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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 03, 1924
Page
6
A reflective piece urges readers to audit personal health finances and relationships as a year ends. It warns of dead stock like prejudices and rivalries dragging progress and advocates honest, daily stock taking to improve wellbeing, character, and community welfare beyond mere money.
The Aerial League of America with the American Radio Relay League conducted world wide experiments during five Arctic daylight weeks to test if daylight dissipates or absorbs radio waves. The Bowdoin expedition led by Donald MacMillan aided by Prince B. Pert is mentioned as part of the study. The aim was to find a tangible solution to radio signal issues tied to polar conditions and magnetic effects near Greenland.
Officials from Dominion Experimental Farms stress green feed to support digestive health and egg production in winter. Store cabbage, angels, or sugar beets in root storage. feed at nine am when birds are hungry. Sprouted oats, roots, and well cured alfalfa or clover leaves supply valuable alternatives for laying hens.
A tale from a souvenir notes how a Hindoo statuette named a hooded jewel traveled from India to the hands of Lebon Carnot and later M. Poincare. Carnot was assassinated after reaching high office. Mme. Carnot ordered the piece destroyed. Secret service fear the curb or its theft as a danger to the presidency.
Advert says Nerviline relieves painful sprains bruises and aching muscles by sinking in quickly for deep relief. Claims to ease stiff joints and rheumatism neuralgia and lumbago whether pain is internal or external. Recommends a large 25 cent bottle from local dealer today.
An early concept describes wireless aircraft patrols over Canadian forests with a six horsepower engine plane flying from London to Brussels and claims patrols could cover 10 000 to 12 000 square miles daily. Capital cost predicted to equal a car, with fire detection improving remote forest monitoring.
A weekly column by John Hull critiques Lloyd George with pointed, satirical remarks. The piece notes perceived inconsistencies and hyping of public persona, reflecting on political theater and reputational threads in the era. The tone remains reflective and lightly acerbic.
The piece critiques Lloyd George for shifting blame amid calls to restore peace in Europe. It references his 1915 pledge on German reparations and questions unemployment remedies and government stance on foreign policy as Manitoba debates continue.
Provincial government supporters in Winnipeg discussed legislation to foster a voluntary wheat marketing organization while a compulsory wheat board bill faces revival. Cabinet members split on the approach, with talks focusing on private member action rather than a formal government bill.
A reader from Que presents Baby's Own Tablets as a mild laxative that regulates bowels and stomach, claiming rapid relief for her child’s constipation and indigestion. The Dr Williams Medicine Co offers the tablets by mail at 23 cents per box from Brockville Ont.
Directors of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce announced U S production for eleven months at 4,900,000 vehicles, topping the 1922 mark. November output reached 325,125 passenger cars and trucks, with May the peak month at 383,409 units.
Atawa weighs support for radio broadcasting as a growing entertain referent with over 63 stations last year and rising investments. Manitoba uses provincial funding via telephone lines, while Dominion funds cover half of the license fees, shaping policy as broadcasters seek feasible aid.
Mr Pred Salter foreign traffic manager of the Canadian National Express Company reports rapid growth in express traffic between Canada and the U K. He says improved exchange rates will boost business as he toured Winnipeg with HG. Waring London European Agent. Onlinard's Liniment Relieves Pain.
A historic report describes divers using a special torch that can burn beneath water. The device appears to melt metal by a jet of air that removes surrounding water, creating intense, localized heat capable of heating through iron and steel.
In a ritual described, when a tribesman dies on Solo Mon Islands the body is exposed to the elements until the head drops off, after which the skull is placed in the mauve skull house to remain for all time.
The outbreak in Britain leads to widespread animal losses with Government compensation of £1,246,000 paid to farmers for destroyed stock. Salvage value from healthy carcasses is estimated at £234,000. Figures show 41,183 cattle 20,014 pigs and 31, etc. were slaughtered.
The Dunsamen has established three more Royal Mounted Police posts in the north and Captain H T Munn of Manitoba returns to Winnipeg from Tata's Land. The northern post lies at Ellesmere Land near 76N with others west of Pond's Inlet along Lancaster Sound and at Lake Harbour Hudson Straits. Munn has traded with natives at Pond's Inlet Battin's Land and Cumberland Gulf since 1812, returning after selling two trading stations to the Hudson's Bay Company with ten and Mary schooner and furs. The Cumberland Gulf yield this year was about four many, Miller's Worm Powders claim to cleanse stomachs and bowels of worms, priced to ease child dosing, though some caution on promoting causes is noted.
A French scientist and inventor M Edouard Bee discusses wireless telegraphy and television as soon real possibilities. He notes transmission of photographs drawings handwriting and short items over wires while French postal authorities erect stations with suitable apparatus for this purpose.
A Canada Magazine feature recounts a young English worker’s account of western Canadian harvest life. It notes initial muscle ache, hard labor, and frostbite risks, urging disciplined British youths to seek the work for health benefits and about 250 dollars after three months, while warning slackers to stay home.
The Bolshevist Bachmut writes that Russia’s past policy toward Germany should not be repeated as Petrograd’s former foreign affairs head warns the German government against seizing fundaments or requisitioning food and supplies. He says farmers will only grow enough for their own use if they fear further expropriation without compensation.
The world production of wheat excluding Russia is reported as 2,461,000,600 bushels by the International Institute of Agriculture. This is 251,000,000 bushels less than the preceding year and 558,008,000 above the Bresear average.
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