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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 24, 1938
Page
6
Belief their misery is reduced by Vicks VapoRub backed by clinical tests. The ad claims direct external treatment with no risk to appetite or digestion. It describes massaging on throat chest and back to deliver vapors through the skin and warmth to ease breathing.
The article argues that Canada’s year to date revenues rose by over 68 million with expenditures down nearly 12 million, yielding a net gain and a possible 28 million surplus, while warning that heavy relief and CNR costs could wipe it out. It discusses the proper principle of balancing budgets, two paths to equilibrium, the single source of revenue being taxation, and the issue of hidden taxation versus direct levies.
Shrimp harvested from Alaskan waters are notably smaller than their Atlantic and Gulf coast counterparts, reflecting regional differences in shrimp species and growing conditions.
Governor Stenton Thomas opens a vast graving dock second only to Southampton in size, enabling Singapore to base the royal navy’s largest ships. A note states a pound of dried eggs equals three or four pounds of frozen eggs.
Royalite, a Imperial Oil subsidiary, will start immediately a six inch pipeline from Turner Valley oil field to Calgary, about 45 miles, boosting crude transport to 24,000 barrels daily. Turner Valley’s 35 producing wells total about 26,000 barrels daily potential. The existing four inch line carries 13,000 daily. Royalite will take oil from all companies but only per the 42 percent prorations.
In an anecdote from The Christian Science Monitor, the Polish pianist Paderewski tells the Russian czar there is no Poland, the czar concedes, and Paderewski then plays Chopin Funeral March. The piece notes Paderewski would later become Poland’s first premier and the czar’s fall.
Canadian born actress Margaret Anglin may travel to Winnipeg the week of May 16 to adjudicate the Dominion Drama Festival finals. Festival heads have approached her, with no definite appointment announced yet. An American adjudicator was sought to cover both English and French plays, and Col. H. C. Osborn, honorary director, recently met Anglin in New York.
Elmer Siebert of near Lima Peru ate 47 pancakes in one sitting, washed down with four cups of coffee and several slices of bread. The feat was noted as surpassing his wife’s reading about a wetter man.
Johannesburg South Africa plans to spend 6700000 dollars to clear slums for native residents. The project aims to improve housing in urban outskirts and reduce squalor among affected communities.
Placer platinum in Alaska yielded over 5,600 ounces valued at nearly 242000 last year as mining in the Goodnews Bay district expands. Charlee Thorsen, a sourdough prospector, helped spark mining along streams since 1934 with a bucket dredge now in operation. Dr J B Mertie Jr of the Geological Survey links the source to Red Mountain ridge, with deposits resembling Ural placers.
Steep ranchers in the Yuma Valley Arizona discovered November shearing increases their wool yield by about two pounds per sheep and secures earlier higher market prices. The practice, first used last year by a stockman, boosted this year's total in the Yuma and Blythe area to about 100000 pounds above normal, with roughly 42000 sheep on local farms.
A concise musing notes that major success relies on the unseen efforts of minor contributors. It underscores teamwork and the stability provided by supportive colleagues at every level.
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