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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 15, 1901
Page
1
Fragmented OCR shows notices about mirthful events and social rites, marriage and death notices, meetings and theater notices, and local rates. The readable items mention notices of mirth and marriages, advertisements of meetings, and local costs or charges in a dated newspaper section.
A fragmentary timetable lists trains and post office mail times. It includes the Brandon local and Moose Jaw local services with daily or Sunday exceptions, the Imperial Limited at 9.30 daily, and the Gorse East service. Mail arrivals from the East and West are shown, with Rosehill departures on Saturdays and a note on business deadlines for registered letters and money orders.
Market prices for wheat oats barley and other commodities are listed with varying bids and quotes. The text promotes life insurance from The Confederation Life, highlighting its strengths and Canadian coin acceptance, urging readers to inquire about terms and advances on farm produce and town goods.
A witness statement proclaims a Deering Binder performs exceptionally in grain cutting with specified twine per acre. The signer John Henery asserts the binder never blocked or choked during use and calls it the best he has ever used, dated in a local notice style.
George Rogers a longtime resident of MacGregor and Carberry, born in Tottenham Ontario, died at Winnipeg General Hospital after years of ill health from locomotor ataxia. He was 72 and leaves wife Maggie Bride, three children, five brothers and a sister. Funeral services were held at his home with Society of Friends and local clergy. Canadian Order of Foresters conducted the burial service. His career included flour milling in MacGregor and Carberry and a later venture in Sidney before returning to care for family.
Last Friday evening the Macgregor council of Royal Templars of Temperance held a farewell social for Mr and Mrs A Murdoch who leave for Calgary. The event featured conversation, music from the stam-o-phone and a supper. A toast to the departing couple was offered by the R T and a lemonade toast to health and prosperity followed. The party ended with singing Auld Lang Syne.
Local ads promote harvesting gear at Fryer s and Holmes & Cos plus Knox s boots hats and blouses. Glovers hawk eating supplies, Corner Store groceries, Merrick Bros fashion and ready to wear skirts, Pierces ink and glassware, Pete Martin dairy dishes and glassware arriving, Saluda tea at Knox s, Merrick pros price details, and Moeckel and Courses fruit and groceries sale all in one collage of small business notices.
The text notes that crops will not be as heavy as anticipated and estimates an average near twenty bushels per acre. It emphasizes cautious optimism about output.
The community learns that S P Whittaker's long bronchial illness has improved dramatically, attributed to Dr King’s New Discovery. The husband claims it cured her and their granddaughter of a whooping cough. The ad touts cures for coughs colds la grippe bronchitis and lung troubles with a $1 trial bottle available at drug stores.
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