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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
3
The excerpt mixes a sales pitch for Dr Hamilton's Pills promising liver relief and renewed health with a narrative in Constantinople. It follows Ruggl es recovering from fever after a siege, nurses and attendants, and the entrance of Miss Filiot the American governess in a vivid salon scene.
The document, in a careful English hand, dictates an unusual will naming a son as heir and trustee for four adopted daughters. It assigns portions of estate to the women, a Western-instructed guardian, and a charter to move them to the Western world, with provisions for a memorial alliance and support for the Red Cross.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Miss Elliot urging patience and control while characters discuss estate matters and a planned future revelation. Lord Pembroke has indicated a share of Hamid Pasha’s estate for Sue, with a continuation promised.
The Department of Immigration and Colonization invites letters or articles up to 2000 words from readers in each of Canada’s nine provinces. A committee appointed by Minister A Calder will judge entries. mail by February 14, 1920 to the department director. Cash prizes of 75, 80, and 200 dollars awarded per province. The contest emphasizes authentic experiences over literary style and spelling.
The Prince of Wales purchases the Beddingfeld ranch, an 1883 homestead totaling 1,600 acres, split 1 000 acres freehold and leases. George Lane says most current stock will be sold. A Lane staffer en route to England will help select purebred Shorthorn cattle Shropshire sheep and thoroughbred horses from HLRH to stock the new ranch. Ex-service men from both empire and Canada will be employed.
A man accused a grocer of low sugar price and had him weigh a ten pound bag. Two pounds were missing. The suspect admitted pocketing two fins of condensed milk while the weighing occurred, noting the slight theft.
The Lakelse Lake Hatchery stops for winter work and expects to finish the building next spring with capacity for 10,000,000 sockeye. An antique shop in Paris reveals two hundred forty valuable to qudges in the barrel of an old Arab musket. A philosopher notes moral deductions on others and axle grease look alike in love.
London plans to expand upward due to space and cost pressures with the War Office adding a story and architects warning that government activity may cluster in Whitehall. Meanwhile a British report lauds Saskatchewan schools for progress while debating school unit reforms and the 1905 Education Act’s effect on enrollment and attendance records.
The article discusses Nikola Tesla’s ideas on future flight at 1000 mph miles high with hermetically sealed craft and 15 to 20 mile altitudes for safety, plus air power transmitted wirelessly. It notes the need for pressurized cabins and oxygen, and warns of high altitude dangers. Tesla also imagines distant warfare where battles occur thousands of miles apart with no visible soldiers.
Voters rally behind Mercury as key legislative moves approach. Community members urge steady leadership and clear proposals amid a crowded field, with supporters emphasizing experience and public service.
The fragment cites a note on compulsory age not yet legally required, indicating debate over when such laws should apply and the pending legal framework. It reflects a period discussion on mandatory age limits and governance.
The Hon. S. Jaymue outlines Canada’s five year financial burden and argues for debt reduction through natural resource development. He champions permanent farming, livestock integrated mixed farming, and soil conservation as core to expanding agriculture’s revenue and national wealth.
In the Bahama Islands settled over two centuries ago by Londoners the Cockney dialect is strong as in Cheapside. An easy matter to furnish entertainment for neighbors is to make a fool of a China horse spotted like leopards.
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