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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 26, 1936
Page
2
Christie's Ritz wafers are described as tender toasted and nutty with a slight salt. The note claims they improve the taste of soups cheese salads and nearly any food or drink. It advises keeping bates at home for universal enjoyment.
A Vancouver remark notes a 400 million bushel wheat crop for prairie provinces this year. A 28 member House committee investigates pensions for veterans. Canada sees more divorces in 1935. Bolton. King George and Queen Mary to appear in a Liverpool cathedral stained glass window. Labour minister says relief camps to close. Wireless link connects Canton and Hankow by telephone.
Miss Ya Ching-lee, 23, honored for completing Boeing School of Aeronautics, recounts escapade that joined Caterpillar Club after belt unfastened in a barrel roll over San Francisco Bay. She was saved by parachute and later flew Oakland to Reno. Plans to tour China demoing aerial tricks amid wide public interest.
The BBC reveals that from 2.50 license fees only 1.30 funds broadcasting. The post office and treasury took 8,205,000 of 18,400,000 receipts. BBC profits rose 2,107,880 while a balance of 154,585 remained and 857,340 was donated to charities.
Devotional study outlines Luke 13 on the kingdom of God with parables of the mustard seed and leaven, comparing the kingdom to a growing tree and to a hidden influence. It warns against false hope and stresses personal entrance through the narrow door, urging careful self-examination.
Forest production in British Columbia for 1935 amounted to 56.941 million dollars, up about 11.5 million from 1934. It was the highest since 1930, up 60 percent from the 1932 low. Lumber and newsprint prices were steady, with shingles prices rising.
The text notes barley as Canada’s third largest grain crop after wheat and oats. Barley yields are under one quarter of wheat, with barley containing more starch and crude fibre, and a bushel of barley weighing less than the wheat equivalent.
The Prison Governor asks if there are complaints. The prisoner answers yes, criticizing that the prison walls are not built to scale. The exchange highlights confinement frustrations and symbolic critique of the facility.
A Franciscan missionary is recorded as the earliest to reference petroleum in America, via a letter published in 1632, marking an early documented awareness of the resource.
A reader pattern notice explains a square and stitch motif design with supplies and instructions. It directs sending 20 cents to the Household Arts Dept of Winnipeg Daily News for Pattern 5557 Aquela Brown, with stamps or coin, and notes the pattern includes a full illustration and needed stitches.
A Polish site in Kielce reveals a copper mine claimed to be three millennia old. Objects and tools lie well preserved with engravings of the planetary system on many galleries. An elderly countryside woman, visiting a large town, marvels at an electric tram drawn by a clothes-prop.
The first television receiving sets were shown to the German public at this year’s Berlin radio exhibition, marking a milestone in broadcast technology. The display highlighted early TV concepts and their potential impact on home entertainment.
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