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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 09, 1939
Page
7
The piece argues education should cultivate personality and independent thinking rather than rote learning. It contrasts past cramming with a modern aim to develop initiative, warning against regimentation and dictatorship, and stressing teachers as models shaping capable citizens.
A historical note explains that writing cheques for amounts under one dollar is not illegal. The statement clarifies that currency rules do not criminalize such transactions and indicates no specific penalties or enforcement actions are stated.
Dr Barnardo's Homes in Toronto 538 Jarvis St asks for help to compile an honor list of Barnardo boys who volunteered in the present war. They enlisted in the last war and served abroad. Information may be sent to the Barnardo Home to maintain complete records.
A historical note states a young robin can eat a small amount of worme in a day and the total length involved is given as 14 feet, highlighting unusual measurement for a bird task.
Samples from Outport Island in the Great Slave Lake region show tungsten presence up to 1.20 percent. The report by Slave Lake Gold Mines Limited notes potential commercial development, with ore valued around $20 a ton and tungsten concentrate prices likely favorable. China dominates early supply with 1938 exports at 17,895 metric tons. U S production was about 3,175 tons.
The Dominion now fields seven destroyers and four mine sweepers with the Assiniboia as the latest and largest addition. Obtained from Great Britain, the ship leads Canada’s flotilla and symbolizes prairie readers’ growing naval awareness and courage inspired by seafaring tales and wartime legends.
The 1939 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine was awarded to Prof. Gerhard Domack of Germany, but Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler refused to recognize or accept the prize. The regime’s stance echoed its 1935 ban following Carl von Ossietzky’s Nobel Peace Prize, when Germans were barred from accepting Nobel honors and the state created substitute prizes in art, literature, and science.
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