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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Aug 28, 1902
Page
1
Readable scraps describe Births Marriages and Deaths sections and legal notices. Mentions Bailey and Son Portachers Private Bankers with notes on licenses money to loan on improved farms and building plans and estimates.
The record lists train and mail times for the Macgregor area including Imperial Limited schedules, Mail Daily services, and Wellwood section routes. It notes trains stopping for macgregor, Pine Creek, Wellwood, and Haran with specific arrival and departure times and post office hours plus restrictions on after hours money orders and registered mail processing.
Health Myeer for Munieyjsury of Norah Norfolk MacGARGOR MAN reports factory price hikes from 20 to 50 percent. Anticipating higher costs next month, buyers are urged to purchase now while old prices hold. Remaining stock includes iron beds and a full line of coffins and caskets with framing services.
Market brief notes limited data with unclear figures. Mentions MacGregor Markets and a float of zero Petia and twelve dollars in an abbreviated stock or commodity context. No clear entities beyond these.
The article notes the reaper by Obed Hussey in 183 and the 1858 Deering machine reducing shell costs, followed by the Marsh Harvester. It lists manufacturers McCormick Austin Champion and others, then describes D Richardson of Bagot buying the Deering Ideal Binder brought to Portage and planning for 1902 harvest with an atlas to accompany his binders.
Residents and visitors across Portage Ontario and Quebec are noted in brief visits and updates. Mrs Fryer and Miss Grayson are among those mentioned, with Hearn Rogers Robson and Robson’s Pacific coast trip cited. A coloured King Edward VII image from Weekly Free Press is highlighted, plus a local accident near Agnes Skerritt with treatment and recovery underway.
NEWS OF THE DISTRICT reports multiple local visits and events. Miss Edward returns home. Portage and Winnipes residents visit. wheat cutting proceeds. creameries ship butter to Victoria. threshing outfits bought. new dwellings underway. mourning for Mrs Oswald and a child at Dunbar. Harvesting progresses in Trossendale amid hopeful prospects. Some sermons contrast with personal practice on the golden rule.
A series of correspondence letters address claims about a Deering binder with two horses, disputed statements by Mr Goodrich, and a note defending a Sunday racing incident. Other letters cover broncos bought for a fair and a controversial Life exhibition race, with assurances of forthcoming continuation.
William Jackson, a youth known for odd jobs around the area, was arrested by Provincial Constable Thorpsin in Carberry after alleged thefts in Swenerton and Port. He had previously faced a charge for stealing $15 from J. Renwick. Jackson was jailed ahead of an October 14 fair as noted in municipal records.
An old mill advertises its grain and feed lines. It guarantees bread quality with mill products and offers wheat, oats, barley, bran, and farina. The yard buys all wheat and oats, with high prices for car lots or deliveries. They have orders for 20 cars for western shipment and continually stock feed products like wheat chop and oat barley chop.
A fragment argues that a codish aristocrat contemptuously snubs the poor and that a tool and money part. It laments abuse of opponents as weak argument and notes priests lawyers and politicians wield power when others fail to think for themselves.
Notice of a seven year old bay horse missing since Tuesday August 12. Described as in good condition with a narrow back and long head. Front feet shod, heaves present. Reward offered for information leading to recovery. contact Cooper MacGregor P. 9.
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