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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 06, 1949
Page
7
Grace and Ben defend their home when Elmer Rake stalks their farm with a gun. Ben confronts the threat with a shotgun as bloodhounds close in, and Rake flees after seeing Grace’s rifle at Ben’s side. A tense showdown ends with Rake retreating.
Ottawa confirms a federal grant covering 40 percent of the cost to divert the Trans Canada Highway at Flood five miles west of Hope. The $100,000 project, at Mile 4478 Yale subdivision CN rail, keeps the highway on the south side of the railway.
Victoria B C Pattullo Bridge on the Trans Canada Highway in New Westminster yielded 482100 in toll revenue last year. The bridge initially ran deficits but new surpluses are reducing the overall deficit.
Fashion ad for pattern 4790 in sizes 12 to 20 and 40, with tulip pocket and square neckline. Pattern includes 37 1/2 yards of 35 inch fabric and complete illustrated instructions. send 25 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union, 175 McDermot Ave. E. Winnipeg Man.
Victoria reports an all time high March payment of 1 659 147 in family allowances for 279 769 children in 147 630 families. During the month 251 families moved to British Columbia from other provinces and 272 left. In the fiscal year to date 6119 families arrived and 3772 left the province.
Norman Savil of Toronto reported receiving a compulsory Savings cheque for four cents that cost the government twelve cents to mail by registered letter.
Prairies require early spring rains to reach an average harvest as moisture reserves on stubble and summer fallow land remain well below normal. Searle grain company estimates show 87 percent moisture for fallow and 41 percent for stubble, with US conditions more favorable and record wheat plantings noted.
Western brief notes report women in three prairie provinces will be listed with husbands in new city directories published by Henderson Directories Ltd. covering Fort William to Calgary. Other items include Foam Lake teacher meeting May 20, Ashcroft potato shipments, Lundar whitefish eggs delivery, Winnipeg safety depot plan, and game wardens ordered to Darwin district to shoot wolves disturbing a teacher.
A 13 month old Short horn beef steer paraded to the grand championship by Walter Clark of Greenhaulme Farm Inchkeith as fat cattle judging closed at the Saskatchewan winter fair. Britons' hat sizes have risen since WWI from 67s to 73.
Ottawa based Ramsay Company patent attorneys offers free information on listed inventions. Full details and claims provided upon request from 273 Bank Street.
A simple three component dessert sauce prep using egg white, egg yolk and cream. Beat egg white to stiff peaks then fold in powdered sugar. Whip yolk then add to mix, then fold in whipped cream with vanilla and salt. Yields about two cups.
Melt chocolate with condensed milk over indirect heat until thickened. Stir in water and vanilla then cool. Spread marble style over frozen pie filling or use as cake frosting. double the recipe if used for frosting. Salt noted to taste.
Wong Wing, a Saskatoon restaurant owner, travels to Bella Coola with Indian cannery workers to locate his grandfather's remains, hoping to bring them back to China after 29 years. The search spans 260 miles north of Vancouver as he pursues the long quest across the Pacific.
Implement sales in Manitoba last year were five times the national total in a low mood year. Alex Thompson, editor of a Canadian implement journal, spoke here.
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