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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jan 28, 1904
Page
8
Portage notes a busy period with social events, weather extremes, and local shoptalk. Included are dinners and dances, church meetings, a candidate for school work, hockey results, business travel to Winnipeg, and growing concern over public health as smallpox appears on reserves.
The CPR steamer Lake Erie docked last week with about 50 passengers after a bi eight day voyage from Liverpool marked by dirty weather, a few fine days, and a nasty gale on Saturday. Among the passengers were Scotch engineers bound for Japan for the Japanese government. They likely took the Cunard line to New York, while Mrs. Jos. Murgatroyd of Nackgregor returned home to visit her parents in Ireland.
A Treberne Times item notes Bret Harte praising farming as the straightest, cleanest way to wealth and a claim that gold is a God given find. The column reflects on merit versus luck in agriculture and wealth.
A recently returned subscriber from the Old Country shares terse lines about the weather and city life. The brief notes convey damp conditions and a sense of place, hinting at familiar seasonal patterns and daily rhythms.
Mr. Robert Adamson of the Immigration Branch plans to bring a group of fenced farm hands to Scotland and later to Winnipeg in April to work a year with wages and board. Apply in writing with 2500 for passage per man. applications due by February 15 to J. Ovry Suarry.
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