Homewrecker Bridge Tourney Sparks a Marriage Bet
Nellie and Stephen enter a Bridge Tournament run by Cardville’s Business Men Association where wives play with husbands and fines for temper rise. Stephen, anxious about marriage, finally bids seven no trump, revealing a thirteen spade hand that turns the game and sways Mrs. Southy to approve the match.
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Stephens
Stephen
Nellie
Business Men's Association of
Cardville
Notrump
Mr. Southy
Dad
Ledar
Mrs. Southy
Manitoba Dairy Industry Growing At Winnipeg Meeting
Manitoba's dairy sector shows growth with the 63rd annual meeting held in Winnipeg chaired by Wm Hollingsworth Kirkfield Park. He noted Manitoba produced dairy products valued around 32 million dollars in 1847, led by creamery butter, whole milk, ice cream and cheese, with butter production up seven percent from 1946.
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Anitoba
Assomtation
Winnipeg
Wm Hollingsworth
Kirkfield Park
Nual
Manitoba
A New Slant Or You By ANNE ADAMS
Flatter your figure with Pattern 4689 in Jr Miss sizes 11 13 15 17. Shows easy sewing ironing and fitting with illustrated instructions. Requires 3 5 yds 39 inch fabric 44 yd contrast for size 13. Send 25 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Ave Winnipeg Man. 2765
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Legion convention opens in Saskatoon May 23
Saskatoon will host the 12th national convention of the Canadian Legion starting May 23, announced Brigadier General Alex Ross, the convention committee chair. Other briefs note centenarian Elie Major turning 106 in Carman Manitoba, Fillmore district contributing antiquated farming gear to North Battleford museum, a new Princess Elizabeth Hospital planned in Winnipeg, a rare raccoon sighting near Brandon, and British Columbia farming output reaching a 1946 record of 118,588,777 dollars.
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Saskatoon
Sask
Field-Marshall Viscount Alexander
Canada
The
Canadian Legion
Alex. Ross
Legion
Fillmore, Sask
Fillmore
North Battleford
Albin Carlberg
Reeves
A. Hofmeister
Missouri
Victoria
British Columbia
Bib Necklaces Set to Shine This Spring Fashion
Jewelry trends pick bib necklaces as key costume pieces with pearls and polished metals in gold silver tones. Designers tout bold, statement styles for the season.
Population of Greater Montreal Hits 1 320 726
Montreal officials report Greater Montreal population at 1 320 726 for 15 municipalities including the City of Montreal. Ephrem Brisbois, secretary treasurer, submitted the figure to the Montreal Metropolitan Commission.
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Montreal
Greater
City of
Highway push to complete trans Canada route reaches Nelson
Alberta and British Columbia chambers of commerce and boards of trade plan a spring meeting in Nelson to press federal aid for completing the trans Canada Highway from Medicine Hat to the coast. Led by the Lethbridge chamber, the group will coordinate a unified appeal with Alberta and BC governments in early May.
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Nelson
B.C
Alberta
British Columbia
Death blamed on busy party line in infant gas fatalities
Robert F. Dennis blamed a busy telephone party line for delaying aid that could have saved his 20 month old daughter in Fort Erie. He said party line subscribers refused to answer his frantic pleas, preventing timely assistance after coal gas fumes were detected.
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Fort Erie
Robert F. Dennis
Dennis
Two Alberta Cows Are North American Champs
Two Alberta Holsteins earned North American championship titles at the Toronto Royal Winter Fair last November. Swalwell Texas Bess, a junior yearling heifer owned by Pickard and Clark of Acme, Alberta, and Highcrest Pippin Rag Apple, a senior yearling heifer owned by R. C. Briggs of South Edmonton, led their classes after also topping the Holstein Friesian Association of Canada all-Canadian contest.
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Calgary
Alberta
Swalwell
Pickard and Clark
Acme, Alta
Highcrest
Vancouver born airman promoted to air vice marshal
London Gazette announces Vancouver born Air Commodore P C Livingston has been promoted to air vice marshal. Livingston, a leading expert on night vision, invented the rotating hexagon test for assessing night fighter pilot sight in 1935. In music adagio por allegro means play slowly then quickly.
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London
P. C. Livingston
London Gazette
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By Charles Dorian
Na Norty
Rephen Southy
Stephtn
Kiddig
R. Couture
B. L. Reimer
Giroux
Manitoba Cheesemakers Association
J. A. McManus
Dominion
J. J. Collins
Roblin
Manitoba Buttermakers Association
L. A. Gibson
Seth
Pi Chase
Dr. Chase
Western Briefs
Carman
Elie Pierre Major
Princess Elizabeth Hospital
Garnet Coulter
King George
King Edward
Brandon
R. Macpherson
Here
Assiniboine Valley
Greater Montreal
Red Cross
Pani
Mt Ae
Eis, Psiva
Tutat
Fleischmann
New Fleischmann
Les Carroll
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