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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 17, 1948
Page
5
A dramatic Saturday closing sequence unfolds as a formidable customer demands a missing table from a bedroom suite. The manager and staff search the will call room, stock, and files, while the woman reveals a dated bill from 1938, exposing a records mismatch.
Gypsum Lime and Alabastine Canada Ltd reports all time high sales in 1948 with net earnings before tax of 1 683 415 73 dollars or 3 82 per share. Tax expense 835 000 dollars or 1 9 per share. Net addition to surplus 848 415 73 dollars or 1 93 per share. Capital expenditures 600 059 58 dollars spread across key Canadian plants. Directors express confidence in continued industry activity and declare a 1 00 per share dividend for 1948 payable quarterly.
All-Day Frock pattern 1815 features no shoulder seams and a wrap around design easy to iron with scalloped edges. Includes complete illustrated instructions, sizes 12 to 20, order 25 cents by mail to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union Manitoba.
In Goshen Indiana nine year old Harold Tinsley responded to a Salvation Army Lent appeal by collecting and sending 561 sticks of bubble gum. Adjutant William C Davis noted Harold’s gesture and his message asking for four boys and girls in farm lands to benefit from the gift.
F I Tanner of Ottawa says construction costs will stay nearly level this year while better finishes rise in value. He notes no near term drop in material or labor costs and no prewar price relief. Canada total construction in 1946 stood at 868000000, with 1939 figure at 273000000. 1947 prospects he expects higher than 1946.
The department of antiquities in Baghdad reports traces of perhaps the world s earliest civilization near Ur of the Chaldees in southern Iraq. The discovery is described as older than the Aluboui civilization dated more than 4,000 years before Christ.
Vernon begins a sizable construction push with permits issued through February totaling over 4 million dollars. Alberta vegetable growers sold one million dollars in fresh produce to canning plants last year, with 1.2 million cases of canned products valued at 3000 dollars. A Carman Manitoba potato pit fire damaged about 500 bushels, while seed potatoes remained intact. In New Westminster a 6000 dollar apartment blaze rescued four people including a 91 year old man who helped others to safety. In Vancouver Dutch bulbs may face competition if British Columbia grows 17 million bulbs for export.
London report says the second annual Canadian pilgrimage to Dieppe, site of the IM2 combined operations raid, will take place in the week of August 19. The Dieppe pilgrimage committee of the Canadian Ex-servicemen's Association of Great Britain plans a limited invitation to others beyond Canadians in Britain.
In a rentals court a landlady sought eviction of a young married couple over a noisy child, damaged rubber mats, and onions plucked from the garden. Judgment was reserved.
A soup from potatoes onion milk and fat simmered then strained and finished in a double boiler with parsley. Also a coconut custard pie recipe uses scalded milk egg yolks sugar cornstarch butter cocoanut vanilla baked in hot then cool.
Matt Kenney leads his band in a featured show with Norma Locke and Roy Roberts joining as guest personalities. The event highlights local music talents and community entertainment.
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