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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 04, 1919
Page
3
A period ad promoting Dr Hamilton's Pills claims women suffer from backaches and fatigue from household and family duties. It touts the pills as direct to the source, aiding kidneys liver and blood, and promises relief with mild safe effects. Sold at 25 cents per box with a note to refuse substitutes.
In a long dialogue, Ruggles explains how connections trump merit in big firms and recounts Yale football lore. He notes the president’s son must prove real ability, while stories of walks on the shoe brand and cheering crowds illustrate the era’s emphasis on status and spectacle in business culture.
Ruggles defends his rise from humble clerk to potential executive at Walkeaty Shoe Company of America while Miss Challand questions his social ascent. He contrasts hard work, pride in the firm, and genuine merit with the luxury of a millionaire father, provoking a confrontation about class and ambition.
The Bodenzee airship, on its maiden trip from Friedrichshaven to Berlin, covered about 700 kilometres in just over six hours. It can reach 120 kilometres per hour, carries 35 passengers, and features wireless, a spacious cabin, and hot and cold running water. Twenty passengers, including three women, traveled on the initial voyage built after the armistice.
The German National Assembly named a committee to investigate war responsibility. Pierre Spahan, a Centrist, was named president as the panel will be public. The assembly also created a new foreign affairs committee led by Philip Scheidemann with five Social Democrats, three Centrists, three Democrats, two German Nationals, and one Peoples party member.
Six thousand workers at co operative trading societies in North England strike for a 44 hour week and higher pay. In retaliation, the societies run by trades unionists order a lockout affecting thirty thousand employees starting August 27.
The Edinburgh Evening News reports former Prime Minister Herbert H. Asquith intends to re enter active politics and seek a seat in the House of Commons at the earliest available opportunity.
A fragment recalls a sergeant addressing a woman in fractured language during a tense exchange. She struggles with English while he attempts to respond in French, offering a courteous correction and a mock mercy. The scene highlights miscommunication and cultural friction in a wartime setting.
Miss Maude Royden spoke on The Future of Women in Industry at Whitefield's Tabernacle. She warned that the Restoration of Pre-War Practices Bill could discharge 792,000 women, many in engineering and aircraft sectors. She urged equal pay by law and argued for gender roles matching ability and dignity.
The Saskatchewan highways department has organized road and bridge work totaling 062000 dollars. It has contracted 500 rural municipalities for 230000 dollars in new roads and improvements as part of a provincial system developed with municipal councils. The effort follows years of reviewing main roads to connect market centres, with this year’s contracts aligned to that plan.
At a Wellington luncheon Admiral Sir John Jellicoe reminded that Britain faced shortages early in the war including docks and destroyers. He urged schemes to ensure Dominions are not dependent mainly on the British Navy and should build their own naval capacity.
A commission headed by Dr Rutherford will probe racing issues and guide permanent legislation in the next parliament session. The inquiry aims for a square deal with limited tracks and government receipt sharing, following Sir Thomas White's recent pledge. A romance subplot appears as a fiancé confesses suspicion about liquor.
Dr. BF Trowbridge of North Dakota Experimental Station states the state's wheat crop this fall will total 0,000,000 bushels, reflecting an uncertain harvest forecast for Fargo and surrounding areas.
German sugar production for 1919 shows a decrease of nearly 2,000,000 hundredweight compared with 1918, as production in Serlin, Germany, reflects this fall in output and aligns with wartime disruptions.
Calgary speakers including De Tolmie and Hon J A Calder urged focus on cattle and horse markets, improving breeds, and western irrigation. Tolmie noted Poland demand and American imports of horses, while Calder warned against excessive wartime spending and stressed prudent railway policy and immigration to revive the dominion.
A walkout by stage hands and musicians in sympathy with Actors Equity Association forced Casino and Liberty to close last night, raising New York playhouses closed to 23. Vaudeville houses dominate Broadway as three legitimate venues stay open, two unaffiliated with the Producing Managers Protective Association.
A London dispatch reports Britain may cede Cyprus to Greece after long rule by Persia, Egypt, Alexander the Great, Rome, Byzantium, Turkey and others. A delegation from Athens is in England to negotiate. The island has long seen competing empires and now may gain permanence under Greek control.
Reports from Helsingfors say German troops remain in Courland and are preparing an offensive from the region. They are gathering large numbers of Russians to spare German prisoners in order to mount the attack.
A terse line notes that the typical woman would worry less if she heeded her own words, implying self doubt and the impact of inner critique on behavior.
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