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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 01, 1949
Page
4
Editorial by Dr. E Ross emphasizes Christmas Seals funding Manitoba TB prevention through mass X ray surveys and clinics. The piece notes declines in TB deaths, stresses early detection, and urges continued public support to fund free sanatorium care and ongoing X ray campaigns.
A variety concert at the 1Q.C.F. hall featured recitations by Bryan Johnson Garry Trimble Sandra Kitson and Sveina Helgason choruses action songs drills dances a duet Elin Josephson and Freddie Wayt piano solo by Norman Williams grades one two and three to six segments titled Old King Cole School Days Jim m y s Unlucky Morning and High School School Daze announcers were Bob Sinclair and Howard Johnson ushers Doris Dowd Marie Arran and Margaret Pennycook curtain managers Bob Isleifson properties Bob Williams and Bob Isleifson tickets Pat Cassick and Barry Williams.
A farcical letter parodies get rich quick schemes and multilingual soap labels. It imagines eleven million labels, 14 languages, a churn, and a $300 advance to flood papers with a spoof plan to boost bank accounts.
Alexander Anderson died November 21 1949 at age 77 after moving from Balaclava Ontario to Manitoba in 1902. He married in 1904 and left ten surviving children and fourteen grandchildren. Funeral held November 23 at Glenboro United Church with Rev. W. R. Donagh officiating. Jamieson’s Funeral Home arranged.
James Angus aged 84 died at his residence in Glenboro on November 24 after a six month illness. Funeral services were held Saturday November 26 from Stockton United Church to Milford cemetery with Rev. W. R. Donagh officiating. Pallbearers were Malcolm Galbraith John Shearer John Netman Fred Stevenson Stan Turnbull and Walter Daymond. He came from Bruce County Ontario to Stockton where he farmed for nearly sixty years. He married Susan Rinn in 1894 who died in 1922. Survived by two daughters Mrs. Dobson of Burnaby British Columbia and Rheena Angus of Glenboro one granddaughter Donalda Dobson three brothers Tom and Wilf of Vancouver and two sisters Mrs. Harper and Miss Maude Angus of Brandon Manitoba.
P F A A Regina announced cheques for cropless farmers will be mailed starting December 1 with 60 percent of payments issued in December and the rest in March. Saskatchewan stands to receive about 13 million dollars, Alberta 3.5 million, and Manitoba 0.5 million, as the Board of Review expedites eligibility decisions before the December deadline.
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