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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 18, 1939
Page
6
A thoughtful monograph on parenting notes the adolescence danger zone as youths seek independence. It argues early training, individual methods, and balanced discipline build confident, capable citizens, with occasional spanking allowed but not necessary if motive and temperament are considered.
John Omwake, longtime president and chairman of the United States Playing Card Company, died in Cincinnati at age 85. He was known as the world’s largest manufacturer of cards yet had little skill with card tricks or playing them.
A fragment notes that a gallon of the earth’s average material would weigh about 55 pounds, with the figure appearing in a historical measurement context. It mentions the density idea without full context or accompanying details.
A U S proposal to extend coastal control to a twelve mile zone is under discussion in Congress. Senator Pittman notes international issues and peacetime benefits, including better control of Alaska fishing banks amid Japanese competition. The idea could be enacted by proclamation or treaty, referencing a prior twelve mile zone created with Great Britain during Prohibition to curb rum running.
Ottawa approved expenditures of 625000 for Alberta's main highways this season. Hon W A Fallon announced the plan noting 550000 will be shared with the Dominion for central and southern district improvements and 75000 funds for mining roads development with two thirds from Ottawa and one third from Alberta.
The Royal Canadian Humane Association announced parchment certificates for rescuers Annie Margaret Elviss of Swan River and Joseph H. Hall of Selkirk for saving people from drowning in 1938. Elviss saved Richard W. Zinger at Swan River on August 10, 1938, and Hall rescued Rosie Rifkin in the Red River at Selkirk on July 16, 1938. Alison Clifford Fawcett of Rainy River, Ontario, also received an award for rescuing Clifford van Norman at Rainy River on October 2, 1938.
The text notes milestones in authors lives showing Milton beginning Paradise Lost at 32 and completing it after seven years of blindness, Gray’s eight years on Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Dante writing the Divine Comedy from age 35 to his death at 66, and Goethe drafting Faust from 20 to 80.
The report details 74,000,000 acres of cultivated land in Canada with 55,700,000 in the Prairie Provinces and 40,000,000 acres of unimproved pasture, 33,000,000 of which lie in the Prairie Provinces. It also notes Belgium accounts for about half of Canada’s port trade for a product related to bestosim and mentions sharks as a source of poultry feed.
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