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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
7
Advertisement seeking women to sew plain and light garments at home. Work available with spare time, distant paid, and a fair salary. Include mail for response.
A fragment notes that in France wounds earned in service are honored. It references Napoleon stating such injuries mark nobility. The line suggests the idea of valor being recognized through physical scars as a noble trait.
A fragmented page blends mentions of US pork imports, Canadian bacon, Allied war efforts, Canadian forestry battalions, and naval logistics with stray lines about birth rates in New Zealand and social topics. Numerous garbled names and places obscure clear facts but indicate wartime trade, recruitment, and public interest items.
A returned Canadian Private describes brutal conditions at Gottin internment, noting harsh diet, inadequate medical care, constant insults, and frequent kicking by guards. He recalls two months of abuse from forty fellow prisoners and later transfer in February, with many injured by prior wounds.
A Cape Breton resident Mr. M A Morrison suffered kidney disease for five years. After doctors failed, a friend advised Dodd's Kidney Pills. he took five boxes and claims complete cure. The letter urges others with kidney issues to try the remedy, noting its Canadian-wide use for decades.
The fragment argues that giving due credit is essential and that envy harms greatness while generosity sustains a life of action. It contends that recognizing others' achievements without jealousy fosters opportunity and habit, though the text itself is incomplete and reads like a philosophical aside.
The Miners Federation of Great Britain was asked to supply 10,000 miners for front line mining work. They indicated willingness to help only if wages for the workers were on a fixed basis and would not be used to seek permanent positions. The federation stressed they would not exploit the war to gain long term advantages, acknowledging the War Office price scale.
The Department of Trade and Commerce launches inquiries into orders to restrict lobster packets in the lower provinces and Ontario vegetable canners amid wartime shortages. Citizens discuss home fronts and distant battles as citizens and soldiers exchange wary news and opinions.
An assortment of short notes and conversations shows praise for Ruby's Own Tablets as an effective childhood remedy sold by druggists in Brockville Ontario. The item includes a humorous exchange about a new baby sister and a brief social vignette of a woman in a tenement district, plus stray lines about Palm Beach and a faulty kitchen scene.
The readable line hints at a quarrel about bricks and a person named Murphy. It mentions tearing up a poem and a sense of frustration. The text is garbled but centers on a confrontation and a dramatic reaction regarding a poem and an incident with bricks.
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