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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
4
The article discusses farmers seeking market control through cooperative effort and calls for state owned elevators. It notes Winnipeg municipal plans for a Good Roads Association and a road commissioner to improve infrastructure. It also reports on church union talks between Congregational and Methodist groups and pending decisions.
Branded text announces the Provincial Sunday School Convention at Brandon from June 29 to July 1 with many delegates expected. It urges all schools to appoint numerous men delegates and emphasizes Bible Classes and work, aiming to hire prominent leaders for the Sunday School.
Sanday School members may attend the convention and receive full railway and convention privileges. Railways will grant single fares with full fares being paid when returning on free tickets.
Wheat No 1 Northern 1.5 dollars per bushel. Barley 1.5 per baste. Rice 1 per dozen eggs. Live weight cattle dressed price per weight. Hides 10 cents per pound. Fowl and spring chicken 9 to 10 cents per pound.
A fragment notes Himak for 1909 season, mentioning stealth and weather permitting, and referencing about the same route as last season. The language is terse and unclear, but suggests planning along a familiar path barring conditions.
Description Lights of the West 11 is a bay horse weighing 1750 pounds. The horse has proven to be a grand stock getter and a general favorite with breeders wherever traveled.
The Amer Shire Horse Association certifies that the Shire stallion Light of the West IT 50 foaled 1590, owned by Len W. Cochran of Crawfordsville Indiana, bay with white face and hind feet, sired by Wenona Albert 20% out of Wenona Gussie 4995 by Knowle Light of the West 3733, is registered in Vol 5 of the American Shire Horse Stud Book, numbered 554, on November 24 1900, under association rules. The certificate notes the stallion was inspected as purebred and sound with no hereditary disease, with approval by the Department of Agriculture and Immigration.
J Little and Sons announces they have moved east of Glover's Hardware Store and can perform general blacksmithing and machine work. Specializing in plows binders separators and engines. They solicit trial orders and promise prompt, reasonably priced service to win local patronage. Mac!
Terms to insure per mare at February fair. Single payment 8 percent payable at service. Owners disposing of mares before foaling time charged whether in foal or not. All accidents to mares at owner risk. M Thompson, Owner.
A fragmented account reflects adults trusting fanciful mail order ads seen only in imagination. The piece portrays eager buyers paying cash for products like a piging sack, drawn by vivid but misleading illustrations from firms, highlighting gullibility and mistaken expectations.
A catalog style notice lists Select strain Red Fife Wheat grown from one kernel yielding 140 extra large plump grains with heavy copper about 100 bushels in 5 and 10 bushel lots at 1.30 per bushel. Seed potatoes Wee Mackregor Dewey Pingree and Sir John Llewellyn priced at 75e and 1 per bushel.
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