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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 19, 1933
Page
6
Parliament reassembles in Ottawa after a long adjournment as Western Legislatures begin their sessions. The piece urges citizens to support lawmakers with constructive cooperation, stressing national over local aims while addressing railway and fiscal challenges and the need for balanced, practical policies.
London philosopher Dean Inge spoke of England 1,000 years ahead with a population around 20,000,000 living mostly in villages. He warned Mars and Venus colonization is unlikely and warned of possible future ice ages and rising seas. He argued progress since tool use is debatable, noting degenerative trends in human anatomy like narrower jaws and hair loss.
Medium of exchange shifts as cash remains scarce in Central Europe with barter revived in parts of the Balkans. Kragujevac signs with an Austrian firm for 100 carloads of brass parts to be paid in 10,000 Jugoslavian hogs from Austria. Trade negotiations continue between Czecho Slokakia and Hungary over rail mileage payments with 1,000,000 Czech crowns monthly balance and Hungary proposing to settle in pigs.
An experimental landing field for the Swedish cruiser Gotland features a wide canvas strip on crosswise pontoons to catch seaplanes. Planes run up, fold wings, and are hoisted to the deck. a rotating catapult launches them against wind. Saskatchewan coal exports totaled 267,869 tons to Manitoba in the year ending 1931.
Paris presses accuse the United States of the greatest armament overspend. Le Temps notes U S military outlays rose from 267000 to 70000000 dollars between 1916 and 1930, despite no direct danger and a preoccupation with naval parity with Great Britain.
Dr L 8 Russell and Dr R T D Wickenden announce a new fossil locality in Canada near Swift Current Saskatchewan. They describe teeth from a late Eocene fauna including rhinoceros titanotheres a three toed horse primitive antelope like creatures and a rabbit tooth one of the oldest records. The beds form a broad sheet of coarse rocks over Cypress Hills with indications of varied elevations up to 1400 feet in early mammals era Saskatchewan.
In New South Wales tenants unable to pay cash rent offer barter instead. Landlords accept vegetables such as potatoes turnips melons pumpkins for huts and land. One tenant paid over 100 cases of fruit in a week while another pays with poultry eggs and milk goods. A dairyman pays with calves and heifers amid a milk price dispute. War Service House Commission balked at a tenant delivering several hundred pounds of pumpkins.
The new French liner Normandie offers a theatre a church a street of shops a cafe a salon a winter garden and a garage. It features six separate wireless installations on board. Australia is called the shadeless land and some tree leaves are noted to edge toward the sky.
The text extols Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula as a superbly located city with Table Mountain, Table Bay, and varied scenery. It notes favorable climate, abundant sunshine, and sea breezes, plus wild orchids from outskirts to mountain tops. Visitors from Carinthia cruise may reach by April 18. It describes rare plants Harveya and sundew and compares Cape Town’s latitude to Montevideo and Sydney.
Imperial Airways reports cumulative mileage traveled surpassing 10 million miles and passenger total over 200000. It has moved 6000 tons of mail parcels and urgent freight. On-time flights rose from 75.3 percent in 1924 to 96.16 percent in 1922.
A light quip captures a boarding house exchange about meal variety. The narrator notes three different meal names used to describe offerings, hinting at humor in daily routines and the small ways hospitality adapts to guests.
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