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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 12, 1936
Page
6
Saskatchewan study by Dr. Murray and others notes a growing need for adult education facilities across prairie provinces. Finances hold back expansion, but rising adult interest and increased reading spur demand, with younger students signaling benefit from modern, problem oriented instruction.
Dr Charles Harvey Archibald of New York, a pioneer in X ray development, dies at Asbury Park New Jersey after an operation to combat burns from prior X ray exposure. Earlier, he lost a finger in 1930 and had his left arm amputated in 1934 due to burns. A separate report notes electric eel electricity estimated from 170 to 300 volts, with a six foot eel capable of over 1300 volts.
Budapest police branded the song Gloomy Sunday as a trigger for personal crises. Eighteen cases were reported, culminating with Joseph Keller, who asked police to place roses on his grave. Others shot themselves during or after hearing the melancholy notes.
The 21 year old ruler of half a million people returned from a seven week England visit with four carloads of souvenirs. His entourage included his wife and two sons, brothers, and servants. crates marked with his name filled with dogs guns fabrics toys clothing and a $5,000 automobile. Also bought incubators for chickens equipment for talking pictures and kitchen utensils.
The Agricultural Research Foundation at the University of Saskatchewan will receive about 24000 dollars for agricultural experimental advancement. Unclaimed assets from the Saskatchewan Cooperative Elevator Company will be redirected to this fund under legislative action. The original research fund from the wheat board year 1919 20 totals about 225000 dollars and its interest supports provincial crop research.
Fragmentary notice touts a tonic branded Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as nourishing. It references a “sour neighborhood druggist” and lists prices 0 cents, 2.00, or liquid 1.35, with unclear context and several garbled phrases. The passage lacks coherent facts or a clear event.
Leo Buting of Sydney, Australia received the third letter of five mailed in bottles from ships in the Pacific months ago. One bottle cast near the Tongan Isles reached Fiji five months later, another reached North Queensland 500 miles away, and a third from Pago Pago drifted to the Gilbert Islands. A native opened it, paid six cents in postage, and tucked the unread letter in his belt before it was spotted by a trading schooner captain who sent it to Burningham.
A historic recipe card outlines making a yeast sponge with luke warm milk and sugar, then a butter sugar creaming, eggs and currants dough. The dough rests, rises, shapes into buns, glazes with tea and water, marks crosses, and bakes 15 to 20 minutes at 400 degrees.
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics estimates Saskatchewan valued horses cattle sheep and swine at 86.36 million in 1935 while farm poultry rose to 5.299 million. The European spruce sawfly harmed thousands of acres of spruce and attacked evergreens in Connecticut. Eighteen U.S. cities and towns are named Union.
An express train sped through Shimizu station two minutes late and did not stop. The station master alerted Okisu next, the train halted, and passengers were driven back by car. The crew cited forgetfulness and received penalties for negligence.
Fog shrouded Friary Court as the guard changed with a band barely visible. The last tune played before retreating to barracks was Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, chosen to suit the muted scene.
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