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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 26, 1931
Page
3
The ad touts a worldwide fat burning remedy promising rapid weight loss. It warns readers that fat will melt away without effort and claims to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. Strong language overstates health benefits and urges daily use for lasting vitality.
In a tense dawn turnover Gay Hastings and Nick Hastings race through a rain-soaked night after rescuing a wounded girl. Angela Halliday fears exposure as James Halliday confronts the consequences while a fragile trust forms among weary spouses and a perilous secret emerges in the final hours before daybreak.
Angela Halliday and her husband face shock after a fatal car crash involving a child as Nick Hastings drives to a distant hospital in the rain. James Halliday aids the rescue, tends to the wounded, and keeps vigil as dawn reveals a fragile, contrasting morning.
Self adjusting radio time sets that could pick up any required station at any time failed in London. The report notes a drought year causing tree growth to slow and a tree adding a smaller ring to its circumference.
British Labour MP Miss Ellen Wilkinson tells Montreal audiences that war debts are astronomical and intolerable. She cites Churchill and Lord Birkenhead to argue debts hinder global recovery and says US refusal to cancel Britain’s debt worsened the crisis. Toronto Mail and Empire notes the critique as part of a broader debate.
A brick railway station at Tellbillah Mesopotamia completed for the University of Pennsylvania Museum and American School of Oriental Research expedition. Built largely from bricks over 3,500 years old dating to King Assurnasirpal’s reign, it serves as a shipping point and forage house for artifacts from Telibillah excavations.
The advertisement promotes Dr Thomas' Eclectric Oil to counteract inflammation from frost bite and chilblains. It claims prompt action and simple application as a remedy for winter exposure injuries and pains.
A sporting Scotch squire tests a new parish minister at dinner by offering champagne Chateau Yquem and whisky with soda. The minister declines each with the same line There is no occasion for. The squire deems the minister a good fellow as all ends well.
In Brooklyn a three story building fire trapped a man and his wife and their son on the top floor. Patrolman Fitzpatrick climbed the fire escape and bent backward to reach the burning apartment window, enabling Mrs Jeanette Schwartz Louis Schwartz and the boy Benjamin to escape to safety.
A Jasper National Park feature called Angel Glacier owes its name to the appearance of a giant white angel with outstretched wings. The note adds that February 1880 had five Sundays and the month will have five Sundays again in 1948.
Italian scientists marvel at Maria Matolini of Leprignano using a divining rod to locate skeletons ten to twenty feet underground and to reveal remains details. Her latest find, an Etruscan woman in tufa rock, includes preserved clothing and a gold thread embroidery.
The passage touts Magness as a quick neutralizer for after eating distress including gas sourness and bloating. It claims fast, lasting relief from a single dose obtainable from druggists. Dr W D Tait of McGill University comments on inherited traits affecting intelligence.
American paving equipment are being deployed on the General Highway project in Cuba. The contractor reports rapid progress as crews lay concrete sections and test finishes. Engineers expect schedule adherence amid tropical weather and supply challenges.
A devotional fragment cites Zephaniah and Havergal to affirm God’s unchanging faithfulness and boundless power. It reflects on human fickleness, scripture, and the constancy of divine care across past present and future. The text references Bishop Sa and echoes pastoral reassurance.
Irvin Bucklin wrote to the U S Department of the Interior seeking available homestead land in Nebraska. He received a large parcel in a wheat country, but was halted by a sheriff until Bucklin produced papers. The land was valued at about fifteen thousand dollars for a postage stamp.
The note promotes Douglas Egyptian ointment for quick use in stables to remove proud flesh inflammation thrush hoof rot and teat infection. A separate sentence states only one person was sentenced to death in Scotland last year and that person was reprieved.
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