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It's a narrow river—but it makes a, world of difference in prices. Housewives in Niagara Fails, N.Y.,have found meat at their butcher shops again. But Uie tariff is a little high—T-bone steaks SI-SI.55 per pound, and butter at 98 cents. Across the river, in Niagara Fails, Ont.. housewives still have to use ration stamps but prices are attractive—T-bone steaks. 45 cents, round steaks 43 and hamburger 53 cents a pound. Butter is 45 cents.A horned, fiery-eyed beast, hislong, pointed teeth flashing in, the sunlight and his scaly body lashingthe water—the famous Ogopogo oC j the Saskatchewan river—has reared ids ugly head again, this Lime to snatch, a calf from the bank of the Clearwater River and swallow it whole. Robert Forbes, who farms seven miles south of Rocky Mountain. House, Alta., north of Bdmon-| Lon, “saw*’ it take the calf as the animal stood drinking from, ihe river. This is the first time since.1943 ;he Ogopogo has been seen, and the first time in the Clearwater River,* * *Now* it’s a coffin shortage inSan Francisco. Calif. City health director J. C. Geiger says a coffin makers’ strike on the .west coast has resulted in a casket shortage which has created a serious health emergency. There are now only three weeks’ supply of coffins in ,the city. The workers struck for a j55-cent-an-hour wage increase.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Mon, Oct 21, 1946
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