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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 14, 1933
Page
6
A column explains that small extra stamps on mail during Christmas fund anti tuberculosis work. The stamps raise money for preventive education and testing, urging households to improve air, warmth, and hygiene to reduce TB risk. Each stamp carries a call to action for healthier homes and lives.
A business man claims earning a hundred pounds a week is the east best thing though hard to be paid that much. Red grit studded dog collars seen by motorists at night appear in London. A monument to Hinkler in the Alps marks his famed rush. Canada admitted seed claims totaling 11,974,588 pounds for seeding last financial year.
An advertisement touts Milburn’s Ho H Pill as a remedy for young girls and tired women. It claims the pills restore nerve tone, enrich blood, and relieve headaches sleeplessness dizziness weakness and discouragement, returning health to normal.
Saskatchewan introduces amendments to the Fur Act regulations granting royalty rebates for pelts from farm raised fur bearing animals including silver fox fisher and marten with proof of farm origin. Royalties on other furs except muskrat may be rebated. import permits become free. Purchasers receive relief as duties fall from 2 percent to lower rates.
At the annual convention hobos debate the code of fair practice. It maintains that itinerant workers refuse to wash dishes in restaurants and avoid taking meals in exchange for labor. It fixes pay at 50 cents an hour for cleaning snow or shovelling coal and allows farm wood chopping for a bed or meal but bars full day labor for compensation.
A Saskatchewan dairy convention will convene in Regina on February 6 and 7 with Thomas Watson of Prince Albert, president of the Provincial Dairy Association, announcing the event. Separate producer and manufacturer sessions will cover milk and cream trade issues and plant operations, with joint sessions addressing general problems of interest.
The Westfalen was anchored in mid Atlantic as a test for a chain of seating pontoons to aid trans Atlantic air travel. A test flight reached the ship from Bathurst Africa in six hours and then arrived at Natal Brazil in eight hours and 50 minutes, totaling under 15 hours of flying time.
A naturalist notes that African natives view elephant meat as a feast while a white man finds it tasteless and unusually gummy to chew.
Mrs Pip Bright JP, with seven years as presiding officer at the Pancras Juvenile Court, argues England treats juvenile offenders too leniently. She notes informal court atmospheres and civilian police dress reduce the law’s majesty, insisting parental factors influence a child’s path back to rectitude. crime conditions have improved as prisons close.
Farmers reassess horses as an economic factor fighting farm price declines. As gasoline engines displaced draught animals, pasture and feed outlets shrank with millions off the land. Yet horse numbers show a late rebound, with 15,250,000 on farms as of March 1 and higher cattle yard receipts, reflecting shifts in costs and demand.
Prof Joslyn Rogers of the University of Toronto told the Women's Canadian club that more people die from alcoholic poisoning than all other causes combined. He said ten percent die from drinking good alcohol while 75 percent die from bootleg or bath tub gin, stressing the danger of homemade beverages.
Germany undertakes division of expansive estates into smaller farms amid land reform efforts. Officials state redistribution aims at democratizing land ownership and boosting agricultural productivity. The move affects aristocratic holdings and rural communities.
A Department of Science and Industrial Research bulletin notes growing use of multicolored bricks in construction. It highlights shades from white to purple, glow of tints like cherry red and orange red, plus American influence on color layering in skyscraper facades and vertical emphasis.
In Axmouth near Seaton Devon Mr and Mrs Henry Hoare aged about ninety celebrated a radium wedding. Born in Axmouth they married in the village church and return to live there after years away while Mr Hoare served with the Metropolitan Police. He recalls police work in London including the Jack the Ripper case.
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