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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 22, 1933
Page
6
London hosts sixty seven nations as Premier Ramsay MacDonald and King pledge action toward interdependent trade. Roosevelt warns against narrow nationalism and stresses cooperation to secure prosperity for all nations.
A burglar is cornered in a New York grocery store and claims police fired. Officers note no shots were fired and discover the supposed blood on the burglar’s face is egg yolk. A later exchange features a patient asking a doctor about bathing after a rheumatism cure.
The Port Rowan News discusses a hypothetical price rise where wheat hits ten dollars per bushel and all goods rise proportionally. It questions whether such inflation would help overall and warns that the burden would fall on widows, retirees, and small income households, especially in country towns.
Western Provinces dairy associations of Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta plan a joint move to reduce freight charges on butter from the prairies to Vancouver and Eastern Canada. The action follows the railway board of commissioners rejection of a previous remittance request. Saskatchewan officials have contacted Alberta and Manitoba to arrange a meeting and seek an appeal for a hearing.
A plum velvet coat once owned by the highwayman Dick Turpin yielded money and jewelry from its lining. Purchases by Mr. Rutter of Cambridge included Turpin’s mask pistols and spurs. Earlier relics from Turpin’s era surfaced with a George I half crown dated 1717 and several rings and coins. French bread consumption falls to one pound ten ounces per person daily amid war related declines.
In England a pure white cattle herd resides within a 700 acre earls wood demesne in Northumberland. The 44 animals are shy and guarded by a stone wall, descendants of aurochs, fed by estate costs, with Zoological Society assistance ensuring preservation.
A young man bet that writing a poem and getting it printed in the New York Times was easy. He produced an eight line verse and used forged letters X Y Z and ABC to prompt the Times to publish the last four lines, then collected the stake.
A new Loch Leven trout record was caught in Saskatchewan’s Cypress Hills area weighing 10 pounds 2 ounces, significantly heavier than the species’ average in Scotland where it originated. The fish underscores Canada's growing angling highlights for 10 pound plus catches.
The Royal Bank of Canada offers a $1,000 graduate prize to a Canadian university student for the best essay on a Canadian economic issue. Essays are due March 1, 1934. Topics include Canadian industry analysis, capital movements, world economic conference outcomes, Canadian agriculture export future, and eastern Canada power using industries.
Newspapers note a contrast between low mood and crowded picture shows. The films provide a valuable outlet, helping people direct thoughts away from personal troubles and toward entertainment during hard times.
American astronomer Dr Charles Aboot predicts the sun will be colder for the next two years. He notes earth temperatures depend on many influences beyond solar radiation, so colder sun does not guarantee two cold years for the planet.
Overweight man credits Kruschen Salts with shedding 63 pounds in six months without dieting. He advises taking one half to a spoonful in hot water each morning before breakfast along with regular exercise to gain energy and endurance and improve sleep and activity.
French engineer M Eugene Freyssinet envisions a hollow concrete tower nearly two miles high for the Paris world exposition of 1997. A four mile spiral motor road would access a 100 car garage restaurant sun parlor and weather office under a tall aerial lighthouse. The project would require about two million dollars and no lifts.
The first Canadian motion picture produced in Hollywood and premiering in Canada, Damaged Lives, directed by the Canadian Social Hygiene Council, opens in Toronto with 25,000 viewers in its first week. It will tour the British Empire and show in England under government health sponsorship as a major public health education effort through film.
An African lioness appeared at a Paradise California home window prompting a family to forget their breakfast. The Associated Press notes the distraction as unusual but noncritical. A memorial to Carl Benz, motor car inventor, was unveiled in Mann-
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