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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jul 06, 1916
Page
7
Frank B. Vrooman argues in Century Magazine that the United States faces four options to secure its outlying missions, strengthen itself for any alliance, or go out of business. He suggests forming strong national power, seeking alliances with democracies, and underwriting world peace by balancing interests with other nations.
A farmer and speaker discuss a recent election speech on agricultural policy. The text notes fall wheat yields and a comparison to previous years, with remarks on beauty and marriage tied to rural life, reflecting a provincial, period voice.
The article discusses lawn seed blends two thirds blue grass and one third grass with rye for shade, notes high seed rates of five bushels per acre, and warns heavy seeding reduces weeds while bluegrass tolerates repeated cutting. Advice covers sowing methods, wind avoidance, stone removal, and care for first years. It also briefly mentions a domestic complication about a munition factory worker and her husband.
Fragmentary text offers a reward likely of 100 dollars with damaged phrasing. Details unclear about the target person or act. The garbled line hints at a pursuit or incentive but lacks concrete names, places, or dates.
Russian women university graduates increasingly join engineering and canal and waterways work while occupying executive roles in the Ministry of Agriculture. The text notes a lack of prejudice against professional women in Russia and official openings in banking careers, reflecting broad access to specialist economic positions. It references isolation of crafts and family duties and hints at social expectations in traditional roles.
In a Saskatchewan interview Dairy Commissioner W A Wilson outlined a plan to market export butter from all creameries through the Dairy branch. Past success of cooperative creameries under the branch is to be extended province wide, boosting farmers’ payments and easing weekly shipments to cold storage. The Dairy branch marketed over 2,000,000 pounds of butter last year, mostly from cooperative creameries, and with new co-ops and increased production, aims for a substantial total this year.
An 19th century advertisement promotes Dr Hamilton's Pills as a permanent cure for biliousness. It claims constipation and liver inactivity cause biliousness, and the pills correct these with lasting relief rather than temporary purge. A 25 cent box is advertised.
A fragmented wartime op ed argues against German atrocities and calls for restraint. It references Petrie and cultural decline theories, contrasts British conduct with German actions, and urges defeating the foe without mirroring brutal methods. The piece cites memories of London ruins and warns against descending to barbaric behavior.
The piece recalls Gallieni guiding 30,000 Paris taxis to ferry troops to aid Maunoury in 1914. It credits his ethical turn of these cabs into war engines and notes German General Staff would not have foreseen such swift mobilization. The World’s account emphasizes decisive use of taxis in halting von Kluck’s flank and aiding Foch's forces at Fere-Champenoise.
A nurse reports a soldier with a bullet deflected by a steel helmet saving his eye, noting no recent eye losses due to updated headgear. The piece includes anecdotes about Minard's M iniment and a humorous Art Museum interaction, illustrating public attitudes toward safety and art.
Bulgaria has already started sending 10,400 tons of wheat to Greece as a goodwill gesture. With corn supplies dwindling, Bulgaria notes it has little to export this year and that maize, fodder from this harvest plus leftovers could mostly be moved to Germany via the Danube.
An anecdote at a banquet features the Belgian Consul and a heckler praising Germany and a Landsturm shout. The text shifts to a medical pitch urging early use of Dr J D Kell’s Asthma Remedy, claimed to quickly ease breathing and prevent hopeless exhaustion in asthma sufferers.
A United States Bureau of Standards report reviews farm mutual fire insurers and state marshals data. It estimates lightning effectiveness at ninety one percent and shows many struck homes had occupants unharmed only when rods were present. Grounding fence wires is advised to prevent electrical spread to buildings and stock.
An advertisement extols Dr Thomas the Oil as the cheapest remedy in public circulation found in every drug store from coast to coast in Canada and carried by country merchants. It touts easy availability and low price as reasons why everyone should own a bottle.
A wounded soldier, told he could have a light meal, received a tablespoonful of tapioca instead of beefsteak and dairy. He groaned, questioning the rule to keep all food in the same proportion. A nurse and doctor insisted, and the patient lamented, saying he wouldn’t care anyway. A judge’s ruling on tickling a mule as contributory negligence is noted, with a remark about wartime endurance. Britain and Manitoba seed wheat report results in France.
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