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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 22, 1931
Page
6
An editorial urges Western Canadians to reclaim the old pioneer's courage endurance and optimism amid a global mood dip. It condemns relief dependency notes profiteers and stresses self denial and collective effort to weather hardship and safeguard the nation.
The New Westminster seed extraction establishment of the Forest Service has completed ten years of service producing 40,940 pounds about twenty and a half tons of forest tree seeds. Most seeds have been sent to the Forestry Commission of Great Britain and state forest services of New Zealand and Australia. Chief species include Sitka spruce yellow pine and Douglas fir.
Dr E V McCollum of James Hopkins University told a health institute by the Milk Council of Greater Chicago that alfalfa is rich in vitamins and palatable in salads. He suggested milk from cows fed on alfalfa for those who dislike hay. Trade conditions in the Union of South Africa continue to improve.
Thirty typewritten pages of an emergency decree signed by Present von Hindenburg tighten Germany’s belt and curb spending. It covers salaries, debts, agricultural relief, savings bank rules, tax shirker action, and powers to quell subversive movements. It includes federal aid to communes, converting short-term loans to long-term, ending long-term contracts with high earners, in kind unemployment pay, halting new admin buildings for three years, pension cuts, and a pack-to-the-farm push led by a Federal Commissioner to aid small farms. Further decrees are promised.
The National Jaras Branch of the Department of the Interior Canada maintains an engineering service that constructs bridges highways and streets and sidewalks. It reports over 400 miles of motor highways 14 miles of streets and 11 miles of sidewalks built and 111 bridges completed.
The farm problem now appears to be how to make one stalk grow where two grew before. Sirius, the Dog Star, is more than 10 times as bright as our own sun.
Gandhi weighs a U S visit if friends persuade John Haynes Holmes that he would not be laughed at. Holmes warns the Mahatma his trip would be misunderstood and exploited. Einstein called such a visit a mistake, as Americans may see him as a spectacle. Gandhi says he will reconsider if Americans are ready to hear his message.
Anthracite from the British Isles imported to Canada via Montreal reached 550,668 tons by September end, 373 tons above 1930. Overseas coal and coke receipts for the season lag 105,020 tons from last year due to the embargo on Russian coal. Welsh and Scotch hard coal increases fail to offset the Soviet decline of 148,000 tons landed previously.
Mrs. G K L Montre shares how a death in the family forced black outfits to be dyed instead of bought. She praises Diamond Dyes for turning dresses stockings and curtains to rich black raspberry and garnet shades saving money and preserving garments.
A Denver grocer creates a novel storefront display by placing a baseball cut in half on the window and opposite side, with black painted cracks to simulate impact. A placard titled A Big Hit lists store bargains while promoting Persian Balm as a reforming toilet requisite for dainty women and refined charm.
La Presse of Montreal received television and radiovision permits enabling its two stations to broadcast simultaneously across Greater Montreal. Engineers are rushing to install the first station of its kind in Canada, the paper announces.
The battleship Emperor of India, stranded since serving as a target for the Iron Duke on June 11, was refloated and towed into Portsmouth where it has been docked. Salvage costs run about £800 daily, totaling roughly £52,800. The text ends with a note about not agreeing to hold a baby for Mr and Mrs Lindbergh.
A reader testimonials that six months of Kruschen Salts use aided fat loss and boosted energy and agility. The note urges taking one half teaspoon in hot water each morning before breakfast and maintaining diet and exercise for clearer skin and brighter eyes.
The article explains that commercially canned fruits and vegetables must be sound, mature, and sterilized under strict government supervision. It notes allowed preservatives, packaging, and the four quality grades Fancy, choice, standard, and second. It also discusses Home canning’s historical role and modern facilities.
Kenneth K. McArdie national Commerce editor says Churchill could grow beyond wheat shipments with south resource development and vast northern minerals and water power. Western leaders pull back but others remain hopeful as Montreal Advertising Club hears the case for Churchill's western dream.
A Geneva dispatch notes a German tax of five pounds collected with rigidity when a German woman flying from Holland to Switzerland briefly touched German soil at Mannheim. She was fined 100 marks for stepping on German territory, despite protest. The item also touts Douglas' Egyptian Liniment as a claim to instant bleeding stop.
Michael Sauzet of Paris, a major live stock buyer, sees potential for Canada to export 10 000 to 15 000 horses annually to France and to secure a larger share of France s cattle imports valued at about 200 000 000 dollars annually, following a period of evaluating Canadian livestock opportunities.
A European invention called the electric finger detects thickness variations in paper, pitch, or woven fabric. It can identify weak spots in plane materials and reveal counterfeit checks by comparing thickness to the original.
Large hunting parties returned to Telegraph Creek British Columbia with a record collection of big game trophies. Major James Workman of Belfast secured a stone sheep with horns 45 inches long, possibly the longest on record. Pierre Solvay party from Brussels reported several fine ram specimens. The Swedish film industry from Stockholm conducted a summer expedition, filming northern BC big game and returning 16,000 feet of footage.
Dino Grandi told a Rome Rotary Club gathering that Italy would consider any proposal for reducing armaments. Viscount Cecil supported the view that fear and unrest drive world trouble and that disarmament is the true remedy. Grandi noted Geneva’s armaments truce proposal as a first step with moral significance for rebuilding international confidence.
Pilot Paul Calder of Canadian Airways flew a Fleetster mail plane from Edmonton to Calgary, 196 miles, in 44 minutes. He nearly matched Captain Frank Hawks who set the record at 43 minutes with a monoplane during an international air tour last September.
The Tageblatt reports talks underway to barter half a million tons of Ruhr coal for Brazilian coffee mirroring Brazil’s recent coffee for U S. wheat swaps. It suggests extending talks to include coal for Canadian wheat.
A fragmented clipping cites Christian Science Monitor noting the US holds about five billion in gold, nearly half the world supply, while much sits locked away. It also mentions brain science on smiles freeing mental load, and a quote about domestic authority. A final line notes about one third of oil and gas wells drill without yield.
Ontario Minister of Mines Charles McCrea told Fort William business groups that gold will be in demand as long as time lasts and forecast Ontario gold production this year at 42000000 dollars. He noted the northwestern region was attracting new mines such as Moss Holland and others under development by Conigas and Homestead, and he expected the area to regain its 19th century mining prestige with government support.
The piece mocks dazzling publicity from Wilkins submarine dives under Arctic ice and a stranded aviator's plea to his wife for a publicity man. It argues bold stunts lure attention while urging caution to keep front pages from dictating behavior and notes mothers rely on Mother Graves Worm Terminator for safety.
Menu cards two on a wrecked Lusitania fragment found ashore at Campbeltown Ayshire after sixteen years. The Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off Ireland in May 1915.
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