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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 17, 1939
Page
2
The piece argues cemeteries should be dignified, well kept places reflecting community pride. It praises volunteer committees, regular work bees, and careful landscaping, noting cost can be low with civic respect and sustained effort. It contrasts deficient grounds with beautiful examples across towns and cities.
The steel industry uses 8,000 grams of platinum annually for 10 laboratory applications. Imperial Airways transports about 1,230,000 pounds of mail every three months, roughly 30,000,000 letters. A US Army field gun has a maximum range of 25,000 yards.
Dr AA Horvath of the University of Delaware praised processed whole soya flour at the Pacific Science Congress in Berkeley, calling the soybean a leading protective food for the poor. He cited high protein content around 40 percent and substantial oil and minerals, stressing low cost for broad masses.
A four month old lamb named Miss Lusitania arrived in London to visit Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose but ended up at Regent's Park Zoo as a gift. A Great War widow from Kirkland Lake Ontario, Mrs Roza Brown, traveled with the lamb to the Surrey Commercial docks and was delivered to the zoo in the Queen’s requested name of the princesses.
Reports from Tokyo and Yokohama say manhole covers and metal mail boxes are replaced by wooden coverings to conserve metal for munitions. The note warns such substitutions signal wartime material shortages impacting urban infrastructure.
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