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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 19, 1939
Page
3
A health note promotes Postum as a safe alternative for some people while advising that many others and all children should avoid tea and coffee. It suggests trying a 30 day test by drinking Postum instead of tea and coffee for one month and evaluating the results.
Hammond leads survivors fleeing a raging marsh fire that destroys a northern town. As smoke and heat force residents to the lake, airships rescue and regroup, with Hammond tasked to coordinate shifts and block the blaze while seeking Kay Joyce and Jeanne Towers among the frightened refugees.
The article notes the Duke of Connaught will retire as Grand Master of the English Free Masons and be succeeded by the Duke of Kent, who is described as a very good Mason and ready to install before departing for Australia, continuing a royal tradition of Masonic leadership.
Labour officials in Ottawa commented on a Montreal Trades and Labor Council suggestion that workers should be paid for holidays proclaimed during the King and Queen’s visit clarifying it is a matter of contract between employer and employee. Chemistry researchers extract and measure the red pigment in beet roots to explain why some beets are redder than others. India, described as more or less glutted with animals, holds 215 million of the world’s total 690 million cattle.
The Vader, a mechanical speech device by Bell Labs, debuts as the world’s first to create spoken words. With 23 sounds including an electrical hiss, it mimics human speech, inflects scales, and can shout or whisper. Thirty operators trained. four dozen selected to demonstrate at fairs in San Francisco and New York.
Ottawa officials state Hamilton Magistrate H A Burbidge acted within rights to bar John Walsh from driving in Canada for a year after drunken reckless driving conviction. He received 21 days in jail and a $25 fine under a new criminal code amendment allowing nationwide orders. The order is recorded on his driving permit and could trigger arrest nationwide. A laundry proprietor has sold his quaintness and become a farmer, still earning a living from the trade.
A morning seagull taps on the window of a top Aberdeen apartment each day and is rewarded with a piece of bread for breakfast, a neighborhood anecdote that highlights a reciprocal routine between bird and resident.
A scrambled OCR snippet shows unclear references to a woman and a mood, with stray phrases like vegan and eatery. The readable content offers no coherent event, names, places, or dates to summarize into a factual news card.
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