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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
May 11, 1949
Page
7
A woman waits for Steve at a quiet bar, reflecting on their unreliable dates and her hope he will finally arrive. She recalls his charm, the debates about whether he is right for her, and watches shoes pass as she bids patience endure. The scene captures longing, insecurity, and a looming sense of disappointment.
A recipe excerpt describes cookie dough with shortening butter eggs sugar flour baking powder salt and vanilla, chilling and baking at 350F for 12 to 15 minutes yields a dozen cookies. It also outlines a milk vanilla starch filling with cornstarch sugar salt milk and flavoring, set in molds and served with fruit cream or pudding sauce.
Alberta Poultry Producers Ltd reports 80 000 shipping members and 65 branches handling between eight and nine million dollars of poultry products. Kapler cites 44 percent provincial market share and predicts 1949 prices may match 1948 highs. Durum wheats in Manitoba show out yield advantages over common varieties with Mindhum Carleton and Stewart leading at 38 bushels per acre.
Bob Hassett of Cranberry Portage predicts the forests will grow silent due to settler influx north of 54 and his practice of poisoning what he dislikes. He notes even in the bush today you seldom hear a chirp or a call.
H. H. Hales general manager of Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd says there is absolutely no prospect the mine will close within two years despite reports it may shut at end of 1949 or early 1950 in Sherridon Manitoba and surrounding areas.
J. M. MacArthur, general manager, announced a proposed expenditure slightly above 1 million dollars for the Northern Alberta Railway this year, about the same as last year. No major buildings are planned due to material and labor conditions.
Ottawa reports over $500000 already spent by the Dominion government on the South Saskatchewan river dam and irrigation project mainly on surveys and preliminary work. The 1949 estimated expenditure is $2000000, signaling substantial work planned this summer per a Commons return tabled by Robert McCubbin, following a request from J G Diefenbaker.
The pattern 4750 features a spring stole with empire lines and a graceful skirt with a narrow belt. Sizes 12 through 20 available, size 16 specified. pattern includes complete illustrated instructions and is tested for fit. Send 25 cents in coins to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union for orders.
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