This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 19 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1931
Page
6
A historical editorial warns that as spring brings crowded roads and more travel, reckless driving will raise fatalities. It cites 1930s US data and Regina’s 1990 increases, urging careful driving, public safety focus, and personal responsibility to reduce deaths and injuries on highways.
Automatic signals used by motorists warned speakers who ran over time at a dinner hosted by the National Safety First Association at the Vintner's Hall EC to honor the Royal Commission on Transport.
Canadian furniture factories totaled 367 establishments producing goods valued at over 44 million dollars in 1929. Virtually the entire furniture output was sold domestically, while exports reached only 381,764 dollars.
The awards committee of the International League of Aviators named Coste the premier aviator, citing his five world records and his Atlantic flight. Amy Johncoe, flying from London to Australia, received top honors. both were hosted at the Elysee Palace by President Gent Dormergue. Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith was Coste’s only rival. The committee also ordered plaques for Mrs Victor Bruce, Maryse Bastie, and Mrs Charles Lindbergh, and designated Dr. Bugo Eckener as the world’s premier dirigible pilot.
Most people with sour stomachs and indigestion have given up diets and tonics and now take a teaspoonful of Bisulated Magnesia after meals. This simple remedy claims to ease stomach troubles and improve comfort, helping daily life.
Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures for 1929 show capital invested at 55,320,902 with 13,073 workers, salaries 12,765,876, materials 27,717,889, and product value 62,492,901 across 281 establishments in the biscuit confectionery chocolate and cocoa sectors. Also mentions Miller's Worm Powders claiming painless worm expulsion and tonic benefits for infants.
Minister Robert Weir cites hatchery policy as lifting Canadian farmers with a forecast 300000 saving this year. The scheme covers 134 hatcheries producing about 5 million chicks annually at low prices with low mortality. Worms prey on children, so Mother Graves Worm Exterminator is promoted to drive out parasites.
London the capital bans horse traffic on Oxford Street during spring hours to speed up vehicles. The Ministry of Transport announced an experimental scheme closing the busy east west thoroughfare daily to all slow moving traffic. The move marks a historic shift in city traffic management.
A brief gag notes a clerk reminded to remove a sign before leaving while a guest suggests altering the sign to ask what remains. The quip plays on wordplay about what is left behind and the sign’s wording.
Dr Charles E St John reports at Mount Wilson Pasadena that the sun's atmosphere reaches about 9000 miles deep, far beyond Earth's 100 mile atmosphere. The solar outer layer is ionized calcium, far heavier than hydrogen, while Earth's upper layers lose oxygen and nitrogen leaving helium and hydrogen.
The Glasgow crane, built by Butters Brothers and Co. Ltd at Kinning Park, lifts 290 foot stones and weighs over 100 tons on a 450 ton concrete base. Set to stand for seven years, it may be moved higher for Liverpool cathedral work, with the control cabin base 180 feet above ground.
A natural asthma remedy by Dr J D Kellogg claims immediate relief through a vapor smoke that reaches the flight passages, clearing bronchial passages and allowing fresh air to enter. It is marketed by dealers nationwide.
Four months ago Brander experienced a violent coughing fit and unknowingly swallowed a metal dental plate. The fragment lodged in his lungs, and doctors employed a bronchoscope for over two hours of delicate manipulation to retrieve it, narrowly saving his life.
Advertising educates readers and elevates ambition, described as essential to progress. The advert touts Douglas Egyptian Liniment as an excellent legwash for stock and a remedy for bruises sprains and swellings. It also claims it removes coins in horses and reduces joint stiffness.
A terse editorial note states Mussoum Japan France and the United States do not want war and urges attention to a purported "Switzerland Toledo Ride" as a symbol of pacific sentiment.
A Quebec Roads Department bulletin warns of carbon monoxide danger, noting its colorless tasteless and odorless nature makes it a treacherous gas in vehicles. It can cause harmful effects without warning, affecting both humans and animals, while promoting Dr Thomas Electric Oil as a remedy for related ailments.
The text explains that the early Egyptian calendar with 365 days causes a festival on a fixed gate to drift earlier by one day every four years, eventually returning to the start after 1,460 years. It contrasts this with a novel clock invention that closes a window at a set time to warm a bedroom before waking.
The growth of life insurance in the United States, especially via group policies for institutions and industries, has expanded access to many who previously carried no coverage. Individual policies remain small, but large policies rise, with 58 people insured at $1,000,000+ in 1928 and 323 in 1930, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A recent investigation finds more than ten percent of resignations from the 1h department store sales force are due to health conditions. The study highlights health factors as a notable cause for leaving, affecting staffing and turnover.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.