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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 05, 1922
Page
2
The piece urges sincere New Year greetings with action, predicting better times for 1922. It cites hoped improvements in Canadian agriculture, reduced unemployment, falling living costs, and easing taxation, plus Ireland and naval armament progress, urging confidence and forward effort to foster happiness and progress.
Exports from British Columbia broaden beyond lumber and salmon as Vancouver handles diverse goods. A heavy canned milk shipment to France for distribution in Germany signals rapid growth. Recent dispatches include book shooks and apples to the United Kingdom, salt berries and wheat to the Orient, and lead to France. A French scientist has captured a ray photograph of a bone through an eight brick wall at 250 yards.
Liverpool's new cathedral, of which the son of the designer is overseeing, will be larger than York Minster and higher than Westminster Abbey. Built on a site 185 feet above the Mersey, the structure plus the Chapter House and Lady Chapel will cover over 100000 square feet, exceeding any other English cathedral. The choir and eastern transepts will host a congregation, while the remaining building will hold a large number.
The Victoria Times urges boosting tourist travel as essential to attract new residents. It argues advertising draws visitors who often settle locally, warns travel decline will curb growth, and calls for California’s outreach as a model for British Columbia. Also included is a light anecdote: a pharmacist once gave a patient a quart when half a spin was needed.
Premier Oliver announced that the British admiralty will use Douglas fir from British Columbia instead of Oregon pine. C. Wade, agent general in London, led the action, and Navy contractor Jenkins reports a recent timber contract was awarded to a contractor who will source material from British Columbia.
An advertisement touts Nerviline as a powerful pain reliever for back and nerve pains, claiming deep skin absorption and rapid action. It references financial stability of Canadian banks with eighteen chartered banks and over 4500 branches, noting notes must be secured by gold or Dominion notes.
The ad promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a cure for weakness sleeplessness and low energy claiming they build blood and nerves. It targets men and women with promises of vitality and improved appearance and offers ordering by mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
A wartime style ad promotes Dr J D Kelloge’s Asthma Remedy promising immediate relief. It describes the product banishing symptoms, clearing passages, and allowing restful sleep, urging buyers to insist on the genuine at local druggists.
A new aerial taxi network at Castle Bromwich Aerodrome, Birmingham offers fares lower than standard motor travel. The rate is thirty cents per mile for two passengers, fifty cents per mile for a single rider, with freight up to 500 pounds carried at the same per mile rate.
The earliest known plague record is widely noted as occurring around 167 BC. The statement highlights ancient global recognition of plagues and places the event in Hellenistic era context. No specific location or source is provided.
Aged columnist summarizes remarks by sidor Berger of the Greater New York Taxpayers' Association on how lower rents hinge on tenants’ care of their apartments. He cites unpaid bills, careless behavior by children, and the moral duty of mothers to instill respect for others’ property to reduce living costs for all.
Police in Naples arrest 49 members of the de cia and Floriio families ending a vendetta that has dragged since 1815. Two young children, a boy and a girl, remain in custody and are described as affectionate playmates.
Fall wheat acreage in Southern Alberta this year totals about 42 400 acres, up from 39 ?00 acres last year, a six percent increase. The data reflects shifts in sowing patterns and market conditions impacting crop choices across the region.
Threads of gola woven in India for lace are incredibly fine as 1,100 yards can weigh merely one ounce highlighting extreme thinness and delicate craftsmanship.
Ren nard Breen a Grand Trunk Railway clerk from Winnipeg reports severe post operation indigestion and smothering spells. After trying many medicines he took Tanlac and his appetite returned, he sleeps well, and feels better overall guiding others to try the remedy. Tanlac is sold by leading druggists.
W. Kimble, a Windsor Castle court postman with forty years service, plans retirement after an estimated 248000 miles walked. He never took sick leave or faced a formal adverse record, and observed Armistice Day by counting cabbages in Covent Garden Market until the crowd resumed activity. Also notes Miller's Worm Powders claim to quietly, effectively combat intestinal worms without causing pain.
The fragment mentions Hall's Catarrh Medicine and its claimed effectiveness for run down or constitutional conditions. It notes circulation of circulars and references Toledo and Utney in connection with the product. no further verifiable details or outcomes are provided in the readable text.
A novel dinner party in Parns celebrated teal, the president, being raised to Commander of the Legion of Honour. Newspapers prepared region specific dishes brought to Paris by train or car. Bordeaux wine from Petite Gironde. Rouen duck from Rouen press. other regions supplied game and cheese. A Saskatchewan plan aims to improve roads with government officers, seeking wide cooperation nationwide.
Saskatchewan dairy output for last year totaled about 3.5 million dollars with creamery butter and dairy butter leading production. Cream and ice cream contributed over 0.5 million and rail products exceeded 10 million to consumers. Calf feed valued at over 1.5 million, with 48 plants investing about 2.18 million dollars and seven new plants built. A camel will travel a hundred miles a day.
The article notes Canada's coal picture in 1920 with Nova Scotia and British Columbia dominating on the coast. It cites vast reserves, over two billion metric tons each, with Nova Scotia having lower grade portions and British Columbia chiefly high grade coal. It mentions national consumption and production figures for 1920 and highlights the two provinces as the sole coastal coal regions in North America.
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