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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1919
Page
3
In an early 1900s style ad copy, Dr Hamilton's Pills claim to regulate bowels and improve digestion, with language praising laxative effects and overall health benefits. The passage also weaves in narrative scenes of Miss Challand and Miss Challand's niece in a bustling shop setting, reflecting the era's tone.
Darthea and Miss Challand encounter a Belgrade shoe seller named Ruggles while retrieving shoes for a swarthy American officer. The exchange reveals cultural tension and a niece driven to sudden distress as they leave the shop for air. Darthea’s agitation hints at a troubling moment tied to the tense Balkan setting.
Ruggles wakes to a fresh day in Paris planning church, river walk, or a visit to Lorenz. He discovers a bold letter from Darthea Westbrooke reproaching him for deception about his social station and ordering their relations to end.
An advertisement touts Dr Fowler’s Extract of Wild Strawberry as a time tested cure for diarrhea dysentery cholera morbus sea-sickness and other bowel complaints. It warns against imitation preparations and notes the product has sold for 74 years across Canada with a 38 cent price from The T Milburn Co Limited of Toronto Ontario.
Ruggles confronts Darthea's misread on wealth and status while pondering trust and friendship. He visits Lorenz at a Neuilly hotel, finding the Austrian packing to move, complaining about the dull Court below as the pair navigate disillusionment and plans for future action.
In the torn dialogue a character named Lorenz mutters about moving to live with relatives, noting the plans while describing others making noise with pails. The scene ends with the line To Be Continued, leaving the next part unresolved.
Wireless telephony is now used for ground to air and air to ground communication on the London Paris route. A test from Kenley to Paris showed clear voice reception up to 50 miles and ongoing contact with the Marseilles ground station. The experiment supports routine use of wireless phones to aid night flying and aircraft guidance.
Sir George Perley, CanadianHigh Commissioner in London, lauds the English speaking peoples unity and the U S British Empire bond as essential to world peace. He praises Canada’s war effort, its forces, organization, and especially the patience and devotion of women, noting victory and pride in gallant troops. He stresses gratitude for Canada’s role and inspiration for future generations.
The piece argues to boost farm life through good roads schools and active churches to keep rural families content and productive. It stresses that farming's future food crops will affect half the world and that making farms attractive and livable sustains citizenship and progress.
Marshal Foch paid tribute to Field Marshal Haig after London conferred freedom on Haig. Foch praised Haig for sparing his men and shared views on unity of purpose between north and south fronts. He recalled telegrams urging faster allied offensives and urged remembrance of the fallen in France.
Canada sees improved apple crop prospects overall with Ontario the exception. Nova Scotia is up to 1,250,000 barrels with 200,000 barrels for local use, totaling nearly 1,500,000 when excluding evaporation and processing. British embargo may push more export. Okanagan Valley forecast 30 percent higher than last year.
A Fremont reader describes relief from nervousness backache and irritability after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter claims the remedy eased blues and other symptoms and invites requests for advice from the Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Polish sources report a three day siege and massacre of Jews in the Odessa Jewish quarter by troops under General Gregorieff. The entire quarter allegedly remained in Russian hands for three days and nights with no escape. Ukrainian and Bessarabian Jews proclaimed a fourteen day mourning period.
Genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin are the only tablets marked with the Bayer Cross and proven safe for pain and fever. Look for the Bayer Cross to ensure authenticity. Aspirin is produced in Canada by a Canadian company and sold in handy tin boxes of 12 or larger packages.
A large German airplane from a airship works fell during a battle near Rati bor in Upper Silesia, killing seven including the pilot Bindereif. It carried three million rubles in Ukrainian money and a sack of Russian money and reportedly bore documents belonging to the Ukrainian government.
Postage stamps marked Aerial Mail ready in Toronto for trial aerial mail service to New York and back during the aeroplane race at the Canadian National Exhibition. Flight machines, some captured from the Germans, are at Leaside flying grounds.
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