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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1928
Page
6
A plea to Canadians to observe Dominion Day each year to foster national pride and youth education. The piece recalls the Diamond Jubilee's impact, urges expanded annual observance in 1928, and notes Western Canadian communities planning celebrations while urging more towns to form committees. It stresses teaching youth love for Canada.
The Third International Wheat Pool Conference will be held in Regina on June 5 6 and 7. For the first time, representatives from cooperative organizations beyond marketing pools will attend. Produce pools and consumer cooperatives from several parts of the world will be represented, following last year’sKansas City meeting.
During the first four months of this year the Canada Colonization Association settled 224 families on 46,207 acres. A pew glass substitute is translucent and weatherproof, admits UV rays, is flexible and unbreakable, sold by the yard or in rolls.
A French aircraft designer creates a system where pilots read a new set of gauges to navigate by instruments alone. Twelve pilots tested by spiraling then stabilizing, flying blind to thirty miles out and back. The invention could aid night or fog operations. Mount Robson rises 12 972 feet in British Columbia. Solomon’s wisdom fails to judge a baseball umpire.
Historical ad notes stomach acid causes pain after meals and offers an alkali remedy. It touts Magnesia as a fast neutralizer, claiming quick, tasteless relief and urging readers not to suffer. Includes promotional language and nonstandard wording.
The Winnipeg Flying Club secured a 135 acre aerodrome in St James to house hangars and a club house on Sackville Street side. Two Moth planes from the Dominion Government will join for a summer flying start. Denis courts planned for members. About 50 men have joined, with many warfighters among early members.
In anaemia, pale appearance and fatigue after minor effort mark many cases. Headaches, sleep trouble, weight loss, and fainting can follow as blood thins. Dr Williams Pink Pills are promoted as a blood builder and nerve tonic, with a testimonial from Mrs Patterson of Shanklin praising recovery after four years of illness. Available via dealers or mail from The Dr Williams Medicine Co in Brockville Ontario.
Madsen of the Edmonton Dairy has been named Danish Consul for Northern Alberta with headquarters at Edmonton. The Danish Government cites 3 706 settlers in 1927 to justify the consulate effort and notes the territory may extend from Red Deer north as settlement grows. Kellogg's Asthma Remedy is promoted as a distinct product claiming wide relief, alongside other claims of its efficacy.
Col J H Stibbard head of the British Army Training Centre in Wiltshire plans to arrange demobilized British soldiers for Canadian farms if government and groups agree. Training starts six months before discharge. many already went to Australia where they adapted well.
The annual government report defends Canada’s Merchant Marine as essential to national interests despite losses in 1937. It notes improved results since 1924 and 1925, explains cargo shortages and lower freight rates, and forecasts brighter 1928 prospects. The piece also cites Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a recommended remedy for bruises, sore throat, chest ailments and similar injuries.
Western Canada Airways Limited has purchased Pacific Airways Limited of Vancouver as part of an plan to establish an air service linking Winnipeg with Pacific coast cities. The company intends to expand Pacific Company scales to cover Alberta and a larger seaboard territory. Corns disappear when treated with Holloway's Corn Remover without waving a scar.
Napoleon hat fetches 15000 dollars after auction to a French army officer. The relic, shaped like the famous hat, comes with a certificate claiming sale by Napoleons father in 1814 to a secondhand dealer. Separate note mentions a London vicar proposing a 1.25 fee for weddings using confetti to cover cleanup. Shanghai hospital reportedly uses morphia annually.
Baltimore dispatch describes a University of Maryland project creating an automatic anaesthetizer or robotic interne. The device aims to replace human attendants, regulate dosage precisely, and maintain total unconsciousness by sensing lung pressure changes during respiration, promising no overdose and no fatal error.
A Potawa native and Oshawa resident visited a railway ticket office seeking a cut rate on a seaplane crossing the Atlantic. they were told to return later. Canada’s forest salaries total about 100 million annually. Worms cause sickly children and Mother Graves Worm Exterminator promises relief and wealth restoration.
A measure aims to make Ottawa second in beauty among capitals, proposing a $200,000 annual expenditure for 30 years with an immediate $3,000,000 outlay. A key feature is a large central park. The text also notes a Native American practice about widows and hair.
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