Community notes and visits appear across region
A string of local visitors and travel updates include Mrs A Richardson and family at Flin with Catholic mass in Rivera, Mrs H McDonald returning from Calgary, Gordon Warner visiting from Melville, and Mrs A Lamb of Vancouver among district residents. Also listed are visits by Mr and Mrs Campbell from Blueberry Valley, Mr and Mrs Thompson from Emerson, Mr and Mrs Fletcher from Winnipeg, and others visiting Tarbolton, Sprague, and the Wonnell household. Ladies Aid plans a Sept 4 meeting, and various locals hosted guests and family across towns and counties.
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Colin Thompson
Violet Greasley
Emerson
Britain’s children healthier now than in 1939
The British health ministry report for the year to March 31 shows child mortality in ages one to fourteen at new lows, with overall mortality halved over nine years. Fewer than two in every 1,000 mothers died in childbirth and only 45 percent of babies survived the first year is unclear. the article states most babies survive.
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London
Britain
Ministry of Health
Vancouver Dreams Amid Growth and Crowding
A West ern era column notes British Columbia’s population clustering near Vancouver post office drives calls for Fraser Valley settlement. Many newcomers arrive, increasing overcrowding as the city expands. An English war bride quotes a desire to head to Vancouver, a high city with limited privacy in a crowded old hotel setting, foreseeing Vancouver as Canada’s future great city as wilderness recedes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Vancouver
Fraser Valley
Police Reserve Restore Order After Bargain Rush
In Benoni South Africa Aug humans describe a cut price sale where 19 000 women queued before dawn and 6 000 gathered by eight. Two women gave birth amid the chaos as fights broke out between Europeans and non Europeans. A man was thrown through a plate glass window and police reserves moved in to restore order. One man was arrested and an injured man hospitalized. Eight women fainted during the frenzy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benoni
South Africa
Search resumes for missing four engined BSA airliner
A British South American Airways spokesman said search would be resumed for the four engined BSA plane missing since Saturday with 11 aboard, based on newly received reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British South American Airways
B.S.A
Wreckage Found in Andes As Plane Vanished
A fragmentary report notes a plane en route from Buenos Aires to Santiago disappeared amid a gale. In Manitoba a flood of crop damage is estimated at 200000 dollars from hallatarma winds. Canadian hopes rise as rookies train in a new gambling crackdown and Alaska ships ship 1,000,000 cases of red Sockeye salmon valued at over 22 million dollars.
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Andes
Tweros Aires
Santisco
Hallatarma
Steinbach
Lowe Farm
Manitoba
Alaska
Klondike
Seattle
Bristol Bay
Birthday notices list several names by date
The snippet lists birthdays with names and dates, including Mss J J John stone on August 29, Mrs Frank Taylor and Alfreda Waneham on August 30, Frank Paddak Jr on August 31, Mrs R H White A B Bradt Harris Wolfe Alexander on September 1, R H White on September 2, Miss Charlotte Lyon in Ottawa Ontario on September 8, and Mrs Harry Seaborn on September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Taylor
Alfreda Waneham
Kenneth Beever
R. H. White
A. B. Bradt
Harris Wolfe
Alexander
Charlotte Lyon
Ottawa
Ont
Davies-Davis birth announced at Rivers
At Rivers on August 22 1947 a son was born to Trooper D J Davies and Mrs Davies the baby boy joins the family with the couple named in the notice reflecting a local birth announcement from the period.
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Davies
Rivers
Tpr
D. J
Fatal truck collision near Taber claims two lives
Two farm laborers were killed and two more seriously injured when a moving truck crashed into a parked vehicle on the new highway near Taber. The incident prompted remarks on road safety and industrial impacts in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lethbridge
Taber
Nurses for Canada call to bring more help to Alberta
An editorial argues Alberta and Canada face a nurse shortage with hospitals unable to hire locally. It notes many trained European nurses are displaced and available in camps, urging acceptance of skilled workers to fill Alberta hospital vacancies.
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O. P
Canada
Calgary Herald
Theresia
Alberta
Dominion
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Wwork
Havik
Rivers, Man
Packerd and
Sunbeam Electric
Schick
Remington
Gilchrist
Rexall
Taylor & Son Limit
Davenport
Chesterfield
Walnut
Wareham’s Meat Market
Mrs. A. Richardson
Flin
L Brate
Rivera
H. McDonald
Calgary
Alla
Gordon Warner
Melville, Sask
R. N. Duns
A. Lamb
Tar‘bolton
Mrs. W. A. Campbell
Blueberry Valley, B.C
Mrs. E. Woonell
C. Fletcher
Winnipeg
J.T. Bowman
R. Wonnell
Calgary, Alta
Mrs
E. Wonnell
Walter Wareham
Pacific Coast
J. Kelly
B.C
F. Gillingham
Rainy River, Ont
United Church Ladies Aid
A. E. Bradt
A. E. Montgomery
Sprague
Mary’s Beauty Shoppe
Taylor
B.A
Quick OL
Rivers, Maa
Westerns Report
Pareli
Bargain Rush
New York City
Direct
Rex Gibson
Edmonton
Canadian Rockies
Lloy George
Prince George
Fred Dowling
United Packinghouse Workers Union
U.10
Toronto
Strke
Planta
Swift-Canadian
Saskatchewan
R. J. M. Parker
T. C. Douglas
Regina
Miami
Wia
House of Commons Committee of Privileges
Evelyn Wealkden
Labor
R. EB. Prady
Washington
Nixon
William A. Bowles
Washington State
Walla Walla
Camas
Lake Ontario
Duffin's Creek
Pickering
Ontario Department of Fish and Wild
Mss
J. J. Johnstone
Frank Paddak Jr
Harry Seaborn
Attlee
Christine Hallgrimson
Miladis
McKenzie’s United Store News
Terra Ene
Botany
Manitoba Text Book Bureau
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