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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
2
In a frontier tale a fugitive named Dorkin keeps to a small settlement. Washburn recalls a man breaking under drug addiction, his near return to crime, and the moment he chooses to seek help..Lookup marks a turning point as the wrecked figure grows into a steadier ally at the settlement.
Word from Calgary reports Imperial Oil Company struck oil in small quantities at Fort Norman on the laty north at a depth of 450 feet. The discovery marks a preliminary oil flow in a promising new area.
Ad claims Dr Hamiltons Pills cure backache and kidney trouble. It warns symptoms include stiffness, urinary issues, dizziness, headaches and fatigue. Urges immediate purchase of Mandrake and Butternut formula in yellow boxes at 2 cents.
The Atlantic Ocean contains two vast parallel valleys. One runs between the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores toward Europe and near the British Isles, with deep depths. The other lies parallel to it, separated by a land strip including the Azores, shallow at the strip and deep in the valleys, with coasts from South America to Greenland and a large barren plain near Green land and Teeland.
A Watson report notes the United Kingdom regaining prewar shipbuilding supremacy as US tonnage under construction lags. It says UK is about 1.47 million tons ahead after a war era US rise, with wartime US growth driven by unique circumstances now waning.
Vernon British Columbia growers estimate a larger area devoted to onions, tomatoes and potatoes this season than ever before in the district's history. Apples are expected to be fewer than 1919 while pears are set to double last year’s crop and peaches cherries and apricots to maintain prior figures.
A fragmented note lists five buttons symbolizing core virtues: justice, order, prudence, rectitude, with Con implied as guardian. The item reads as a cipher or artistic list reflecting civic ideals.
Sixth through eighth grade pupils on the Island of Hawaii enter a sugar production project as contracted planters. Each student selecting the course signs a plantation contract to cultivate an acre’s share of cane, learning production from planting to sale, with returns accruing to the pupil who pays rent and interest on advances.
The Saskatchewan Department of Education moves to grant British teachers who completed a two year training college course in the old country the highest professional standing in the province. They would receive a first class certificate conditional on satisfactory work in this province.
The report by Red Cross across eighteen countries shows Europe losing up to twelve million children to war through one or both parents’ deaths or separations. Russia leads with the largest total. France about a million. Albania along the Vist with 17,000. The text also notes London Zoo visitor totals reaching 1,515,042 last year.
Readable fragments describe a person with pimples and a partial caption about a product named Gad Cicore Soap. The text references a page layout with numbers and street names like St Paul and Montrec, but details are incomplete and unclear.
Statistics from the Dominion Experimental Farms show pen 18 at the Manitoba provincial egg laying contest in WH Howe Winnipeg leading all entries. The Single Comb Ancona pen has produced 1,380 eggs in 36 weeks, while J B Rhoades owns the second place Barred Rocks in Ottawa at the Canadian egg laying contest.
Jones tried a joke on his wife asking why he was like a mule. His wife answered promptly Know you are but I don't know why the exchange ends with a witty retort reflecting a domestic kitchen table humor tone.
An item in a historic notice describes a piano claimed to be 200 years old and in good condition. The instrument reportedly is not a traditional piano as hammers are replaced by quill or feather tips that pluck strings, yielding harp like sounds.
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