 000 color shades used in mosaics. During a visit, observers learn mosaics are created from thousands of carefully chosen fragments, sometimes taking decades to complete.
The passage cites a Canadian handbook praising silk production from spruce wood and a flour fashioned from wood to produce linoleum and gramophone records, noting a machine producing over twenty-two feet wide sheets at half an acre per minute. It also advertises Miller’s Worm Powders as pleasant tasting, effective in cleansing the system, with possible vomiting in unsound stomachs but not harmful.
German women writers in Hamelin celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Hroeswitha birthplace and commemorate the Saxon poetess who lived as a Gandersheim nun near Hamelin, birthplace of the Pied Piper legend.
Saskatoon water department reports a net surplus of 31717.59 for 1929, up from 18561.54 in 1928. Revenue for the year reached 214241.16 as shown in the civic utilities financials.
The 1929 fish catch along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts totalled 1,024,221,000 pounds valued at 26,170,350 dollars. A quoted dialogue follows noting a person named Mille Dendratt amid fragmented text.
A catalog entry describes the Forbes D. Sutherland collection at McGill University and Strathcona Ethnological Museum. It covers pre white man native art in knives, needles, bows, arrows, ornaments, canoes, carved money, a Mackenzie Delta fish-net crafted by two elder women, and three decorated native costumes from far north western districts.
The London Daily Herald reports a new British Antarctic expedition led by Commander Frank Worlsey, former Endurance skipper. It envisages an ambitious scale possibly including aeroplanes, costing about £25,000 and serving commercial and scientific aims.
In Germany a parcel with a carrier pigeon and letter demanded money or a death threat would follow. The pigeon was tracked by a fast airplane and an aerial photograph showing the landing site. Police identified the sender as an unemployed miner from a victim’s pit. The text also notes Mayon the volcano as the Fujiyama of the Philippines.
An advertising blurb touts Catarrhozone as a soothing pine scent inhalant that relieves colds bronchitis and catarrh by distributing healing bal sams through the breathing passages in two seconds. It claims rapid relief from congestion and irritable throat.
An advertisement touts Catarrhozone as a ten minute relief with symptoms disappearing after use. Claims include no nasal clogging or buzzing ears. Treatments offered with a guaranteed outcome, priced at $1.00 and a smaller 50 cent size at all dealers.
A new Panama Canal tolls record for a single day was set January 18, 1980, with $36,665 collected from fourteen ships transiting from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The Virginia of Panama Pacific Line led with $15,210 in tolls, and the average toll per ship was $6,190.35.
Alberta growers aim to plant 13 000 to 14 000 acres of sugar beets this spring under an agreement between the Southern Alberta Beet Growers Association and Canadian Sugar Factories Limited at Raymond. The parties hope to slice about 80 000 tons of beets this season.
The ad promotes Diamond Dyes as top quality anilines delivering true bright colors for dresses. It claims even, non streaking results that resist fading through wear and washing and warns against cheaper alternatives. The product is priced at 16 cents at drug stores.
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