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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Feb 27, 1930
Page
3
The passage touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the best corrective for excess stomach acid, claiming fast neutralization and instant relief. It also mixes domestic scenes with a narrator revealing she has taken a boarder, amid dialogue about romance and social expectations.
Grandma frets over Charmian s plan to board Edward Howe, a young man the doctor trusts. The house anticipates a rare male resident and the chores he may impose. Charmian defends the arrangement as a necessary change after many years without a man in the home. The scene ends with plans for supper and room choice.
Rita Charmian remembers her grandmother’s first ride in the notorious contraption to Portland for an eye exam. Grandmother bristles at gossip about Jim Bennett and Clara Darling, notes his mother’s influence, and jokes about Charmian’s future marriage plans while Lizzie Baker delivers gossip and soda.
The good night tale from Southern Railway Magazine explains that a sleeper can mean a person who sleeps a railway carriage a sleeper as baulks of wood under rails and the sleeper as the sleeper under the sleeper on the sleeper. The playful piece wordplay ends with no sleep remaining as the sleeper wakes.
Soviet authorities pledge to protect cattle and prevent pre-collective slaughter as famine fears rise. Officials label cattle killing a crime and prohibit peasants from joining kolkhozes with slaughtered livestock, aiming to secure meat and dairy for growing cities.
The Ottawa Journal notes that medical practice trends toward specialization have been influenced by campaigns for preventive medicine. If general practitioners regain prominence, they may focus on keeping patients healthy, driven by annual or semiannual physical exams aimed at early cancer, tuberculosis, and epidemic detection.
A young matron asked German butcher Otto for hamburger steak price. He quoted 25 cents per pound, she noted corner store sells it for 12 cents. Otto retorts stores lack supply, so he would sell at 10 cents when unavailable.
A historical snippet notes Holloway's Corn Remover claims and a drastic outcome when Little Mary falls ill. Despite brave vows, she requires surgery and hospital care as her mother’s kitten prize looms. The nurse overhears Mary muttering that getting a kitten is a rotten motive.
The Golden Arrow fast car once owned by Sir Henry Segrave and later by H. B. Horne of London, who went bankrupt, was purchased by Sir Charles Wakefield and donated to the South Kensington Museum. The original cost was about $50,000 to $60,000. A Munich factor remarks that love causes blurring eyes and paleness, weight loss, and sleeplessness.
The article criticizes commercial radio for propaganda and ads during air time and applauds the Quebec government for introducing two weekly radio evenings dedicated to music and instruction. It argues listeners often switch off when exposed to abuse and praises the initiative as a remedy.
A vintage marketing snippet urges mothers to keep Baby's Own Tablets for teething constipation indigestion and colds. It claims safety and efficacy for children and notes the product is sold by dealers or mailed from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont at 25 cents a box.
A GE experimental short wave link from Schenectady to Sydney and back was traced via W2XAF WK2ME and WGY, claiming a 20 000 mile trip in about one eighth of a second the feat reportedly unmatched at the time. The piece also touts Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy as a recommended treatment for persistent asthma.
In April over 100000 enumerators will ask questions about the U.S. population. Machines will complete state facts on more than 120 million people in a month. Punched cards will hold sixty items and be sorted at 25000 per hour. Robots classify by age sex and race at 125000 per day.
A fragmentary text promotes a worm exterminator claiming relief for suffering children and anxious mothers. The passage then shifts to a Yorkshire county court scene with a buxom farm lass as witness and a humorous judge moment. The tone blends sensational health claims with a courtroom anecdote.
A fragment from a devotional urged focus on small tasks rather than pride in grand deeds. Reflects on humility before God and the virtue of steady, modest labor rather than waiting for large, perfect works.
The R-100 airship, fitted with gasoline engines, is deemed unsuitable for tropical climates and will operate initially only in northern latitudes while its British to Canada spring trial flight is planned. Also notes Persian Barn cream and Van Balm lotion as soothing beauty products with praised effects.
A fragment describes a shop window notice in Figant's type showing the phrase But Butter. Pat questions the meaning of the large strokes, and another person replies that the strokes are meant for shillelaghs to signal rare Irish butter. The scene ends with a humorous aside about facial expressions.
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