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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 02, 1946
Page
7
Carl Helm of Industrial Press Service praises the weekly press in a Publishers' Auxiliary piece. He urges big city advertisers to read home town weeklies to grasp rural buying power and the country’s influence and readership shaping family life and local markets.
The article praises weekly country papers as comprehensive community records. It highlights coverage of marriages, births, visits, travels, farm affairs, 4-H, farm bureau, grange, clubs, schools, churches, and local groups, plus national and world context and features.
Upsala reports an X-ray of Gustavus I’s tomb revealing serious disorders cited to explain career episodes. The piece suggests historians may push for more royal relic investigations, noting Windsor’s Charles I tomb breach in 1813 and later return of a severed vertebra fragment to the royal vault.
Ontario bakers suggest standardizing bread at 16 or 20 ounces to reduce waste from current 12 and 24 ounce loaves. They argue smaller loaves waste less and Europe would benefit from more affordable bread, saving material nationally.
A Guelph Mercury note argues poor car maintenance leads to more highway accidents than commonly believed. Regular inspections and upkeep are essential for safety and economy, stressing that well conditioned vehicles reduce risk on roads.
A crossword puzzle listing 14 easy gait related clues and entries including 19 Bacteriology term, 21 archaic form, 23 metric measure, 24 colloquial portion, and 25 ancient word.
Col WG Denney told the Commons expenditures committee the postwar army will be built on a 90 000 troop basis for initial organization with 25 000 active and 1 200 northwest highway and communication force plus 113 000 cadets. He said the goal is 100 percent entitlement of stores and war establishment for the active force while equipment will evolve with new weapons development.
French mission led by Prof. Pierre Montet uncovers a square limestone lined pit beside the Temple of Tanis northeast of Cairo. The roughly 20 by 17 foot chamber may have housed the sacred crocodile or fish of the pharaohs, with stairs to an underground door found by peasants. Excavation to determine depth continues with plans to return next January.
The Winnipeg Tribune reports a London tale of youngsters new to bananas who trade them for cod liver oil, illustrating nations also slow to embrace peaceful gains. The piece likens global appetite for peace to hesitant kids adjusting to new fruit.
The article argues for conserving topsoil on Canadian wheat lands and notes the need to use research and fertilizers to keep a bread basket position. It contrasts U S soil wear with a hope for revival, mentions Australian clover as a dense self seeding pasture and weedkiller, and cites England land plowing figures.
A reader shares practical tips to reduce bread waste over six years by storing slices in metal cans or bags, then grinding leftovers into bread crumbs for cooking. Dishes like tomato curry, fried plantains, and bread pudding are suggested, underscoring thrift as radio and papers urge Save the Bread and Save the Grain.
Newsweek notes Tokyo rises from postwar ruin with raw wooden huts replacing restored greenery. Fires destroyed roots and plants, leaving sawmills along Sumida and many canals consuming logs as rapid rebuilding outstrips city-planning ideas.
Twenty six famous paintings stolen by Germans during the occupation were recovered by Dr. A P A Vorenkamp of Smith College and taken back to the Netherlands aboard an American airplane. The works include Rembrandt Rubens and van Gogh and were found at Berchtesgaden and Linz Austria. A separate note reports a gift of 50000 rupees from the Maharajah of Nepal for British distress relief as he retires from public life.
Veteran magicians decry modern conjurers exposing tricks like sawing a woman in half. They warn centuries of mystery are leaking as a global effort to guard the craft forms. In England, W. G. Strickland of the International Brotherhood of Magicians blames the war and laments the trend at the group’s annual dinner.
A collage of quotes on wealth, sacrifice, charity, and virtue by DuVal Beecher Eddy Baker Eddy, Caird, Whittier and Emerson. The excerpt emphasizes giving up worldly honors for heavenly riches and the safe influence of true goodness over harm.
A recipe for Spice Twists uses cinnamon and flour with shortening sugar and egg yolk to make a light pastry. The instructions describe mixing, cutting in shortening, combining wet and dry ingredients, kneading briefly, and rolling the dough before baking or brushing with egg white.
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