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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 19, 1921
Page
6
Fragmented text shows an old ad for a catarrh remedy followed by a dramatic scene. A chanteuse and a cottage couple confront fame and home, ending with the inventor showing a mansion on a hill as the couple reconciles and faces a new choice. The tale contrasts modest love with glittering ambition and a final vow.
A long forgotten ownerless hilltop mansion overlooks a cottage where John Humphreys son tends a lamp each night. After twenty years a storm brings a party of artists led by Madame Lesia to the road front, revealing tension between wild outward bravado and inner sorrow.
Cardinal Mourne argues for continued union between Ireland and England, stating separation is impossible. He contends Irish action depends on Britain for defense, and Britain cannot exist without Ireland, urging the fading of any dream of separation. The Argonaut comments on inextricable ties.
The excerpt compares a man’s weight to coin silver and coin gold values, estimating that an 180 pound man would balance on scales with about 2500 dollars in silver while gold would be around 40000 dollars. It notes the 400th anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s death in Florida.
A letter outlines a low cost summer cottage project for four families near the seashore. It proposes three first floor rooms and two on the second, shared dining, reading and guest rooms, a kitchen, a bathhouse, windmill water supply, and a plan to reuse inherited furniture with simple finishes. Cooperation, rotating housekeeping, and affordable materials are recommended to create a comfortable seasonal home.
A sample of sawdust fuel reached New Westminster by the Board of Trade from Walter Thomas of Eureka California. Methods to make fuel from sawmill waste have been tried in the New Westminster district for years, but none were suitable until now.
The McMurray detachment leaves Edmonton to Fort McMurray to co operate with Constable J B McDonald who has served there for years. Two men will be stationed at Lac la Biche, Constables Moses and McCarthy join the force.
A condemnatory piece condemns an Irish murder. It contrasts Ireland’s historic chivalry with a brutal nighttime killing of a helpless woman. The author accuses gang violence and wage killings of eroding moral life and demanding government action.
Bulgarian compulsory labor law mobilizes society with 20 year old men and 16 year old girls called to service. About 600,000 workers engaged in roads, sanitation, canals, street paving, and construction under the program, while 70,000 fall within the law’s reach.
The Provincial Legislature approved a 3,870,200 funding package to extend the ministerial telephone system in Manitoba and to erect public buildings during the current year.
A group of twenty families from California recently passed through New Westminster to view farming land in British Columbia. They have begun moving household goods stock and related items as part of a settlement shift seeking new farmland opportunities.
Plans for a brick tile glazed tile manufacturing plant in Winnipeg are completed. L. Thompson, manager of Martin Engineering Company of Niagara Falls Ontario, says the first unit will have a capacity of 20,000,000 tiles yearly. Deposits of clay used in tile manufacture are noted.
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