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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 22, 1936
Page
3
Royal Yeast comes in air tight wrappers to stay fresh and protect quality. The ad claims Royal is the only dry yeast fully sealed to prevent contamination and maintain keeping qualities. It asserts seven of eight Canadian housewives prefer Royal for reliable baking for years.
A historical note mentions a new method in Japan using red mud to paint boat sails amid a list of superstitions. The superstition about stepping out with the right foot brings luck while the left foot brings bad luck is also noted among a variety of beliefs.
The excerpt recounts Turvey's collapse during a violent confrontation in a Canadian countryside setting. Spectators react to a brutal scaffold scene as two convicted felons face execution by hanging. Clergymen and crowd members share wary, ritualized responses, recalling harsher colonial past amid a changing public mood.
An 1847 Toronto account recalls a fierce city fire amid water pressure failures and volatile volunteers, followed by a deadly plague. It describes civic friction with gas and water firms, chaotic firefighting, and a surge of Black residents amid fugitive slave history. personal tales end with dedication of Kitty O Shea amid the plague.
It is not generally known that old newspapers play an important part in world commerce. China imports more than a million dollars worth of them each year from the United States at the rate of $16 0 a ton. In Hong Kong they are used to make tropic helmets lanterns toys boxes and cardboard containers. Above all they are transformed into millions of gaily colored flags and pennants for streets and houses on every festive occasion.
Dr. W. E. Walton of the University of Nebraska cautioned that unusual sounding names and ambiguous meanings can influence a child's personality, ease of making friends, and likely life success. He urged parents to consider long term effects when choosing names.
A grateful reader reports long relief after using Kruschen Salts for chronic back pain. She credits her father, who also used the product, with alleviating his suffering. After a temporary lapse, restarting Kruschen led to lasting improvement and elimination of pain. The note attributes backache to blood impurities and explains Kruschen salts stimulate cleansing of waste by internal organs.
Passage from Ephesians 3 17 19 quoted urging believers to be rooted in love and to know the love of Christ beyond understanding. It contrasts mere attendance with living in the pure atmosphere of faith and love and the hope of heaven beyond earthly troubles.
Carol Crane, a 40 year old Ru man, has lived twenty years without sleep after a World War bomb left him unconscious. In London he pursues cures from a Prevent backed clinic and specialists who have yet to help. He rests at night but never falls asleep, greets mornings with a cold bath, then tires after a few hours of work. Doctors warn against exertion despite offers from physicians to study him posthumously. his earning power remains limited.
After ten years of experiments Berlin zoologists say they have bred a type of animal long extinct in Germany the aurochs or European bison. They crossed primitive cattle to develop correct traits yielding a small herd of three bulls and fifteen cows. The kingfisher, though insect catchers by family, evolved to become a fisher.
A note lists five poles associated with the Arctic: the North Pole the pole of the great extent old the magnetic pole the ice pole and a wind pole.
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