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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 08, 1899
Page
4
Fragmented OCR from The Herald shows garbled advertising notices, marriage seeds, and scattered names including Hatery and Ros. Pabtoier. The readable bits hint at announcements and business mentions, with no clear events or dates to confirm.
The Westminster urges the Presbyterian Church in Canada to form a temperance committee and debate Prohibition while insisting on concrete church discipline against bribery. It says resolutions alone fail and suggests purging church rolls of corruptionists and cleansing the penitentiary to purify the nation.
The piece defends Daly and Sifton, arguing Conservative policy, not Mr. Sifton, drove Galician immigration to the Northwest. It mocks opposition from the Winnipeg Telegram and similar papers and notes past claims Daly started Guligian immigration.
W. H. Erwin, superintendent, lists subscriptions from MacGregor area to the debt fund, noting the provincewide total surpassed the debt. Names with small amounts appear, including Logan, Murdoch, Cairns, Holmes, Stacey, Murdoch, Glover, Osborne, Knox, and others, alongside baking notices from RE Lewin offering bread for threshing, 18 loaves for a dollar.
A monthly MacGregor School report notes improved attendance across departments. SENIOR DEPARTMENT enrollments and aggregates rise, INTERMEDIATE and PRIMARY departments show favorable averages, with overall gains offset by whooping cough concerns. The Canadian Grocer item highlights Salada Ceylon Tea orders totaling 3,500,000 tins and 3,000,000 sardines and ends, a record for Canada, from Harris Lithographing Co Toronto dated August 14, 1899.
District news reports Ernest Caughan visiting Mr Robt Meury last week while threshing is the order of the day. A former has a new shift and bought several dozen old newspapers to feed goats, claiming age-preserving qualities. The piece satirically links papers to fodder and even jokes about an invented binder seat.
Mr Cunningham announces confirmation candidates and notes Archbishop unable to attend so the opening service is postponed briefly. Rev Canon Matheson will represent His Grace at the opening services near Sunday with sermons at 11 and 7. Ma of Carberry to sing at offertory. collections to building fund.
A poem excerpt from Ella Wheeler Wilcox published in the New York Journal reflects social critique of wealth inequality. It contrasts laborers and millionaires, calls for laborers to seize power, and envisions future justice under divine purpose.
Holmes dress goods feature latest styles and a large selection of nine tobacco brands at Ost. Holmes carries waterproof coats, new stock, and a line of men’s shoes at low prices. Goodyear boots, Vardon’s cash store offers fine shoes at 1.25, Mazawattee tea in lead packets, three pounds for one, and Japan tea deals. Knox’s and Merrick Bros. advertise threshing supplies, fresh groceries, butter, and large stock of blankets and gloves.
Orimston Austin information mentions recovery efforts and a location at CHAS STREET MacGregor with unclear details about day and purpose. The readable fragment points to an enforcement or recovery action involving an address and individuals named in the partial text.
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