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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 03, 1937
Page
3
Retired at WD years, once fit, recalls hard police years and pension, praising Kruschen Salts for 13 years of use. He credits the salts with sustaining energy, strong kidneys, and a youthful feeling, claiming they keep him vigorous in retirement.
Ernest Bingley frets over exposure as a small-town taxidermist posing as a plutocrat with Rosa watching. The earl critiques him while he contemplates his precarious position and motive under a morning sun. A voice quips about rain and dogs, heightening tension in the scene.
The Earl of Bingley entertains a visit from Punder Hubert, a bold buyer, while Ernest Rosa Crump and a bullish intruder watch. The scene shifts to a comic clash over social calls and family schemes as Crump guides the visitor through the manor.
Analysis shows among Canada’s fourteen large cities with 50 000-plus population four had no diphtheria deaths in 1936 four cities had one death one city had two deaths two had three deaths and one had four. Two cities combined for 18 and 25 deaths. Smaller towns show no deaths in ten years and single deaths in various short spans. A sustained toxous campaign could curb spread to villages and rural areas.
A parrot aboard a luxury liner watched a magician perform a daring trick then the ship’s boilers exploded. Five minutes later the bird drifted on wreckage and muttered a crude remark, while a parrot named Mae is noted among the details.
A maid reports a man has come to tune the piano, while the mistress denies sending him. The maid cites Cook’s orders as the source, hinting at an unseen arrangement behind the scene. The exchange suggests tension and an unclear motive within the domestic staff.
Marco the hermit thrush stays in a New York florist’s shop on Sixty third Street and Madison Avenue instead of flying to Florida. He returns each winter, attracting ornithologists who plan to band him for identification. The tale, linked to Morris Christatos’s family, notes Marco’s preference for warmth, flowers, and sunshine over the open air.
An examining lawyer questioned an Irishwoman in court about the stairs in her house. She quipped that when she is upstairs the stairs run down, and when downstairs they run up, in a witty response that drew attention in the proceedings.
Ruben Castang, owner of a 20 ape menagerie in Detroit, swears his charges converse in a vocabulary of nearly 100 words. He claims the apes discuss sights and food, and mourn when absent meals. Reporters note similar beliefs among simian experts.
Defence Minister Oswald Pirow announced extraordinary measures including a heavy arms factory at Pretoria. He warned against enemy occupation of Lourenco Marques in Mozambique and said protective planes and air transports are near completion to supply the desert brigade in the northern deserts, which will be mechanized and reinforced.
Lord Hewart, England's Lord Chief Justice, declares ignorance of the film world from the bench. A taxi driver challenges the judge by insisting on a distinction between LAW Courts and JUSTICE, prompting Hewart's noted rebuke in the Glasgow Bulletin.
The US Bureau of Standards announced a method reducing sugar production cost from 20 000 to 1 000, noting it does not apply to ordinary household sugar but to a rare scientifically important form called aribes.
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