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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 22, 1928
Page
2
Cuticura treatment for dandruff describes applying the ointment, washing with Cosicore Seep and warm water, then applying a light layer of ointment between scalp cracks. The remedy is touted as beneficial, with details on timing and method for best results.
A collage of short items notes Chins invited to join Dutch Indies airlines for a 1929 Java China flight, Canada exports milk total 18.48 million dollars for eight months, old Macdonald era chair and couch sold for 3.50, BC Royal Winter Fair exhibit weighs nearly 14 tons, Lady Byng inherits most of 587 thousand pounds while Lord Byng executor gets 1000 pounds, Western Canada Airway places two monoplanes in service, Japanese war office seeks 2.75 million dollars for Kyoto Osaka defense, US ambassador post to England may go to Myron Herrick, Standard Bank of Canada absorbed by Canadian Bank of Commerce, worms threaten children but Mother Graves Worm Exterminator offered, cartoonish quotes about trolley usage and perpetual motion debate.
A Manitoba farmer, C R Sommerville, loaded Number 2 Durum into CN car 423871 at Argue on September 20. The same car returned October 1 carrying Number 4 Durum from Sommerville’s fields, a one in thirty six billion chance event noted by CN supervisor T P White as a remarkable transportation quirk.
Badger skins fetch high prices when taken in the right season. At a Winnipeg fur sale the top skin sold for 52 dollars and averages range from 20 to 2500 dollars, with spring skins highly valuable and fall skins nearly worthless. About twenty thousand badger skins are marketed annually across the three Prairie Provinces.
Four prominent health officials have been appointed to Connaught Laboratories Fellowships at the School of Hygiene, University of Toronto. Dr. R B Jenkins of Edmonton, Dr. F W Jackson of Winnipeg, Dr. F S Leader of Battleford, and Dr. Eva Mader of Kentville are named. The fellowships were created last year to boost public health workers in Canada.
A vintage notice promotes Baby's Own Tablets from Dr Williams Co as a quick fix for childhood ailments. It claims to ease colic and indigestion by toning the stomach and bowels, cites Mrs L M Brown of Walton Nova Scotia praising results, and notes price 25 cents per box. The ad also mentions Minard's Liniment for bruises and cutting up.
Aviation advances bring over loudspeaker planes to New York blasting ads for creams movies and cigarettes over the streets. Citizens cannot escape the noise and the piece suggests studying public nuisance laws to curb the practice.
The piece jokes about the Pekin Gazette as the world’s oldest paper, allegedly printed for a thousand years and claiming many editor executions. It contrasts the grim notion with humorous private dialogue and a country eggs remark from a grocer, ending with a puzzled customer.
Fragmentary line notes characteristics of strength and flavor packed by men trained in the London tea mark. Sold by your grocer in clean bright aluminum yew.
Parafte Lazaruk and Harry Strynadka of the Northern Alberta Boys and Girls Swine Club won first prize in the Canadian Pacific Railway competition held at Willingdon on the Cutknife Whitford line. Benny Flancis and Bernie Kobitesch took second, Thurston Smith and Erwin Bergus third. Medals were awarded by George Fox of the Edmonton CP Railway division. The Ukrainian-descent youths, both 17, attend Desjardins school and farm work. The Willingdon team advances to Calgary to face provincial winners for a CP trophy and a Toronto Royal trip. Local railway and agriculture officials praise the club work for improving hog quality shipped to market.
A humorous reflection on aging contrasts a man’s long life with changing times as he notes there were no motor cars for seventy years and he has stayed home the past thirty. The text also mentions over two million women in Soviet Russia belong to trade unions.
Sunday School lesson outlines Paul’s speech to the Jewish crowd from the stairway, detailing his Jewish birth, Tarsus education, fiery persecution, dramatic conversion, and call to witness for Jesus. It highlights his aim to win the mob to Christ and fulfill the Lord’s command to preach to the Gentiles.
Betty Barclay outlines veal birds prepared from 2 pounds veal, cut into six to eight squares, marinated with salt and pepper, filled with Piquant stuffing, skewered, browned in fat, then roasted with water in a slow oven for about an hour. Yields six to eight portions.
A recipe for a raisin sauce using butter flour salt pepper cayenne brown sugar water horseradish and lemon juice. The process heats a chopper, cooks a thickened mixture, then adds raisins horseradish and lemon juice before serving hot. The closing line comments on night schools as folly.
A commission from the Academy of History investigated Oliva de Jerez near Badajoz and found traces in the Church of Santa Maria Grecia suggesting Columbus memorabilia. Stones inscribed Here Nes Christopherus Sanchez Enriquez Grand Admiral of the Oceans and the Lands by Him Discovered born 1441 were also reported.
Vancouver as Canada's Pacific gateway expands its grain trade with Alberta and Saskatchewan shipments rising toward 120 million bushels this year. Wheat exports push through the Panama Canal to Europe and western voyages head toward Japan. Peace River farming area could swell growth, with 47 million acres and yields up to 70 bushels per acre. Northwest Grain Dealers estimate total wheat at 558 million bushels and other grains at multiples of hundreds of millions.
Plain and light towing at home or elsewhere with good pay. Work sent any distance, charges paid. Send stamp for particulars. National Manufacturing Co. Montreal.
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