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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 22, 1935
Page
6
Western Canada faces heavy economic losses as rust devastates wheat crops after a promising season. Despite government aid and renewed forage supply, estimates reach up to 100,000,000 bushels lost, with some farms yielding little or none. Authorities urge courage and adaptation as nature dictates the future.
Dr. N Zaiss of Vienna extols honey as the best healer of wounds and burns, claiming thousands of treated cases with no failures. He says honey soothes pain hastens healing and acts as an antiseptic, noting its effectiveness on carbuncles. Surplus dairy nations include New Zealand Australia Denmark Netherlands Canada Italy and Switzerland with the UK Germany US Belgium key players in butter cheese and dairy exports.
Sir Malcolm Campbell and Captain George Eyston prepare for a landmark attempt at and beyond 300 mph on the Bonneville salt flats. Campbell goals while Blue Bird aims to surpass 276 mph last winter. Eyston to pace 24 hour runs with a front drive 1400 hp Rolls engine. Albert Denly to assist as relief driver.
Demand for homespun fabrics in Murray Bay district keeps local housewives busy. Women produce blankets, candlewick spreads, hooked rugs and now fabrics such as finnich muita skirts sport jackets and coats. Natural vegetable dyes color fabrics as habitant women handle weaving from start to finish for market and sports wear.
A German process injects arsenic and salts into living trees through a bore in the trunk. The chemicals travel to the ends of branches, preserving the wood as the tree dies. The trees are felled and ready for immediate use for telegraph poles railway ties and other heavy wood needs.
A new sourwer telescope, the first of its kind in England and the only large astronomical instrument with optical parts entirely of fused quartz, has been commissioned at the Oxford Observatory. More than two dozen orchid species grow wild around Chicago.
A sewing pattern offers a raglan sleeved swagger coat for daytime wear in bright wool colours and light fabrics. It includes seven eighths length, sizes 16 to 20, and requires 2 1/2 yards of material plus lining. Pattern No 312. Mail orders to Winnipeg Pattern Department, 175 McDermot Ave. Winnipeg Newspaper Union. Summer Fashion Book offered at 16 cents.
Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell told the House of Commons Britain’s naval building plan could not be fixed until a naval conference and other powers’ programs are known. He refuted reports of a 750 million dollar fleet by 1942 and warned against unofficial statements. The comment followed discussion of allied military scales and related scientific notes on light wavelengths.
The Port of London Authority has renamed the Thames section between the Pool of London and Lambeth Reach as The King’s Reach. It covers London Bridge to Westminster and shoreside landmarks like St. Paul’s Cathedral and Scotland Yard, marking a historic river route once used as royal highway.
At the York shire Dialect Society spring meeting at Wilberforce House J H Gratton professor of English language and philology at Liverpool University spoke on slang cant and jargon He argued that thorough knowledge of English requires slang awareness that slang is language on trial and that words gain value as they move from niche to general use.
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