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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 11, 1898
Page
1
The notice announces a winter clearance upstairs for remaining winter goods before spring and summer stock arrives. It promotes outfits, groceries, and ordered lines including sleeping bags and evaporated vegetables. It also notes high demand for farms to rent or buy, claiming many improved farms are now affordable and selling quickly.
The Herald begins its second year with thanks to readers and patrons. The eighth parliament opens amid debate on Klondike discoveries, franchise acts, and provincial elections, while debates on monopolies rates and customs duties unfold with focus on railway and import issues.
In a charged debate, Sir Charles Tapper backs the resd but will challenge the details. Party ranks split with some backing him and others repudiating his stance. The Herald opposes alienating public debt to private firms, warning of disastrous effects seen in Mantobs where vast sums are spent.
A dispute arises between the median Paetic and Grand Trunk Railway companies over fare increases to Manitoba and the Northwest. Grand Trunk seeks higher rates to capture more traffic while CPR objects, fearing Northwest migration via the United States. Westbound business shifts to Carlton Junction and Smiths Falls as P.R.T. upgrades service, with travel time no longer longer.
A sweeping column comments on British diplomacy at Pekin, Russia’s aims in Asia, and Canadian issues. It endorses a Toronto World view on a Port Arthur to Winnipeg rail corridor, criticizes elevated duties, and discusses immigration pamphlets, Klondike migration, and government actions affecting trade, tariffs, and provincial prospects. It also references Parliament, the Shamrock mine, and local civic events with a tone of editorials from a late nineteenth or early twentieth century paper.
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