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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 06, 1930
Page
2
A vintage ad touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the safe remedy for excess stomach acid. It claims instant neutralization, tasteless formula, and long standing use by Peyekians, urging readers to take a spoonful in water for relief within five minutes.
Signatories to the Young plan at the Hague reparation talks. Canada reports 12 430 post offices last year a fall due to rural delivery. London Herald predicts war budget cuts. Search ongoing for Hudson Bay Company post and Northwest Company fort near Saskatoon. Newfoundland aims to balance budget after a decade. Ottawa banks impose 50 cent fee on bad cheques. Salvation Army officials in Europe and London noted death of George Mitchell. Executors of Gen Bramwell Booth to transfer 1 000 000 pounds to General Higgins. Brandon Aero Club beacon aids night fliers on mail routes and more.
The article notes about 250 million dollars in cash dividends were paid to stockholders in Canadian corporations during 1929. Based on disbursements from over 500 securities, with many bonuses or extra cash dividends, roughly 10 million dollars were added to regular quarterly dividends in the final quarter.
BC salmon now canned and exported to over thirty countries with annual marketed value exceeding 13 million dollars. The text notes American gallon measures being cheaper than English by one seventh and mentions a new smokeless jar from Tokio Pakiu Tokyo.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 1929 permits totaled 235,658,000 dollars, eight percent above 1928 and higher than the combined totals of 1920 and 1921. The prior peak was 219,105,000 dollars in 1928.
The article explains how sunlight and ultraviolet rays are vital for plant and animal health. Ordinary glass blocks these rays, but Windolite glass transmits them, helping turkeys thrive in confinement and enabling sun rooms, hospitals, and sanatoriums to use sun baths safely. It notes Windolite’s flexibility and unbreakability and its growing use in Canada.
An article argues from a lunar eclipse preceding Herod the Great's death to fix Christ's birth not later than 4 B C and possibly earlier. It notes the Church lacked a definite birth date while astronomers can compute past eclipses precisely and have pinpointed the eclipse marking Herod's death.
A printed mauve red flat crepe dress for milady with semi sports styling. Molded bodice features a neat turn over collar with plain crepe scarf, darts for fit, flaring cuffs, leather belt, and circular skirt. Available sizes 14 to 20 years and bust 33 inches. Also shown in army blue wool crepe with white cuffs, black crepe satin, and other color options.
British Columbia farm production reached 61 million dollars in 1929, a record, with gains across all branches. The Okanagan fruit sector valued at 3.25 million, dairying at 12.5 million, and poultry returns up about 200 thousand to exceed six thousand.
A Sunday School lesson on Matthew 6 emphasizes genuine righteousness over public display. It discusses almsgiving, prayer, and fasting, warning against hypocrites who seek human praise, and urges private prayer as the true measure of piety. The text cites Jesus teaching to pray in secret and trust divine reward.
A livestock interests conference to boost production will be held in Ottawa, probably early March. Minister W R Motherwell was poised to call the meeting before pneumonia delayed him, with Dr Grisdale likely to preside. Also includes a dentist and Pullman porter exchange.
The Royal Bank of Canada held its annual meeting with Sir Herbert Holt, C.E. Nell, and Morris W. Wilson delivering talks. Holt urged a nonpartisan advisory council to align government, industry, agriculture, and labor, while Nell proposed leveraging Canada’s sixteen million annual U.S. visitors to boost trade. Wilson summarized the 60th annual report showing total assets at 10014,2741 and deposits at 72,067,768, marking new records amid calls for cautious growth in 1930.
An editorial note from the New York World argues that English speaking populations have surged from 12 million in the 18th century to nearly 200 million today. It contends they control vast territories and resources, and that Canada Australia and South Africa will grow into major powers, demanding responsible leadership.
Professor Hans Friedenthal of Berlin University reports a new antiseptic metaiodin that combines iodine with oxygen and apparently does not sting on open wounds. In a wedding vignette a groom fainted during a wedding, but the ceremony continued after a twenty minute delay with a wry remark from a cynical correspondent.
The Canada Gazette announces L. J. Howe deputy commissioner of lands for Manitoba and R. Matheson assistant commissioner of Dominion lands as investigators into land values held as security for farmers debts from seed grain and relief advances. L. P. Nog, Dominion Lands agent at Winnipeg, may act in Matheson’s stead in specific cases under the act Respecting Certain Debts Due the Crown.
The assessment commissioner reports Port Arthur’s population at 20092, up 730 from the previous year, reflecting growth in the city’s demographics and tax base.
General Smuts, speaking at Oxford, declares that Africans are the only happy humans he has met, asserting that no other race is as easily satisfied, good-tempered, and carefree.
The invention of the sewing machine for shoemaking dramatically increased productivity, allowing a single worker to perform as much as sixty previously manual tasks would achieve. This breakthrough marked a turning point in shoe production efficiency and industrial labor.
Sir Albert Kitson revealed a British Association meeting that a Gold Coast prospector ignored geology and dug for iron ore, uncovering a huge manganese ore deposit later valued as one of the world’s richest. A geologist identified the ore and its immense potential.
The Moran and Mack duo star in the all talking Paramount short Why Bring That Up at the Grand Theatre Regina on February 3 4 and 5. Evelyn Brent appears in a mixed up gift plot as the crowing entertainment with musical sketches and record hits presented in their signature slapstick style.
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