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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 20, 1930
Page
3
A doctor urges Castoria as a soothing nightly aid while a grandmother's rheumatism and a looming visitor test Charmian's plan. The characters debate an arrangement as Sunday errands loom and tensions rise about care and burdens.
In Wickfield Charmian debates taking a boarder to ease Grandmother’s care and fund the old family home. Doctor Howe proposes Charmian host a young assistant, seeing aging fatigue while Charmian’s concern for family and steady income battles with social expectations.
Charmian recalls Doctor Howe's devoted care for Wickfield children and the town's early days, as memories of Pandora the mare and the doctor’s kindness to all linger. The scene hints at aging, loss, and the doctor’s enduring impact on the community. A fortune teller joke closes the fragment.
Miss Florence Coutier of Bark Lake Ontario wrote of troubled nerves and sleepless nights. A neighbor visited one morning and advised her to take a remedy, describing her distress and seeking relief.
A historical advertisement notes that the first pox remedy proved effective, claiming after six boxes the user could return to work. It promotes Price, Inc. boxes available at all druggists, dealers, or mailed on receipt by The T. Milburn Co Limited, Toronto Ontario.
The New York Evening Post surveys famine in Shansi and Shensi where a third of 6,000,000 may die this year. Peasants eat roots bark and even horses as roads and irrigation lag. Relief is temporary. only peace, roads, dams, and farming reforms offer real hope to avert recurring famine.
The article notes ancient use of fingerprints in China and Japan for documents and later for criminal identification. It quotes a Indianapolis businessman on balancing time to see movies with his wife, joking that it takes no longer to go than to hear the story after she returns.
Dr Harlan T Stetson argued in a paper before the American Astronomical Society at Harvard College that the moon's gravity can move Earth's crust five to six feet or more. Observations from Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University support a latitude variation with the moon's position.
Governor-General Raphael Antonetti announced in Paris that medical efforts have halted the dying trend in French Equatorial Africa caused by sleeping sickness. Birth rates rose after officials recognized the danger, and aggressive actions against tropical infections were begun in 1921 to prevent further population loss.
G P Mackendale of the Canadian Department of the Interior told the Women's Canadian Club in Toronto that Canada is making a notable contribution to Arctic research by establishing permanent posts in the polar regions. He cited the Beothic expedition last year and contrasted Canada’s approach with explorers who come and go. Dr Thomas’s electric oil promises quick relief for burns and scalds, needing no preparation and offering rapid pain cessation.
A Scottish collie was nicknamed coalie for its dark color. A proverb notes many successes come from being active and answering your own prayers.
Poetic meditation on constancy and faith. A compact devotional note contrasts worldly change with divine permanence. The piece emphasizes patience, endurance, and guidance from God as the true sustaining force, citing Santa Teresa and John Henry Newman. It invites personal reflection on seeking divine direction.
An advertisement touts Persian Balm as irresistible to women for clear, beautiful complexions and soft textures. It claims a tense, stimulating effect, whitening of bands, and offers use as a hair fixative and cooling shaving lotion for men, with protective value for a child's tender skin.
An inspector of schools asked a class who was the world’s greatest man. A Jewish scholar answered Robert Burns but added that “business is business,” a line that earned him the prize. The anecdote illustrates pragmatic diplomacy in a school setting.
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