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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 19, 1931
Page
2
Fragmentary text shows a single speaker named S A Lemon expressing strong feelings and gratitude. The damaged prose mentions fat and visions without clear event, date, or place, rendering a concise news-style summary challenging.
World items note a budget deficit amid declining revenues. Lord Cecil speaks in the House of Lords on disarmament. A F Ewing named trial division judge in Alberta. Frederick Martin Hale, 60, inventor of the Hale bomb, dies in London. British manufacturers adapt to Canadian tastes. BC salmon pack totals rise to 2 221 819 cases. Pacific Chamber of Commerce plan gains approval. Ottawa asked to expedite US award payment to Victoria sealers from 1914.
The Liverpool education authority announced it would send 40 boys to Canada and that Canadian provincial governments had informed Britain of capacity to take 1390 boys next year with placements on approved farms. London officials reportedly have not received firm instructions. The piece also notes a Canadian radio program planned for Dominion-wide broadcast featuring musical and acting talent and officials' addresses.
Ribstone Oils Limited of Calgary and the Canadian Pacific Railway arrange a deal for 400 barrels daily of crude oil from Ribstone wells to power locomotives on the Calgary to Vancouver route. A 14 mile pipeline to McLaughlin station will transport oil, with total McLaughlin developments costing 30 000 to 50 000 dollars. Col J H Woods of Calgary serves as Ribstone Oils president.
Peter Weidert of Umatilla County farms 6 000 to 7 000 acres mainly in wheat and uses threshed wheat as fuel. Wheat at 163 dollars per ton costs less than coal laid down at his ranch and burns hot and steady, good for banking fires overnight. He notes years of use in a steam thresher and says wheat fuel helps reduce surplus while saving money for growers.
All Tingey models are sketched in Paris and patterns made in New York. A scarf effect dress stays put as it is stitched into the dress. Available in crepe de chine browns beiges and f oranges with matching tie and cuffs plain when paired with patterned tweeds. Ready for immediate delivery. Send 25 cents and your name address and pattern size.
Pattern order instructions from Winnipeg’s newspaper union at 295 McDermot Ave. unclear text references pattern numbers and ordering steps.
Sunday school lesson on Luke 7 portrays a sinful woman anointing Jesus' feet with tears and ointment, while Pharisee Simon questions the act. Jesus reads thoughts, explains forgiveness and love, and contrasts the woman’s repentance with Simon’s lack of humility.
William Green of the AFL condemns rising unemployment in the United States noting 5.7 million wage earners out of work by early January, up from 5.5 million in December, excluding farm and office workers. He criticizes the President Col Woods and others for insufficient action to reduce joblessness.
Vancouver deep sea arrivals for 1990 were 1,196 ships carrying 4,500,802 net tons, per the Vancouver Merchants Exchange report. In 1929 arrivals stood at 1,284 ships with 4,627,008 tons.
Twelve men were injured when an explosion of unknown origin wrecked the X-1 submarine’s internal combustion engine during a surface trial from Sheerness. The vessel, nearly 2,800 tons, with four 5.2 inch guns and six torpedo tubes, returned to Chatham on one engine with its extent of damage undetermined. Commander E. M. C. Barraclough is listed aboard.
Two recipes are described one with dates honey flour and bran baked into 12 servings and a second with rice cheese eggs and tomato sauce baked to a golden brown. The notice lists eleven nations expected at Regina event July 25 to August 6 1992 with an expectation of 50 countries represented at the conference and exhibition.
An advertisement promotes Phillips Milk of Magnesia to neutralize excess stomach acid and relieve heartburn headaches and indigestion. It claims quick relief within moments and a genuine liquid formula endorsed by physicians for 50 years.
A Dominion Board of Railway Commissioners report urges greater caution at railway crossings after 161 accidents in the last four months of 1930. Carelessness by motorists is cited as the chief cause, with factors including gates down, missing trains, faulty brakes, stalled cars, ignored signals, skids, late sighting of trains, and attempts to beat crossing times.
Fragmented OCR text suggests cautious optimism about disarmament talks. Mentions World Disarmament Conference and a framework guiding expectations, with references to progress, committees, and anticipated outcomes, though specifics are unclear.
Elmer A Sperry pioneered an electrical detector to reveal hidden rail cracks that cause fatal accidents. After his death, Harcourt C Drake of Sperry Products described transverse fissures inside rails that grow like living things, unseen until rails fail.
In this note the author praises spelling Christmas in full rather than abbreviating it. It argues the word’s etymology associations and priceless content deserve time and space in written form.
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