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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 21, 1949
Page
7
Louella Benet, a chorus girl in Water Frotica on Broadway, exits the stage amid a fountain scene. Afterward a paparazzi warning from Ned Byrne reveals Cory Ballinger’s business woes as Louella grapples with ambition and romance.
A romance unfolds as Louella Ballinger marries Cory Ballinger in a parsonage away from the city. Ned Byrne, posing as a newsman, learns the secret and the affair becomes a big scoop. Louella, now wife to a penniless husband, gains fame through Broadway headlines and a lighter fountain dance role.
Health note praises Dr Chase's Nerve Food as a tonic for nervous strain in women from girlhood to middle age. Claims include improved mood, appearance, and sleep. The advertisement notes long usage by Canadian women over fifty years.
Western briefs report Peach Festival of Penticton B C with slogan Peach of a Time in ’49 and song by Hilda Gibb. Vancouver notes form new prairie canoe club and Calgary plans a modern fireproof hockey arena by Aug 31 1950. Austin Hotel sale in Vancouver priced at 225000 to four partners with hotel veterans listed.
The St Louis Saskatchewan board of trade meeting endorsed seven measures including seeking a bank a new CNR station better highways improved railway service daylight saving time Wednesday afternoon closing and incorporation as a hamlet for the town of St Louis.
Dr George Dion soils expert says only 25 percent of Saskatchewan farmers use fertilizer and those who do not apply enough. He estimates full fertilizer use would raise farm earnings by 12 650 000 dollars this year across the province.
Herbert Morrison Lord President of the Council and Minister of Transport in London takes the wheel of a river bus. The cabinet member shows off the craft as it nears service on the Thames to relieve land transport, with emphasis on the riverbank area near the 1951 Festival of Britain.
Ottawa reports Manitoba leads Canada in developed water power capacity with 503,700 hp and potential up to 5,344,500 hp at normal six month flow. Saskatchewan shows 111,835 hp with potential 1,082,000 hp. Alberta has 106,560 hp with potential up to 1,258,000 hp. Overall Canadian development totals 10,870,718 hp and potential 40,124,100 hp. Pasteurized Milk Is Safe.
Agnes Macphail, CCF member for York East, says women must be twice as good as men to gain recognition in legislatures. She notes fewer night sessions may come with more women in government and calls the legislature a queer place where time seems to run out on March 1.
Former RCMP inspector Gilbert Lee now designs dresses in Glasgow with his wife Kay Hutchinson. The Yorkshireman trained in textiles at Leeds, spent time in Canada, and later worked as a pattern cutter for a leading US fashion magazine before returning to Britain. Their eight-woman team runs a busy fashion business with substantial work.
This note lists two cake recipes. A basic shortcrust batter uses boiling water, shortening, flour, salt, and chilling. The standard butter cake combines butter, sugar, cake flour, baking powder, salt, milk, vanilla, eggs, and precise creaming and folding steps before baking at 350 degrees for 40 to 45 minutes.
L. F. Borrowman, Winnipeg assessment commissioner, reports the city’s population now stands at 231,491, down from 234,201 last year, reflecting a slight decline in residents and potential tax base implications.
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