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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 02, 1905
Page
8
Thursday prices show No 3 Northers Dats Barley Batter Eggs Beef live weight and poultry dressed in a terse market brief. The fragmented OCR lists prices for several commodities including eggs and beef with figures partially visible.
A brief Winnipeg district note set reports on residents traveling for work and schooling, photographers taking town views, and a carload of apples arriving for immediate sale. It also mentions a 12 year old murder case involving a Sintaluta resident, and local visits by MacGregor and others.
Residents recount Thanksgiving at home while in town Seym ir of Carberry visits with Miss Lottie Seymour. An auction sale of Mrs F J Thompson’s household goods is set for Tuesday next. Alex Stone mailed trees and shrubs to Island Park nursery at Portage la Prairie. MacGregor rifle club postpones dance and meeting for Ross hall Friday. Herold Scott of Winnipeg surveys stock at the new North Bank. The Presbyterian service shifts to Sunday evening due to Methodist services. Auctioneer Cars list sale for Saturday November 4 featuring Josep Jones's Rosehill stock and implements. Dentist See bills ertson of Portage la Prairie, a Portage graduate, plans practice in Austin on November.
Halloween went smoothly with no incidents as numerous house parties were held nationwide and enjoyed by attendees, with youths reportedly well behaved and the overall mood positive.
It is reported that horse thieves are operating in the Portage la Prairie district as several animals have mysteriously disappeared from between Portage la Prairie and Poplar Point.
A round up of local items includes a wage case heard in MacGregor, street lighting delays, a pedestrian incident, and train schedules. Also noted are the 11th hour Beaver shooting attempt, the sale of the Carberry flour mill, Thanksgiving quiet, and the midsummer exam results with 14 MacGregor candidates succeeding.
An aged medicines advertisement from West Farleigh Kent and Fagland markets touts a salve named Thambe claimed to cure many diseases. It instructs washing with warm water, drying, then applying the salve for a speedy cure, with sales through merchants and dealers.
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