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Newspaper
Macgregor Herald
Location
Macgregor, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 25, 1946
Page
3
The Brandon Sun reports on a proposal to recruit returned servicemen as male nurses due to nurse shortages. It notes six hundred registered male nurses in Britain and a push to raise to 60,000 with a three year civilian training path. Hospitals may eventually employ equal numbers of male and female nurses.
A 45 inch year old able midget named Miss Helen Magna was discovered living in a lobby phone booth at a Broadway motion picture theatre. She kept light housekeeping with a fan alarm clock a tiny stove a loaf of bread milk and salmon. She later faced eviction after the discovery prompting another move.
In a small town, Mr. Thomas Todd is found strangled at 6 pm after plans to donate half his fortune spark suspicions. Kay Todd and Tom are arrested amid rival alibis as Mattie, Jake Smith, and police pursue motives, a missing $400, and a controversial hospital for cats.
The piece notes how prices for groceries coal and taxes have risen since the postwar era while wages in industry have kept pace. It recalls 1911 civic laborers earned 25 cents an hour, whereas today cities pay about 60 cents. It emphasizes the shift in what is considered a necessity.
The London Times urges placing a Franklin D. Roosevelt statue in the centre of Grosvenor Square, where the United States embassy stands. The editorial argues the garden surrounding the square should preserve the memory of the wartime ties and fraternal bonds formed there.
A collection of one liners and vignettes featuring characters like SMILE AWHILE, Johnny and Tommy Jones, Hardup, Cashdown, and Mardup. The jokes cover misunderstandings about locomotives, banking, gardening, schooling, suitors, park keepers, a London to New Zealand travel quip, and a quip about guns and legs.
A loud car horn outside a Chicago police station sent residents to sleep deprivation for nearly two hours. Sgt John Moroney faced incessant calls as officers tried and failed to quiet the vehicle until Cleveland Andrew, a nearby resident, kicked a wheel and silenced the horn.
Forthright feminine flop pattern 4962 features a keyhole neckline and side waist insets with shoulder yokes. Pattern 4562 offers sizes 12 to 20 and 40 with size 16 requiring 2% yards of 39 inch fabric. Send 20c to the Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Manitoba.
Hundreds of ballots were spoiled as voters wrote Gen. MacArthur as their candidate for a seat in the Japanese diet. Some ballots were invalid due to terse penciled notes demanding more food.
Premier Drew announced the 46 foot soft wood mace built in 1780 and used at Ontario’s first assembly in Newark now Niagara on the Lake. Returned from United States forces during the War of 1812, it will be housed in a glass case to mark Ontario’s growth since 1792.
An ad-like notice touts a skin remedy named Discovers Home Skin Remedy. It promises to heal inflammation eruptions and pimples within a few days and is sold widely, with claims of money back if unsatisfied.
Quick cereal toppers mix Grape Nuts Flakes melted butter and Canadian cheese into a light toss. Cheese optional and bacon bits may be added. Cheese Potato Puffs blend mashed potatoes with cheese onion and crushed flakes, form balls, roll, and bake 400 F for 20 minutes yielding six servings.
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