A Girl Must Live! Taxi Bag Leads to Daring Card Game
Beresford finds a luxury bag in a taxi filled with Mrs Cartwright’s items and a note for a jewelers call. He enjoys an expensive bridge evening with Mrs Cartwright and friends, losing money but hoping for more. A second taxi sighting repeats the bag clues and entices him to continue the chase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gleason Cartwright
Ted
Beatrice
Arthur
Beresford
Mrs. Cartwright
Mr Cartwright
Bridge
Jewellers
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
New Jiffy Fashion Pattern 4723 Advertised
Anne Adams urges readers to order pattern 4723 featuring three main parts with pockets in seams and long front panels for a slimming fit. Sizes 34 through 50 offered. size 36 requires five yards of 35 inch fabric. Send 25 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for order form and mail details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnmipeg
Local briefs span rash of quirky notes across western towns
Vancouver offers 25 cent haircuts at a technical school with student barbers. A Calgary man cites a 14 foot four inch hollyhock roof reach. Edmonton reports 80 000 acres may open for homesteading near Spirit River. Out Knife Saskatchewan Indian convention set for Oct 24. Conrich tests aerial weed spraying on roads. Regina welcomes first British goods via Churchill including liquor textiles and carpets.
Tourism boom reshapes Churchill as trains bring visitors
Churchill Manitoba reports a surge in tourism with two tourist trains this year carrying about 300 passengers each. The town, home to 400 residents plus military personnel nearby, sees increased housing, new development, and a busy shipping season as publicity on northern defence spurs travel interest from Canada and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
Arctic Circle
Churchill
Canada
Selected Peach Pie Recipe From Old Newspaper Fragment
A vintage fruit pie recipe uses fresh peaches and marmalade to fill a partially baked crust. It combines bread crumbs or tapioca with sugar salt lemon juice and a butter dot, then bakes a covered top crust until tender and finished with a cream glaze.
Sausages and Cheese Scramble on Toast
Prick the sausages and simmer then brown in a hot pan. Melt cheese with butter milk and seasonings in a double boiler. Add beaten eggs and cook until thick. Serve over buttered toast rounds and garnish with parsley.
Four Legged Hen Hopes To Spawn New Breed
LUBBOCK Tex Poultryman Walter Chatwell plans to breed his pet hen Henrietta into a new chicken line with four drumsticks per bird. Henrietta, born with four legs, was found on a farm near Tohoka Texas and is eight months old.
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Lubock
Tex
Walter
Chatwell
Henrietta
Tohoka
Woodcock Diet Noted for High Feeding in Dawn and Dusk
The woodcock feeds during early morning and twilight on worms, beetles, and small crustaceans with a very large daily intake observed.
Tourist Travel Up Between Canada and the United States
Ottawa reports June border traffic with a 12 percent rise over last year. American entries into Canada rose eight percent while Canadian traffic from the United States increased twenty seven percent, signaling overall travel growth across the boundary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
United States
Canada
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Cattle Population Rises Worldwide in 1948
World cattle totals rose by about 10 million head in 1948, marking approximately a one percent increase. The gain reflects rising meat demand and herd expansion across regions. Data indicate higher herds in major producers and ongoing shifts in cattle farming practices.
Quota Wheat Deliveries At Prairie Points
The Canadian wheat board assigns five Manitoba and one Saskatchewan point for quota wheat deliveries allowing 20 bushels per seeded acre. Manitoba sites Culross Eden Lavinia Penrith and Rossburn plus Clemens in Saskatchewan share 20 bushels for wheat and oats. Eleven Manitoba oats points include Glenella Gretna Longburn Lyleton Oakville and Winkler. Open delivery stations total two Saskatchewan five Alberta and 38 Manitoba locations.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Wheat Board
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Culross
Eden
Lavinia
Penrith
Rossburn
Clemens
Glenella
Gretna
Longburn
Lyleton
Oakville
Winkler
Alberta
First Ukrainian Grammar Published in English in Winnipeg
A modern Ukrainian grammar, first in English, is authored by two Canadian university teachers Dr J B Rudnychyj of Manitoba and Prof G Luckyj of Saskatchewan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnipeg
J. B. Rudnychyj
University of Manitoba
G. Luckyj
University of Saskatchewan
Also Mentioned on This Page
C. V. Tench
Western Briefs
Vancouver
William Earwaker
Earwaker
Calgary
Edmonton
Spirit River
Peace River
Sask
John Tootoosis
Union of Saskatchewan Indians
Saskatchewan Indians
Poor Man's Reserve
Touchwood Agency
Quinton
Conrich
Here
Regina
Meo
Man
Iriecipes
M. K. Prest
Laidlaw
B.C
Maisie Armytage-Moore
Hearty Fater
U.S
Bleischmann
America
Fleischmann
Peggy
Chuck Thurston
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