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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 04, 1940
Page
6
Dr J S Thomson urged rural municipal leaders to consider postwar problems and how to solve them for all. He warned against delaying planning, stressing democracy requires broad public opinion, rationalism, and patience to avert dictatorship while preparing locally for national peace.
Brazilian Titan beetles grow as large as a human hand with specimens rarely captured alive. Researchers note the remarkable size and elusive behavior of this giant beetle, native to the Amazon rainforest.
In Providence Rhode Island robbers ripped into a Universal Textile office safe but found no money as the treasury official Leonard White laughed when informed by police. The safe had not been locked for 10 years and bore the number 2383.
The 18 year old NSW bequest by Peter Mitchell would pay 5000 pounds yearly to his widow, now remarried, while requiring winners to be under 30, British subjects in Australia, unmarried, without hereditary taints, and proficient in sports, knowledge of literature, housekeeping, nursing, and care of children. The will also demands extensive knowledge of Carlyle, Cervantes, Eliot, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, Reade, and Whitman.
In Santoria, a volcanic island between Crete and Athens, part of the 43,000 residents watched a neighbor of about one hundred square yards vanish into the sea. Within hours other tiny islets disappeared as lava eruptions continued, raising fears for their volcanic island’s future.
A strongman from Alaska travelled 6922 miles seeking Irish company for St Patrick’s Day. Peter Brady of Count Caven fame joined the O’Hara Association march in Newark as marshal after urging from O’Hara. He criticized parade rules on silk hats but agreed to wear one.
Grocers and households are offered a new low price for Grape-Nuts with the claim that a serving costs less than one cent. The ad touts the cereal as pre cooked, energizing, tasty, and satisfying for all ages, promising popular demand and lasting flavor.
Sailors with short port calls may send telegrams to their wives asking them to join at once. Wives surrendering telegrams and their marriage allowance books at railway offices may obtain tickets at reduced rates. Telegrams must not include the ship's name.
W K Vanderbilt mansion site at 49 East Thirty-second Street hosts marble mantels found by Mr. Johnson. New York Times notes values range from 3000 to 5000 dollars each. planned sale between 200 and 0 dollars. Johnson expects pieces to travel to Fifth Avenue Madison squares Texas California estates and old apartment houses. some mantels trace back 60 years. Southard preserved pieces. Johnson bought the business from the Southard heirs eight years ago.
The fragment notes scientists tracing Halley’s estimates to 240 BC and mentions a historical linkage of celestial observations to that era. It hints at methods used to back-calculate Halley’s year, with emphasis on ancient astronomy and reconstruction.
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