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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 06, 1930
Page
3
Simeon Bartlett joins Nick and Gay for supper and old tales, as Bartlett warns about honesty, family, and not tying strings too tight. He recalls a childhood cheat at a Sunday School picnic and urges mutual trust, noting jealousy harms more than strong drink.
Gay and Nick share a moonlit supper with Simeon Bartlett, praising her hostess skills and promising memories. Aged Simeon speaks of his late wife and warns the couple about life’s longings. On the cabin porch Nick proposes, admits he’s been a kid, and Gay acknowledges the need to face their future together. To Be Continued.
Paul J Moranti, famed for a half mile subway dig under Manhattan, has been named consulting engineer to oversee a railroad tunnel project under the Mediterranean to connect Spain and Morocco. He will depart to drill borings off Gibraltar as the Spanish government assigns him to the plan. Moranti’s Brooklyn Manhattan Transit dig neared completion a year ahead of schedule, with 700 workers and a cost of 9 735 449 dollars. He elevated 85 skyscrapers, rerouted conduits and pipes, removed a brick sewer, and navigated dense traffic and crowds during the operation.
The Manchester Guardian notes a sharp drop in enduring popular songs as sheet music sales fall after the advent of talkies. Publishers report huge losses from the modern mechanized music age, with overproduction of generic material and limited new ditties that endure like earlier hits.
Northern Alberta closes a record prospecting year as five major firms push intensive exploration by air at high cost. The region reports valuable mineral discoveries and substantial data gathered. London sees an invasion of street bagpipe players as a curious cultural line crosses continents.
A translated matrimonial notice from Japan extols a beautiful woman with curly hair a supple figure silk skin and a large fortune. It promises obedience and eternal repose beside an honorable well bred man, even alluding to a rose colored marble tomb.
Sparta barbers agree to cut hair in exchange for wheat. For one bushel of wheat a farmer may receive a haircut plus 27 cents cash relief. Wheat sells at 67 cents a bushel and a trim is valued at 40 cents, with local chickens set to benefit.
An ad notes Baby's Own Tablets ease digestive issues in babies and children. The product is described as safe, mildly laxative, and helpful for constipation, indigestion, teething pains, and colds. Sold by medicine dealers or mail order for 25 cents. Palestine orange cultivation grows, with Jews investing over twenty million dollars.
An old column blends religious verse with a product notice for Douglas Egyptian Liniment. It touts belief in God speaking to individuals and promotes the liniment as a universal remedy for ailments from toothache to burns. The fragmentary text mixes devotional lines, names, and marketing language.
A war vis note announces the United States Jun ss Commerce national convention to be held in Des Moines Iowa in June 1914. The event aims to organize post convention outreach to Winnipeg led by national president Dunward Howes of Los Angeles.
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