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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 04, 1929
Page
2
A historical note touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the preferred treatment for excess stomach acid. It advocates consulting a doctor and claims long standing physician endorsement for quick, harmless relief with clear usage directions on each bottle.
A reflective essay warns that picking wildflowers harms national beauty and tourism. It contrasts playful memories of bouquets with the broader impact on parks, warns against weed species replacing rarer blooms, and urges restraint to preserve Canada’s natural assets for future visitors and peace.
Representatives of the Canadian Government and the British Legion joined residents and visiting Americans in a brief memorial service at Rockwood Cemetery in England. Hundreds of US soldiers were buried there during the great war.
A comic courtroom exchange unfolds as a judge questions a witness about a defendant’s statement. The witness notes a misread sentence and the foreman quips about telling Pat to Matt, with Pat admitting he ate his running up the road. The passage ends with a note on audience heat output.
A vast plume of Australian soil traveled over 2000 miles through the air to New Zealand in one of history’s longest dust journeys. The mass mostly crossed water, and during rain fell as mud rain discolored sweaters at a football match. The event broke records for quantity and spread.
Mrs Norman White of New Canada describes a years long struggle with weakness and fainting, heart palpitations, and bloodless weakness. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills her health improved to the point she could sit up and resume activity, with continued use as a safeguard and to aid her daughters.
The Alberta Government has appointed a committee to study a proposed model summer resort at Ghost Lake on Bow River forty miles west of Calgary. The plan envisions low cost summer homes for workers and involves cooperation among the Calgary Power Company, the government, and a Calgary citizens committee.
HL Seymour told the Town Planning Institute of Canada in Winnipeg that Alberta has the most progressive town planning scheme on the continent. The plan includes rural parks picnic grounds tourist camps school grounds fair grounds hospital grounds and supports for farmers to lay out homesteads and water systems across the province. The premier inspired the effort after his 1927 England visit.
Delegates at Regina heard the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool expect about 900000 bushels of wheat and coarse grain to pass through its system in 1928 29. A table showing past handling and the 1928 29 forecast accompanied the board's report detailing elevator system development and the pool’s capital strength to finance further country extensions. Gypsum production ranks Jetta as Canada’s top producer, followed by New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia. Minard's Medicine South Africa is stated as producing zero percent of the world’s diamonds.
A House of Commons return shows 29 British countries now enjoy preferential treatment, up from 20, while the number of foreign nations in mutual pacts grew from 14 to 43. Canada exports to these 29 nations rose from $917,486,000 in 1921-22 to $50,964,623 in 1928-29.
The Dominion convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union approved a national education campaign through Sunday schools to explain the nature and effects of alcohol. Mrs Gordon Wright of London Ontario was elected president for two years with Mrs Louise McKinney of Tareslhom Alberta as vice president and Mrs TH Wright of Hazelton BC as secretary.
The ad claims Dust Cauwes asthma and a speck too small to see causes agony. It touts Dr J D Kellogg's Asthma Remedy as bringing perfect rest by freeing air passages and restoring regular breathing, supported by hundreds of testimonials.
The season produced 92 000 photographs for Do Overn use. Copies filed in the Office of the Topographical Survey Department of the Interior contain 251 000 individual prints in the present file.
The Concrete Products Company of Regina has leased a site on Twelfth Avenue East Calgary from the Canadian Pacific Railway and is constructing a plant for concrete pipe culverts and building blocks.
H B Lyall of Winnipeg told the Canadian Furniture Association convention in Halifax that Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta manufacturing output for 1928 surpassed 325 million dollars. He cited two developments the exploitation of Northern Manitoba mineral wealth and the expansion of the Alberta oil region.
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