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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 05, 1935
Page
2
A Western Canadian prairie article weighs the wheat dilemma facing farmers. It weighs risks of expanding wheat, adopting leaf crops, or shifting to other crops amid pests and weather, and debates an experimental factory farming concept called cabinet culture that promises massive yields but remains unproven.
A 30 000 head roundup in Alaska aims to earmark and manage health and slaughter plans. Corrals will be built inland from Point Barrow for counting and marking ear shapes, with Eskimo herding from the Arctic plains.
Transcontinental air route is urged as essential for Canada to secure a leading role in global affairs. A Canadian military writer stresses aviation as the best contribution to empire defence. January is noted as the official birthday of thoroughbred horses. The Brantford Expositor’s 35-year-ago column recalls a relief officer reporting August expenses of 24.72. Ancient Rome’s Baths of Diocletian could hold 3200 feathers. Westmoreland, England, paints its telephone booths red.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions liver bile and bloat with garbled phrases. No coherent event, names, dates, or locations readable to derive a concrete news item or outcome.
The Chicago Herald and Examiner notes Belgium may appoint a full minister to Canada in addition to the current Belgian consul. It argues Canada could become a real British Empire outpost with London as its European HQ, due to its Arctic north and border with the United States.
Victor Hugo cites a compassionate bishop who avoids harming even an ant. The piece urges cultivating kindness in children and warns against unnecessary suffering when destroying harmful creatures, endorsing humane treatment in early life.
The article notes that ninety years ago the first telegraph company in Canada formed in Toronto and began laying the pioneer wire line to Hamilton, with completion to Queenston within days, and that Montreal Telegraph linked to Toronto the same year, eventually leading to the 1852 purchase of the initial Toronto company. It also mentions Morley receiving a cradle from Herbert Henry Asquith’s family, and adds assorted facts about peacock feathers, the Queen Mary, and Japan and Australia statistics.
At Geneva the Polish delegate urged the League of Nations to seek homes for Polish Jews elsewhere beyond Palestine. He noted Palestine as the natural Jewish home but called for other places to shelter the vast Jewish population of Poland, estimated at 3.5 million. In Jerusalem authorities arrested 36 Arabs and charged 15 more with damaging the Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline amid ongoing sabotage and attacks on the oil flow.
Selected recipes describe Magic Cream Cookies using sugar thick cream flour shredded coconut baking powder and salt. The method lists beating eggs with sugar adding coconut cream and flour then chilling rolling the dough sprinkling with coconut cutting shapes and baking on a buttered sheet in a moderate oven.
Canada adds war planes with new equipment bought in England totaling over 500000. Seven Shark bombers arrive and two assembled at Rockcliffe. ten trainer planes for Fort Erie cost about 4000 each. Bombers speed 178 mph and endurance seven hours.
Dr. Agnes Fay Morgan and Bessie B Cook report that lactose or galactose in the intestine and vitamin G deficiency accompany eye trouble. In lactose and low vitamin G diets, cataract incidence reached 100 percent, while lactose fed controls showed about 60 percent compared with cornstarch controls. The study advances understanding though the cause remains unknown.
George Oscorne and his brother James were found guilty of stealing the trawler Girl Pat at the Old Bailey in London. George received nine months and a further 18 months in prison, while James, once of Toronto, was sentenced to 12 months. The vessel sailed from Grimsay last April on a fishing trip, visiting the Spanish coast Canary Islands West Africa and French Guiana before capture off British Guiana in June.
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