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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 04, 1949
Page
7
Mrs Westmeyer, wife of Bernard the rising organist, finds joy in his carillon debut at St. Joachim while a nearby steel tower and riveters intrude on her imagined romance. She savors the bells as their private musical love song, despite the city’s noisy reality.
Brandon Woollen Mills of Brandon Manitoba promotes remaking worn or old woolen items into new full blankets or related textiles. The notice invites customers with shafts sheep wool cottons or old wool lens to bring materials for renewal.
Donia watches Bernard play a tender tune from the belfry while a riveter taps below creating rhythmic hammering. Doria observes from the poor house steps and realizes she is not alone in this world.
Advertisement for pattern 4871 offering a built up skirt that can be worn as sundress or jumper and a regular skirt with a 16 jacket. Size 16 jacket and dress requires 4 1/4 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 25 cents to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for illustrated instructions and order form.
Western briefs note a Calgary Fox Terrier named best Canadian bred at the Alberta Kennel Club show owned by Mr and Mrs Jack Brooks. A 200 watt radio transmitter is installed in Hudson Bay Sask to aid fire prevention and radio networks. Vanderhoof B C Indians join the provincial election campaign and John H Andros wins Omineca riding by 60 votes. Regina forecasts heavier Hudson Bay shipping by Rob ert Simpson Ltd as the season opens. Calgary reports the Farmers Union of Alberta aims for 60 000 members after a recent merger of Alberta Farmers Union and United Farmers of Alberta.
A light exchange about a husband staying out late prompts the wife to quip that she digs up the past. The joke hinges on wordplay between hysterical and historical. No real names or places are involved.
Dennis Downing president of Saskatchewan Forage Growers Co operative told a meeting of directors that the association had sold all its seed and could sell more if it had it.
Canadian farmers posted a record net income of 1.693 billion dollars in 1948, up from 1947's 1.235 billion. Farm cash income reached 2.450 billion, while farm operating expenses rose to 1.084 billion and livestock feeds surged by about 45 million. Provincial gains led by Saskatchewan with the largest increase.
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