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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 12, 1938
Page
2
New sewing pattern 4731 offers a slim jacket frock with V neck lace edging and soft sleeves. Sizes range from 34 to 48 with fabric and lace requirements noted. step by step instructions included. send 20 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
The Senate approved a 1 156 000 000 naval expansion bill. Britain plans mobilization readiness for extraordinary circumstances. The Canadian Legion funds aid distressed ex Imperial Forces via the Red Cross. A 1940 world Scouts jamboree is planned in Wellington with about 5000 attendees. Lindbergh to move to the island of Mice near the French coast in June. UK Erie market concessions extend to Canada per a UK accord. Leviathan sale near Glasgow fetches 1145 for the famous bar piece. Tweedmouth presented a 700 prize to Eldon Rathburn of Saint John. Lyons announced Anglo Australian air mail service will start July and rise to triweekly by August. Nova Scotia censored about 5 500 000 feet of film in 1936 37. none condemned.
The Consul General of The Netherlands in Montreal warns that several unidentified people using various names are advertising Dutch flower bulbs in Canadian papers without payment. Cheques sent are spurious and buyers will receive no bulbs. He urges publishers to consult him before running such advertisements.
The defendant defends his account of a brick hit claiming no malice and rejects the lawyer’s framing of the incident. He repeats that he struck the plaintiff with a brick and notes no mallets were used.
George Grey Barnard 74 died recently in a New York hospital while working on a colossal Abel statue. Dubbed the Modern Michelangelo, his career spanned 400 plaster frieze figures and a 100 foot Rainbow Arch begun with $200,000. Notable works include The God Pan at Columbia, Brotherly Love in Norway, and Lincoln statues sent to Manchester to mark Anglo American peace.
A list of light supper dishes to keep a husband awake after work with quick, satisfying plates. Includes India Relish Hot Rolls with a coffee cake option and a Pickle Combination Plate featuring jelly mold recipes and a savory mold with cabbage, relish, and horseradish.
Historical treasures display at Windsor features Napoleon's original letter to the Prince Regent after Waterloo, admired by Premier Edouard Daladier. A Cook's tortoise, over 150 years old, still lives on Tonga Island among the natives as a chief’s pet.
A synagogue ruler asks Jesus how to inherit eternal life. Jesus cites the commandments and urges selling possessions to follow him, revealing the man’s failure to part with wealth. The lesson contrasts measured obedience with radical self sacrifice.
The Greek steamer Andreas with 32 crew on a Antwerp to Montevideo voyage encounters eight stowaways from Lithuania France Chile Russia Italy Greek and Portugal. Captain Mantzovinos detains them in Dover but England refuses to take them, the crew and stowaways regroup and sail on.
A photo at Jack Miner's Kingsville Ontario residence recalls Grey Owl's visit. Grey Owl is dead, with controversy over his English origins settled by his grave marker bearing both A Belaney and Grey Owl. Miner at 73 continues bird conservation despite limited travel.
The article classifies hardy and tender flowers for Canadian gardens and offers seed sowing tips. It advises starting with frost hardy blooms like cosmos and calendula and delaying tender bulbs such as dahlias and gladiolus until after the danger of freezing has passed. It also suggests dual cropping to maximize space and warns against rushing the season.
The piece outlines Shanghai's transformation from a historic mudbank to a major cosmopolitan hub and its current peril amid war. It cites $300,000,000 in losses, a 70 percent drop in trade, and totaled trade values of $65,400,000 from Feb–Jul 1937 and $196,820,258 from Aug 1937–Jan 1938, noting idle factories and empty warehouses.
World traveler and author known as the Opal King has arrived in New York City with opals worth hundreds of thousands earned from Australian coal ventures. He aims to build a hospital in Canada or the United States and will fund a jewel encrusted dream harp from sale proceeds. A cutting factory may be built at Niagara Falls for the stones.
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