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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 08, 1906
Page
8
Local store advertises a stocktake sale with discounts on menswear. Offers include tweed pants, wool shirts, overalls, and duck ties with various prices and quantities. Purchases encouraged at lower prices before stock runs out.
Fragments show prices for girls coats size 6 to 8 years at 200 each and skirts formerly 375 and 450. Fur items labeled selective discounts include ten dollar cash offers. The text reflects a sale advertisement with limited readable details and pricing.
Advertisement notes twenty five pieces of flannelette at regular prices and a dollar deal. First come, first served. Stock to be cleared, with prices reduced to attract quick purchase.
MacGregor notes price lists for No 1 Northern No 2 Northern and barley with dairy and poultry items. Local hockey updates include Mr D White and Mr Morison's return to the ice Portage la Prairie losses and a youth game win 10 to 3. Social items mention visitors from Wellwood and a WMS talk February 19th plus a surprise party at the Dean residence for schoolmates.
Townspeople and visitors include Avery of Austin and Miss Byers in Winnipeg with Master Js visiting friends. Blanche Juckes travels to Estevan. Bank of Toronto opens Portage la Prairie branch with John Tait as manager. Local figures include DeCow’s death in New Westminster and George Stacey renewing acquaintances in Moosimin. Beaver and MacGregor Presbyterians postpone meeting to February 22 due to storm. Reverend Crookshank misses MacGregor series but will preach in the Methodist church next Sunday. A sugar bargain at Merrick Bros offers one hundred 20s sacks at 00 per sack cash only.
Reports from Brandon outline annual meetings of the Stockbreeders and Grain Growers associations for late February to March and a spring grain fair with lectures. Delegates rate railway discounts and discuss municipal ditch projects. A Portage la Prairie inquiry seeks help for southern ditches while locals note the value of the paper for community news and indices.
The Wacgregor Union Choral Society announces a Friday concert at Ross Hall to aid their musical project. Profits will fund the Messis Cantatas production. Mr J Ross offers his hall free of charge as a goodwill gesture. The union hopes for strong local support to establish a Maclre musical society.
Central announces a Saturday sale with fresh pork smoked meats and a wide variety. Lamb, fish, herring, sardines, chickens, sausages, bologna, kettle lard, and other farm market staples offered at living prices.
A brief card note invites visitors to stop by one door west of the Municipal Hall, expressing appreciation whether they make a purchase or not and signing with a courteous Yours faithfully.
The notice asks if reading writing and sewing feel difficult and if artificial light makes letters blur. It promotes relief through a proper fitting of glasses to correct eye strain and blurred vision.
An old advertisement touts Chamberlain's Stomach Tablets to correct stomach disorders and aid digestion. It claims the product strengthens the stomach and bowels and ferments of food are resolved, sold by all druggists and dealers.
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