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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1928
Page
2
J Ramsay MacDonald former premier and Labour leader will begin a late July holiday trip to Canada with his three daughters. The item notes other world happenings including a Berlin to Geneva trek by two waiters and a death of Austrian field marshal Moritz Aufenberg.
Sir Hall Caine, the Isle of Man based novelist and dramatist, reached his 75th birthday amid reports he has just received knighthood for services as a writer of propaganda. He is said to be drafting a life of Christ while remarking on human virtue and fault.
MAF Wilson of Lethbridge Alberta recounts a severe heart weakness that confined her to bed for five weeks, detailing the ordeal and impact on daily life.
William Fox junior of De LaSalle School London Ontario won the Canadian oratorical championship. Miss Swanhird Matthison Vancouver was second and Miss Alice Elizabeth Muse Roblin Manitoba was third. Finalists included Miss Kinney Edmonton and Edison Smith Prince Edward Island. Judges praised Fox’s subject Future of Canada while noting Muse’s voice and Matthison’s tact. Attendance neared eleven thousand at Toronto arena with prizes of roses for contestants and a Europe trip for the winner.
Our first engagement on the follow ing day was to visit Liverpool Cathedral, a monumental red sandstone structure with a copper root, glassed nave and a 116 foot high ceiling. We then toured the Liverpool Produce Exchange, Fruit Market, and Auction, observing sample handling, bidding, and the auctioneer’s memory of traders. The trip continued to Manchester Ship Canal area markets, Smithfield Market, and the wholesale society’s tobacco factory and buying rooms, with remarks on the society’s growth to 1,200 member bodies and assets over 227 million.
General Manager Sarnoff of RCA argues radio has saved the world 50 million dollars yet asks the public to weigh the true expense. He warns radio devotion causes lost sleep and health decline for listeners who stay up late, affecting morning workers and overall well being.
Reports from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics show a generally stronger business climate at the end of the first quarter. Ten indicators are up or steady, with coal output unchanged. employment pig iron steel bank clearings car loadings building permits imports exports and coke all higher by one to twenty eight points.
Our Fashion Book presents this chic pattern using supple tweeds with metal threads and canton faille crepe. Includes a vestee, belt in Indian Print Pussy Willow silk, crepe satin, wool crepe and angora jersey. Pattern sizes 16 to 42 bust, priced 25 cents. fashion book 10 cents.
Winnipeg pattern orders listed by the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 73 McDermot Ave. Pattern number unspecified. Customers are guided to contact the union for pattern requests.
Devotional reflection on Mark 14 1 2 in which Jesus states one of the twelve will betray Him The lesson explores the shock of the disciples and Judas isolation referencing the cross predestined plan and Dantean imagery to convey the gravity of betrayal
The Blackburn Ripon IL powered by a Napier Lion engine flew over the Humber with a nearly ton torpedo, carrying crew and observer, displaying coastal defence capabilities. A second display introduced a Lynock single seater fighter prototype using 200 horsepower to show efficient combat potential with reduced power.
Major J G Seualee assistant deputy minister of trade and commerce sails for England to install an extensive exhibits program across Great Britain to boost Canada's trade. Exhibitions will be held in Aberdeen Birmingham Belfast Bristol Hull Leeds Leicester Manchester Newbury Plymouth and more as the department expands its exhibitions branch. A Canadian air mail route survey will map Montreal to Winnipeg flight paths with landing fields to support future service following four Eastern Canada air mail contracts. Reading United States laws would take over eight years at eight hours per day.
The Opel Works in Kessel Germany plans a rocket propelled aero plane piloted by Anton Kaab to reach 33 000 feet and test atmospheric penetration. The craft will launch at 37 mph, accelerate to 248 mph, and descend by parachute with an auxiliary parachute carrying the plane to earth.
An optimistic Western crop survey notes prairie provinces have the largest area seeded to wheat by May 18 1928 and over 90 percent of the crop in the ground. Seedbeds are among the best in 14 years, with more summer fallow and new breaking than in years past. Wheat acreage up 9 to 12 percent and higher registered seeding. harvest is months away but the West is away to a good start.
W M Van Valkenburg Regina Board of Trade president after an eastern trip says Saskatchewan will create a ministry of mines. The board plans a mining bureau and similar moves are eyed in other cities. He notes forty percent of northern Saskatchewan is pre-Cambrian.
Alterations at the Bienfalt Briquetting Plant in Saskatoon are underway to retrofit existing equipment. Foundations are being laid for additional machinery imported from England. Officials expect about thirty carloads of equipment to arrive and be installed.
Over 600 men are now working on the new terminal elevator by the Alberta Wheat Pool in Vancouver. The project is advancing toward completion by September 1.
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