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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 21, 1902
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR lists sections for advertising rates legal notices and notices of births marriages and deaths. It references nonpareil style notices for meetings and entertainments and notes listings free to members.
Local schedules list Imperial Limited on Fridays and Sundays at 10.85 and 17.20 for Local Daily, with Mail Daily at 21.03. Other trains stop at MacGregor except the Imperial Limited. Eastbound mail arrival is 5.53 a.m. and westbound departure 8.08 p.m. Mail for Edrans on these trains. Edrans trips Tuesdays and Fridays. Post office hours extend to 7 p.m. with half hour cutoff for money and registered letters.
Unclear OCR text yields limited legible items. This brief notes possible legal or bar association matter with names faintly visible. No definite actions, dates, or entities recoverable for a reliable summary.
Logan and Co bankers MacGregor offer money to loan on improved real estate with fire life and hail insurance. J R Merpoen cashier. Office hours 9 am to 4 pm daily and Saturdays until 1 pm. Calendar needle indicates left. Yours for the marking.
A fragmentary market note lists wheat and barley prices with flour and butter figures. Unclear dates or exact figures due to OCR errors. The piece references MacGregor Markets and pricing shifts, indicating daily commodities activity without full detail.
The text discusses inventions in harvesting including Obed Hussey's reaper in 18%% and the Deering Marsh Harvester of 1858 which cut labor by more than half. It notes subsequent manufacturers such as Wood, McCormick, Aultman Mills, and Champion adopting the broad Harvester design, and hints that the Harvester failed to meet demands of rapid western prairies.
Plans specifications and estimates for a contractor and builder project are described as tarnished. The scope emphasizes heavy framing and stair building as specialties with thorough workmanship highlighted, reflecting a local building trades notice.
The Macgregor region bursts with arrivals and departures as residents travel to Winnipeg Arden and Pleasant Point. threshing begins amid rising activity. schools reopen with new teachers, and contractors advance on local builds. social visits from Portage, Redvers, and distant relatives accompany farm sales and elevator manager news.
Mr. D Richardson of Bagot received the first Deering Ideal Binder in Portage from Jas Eadie. The machine is in first class shape and Richardson, pleased with it, has bought an Sft to accompany his harvest efforts in 1902.
The advertisement notes factory price increases and warns buyers they may not find lower prices later. It promises to sell off remaining stock at current old prices this month and mentions an upcoming iron beds shipment this week likely to sell quickly.
The notice promotes a mill product claiming superior bread waking quality and offers feed crops including wheat oats barley and bran. It also advertises framing services for pictures and a range of coffins, with a claim of high prices for car lots and three upcoming western shipments.
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