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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 02, 1939
Page
3
Sally Ann arrives at Aunt Helena’s for dinner and meets Sarah Lynn Dana. Penny Pennington asks Sally Ann to take Sarah Lynn back, insisting she is unhappy and not understood, while others observe the tense, uneasy scenes among the Danas.
A fragment recalls a tense moment as a woman fears speaking and longs to escape. Dana anxiously awaits a visit with Lynn while a traveler is amused by a greyhound. The scene shifts to reflections on fashionable Parisian trinkets and a casual chat about dogs and social impressions.
An old account describes dramatic relief from rheumatic pain via Kruschen salts and uric acid dissolvers, noting a hospital stay and rapid recovery. The text weaves in social chatter about marriage, divorce, and a talk of a roadhouse called The Stewed Prune, ending with Aunt Helena inviting guests for coffee.
A dialogue heavy scene shows an English woman seeking permission and Sally Ann reacting with irritation as household pressure mounts. Great-granny Lynn Bull and Penny press demands while the speaker contemplates the misfit of responsibility. The narrator hints at a troubled, intimate domestic dynamic and a self mockery before sleep.
Sally Ann observes Adelaide Dana as a buoyant, commanding presence at the table while Ed Dana boasts of four fine sons and a contrasting marriage, noting Sarah Lynn’s compliant nature and Ardine’s heavy drinking amid family dynamics.
Gargantua, billed as the most frightfully fiendish brute, performs in England in a $20,000 air conditioned cage owned by Ringling circus interests. The seven year old ape recently finished touring with the Al G. Barnes Sells Floto circus and now appears with the Bertram Mills Olympia circus. Workmen upgraded his cage with polished steel and glass, new trucks, and larger wheels. He previously traveled in a wooden box with iron bars over the top.
Two hundred fifty Sudeten German refugees have left Czecho Slovakia for England. Most belonged to the former Social Democratic party opposed to Konrad Henlein before the German annexation of the Sudetenland last fall. Emigrants will be quartered in Scotland and later move to an English colony. Eighty refugees went to Sweden and nineteen to Finland.
A fragment notes men's spring styles with plum colored evening coats and opera capes in twilight blue lined with scarlet satin. It contrasts bold options with safer choices like carpet slippers.
The Journal of the American Medical Association states there is effectively no lie detector. The piece warns that polygraphs are overly complex for routine use and often misapplied by police and firms as a form of psychological coercion.
About a thousand London trades serving Buckingham Palace face a royal verdict this year to determine if the King and Queen are pleased customers and whether shops can display the royal arms with the insignia. The practice signals prestige and new business as Britain expects over 1,500,000 new houses in six years.
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