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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 13, 1949
Page
7
A chorus girl Lovella Benet performs as a water nymph in Water Frolica on Broadway. Ned Byrne warns her about Cory Ballinger’s hidden wealth and business troubles while Cory plans marriage, a license, and a ring, as Louella contemplates love beyond fortune.
Louella Ballinger marries Cory Ballinger amid press hype as Ned Byrne reports the event. The showgirl’s life shifts from fountain dancing to a simpler role with a better salary while Old Man Ballinger watches his son wed a performer.
The article discusses how nerves can misbehave in women during girlhood, motherhood, and middle life. It promotes Dr. Chase's Nerve Food as a remedy to restore nervous energy and improve well being, sleep, and appearance for Canadian women over fifty years.
Western Briefs report Peach Festival 1949 slogan Pea ch of a Time in '49 and song by Hilda Gibb. Miss Marion McQuistin coined the slogan. Ottawa grants 81000 for three Alberta hospital constructions Lacombe Stettler and Rimbley new wings. Vancouver to host a prairie canoe club this summer. Calgary Stampeders approve plans for a modern fireproof arena aimed for completion Aug 31 1950. Vancouver hotel sale Austin Hotel bought for 225000 by Austin Holdings Ltd led by Dukowski Chaffee Rudkin and Tratch with Dukowski longtime hotel operator in Melville and Regina.
The St. Louis Saskatchewan board of trade meeting endorsed seven aims including seeking a bank a new CNR station better highways improved railway service daylight saving time Wednesday afternoon closing and incorporation as a hamlet for the town with a population of 159.
Dr. George Dion, soils expert, reports only about a quarter of Saskatchewan farmers use fertilizer and those who do rarely apply enough. He estimates full use of incoming fertilizer could raise provincial earnings by 12,650,000 dollars this year.
The recipe describes making a butter shortening mixture with boiling water, then combining with flour and salt to form a smooth ball. It includes separate instruction for a standard butter cake with sugar, sifted flour, baking powder, salt, milk, eggs, vanilla, and a 350 F oven bake time of 40 to 45 minutes.
Herbert Morrison Lord President of the Council and Minister of Transport in London takes the wheel of a river bus before it enters service on the Thames. The cabinet member inspects the riverbank area prepared for the 1951 Festival of Britain to relieve land transport strain.
Gilbert Sim Lee a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police inspector now runs a Glasgow fashion business with eight designers. He trained in textiles at Leeds, spent time in Canada and the United States as a pattern cutter, and after WWII settled with wife Kay Hutchinson to start a local dress making venture with strong demand.
Winnipeg city assessment commissioner L F Borrowman reports the current population at 231 491, down from 234 201 a year ago. The figures reflect ongoing shifts in the urban population as census data is processed.
Ottawa reports water power resources are greater in Manitoba than in Saskatchewan or Alberta. The Dominion water and power bureau analysis covers up to 1948 end and shows Manitoba already at 503,700 horsepower developed with potential of 3,309,000 at 80 percent efficiency over 24 hours. Saskatchewan has 111,835 horsepower developed with potential 542,000 minimum and 1,082,000 at six months. Alberta development totals not completed in excerpt.
Agnes Macphail, CCF member for York East, says women must be twice as good as men to gain recognition and notes women are still in their prams politically. She attended a program for International Women's Day amid Ontario legislative sessions.
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