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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 19, 1931
Page
2
The Department of Indian Affairs reports that Canadian Indians numbered 108,012 in 1929. Other items note London Ontario council backing the Winnipeg resolution on observing a post Christmas day, and a push for more protection for agricultural debtors from foreclosure.
Canada reports 493 176 radio receiving sets under licence or about 20 persons per set. End of January licenses total 69 090 more than in use in the 1929 30 fiscal year. Toronto leads with 77 194 sets, Montreal 41 378, Hamilton 16 932, Vancouver 19 530, Winnipeg 19 433. Licence fee is 1 per year, licences issued free to the blind total 659.
The Los Angeles Times quotes producers claiming artistic films fail at the box office while asserting a theater should please most patrons. It contrasts art demands with commercial risk and notes theaters as venues for mass appeal. Also mentions Argentina producing 33,000 tons of birdseed last year.
Miss Rose Grimm writes that five years ago a shock caused palpitations and restless nerves. After taking Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills, she recovered after three boxes and recommends them to others. Available at drug stores or direct from The T Milburn Co Ltd, Toronto Ont.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics reports 875 divorces granted in 1930, with 255 in British Columbia and 247 by the Dominion Parliament. Ontario 207, Alberta 151, Manitoba 114, Saskatchewan 62, Quebec 40, New Brunswick 27, Nova Scotia 19, none in Prince Edward Island. Total up 59 from 1929, largest in the nation’s history.
Hon. D. G. McKenzie reports Manitoba mineral production rose twenty percent in 1920, totaling 5,423,825 dollars. Capital invested in the mining industry now exceeds 62 million dollars. The year 1930 marked the best mining year yet with expenditures 15 percent above the prior year's 12.5 million dollars.
Canadian Pacific Railway president E W Beatty says railways may inaugurate joint rail and air services if air development warrants it. He notes air progress is satisfactory and suggests CP could provide combined services when opportune.
The Geological Society of London awarded the 101st Wollaston Medal to Dr. Arthur William Rogers of the Geological Survey of South Africa at Burlington House. The palladium medal, unique for being made from Canadian mined palladium, was presented by Mond Nickel Company with palladium sourced from Ontario nickel ore by the International Nickel Company.
Professor Stieboeck of the Vienna polyclinic reports using three meter waves from a half kilowatt transmitter to treat lung inflammation linked to influenza, cancer, and internal suppuration with encouraging results.
A claim of the smallest working locomotive in the world is exhibited at the Wimbledon and District seventh annual exhibition in Wimbledon England. The electric model by J J Langridge of River sidewalk Isleworth Middlesex runs and can be almost entirely covered by a postage stamp.
Debated sermon reflections on Jesus at Bethany with Lazarus Martha and Mary. Mary sits at Jesus feet while Martha frets over serving, with counsel that one thing is needful and deep communion fuels better action. Quoted scholars and poets frame the lesson on spiritual focus and sympathy. Reindeer in Alaska now exceed one million head.
Alva Mason, 25, an electrician from Minot, Me, has eyes that magnify objects eight inches away by more than 100 times. He works with glasses that de magnify for ordinary tasks, and without them he can identify phonograph grooves and record details by touch and image.
An experiment over five years measures field force of a normal bee colony. Thirteen calculations by Agriculture Department officers show figures from 22 187 to 39 687, with only two times below 31 000. It is reckoned that about 5 000 bees weigh a pound.
A fragment notes that fruit acids paradoxically reduce the acid impact of some diet foods, suggesting a balancing effect. The readable text mentions acids in fruit interacting with dietary acids, implying a nutritional consideration.
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