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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 07, 1937
Page
2
Norman Macphee argues in Canada Downtown that luck plays little role in human success. True power comes from self development, effort, and disciplined pursuit of known principles, not chance.
A three month Labour Gazette summary shows 120 462 pensioners receiving old age benefits in Canada with Dominion government contributions totaling 4 629 241 dollars. Provinces list include Alberta 8 644 British Columbia 10 480 Manitoba 11 281 New Brunswick 728 Nova Scotia 13 410 Ontario 54 960 Prince Edward Island 1 693 Saskatchewan 11 259 Northwest Territories seven. Total Dominion contributions since inception reach 52 343 596 dollars.
Los Angeles appellate court rules that dentures remain personal property when not in the mouth. Walter A. Merrill, actor, claimed the teeth were lost from his pocket and sought to collect under a personal property insurance policy.
Keen young doctors will train to be the world’s greatest scientific detectives at Britain’s first crime college in London University. The facility will work with Scotland Yard and study murder, poison, forgery, and coinage methods, centered on a vast laboratory for bloodstains prints and related analyses. Forensic medicine will be the chief subject.
The Durham Ontario Chronicle ran two editorials debating What’s Wrong With The Church and a local minister followed with a full sermon titled What’s Right With The Church Neither question is settled. White whales live in the Arctic sea.
An extended three year trial by the Post Office tested anti cold inoculation with many volunteers. The outcome was negative, offering little evidence of value for preventing the common cold. The piece notes contrast with successes against diphtheria smallpox and typhoid.
A fragmentary note hints at an early morning call to awaken the liver bile and sea out of bells with a staccato emphasis on Saturday morning. The garbled text preserves rhythmic, musical, or cryptic phrasing without clear narrative context.
A dated recipe for a date fruit loaf by Mildred Mac MacKevale provides ingredients such as dates, baking soda, corn syrup, boiling water, an egg, brown sugar, salt, vanilla, flour, baking powder, walnuts, and shortening. Steps include soaking dates, beating egg, combining dry ingredients with wet, and baking a slow hour with waxed paper lining. A butter-brushed finish ten minutes before end is recommended for better crust and flavor.
Ham souffle recipe uses 145 cups milk and crumbled Christie soda wafers soaked in hot milk. Add melted butter, chopped ham, pepper, mustard, and stiffly beaten egg whites. Fill greased dishes two thirds full and bake at 375 degrees F for 20 minutes, unmold, serve with tomato sauce. Six portions.
Ottawa dispatch says Lethbridge Alberta will host the primary weather observing station for the trans Canada air mail. A full staff will be stationed there and forecasts will be issued every three hours between Vancouver and Winnipeg.
An anonymous Londoner organized emissaries to locate underprivileged children in South Wales and Monmouthshire weeks before Christmas to ensure stockings would be filled. Meanwhile Nipponese demand drives Japan’s phonograph records market, with about 10 million disc purchases yearly, and Moscow’s ice cream output has tripled since last year.
The world’s largest steel wire rope was produced in Warrington England. It measures 4 1 2 inches in circumference spans about 74 miles in one continuous length weighs around ST tons and took eight weeks to manufacture. The rope has 144 wires in six strands each of 19 wires, encased by a manilla centre. It operates at 1314 miles per hour. The report also includes unrelated stray dialogue about stage performances and a lion tamer.
Prof G Russell Harrison of MIT experimental lab says death rays are imaginatively possible but not practically perfected today. He notes radium and high voltage X rays are fatal at close range and that electromagnetic radiation could explode fulminite, but no ray would work at long distance.
Chauncey Jones, a New England watchmaker, first saw brass benefits over wood for clock works and became the first American to manufacture them in brass.
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